Tag: poetry
group name: poetrylove
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October 21, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
Discuss the process of self-discovery in poetry .... there's a wide open essay question, eh?
I actually have specific poets to address (Frost & Yeats).... but my first step, I think, is trying . . . more
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October 07, 2007 03:31 AM EDT --
Last night I dreamt that I was with God.
He sat across a table that spread like the sea.
However, he was only several inches from me.
He placed upon the table.
Six bullets and a gun.
He spoke . . . more
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February 27, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
Two Cats' Prey (double Tanka)
While trying to type
Something darts by my window.
Half hooded green eyes,
Intent on cat's prey, she leaps.
But misses, . . . more
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March 10, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
(revised)
When sixty's face
set to my age,
my voice broke loose.
No wisdom, grace,
only mute rage.
Written word ruse
to hide my fear . . . more
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October 07, 2007 03:05 AM EDT --
Tick
Tock.
Tick
Tock.
Watch the clock.
Tick
Tock.
Watch the clock.
Tick.
My mind clicks.
Cocks back and loads.
Verbal defenses against foes.
So.
The enemy of my enemy is still my damn enemy. . . . more
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February 26, 2008 04:08 PM EST --
The wise gardener
Knows how a garden should grow.
The wise lover, too,
Uses same ingredients —
Mysterious elements.
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March 31, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
Paciing the bridge, body slow racing,
I await my suitor's arrival.
Like tadpoles under the bridge,
Our words dart in and out
Of conversations just begun.
Will there be more? I wait. . . . more
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August 24, 2008 10:10 AM EDT --
It is hard to believe that these hot
Summer months have hazily drifted by
While . . . more
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December 17, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
I am a little preemie,
Theres not much to me at all,
I was born so much smaller,
Than a little baby doll,
To some I almost dont look real,
But theres . . . more
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February 26, 2008 08:37 PM EST --
Are we
More a union?
Is sex more passionate?
Am I imagining this as
We part?
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March 20, 2008 10:39 PM EDT --
Silent.
Green messenger
glowing on a cold screen
informs me "Status - not yet read"
Through Ethernet we knew essence of us.
Now you're gone. Quiet I scream . . . more
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March 02, 2008 03:09 PM EST --
Villanelle with first tercet's lines 1 and 3 being repeated with same meaning but change of words. I don't know if this is acceptable in the villanelle's boundaries. This is . . . more
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February 26, 2008 03:33 PM EST --
(a Cinquain)
Small house
Buffers wild wind
On hill top and surveys
The view, keeping me protected
Inside
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August 22, 2008 08:58 PM EDT --
Chana did one of these challenge things and I loved it and thought I would try it too. There is an outline to how it should be done. You can find that on Autumnrose's article where Chana got it. . . . more
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March 10, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Lying here on the floor
(or is it laying on the floor?)
and do I even care?
(no...right now...I really don't).
Wasn't born a poet, . . . more
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April 23, 2008 10:15 PM EDT --
You and I were never strangers.
long before we ever met
you held the key to my heart.
You were one I could never forget.
In another world, another time,
We have done it all before,
But one . . . more
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August 22, 2008 09:20 PM EDT --
After going through the challenge by Autumnrose that I found through Chana, I started thinking about who I am. This is what I wrote in response. (written response to yourself, isn't quite the same . . . more
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April 14, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
Six years and too many hours past,
when one hour's wait was giddy joy,
or fear you'd already left.
We talked and loved 'till we full understood
each other, our lies, . . . more
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July 14, 2008 03:19 PM EDT --
When we met, I fell for you fast.
I told you all the things of my darkened past.
But you didn't worry about the past I told.
So I ran forward, with my heart brave and bold. . . . more
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February 21, 2008 01:53 PM EST --
Snowy white moth flirts browning grass.
Ebony bird struts lethargy.
Lazy oleanders bleed red buds.
While cars silent wait on black asphalt lot.
Summer sun slows to orange burn.
Cigarette . . . more
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