Thursdays
dragged on until
Trevor sat next to her,
his smile erased summer’s heartache,
she blushed
*** long day, short entry.....
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Thursdays
dragged on until
Trevor sat next to her,
his smile erased summer’s heartache,
she blushed
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tattered grays
devil of daylight
and yet I see deep colors, a shapeshifter as day clocks out and night punches in / hawkseye
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tattered grays
devil of daylight
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when she turned out the light,
this is the night he will come,
but he sent them instead,
to pound on her head,
dun her and hover,
there'll be no lover in this dream.
Not a failed intention so much as revelations of something she avoids like a plague during the day -- hope she figures it out so she can get on with real lover's dreams!
The tale dances and resonates - while
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when she turned out the light,
this is the night he will come,
but he sent them instead,
to pound on her head,
dun her and hover,
there'll be no lover in this dream.
Not a failed intention so much as revelations of something she avoids like a plague during the day -- hope she figures it out so she can get on with real lover's dreams!
The tale dances and resonates - while
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The poet's final line sparks a sense of disdain, rolling the eyes, a "and what will be next?" -
The first two stanzas capture the emotional essence the photographer - perhaps - sought to convey
I, too, love "utterly bored with life" and demure / allure (fitting to have the rhyme in
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The poet's final line sparks a sense of disdain, rolling the eyes, a "and what will be next?" -
The first two stanzas capture the emotional essence the photographer - perhaps - sought to convey
I, too, love "utterly bored with life" and demure / allure (fitting to have the rhyme in
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- hawkseye
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But, Wayne, you sure do write well when pain itches and burns all the places it shouldn't! Love the images - what Allen quoted and said and I managed with this poem and its various responses, to have lightened my evening (and probably set the stage for bizarry dreams in awkward pretzel shaped vehicles)
The final stanzas a killer -- and
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But, Wayne, you sure do write well when pain itches and burns all the places it shouldn't! Love the images - what Allen quoted and said and I managed with this poem and its various responses, to have lightened my evening (and probably set the stage for bizarry dreams in awkward pretzel shaped vehicles)
The final stanzas a killer -- and
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Well stated and I applaud the division of practical and orderly from the mystical magic most (maybe all) religions adhere to and promote.
But, for me, faith transcends graspable -- is something I must dive into and then be both
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Well stated and I applaud the division of practical and orderly from the mystical magic most (maybe all) religions adhere to and promote.
But, for me, faith transcends graspable -- is something I must dive into and then be both
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and bridges - the long ones, the ones that span glittering waters, can seem to go on forever -- I like the image of racing to infinity - that point one never reaches but always touches.
- hawkseye
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and bridges - the long ones, the ones that span glittering waters, can seem to go on forever -- I like the image of racing to infinity - that point one never reaches but always touches.
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Sue
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GREAT FINISH!!!
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GREAT FINISH!!!
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narrative trysts
perfectly expressed and
better on a bus then most
places...I guess the subway
works also...tightly packed,
often brightly lit, face to face
or face to back, quiet observations
abound, lots of thinking and less
saying. But much exists inside our
heads as we process morsels
of occasional outbursts.
S.
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narrative trysts
perfectly expressed and
better on a bus then most
places...I guess the subway
works also...tightly packed,
often brightly lit, face to face
or face to back, quiet observations
abound, lots of thinking and less
saying. But much exists inside our
heads as we process morsels
of occasional outbursts.
S.]]>
:)
S.
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:)
S.]]>
S.
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We all know people like this but you tell it so well. I love the metaphors here.
Ellen
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We all know people like this but you tell it so well. I love the metaphors here.
Ellen]]>
Ellen
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and a morning chorus
commences,
disharmonious, sparkle song
of the smaller birds,
against the cawing counterpoint
of the larger birds, volume swelling,
swirling, swooping and shifting,
birds on a line
against a just-bright sky
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and a morning chorus
commences,
disharmonious, sparkle song
of the smaller birds,
against the cawing counterpoint
of the larger birds, volume swelling,
swirling, swooping and shifting,
birds on a line
against a just-bright sky]]>
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Great poem. You can't go wrong putting a cat in a poem, in my opinion!
Ellen
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Great poem. You can't go wrong putting a cat in a poem, in my opinion!
Ellen]]>
Elen
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Ellen
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Good thing you've got V. to worry about the planning. Just make your list of pizza places.
Yummy poem.
Alice
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Good thing you've got V. to worry about the planning. Just make your list of pizza places.
Yummy poem.
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I like everything about this poem, and especially the repetition - the firm placement of the poet by the window. But this is the stanza that got me. This not only describes this woman, but also describes you and
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I like everything about this poem, and especially the repetition - the firm placement of the poet by the window. But this is the stanza that got me. This not only describes this woman, but also describes you and
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I dream
mechanical spiders
crawl
sssifty sssifting
from an open
grave
andthis:
it is dark
at the end of the tunnel
and the rest as well -- great title - has me pondering -- this one tells me a lot without directly telling me everything my mind had fun conjuring.
those extra "s" are divine!
= hawkseye
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I dream
mechanical spiders
crawl
sssifty sssifting
from an open
grave
andthis:
it is dark
at the end of the tunnel
and the rest as well -- great title - has me pondering -- this one tells me a lot without directly telling me everything my mind had fun conjuring.
those extra "s" are divine!
= hawkseye
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What a fun way to mix up the sometimes crazy warnings with the reality of how people live life.
You got me laughing -- that's a success in my book / hawkseye
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What a fun way to mix up the sometimes crazy warnings with the reality of how people live life.
You got me laughing -- that's a success in my book / hawkseye]]>
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Like Hawks I hope that this isn't current autobiograph. If it is, where do I send the chocolate?
Alice
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Like Hawks I hope that this isn't current autobiograph. If it is, where do I send the chocolate?
Alice]]>
Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
Be sure to read the last two items we link to in this week's Poetry & Poets in Rags. They are in Poetic Obituaries. Last in alphabetical order in that section are Wislawa Szymborska and Dorothea Tanning. This is not to ignore the other obits, such as West Virginia's Poet Laureate Irene McKinney and others who have passed, but to draw
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Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
Be sure to read the last two items we link to in this week's Poetry & Poets in Rags. They are in Poetic Obituaries. Last in alphabetical order in that section are Wislawa Szymborska and Dorothea Tanning. This is not to ignore the other obits, such as West Virginia's Poet Laureate Irene McKinney and others who have passed, but to draw
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Sue
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'ilima
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I'm with you at the end: baseball is best!!
Ellen
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I'm with you at the end: baseball is best!!
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And he will, too. He always does, even if he has to gallop around the corral a few times and leap over the gate and run wild for a while.
Plod or dash, gallop or trot, walk or run, no one can tell from the finished product. Great poem on the experience of writing. Same for me.
Descriptive vocabulary put together in
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And he will, too. He always does, even if he has to gallop around the corral a few times and leap over the gate and run wild for a while.
Plod or dash, gallop or trot, walk or run, no one can tell from the finished product. Great poem on the experience of writing. Same for me.
Descriptive vocabulary put together in
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The nights are glorious with never seen stars.
Dim ones like freckles beneath the skin.
An opportunity to be away from city lights is a magnificent experience
as well, I love the closing stanza -- the release of "normal life" restraints
- hawkseye
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The nights are glorious with never seen stars.
Dim ones like freckles beneath the skin.
An opportunity to be away from city lights is a magnificent experience
as well, I love the closing stanza -- the release of "normal life" restraints
- hawkseye
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I caught the ending - all I needed (it was dinner time) / hawkseye
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I caught the ending - all I needed (it was dinner time) / hawkseye]]>
But it was the flow of this, how I was drawn in and couldn't dare look away before the end - nice / hawkseye
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But it was the flow of this, how I was drawn in and couldn't dare look away before the end - nice / hawkseye]]>
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Nice flashback! Perfect cinq for part 3!
Smiles,
Wilt
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Nice flashback! Perfect cinq for part 3!
Smiles,
Wilt]]>
Wayne
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Just wondered if you ever got a chance to pursue the possibility of recovering the poems with 'the Geeks' ? I'd be willing to pay for some of that recovery cost since I've got a boatload of poems there :)
Sue
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Just wondered if you ever got a chance to pursue the possibility of recovering the poems with 'the Geeks' ? I'd be willing to pay for some of that recovery cost since I've got a boatload of poems there :)
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i tend to be a wake-up-pop-up kind, things ache when iawaken so i'm always anxious to get up and untangle them. the mo4ning wake up you describe is what i would love to have instead.
this line encapsulates, the process of leisurely finding your life after putting it on hold for how ever hours you sleep.
The placement of things, the trajectories
of transients, blips
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i tend to be a wake-up-pop-up kind, things ache when iawaken so i'm always anxious to get up and untangle them. the mo4ning wake up you describe is what i would love to have instead.
this line encapsulates, the process of leisurely finding your life after putting it on hold for how ever hours you sleep.
The placement of things, the trajectories
of transients, blips
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My cynical side says
He's preparing me for future profit,
Like Red Bull handing out free samples
it's the old non-profit game, give your donors a party favor and a pat on the head and they'll keep on giving.
you
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My cynical side says
He's preparing me for future profit,
Like Red Bull handing out free samples
it's the old non-profit game, give your donors a party favor and a pat on the head and they'll keep on giving.
you
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'ilima
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The story that seems to be pursuing you in the last few cinqs reminds me a bit of an old (1936) movie called "Dodsworth"... have you ever seen it? Long-suffering husband, his rather sad, desperate wife who takes a lover or two on their European "retirement" trip.
Sad and it doesn't end well for her.
Love how the story comes in cinq-sized chunks!
Smiles,
Wilt
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The story that seems to be pursuing you in the last few cinqs reminds me a bit of an old (1936) movie called "Dodsworth"... have you ever seen it? Long-suffering husband, his rather sad, desperate wife who takes a lover or two on their European "retirement" trip.
Sad and it doesn't end well for her.
Love how the story comes in cinq-sized chunks!
Smiles,
Wilt
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Your poem really made me think this morning. An interesting opening, introducing a concept that posits looking at flowers as a moral duty. I sort of felt the narrator is not completely convinced, but goes along.
Then I wondered about the 6 trees that are famous enough to
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Your poem really made me think this morning. An interesting opening, introducing a concept that posits looking at flowers as a moral duty. I sort of felt the narrator is not completely convinced, but goes along.
Then I wondered about the 6 trees that are famous enough to
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