Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:39:02 +0000lovepoets A-Cnaturelifepoets M-Opoets G-Ipoets D-Fdisillusionseasonspoets P-Rchildrenseparationpoets J-Ldespairdreamsmemoriespoets S-Usadnessfriendshipweekly reviewadorationchildhoodhopechangehumanitypoets V-Xdeathnightbeautysorrowholidayspassionparentingtragedyjoylonelinessagingcelestialhumorillusionmarriagemusicpoetryyearningfantasyhaikuperseverancetributesyouthanimalsfaithfamilypainreligionconfusioneditor's notespoliticspovertycontentmenthobbiesmythologythoughtfulnesstravelChristmasbetrayalcouragedaydreamingfearfuturepatriotismpridepromisesstrengthunitywarartconceiteroticleadershipmagicpeacerefugesanctuarythankstrusttruthGodbirthdeceitencouragementgallantryhonestyillnessjealousymercyobsessionpleasureCoffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK<i><b>--Heartfelt poems selected from YOU and for you..the discriminating reader!--</b></i><br>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger360125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-4846628671268289829Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:13:00 +00002012-02-07T19:03:48.454-05:00editor's notesCoffee Table Poetry's Guestbook Discontinued<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwaet2GeP_3P1ng6hD-anpPF33J75fLhpSSobuai-4RMPhPMhzUdrF4Ij4M_1C6FDW4mtbTbyJ53fFSJAZg9LedzTFPDIGvjaDmrPp60ZoZDzfuvFhvYXPbuTMgrDWNLeYF9TfqeiqiHR/s1600/coffeegoldframe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwaet2GeP_3P1ng6hD-anpPF33J75fLhpSSobuai-4RMPhPMhzUdrF4Ij4M_1C6FDW4mtbTbyJ53fFSJAZg9LedzTFPDIGvjaDmrPp60ZoZDzfuvFhvYXPbuTMgrDWNLeYF9TfqeiqiHR/s1600/coffeegoldframe.jpg" /></a></div><br /> We would like to thank all our excellent writers and loyal readers who have provided such beautiful poetry and material to us through the past couple years.<br /> <br /> Due to time constraints, we can no longer maintain this site. <u>Instead, we will host your poems on Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers on a separate page within that site.</u> Please feel free to continue to send us your creative thoughts, words and hearts. We will post it all on one site along with poetry from the traditional and classic poets.<br /> <br /> Many thanks again for all your contributions. We have enjoyed each and every poem you have shared with us.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Your Poetry Loving Team<br /> Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers<br /> <br /> http://www.coffeetablepoetry.com/<br /> <br /> https://www.facebook.com/pages/CoffeeTablePoetryAndGuestBook/278152206398<br /> <br /> @coffeetablepoet<br /> <br /> http://www.cooliphoneipadapps.com/<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82UxHza698S-tddU40LimKxwqy3VsqA205WPl3831ssZhfEuyJ8B2ZWt5zoa6zUtUHa3VOup6zhKOFodlgpDRz00ku9hzPp0i8YjQqj6idm0tHNUqyBwiIEv4adK-IJs8aD0z4eNkkzKa/s1600/flowerspoem.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82UxHza698S-tddU40LimKxwqy3VsqA205WPl3831ssZhfEuyJ8B2ZWt5zoa6zUtUHa3VOup6zhKOFodlgpDRz00ku9hzPp0i8YjQqj6idm0tHNUqyBwiIEv4adK-IJs8aD0z4eNkkzKa/s320/flowerspoem.png" width="290" /></a></div>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/coffee-table-poetrys-guestbook-to-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-7911763352115843665Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +00002012-02-05T18:40:49.696-05:00despairdisillusionlovepoets J-LyearningBlue<center> <i>By: Philippa Lane</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCbt8nGe6wOXKSJeB6cGmifpNMcLSI6_s4L1IFT7F5LkW5jTDowdFK7BLNpQkAijdSZEgpMvdKkIMtv5a6t4jGUVRBHz7H5FWjXcmErvzsgdXOVQgRHOSEfjWKClnBsOrrFD2eCcGfhPwL/s1600/blue-rose2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCbt8nGe6wOXKSJeB6cGmifpNMcLSI6_s4L1IFT7F5LkW5jTDowdFK7BLNpQkAijdSZEgpMvdKkIMtv5a6t4jGUVRBHz7H5FWjXcmErvzsgdXOVQgRHOSEfjWKClnBsOrrFD2eCcGfhPwL/s320/blue-rose2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><center>Blue floats and hovers<br /> it never comes to rest<br /> its scent is distant bonfires<br /> its touch moth-breath<br /> <br /> Blue is man-child<br /> with spiritual eyes<br /> a stranger in a room<br /> who isn't one<br /> soft down on upper lip<br /> felt without touch<br /> <br /> it is dreaming at night<br /> of what is not and cannot be<br /> it is gauze-vision<br /> half-reality<br /> <br /> it is a shaky signature<br /> on a typewritten page<br /> seen through mist<br /> <br /> Blue is pain that is borne alone<br /> <br /> it is quena music<br /> bone-notes quavering over absent flesh<br /> in death worship<br /> <br /> yawns are for want of blue<br /> and partially for having it<br /> <br /> Blue is pigeons<br /> and siamese cats<br /> and snow shadows<br /> it is for ever<br /> stretching<br /> <br /> it is ten billion spindles<br /> weaving blue fabric endlessly<br /> <br /> it is the certain<br /> uncertainty<br /> <br /> (Nov.2004)<br /> (Senneville, Quebec)<br /> <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/philippa-lane/?utm_source=YM_Ebulten&utm_campaign=Members_Poems">Philippa Lane </a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.<br /> - Henry Ward Beecher</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> estraneo: stranger / noun<br /> Example sentence: Non invitare estranei a casa, per favore.<br /> Translation: Please do not invite strangers into the house.</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2012</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/blue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-3576517405676704509Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:15:00 +00002012-02-02T21:15:35.798-05:00naturepoets S-UseasonsHovering I Saw A RedBreast and a Wren (Roundelay)<center> <i>By: Gert Strydom</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqLeiDYN_mZRzQmk8gSV3MybMB-WW6QfjxZd92ZbkbQzkhs6v6Go5sJ8aMQuH7zyfYK7ccCY0KKgJ4B8gXCzXOLRnpzzBWkyv3VfdLkzS06Ihta_t0dvHX5Cm6GHejt4DoBdRZnKKnAqN/s1600/robinred.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqLeiDYN_mZRzQmk8gSV3MybMB-WW6QfjxZd92ZbkbQzkhs6v6Go5sJ8aMQuH7zyfYK7ccCY0KKgJ4B8gXCzXOLRnpzzBWkyv3VfdLkzS06Ihta_t0dvHX5Cm6GHejt4DoBdRZnKKnAqN/s320/robinred.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><center>Hovering I saw a redbreast and a wren,<br /> who were both very scared of men<br /> and to me both birds had some lovely charm,<br /> as innocents to which I meant no harm.<br /> <br /> Fluttering some cooing wild doves came down<br /> making my small garden their very own<br /> some pecked bread or landed on my arm,<br /> as innocents to which I meant no harm.<br /> <br /> Pecking some hoopoes landed in my yard<br /> and the two of them was never apart,<br /> fleeing in their scared heart throbbing alarm<br /> as innocents to which I meant no harm. <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://poemhunter.com/poem/hovering-i-saw-a-redbreast-and-a-wren-roundelay/">Gert Strydom </a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> slimsy \SLIM-zee\, adjective:<br /> Flimsy; frail.<br /> Example:<br /> "Nice girl . . ." he mused, "but sort of thin and slimsy and delicate, not robust and hearty like the kind of girl you ought to have on a farm."<br /> -- Bess Streeter Aldrich, A White Flying Bird</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-FRENCH:</b> être dans la lune<br /> : to be lost in one's thoughts, to be absent-minded ("to be on the moon")</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2012</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/hovering-i-saw-redbreast-and-wren.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-2918893539293002822Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:08:00 +00002012-01-26T19:13:15.965-05:00childrenhumorpoets P-RThe Place Where Socks Go<center> <i>By: Godfrey Rust</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjYG4HSDbhyAcJqrlooeltRFYutKVsHvdHVvubdB2OBWTGgQYhtdxw-BJnk1Oz7UedV7UnL7fnsVhUcJTdoynCFPbJNZ_NtyPakMFtzvEjky3Y52QBIMZi3QLN9KUlY2E_SmTmrPwAIZt/s1600/socks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjYG4HSDbhyAcJqrlooeltRFYutKVsHvdHVvubdB2OBWTGgQYhtdxw-BJnk1Oz7UedV7UnL7fnsVhUcJTdoynCFPbJNZ_NtyPakMFtzvEjky3Y52QBIMZi3QLN9KUlY2E_SmTmrPwAIZt/s320/socks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><center>There's a place where socks go<br /> when the washing is done<br /> and the driers have dried<br /> and the spinners have spun<br /> and it's past eight o'clock<br /> and there's no one about<br /> and the launderette's locked<br /> then the odd socks come out.<br /> <br /> There is hosiery here<br /> of each pattern and hue<br /> some plain, striped or spotted,<br /> some black, red or blue<br /> some wom only once,<br /> some so old they have formed<br /> to exactly the shape<br /> of the foot they once warmed<br /> <br /> some were brought back from Sock Shops<br /> in airports in France,<br /> some were hideous presents<br /> from matronly aunts<br /> but in all their variety<br /> one thing is shared:<br /> to the place where socks go<br /> they will not go pre-paired.<br /> <br /> Then the odd socks remaining<br /> are placed in the chest<br /> (They must turn up sometime<br /> now where was that vest...?)<br /> and new socks come at Christmas<br /> and birthdays bring more<br /> and the old lie, alone,<br /> at the back of the drawer.<br /> <br /> And maybe, one evening<br /> when memory is low,<br /> they too slip away<br /> to the place where socks go<br /> and in silent reunion,<br /> each one with its pair,<br /> they join in the dance<br /> with the other things there<br /> <br /> the letters unanswered,<br /> the calls not returned,<br /> the promises broken,<br /> the lessons not learned,<br /> the lost afternoons,<br /> the appointments unmade,<br /> the best of intentions,<br /> the debts never paid,<br /> <br /> and the friends not kept up<br /> and the others let down<br /> in the ragbag of conscience<br /> they waltz sadly round,<br /> beyond the respite<br /> of the washing machine,<br /> no amount of detergent<br /> can now get them clean<br /> <br /> till that day when all laundry<br /> is washed white as snow,<br /> and everyone's tumbled<br /> and soft soap must go,<br /> when nothing is hidden<br /> but all is revealed<br /> and socks shall be holy<br /> and souls shall be healed.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Godfrey Rust</b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.<br /> - Mohandas Gandhi</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> neve: snow<br /> Example sentence: Quando c'è la neve in città è una gran seccatura!<br /> Translation: When there is snow in the city, it is very annoying!</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2012</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/place-where-socks-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-7227985507758749034Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:02:00 +00002012-01-10T20:02:27.299-05:00adorationlovepassionpoets M-OHis Masterpiece<center> <i>By: Dan Nelson </i> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWi_EyRXhMv5-mjVV-gUoNO33UTZmMur5N7ji08C4SJ6vGvGyqJgcVNuCdlyVCIIczVF_itg-iijxfqQs7jfIiiPic8JMbSptvSFDltskK73MyGQoc6kUWoKufq4w9aXgpr0LXC8jrD_y-/s1600/portrait-of-a-woman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWi_EyRXhMv5-mjVV-gUoNO33UTZmMur5N7ji08C4SJ6vGvGyqJgcVNuCdlyVCIIczVF_itg-iijxfqQs7jfIiiPic8JMbSptvSFDltskK73MyGQoc6kUWoKufq4w9aXgpr0LXC8jrD_y-/s320/portrait-of-a-woman.jpg" width="253" /></a></div>His deep expressions of love for her would be his worldly gifts,<br /> Beyond her...he had always had a higher purpose,<br /> To give freely to all with an open heart,<br /> To prove that love was real,<br /> To show others how much a man can love a woman,<br /> To bare his heart and soul to all and without restraint.<br /> To reveal to them his complete devotion to her.<br /> He would become her ever loving poet,<br /> Her best friend.<br /> The man who loved her the most.<br /> And she would become his most beautiful work of art,<br /> His eternal inspiration,<br /> His masterpiece...<br /> <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://poemhunter.com/poem/his-masterpiece-3/">Dan Nelson</a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Mahfood - 2012</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/his-masterpiece.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-8636156984569986849Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:07:00 +00002012-01-07T15:09:37.384-05:00confusionlifenaturepoets S-UthoughtfulnessQuestion Mark Butterfly<center> <i>By: Francis Stella</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpYyn8I4dq6RVFn_FIozmeQKWQs51NYkSpGh71FcPKTPE9KDMmMPznvqTDFXMXlooOpXvXvGouXe0Bsg3qfLprlok5OJz-M1FPR8LZY9b4967pPDDDNycsFeeXq4f8AGCssPOeALJMfsJT/s1600/butterfly.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpYyn8I4dq6RVFn_FIozmeQKWQs51NYkSpGh71FcPKTPE9KDMmMPznvqTDFXMXlooOpXvXvGouXe0Bsg3qfLprlok5OJz-M1FPR8LZY9b4967pPDDDNycsFeeXq4f8AGCssPOeALJMfsJT/s1600/butterfly.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrG6-SVVkeqanUNynkfZDb3UKQGJKENryjTCMEzLYIUfSVqf2OLWJ7MQCGWP8lW1k8ZfAQL2e6bJPn9liwmxQ8QAtStuk1xDiGluBYSXJp0XWF1WM6vj2RcZvzr-wmu1PjdjwnRP2vhh7E/s1600/butterfly3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrG6-SVVkeqanUNynkfZDb3UKQGJKENryjTCMEzLYIUfSVqf2OLWJ7MQCGWP8lW1k8ZfAQL2e6bJPn9liwmxQ8QAtStuk1xDiGluBYSXJp0XWF1WM6vj2RcZvzr-wmu1PjdjwnRP2vhh7E/s320/butterfly3.png" width="309" /></a></div><center>An October’s windrowed field,<br /> And on my hike I have to yield<br /> When from the path you launch your lark<br /> Then settle pressed against some bark.<br /> A question for you, question mark:<br /> How was it you were so designed<br /> With beauty not foremost in mind?<br /> You share the sugar maples’ mood<br /> Like all your red-orange autumn brood,<br /> But soon you’ll seek to winter where<br /> With wings together as in prayer<br /> You’ll haunt some crevice and forbear.<br /> And why that trial by snow and ice—<br /> Should not a chrysalis suffice?<br /> Your wings when you will not confide<br /> Show us their dullish woody side—<br /> And that mark that can be coy,<br /> That silver ringlet trompe l’oeil,<br /> For which your Adam did anoint<br /> You an interrogation point.<br /> Then how you warn us story-lovers<br /> Of judging books just by their covers,<br /> For with one vivid respiration<br /> You part your Book of Revelation,<br /> That splendid text of ash and fire<br /> Whose secret wisdom we desire!<br /> And as you breathe who are the sages<br /> That turn unseen your burning pages—<br /> Can I become an intimate<br /> Of Lepidoptera Holy Writ?<br /> Your wings as well are so curvaceous,<br /> Their flowing margins violaceous,<br /> Like leaves in dreams, and hereupon we<br /> Have to ask, this kirigami:<br /> Who plied the shears with all this craft,<br /> And where then are you autographed?<br /> And shouldn’t such perfection’s hours<br /> Be wiled away in minding flowers?<br /> And yet you crave what can’t invite us,<br /> Felled rotting fruit and such detritus—<br /> Between your flying-circus stunts<br /> That fling you everywhere at once:<br /> You’re like a flaming paper plane<br /> Inside a private hurricane!<br /> Is dread alone what makes you start?<br /> (The thought of that can break the heart.)<br /> Or is your romp that’s so erratic<br /> The raptures of an Earth ecstatic—<br /> WITH schooling in the Eleatic,<br /> When since so often it’s your plan<br /> To end up right where you began?<br /> O question mark, you midair dancer,<br /> Is silence then your only answer?<br /> There’s so much I would like to know<br /> But now I see you have to go<br /> And leave me mostly in the dark<br /> On matters of the question mark.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://poemhunter.com/poem/question-mark-butterfly/">Francis Stella </a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2012</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-mark-butterfly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-4336441200776730518Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:48:00 +00002012-01-03T11:54:57.122-05:00poetrypoets A-CtributesPoet<center> <i>By: Robert Anderson</i> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQrcOvYbD-057D0Fo04RqR3YrEfa8GhfH9KSVjKyGLqfZ0ZIQ6SS0MJny8s60aIxTEA5blPZ4Zgh6x9sFEBfX4no3sfrqBguTsb0GIBWfmM4X3q2SElSNuKo0frVz7GNEtnhkO5naG8-P/s1600/poet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQrcOvYbD-057D0Fo04RqR3YrEfa8GhfH9KSVjKyGLqfZ0ZIQ6SS0MJny8s60aIxTEA5blPZ4Zgh6x9sFEBfX4no3sfrqBguTsb0GIBWfmM4X3q2SElSNuKo0frVz7GNEtnhkO5naG8-P/s320/poet.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><center>in my fragility<br /> i often bereft my very breath of life<br /> of all the wonderment left by dreams--<br /> induce myself<br /> into a tragic, tragic beauty<br /> echoing my heart's sheer deservings<br /> <br /> immortal tracings of longing<br /> somehow aurify the crevices left in my soul<br /> by all i have ever known simply<br /> to versify their very essence<br /> to the surface of each willing page<br /> <br /> i sense far more in only<br /> the most romantic of poets:<br /> days of yore when the Promethean bard<br /> [Shelly] crossed in his own self<br /> the fine line between heaven and earth,<br /> Keats with his melancholic breathlessness still rests<br /> deeply within my heart;<br /> oh, how they remain my unsurpassed favorites<br /> <br /> and so, you see<br /> i am but a humble man whose been bred<br /> completely in the pulsating depth<br /> of poetry<br /> <br /> may i pertain to this<br /> forevermore.<br /> <br /> <b>Robert Anderson </b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> </i> "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.<br /> If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome".<br /> - Anne Bradstreet<br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> comprendere: to include<br /> Example sentence: La lista comprenderà i nomi di tutti i vincitori<br /> Translation: The list will include the names of all the winners.</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2012/01/poet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-7162575042438961283Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:14:00 +00002011-12-31T13:14:06.522-05:00holidayshopenaturepoets M-ONew Year Dawning<center><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgx_SsSQwNKCE0n-irjO2-PWvecXXwBTcFHwEnjNnOs6iIAolLO6e4IMOhKTrFN0Wsd34V2zr1iLd734hrzButRxHPziVflbcIdSMJpPpw-0iGuMJtukoww1-fcnvTvA4ew55qCU2JeDE/s1600-h/birdsweet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgx_SsSQwNKCE0n-irjO2-PWvecXXwBTcFHwEnjNnOs6iIAolLO6e4IMOhKTrFN0Wsd34V2zr1iLd734hrzButRxHPziVflbcIdSMJpPpw-0iGuMJtukoww1-fcnvTvA4ew55qCU2JeDE/s320/birdsweet.jpg" vi="true" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The sun rather feebly struggled to shine,</b></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Causing fractions of sky to light up.</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flowers pushed heavy heads out of the soil,</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drunk with sweet water from nature's own cup.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> <span style="color: #38761d;"></span></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The grass sparkled and glimmered - a carpet of emeralds,</b></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drops of water reclined on silk petals of rose.</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trickling down to the ground as a gentle, cool breeze,</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread the heady perfume throughout orchard groves.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> <span style="color: #38761d;"></span></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Birds shook sodden wings and  soft feathered heads,</b></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rejoicing in the golden, warm sunshine.</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their sweet tunes travelled throughout the air,</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As they wove their love nests with dried twigs and twine.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> <span style="color: #38761d;"></span></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The sun transformed to a ball of orange flame,</b></span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Was merciless soon in its sphere of fierce heat.</span><br /> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shining in all its supreme glory down,</span><br /> <div style="border: medium none;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the freshly-washed world now ready to greet.</span></div><br /> <b>V. Mahfood<br /> <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/">Coffee Table Poetry For Tea Drinkers</a><br /> </b><br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a></center><br /> <b>Daily Quote:</b> <i>"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."<br /> -Galileo Galilei </i><i><br /> </i><br /> <br /> <b>Linguist Corner-SPANISH:</b> semanal, adjective /weekly, per week<br /> - Hay un mercado semanal.<br /> There’s a weekly market.<br /> - Como media, los uruguayos trabajan 38 horas semanales.<br /> On average, Uruguayans work 38 hours per week.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <br /> <br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-year-dawning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-3652398437861741797Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +00002011-12-29T20:01:14.848-05:00childhoodchildrenChristmaspatriotismpoets A-CtributesunitywarFather Christmas<center> <i>By: Michael Bosc</i> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIO8RGFTlKLQIN98q6u6cMjSZ6cik_55l75-GvPFttSx8YOfo2B66bmbHRzizxNJwna3FfqGJZhfeAdiNlCcvBqARHVYe6zl-buAdgTMMqOBzVHqQXHQOq5BXo_NFWr8VBEMObPFYodenF/s1600/christafgh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIO8RGFTlKLQIN98q6u6cMjSZ6cik_55l75-GvPFttSx8YOfo2B66bmbHRzizxNJwna3FfqGJZhfeAdiNlCcvBqARHVYe6zl-buAdgTMMqOBzVHqQXHQOq5BXo_NFWr8VBEMObPFYodenF/s400/christafgh.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><center>It's Christmas time again<br /> Time for families to be together<br /> A time to give thanks<br /> That we are not apart<br /> Our loved ones are with us<br /> We are not on our own<br /> <br /> But out there in Afghan<br /> Our boys are just that<br /> Out on their own working<br /> And under attack<br /> Where they wish that for Christmas<br /> They could spend it at home.<br /> <br /> But Santa is kind he does not forget<br /> He saved up some pressies to give to our boys<br /> Dodging the bullets he flew on his way<br /> To make sure they got presents on their Christmas day<br /> With a ho ho ho he was then on his way<br /> To boys and girls with toys to play<br /> <br /> But his best time of all came at journey's end<br /> When checking his list he remembers his friends<br /> The cooks in the mess tents who fed him fine food<br /> The men who gave Rudolf and Prancer their share<br /> Then as he took off they gave him a cheer<br /> As he took their love to the children so dear<br /> <br /> A look of contentment appears on his face<br /> As he drinks up his coffee at a leisurely pace<br /> Then goes to his window and opens it wide<br /> Looking out on the world he raises his voice<br /> MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL<br /> AND TO ALL GIRLS AND BOYS<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>(c) Michael Douglas Bosc </b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes<br /> but in having new eyes.<br /> - Marcel Proust</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> bambina: child / noun.<br /> Example sentence: Da bambina mi divertivo a disegnare.<br /> Translation: As a child I enjoyed drawing.</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/father-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-1429378125330164895Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:04:00 +00002011-12-21T20:04:25.629-05:00childrenChristmasholidayspoets D-FseasonsToy Escape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>By: Joanna Fuchs </i> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsbQ9MQ2juk03qkW0ja-VrCGpvcFI5wyg5Fah7-2P2W5hFi4NpRP_ZIPKVS2jMb42pMVwFJm09bTkjtEMjZFSvcJFXWZGngs_bydaSVm0luVv29algzLlcIdXHsMUrFWxzxDDhZUXg5E80/s1600/christock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsbQ9MQ2juk03qkW0ja-VrCGpvcFI5wyg5Fah7-2P2W5hFi4NpRP_ZIPKVS2jMb42pMVwFJm09bTkjtEMjZFSvcJFXWZGngs_bydaSVm0luVv29algzLlcIdXHsMUrFWxzxDDhZUXg5E80/s320/christock.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /> <br /> Late Christmas Eve, when all was still,<br /> And the room was dark as night,<br /> The Christmas tree lit magically;<br /> It was a fantastic sight!<br /> <br /> Then from around the tree trunk came,<br /> A strange and funny sound,<br /> As gifts began to unwrap themselves,<br /> And toys jumped out all around.<br /> <br /> The music box began to play,<br /> And in a crazy trance,<br /> The candy canes jumped off the tree<br /> To do a silly dance.<br /> <br /> The big stuffed bear leaped to his feet,<br /> To see what he could see;<br /> He rode a shiny, bright red bike<br /> Around the Christmas tree.<br /> <br /> The new toy kitchen started to cook,<br /> And before you could blink an eye,<br /> The oven door opened, and from inside<br /> Came a tiny pizza pie.<br /> <br /> A squirt gun squirted everything;<br /> It knew what it was for;<br /> By the time that it was emptied out,<br /> A big puddle lay on the floor.<br /> <br /> A beautiful doll with golden hair<br /> Was searching for a friend;<br /> A toy soldier marched up and took her hand;<br /> They were a perfect blend.<br /> <br /> In the bedroom were a boy and girl,<br /> Asleep in Christmas dreams;<br /> The soldier saluted; the doll gave a kiss;<br /> At least that's the way it seems.<br /> <br /> Now everything began to tire;<br /> The toys went back in place;<br /> But when mother woke in the morning,<br /> You should have seen her face.<br /> <br /> The tree was fine; the gifts were there,<br /> Yet mother gave a roar;<br /> She looked at her wet shoes and yelled,<br /> "What's this puddle on my floor?"<br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://www.poemsource.com/Christmas-poems.html">Joanna Fuchs<br /> Poem Source.com</a> </b><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." <br /> -- Anita Roddick </i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-FRENCH:</b> vite / fast <br /> Part of speech: adverb <br /> Example:<br /> French: Il skie beaucoup trop vite, il risque de tomber. <br /> English: He skis way too fast, he might fall. <br /> </i><br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; 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font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter.</span></a> </span></b> <br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2010</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2010/12/toy-escape.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-3353314212973195544Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:11:00 +00002011-12-09T20:12:20.477-05:00adorationillusionlovenaturepoets A-CEver and Again<center> <i>By: Robert Anderson </i> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjFNPe2_zV7Yrj5q7pc_SVW8jQ_Ifpm7DXcSynynskjGbrsoFbGyftoHfzRQ07jJggqC66ItLivVx4whFXpBWsRNGiMri4Eoxl3ZtpCTm5uL3aGIxKNOGzXLpiiDUQYv3LLbbd3Ruh5rp/s1600/rain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjFNPe2_zV7Yrj5q7pc_SVW8jQ_Ifpm7DXcSynynskjGbrsoFbGyftoHfzRQ07jJggqC66ItLivVx4whFXpBWsRNGiMri4Eoxl3ZtpCTm5uL3aGIxKNOGzXLpiiDUQYv3LLbbd3Ruh5rp/s320/rain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> shadows aggravate<br /> <br /> my heart,<br /> <br /> love seems so far away --<br /> <br /> so far, so far<br /> <br /> and i am lost<br /> <br /> beneath the blue veil<br /> <br /> of my dreams<br /> <br /> <br /> i'll linger awhile,<br /> <br /> torn, lost without<br /> <br /> everything<br /> <br /> i never actually knew yet<br /> <br /> fantasied of<br /> <br /> constantly<br /> <br /> <br /> no matter how<br /> <br /> elegance no longer laces<br /> <br /> through all i once held near<br /> <br /> i'll wander through and search<br /> <br /> for you<br /> <br /> <br /> 'til breath becomes the chill<br /> <br /> the air accumulates through<br /> <br /> its pale frigidness and<br /> <br /> tears fall while<br /> <br /> memories loom<br /> <br /> <br /> i'll sit here and watch<br /> <br /> the craving earth<br /> <br /> endure<br /> <br /> the fragmented rain<br /> <br /> and want more<br /> <br /> to escape<br /> <br /> my very breath of life<br /> <br /> <br /> ever... and again <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Robert Anderson</b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.<br /> Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.<br /> - Mary Anne Radmacher</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> tenere: to hold / verb.<br /> Example sentence: Se lo tieni così stretto, l'uovo si rompe.<br /> Translation: If you hold it too tightly, the egg will break.</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/12/ever-and-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-6523395551352423732Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:49:00 +00002011-11-30T18:49:43.140-05:00adorationlovepassionpoets A-CyearningI Swear (I Love You)<center> <i>By: Robert Anderson</i> <br /> <br />  </center><center> </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwESGymsmaq86_oNfLbTv86Vo3SkS66_KyY0yD8oTZoXtOF6kWhUcNcA_8aUk8HSGHMVVtOq62vnfODSksri392ug2dxjEjBHy6Ar2EYq9kEjxoPHkf3MBhyPHMf-DISzJc3EveK5ycPjP/s1600/lovers-charcoal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwESGymsmaq86_oNfLbTv86Vo3SkS66_KyY0yD8oTZoXtOF6kWhUcNcA_8aUk8HSGHMVVtOq62vnfODSksri392ug2dxjEjBHy6Ar2EYq9kEjxoPHkf3MBhyPHMf-DISzJc3EveK5ycPjP/s320/lovers-charcoal.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><center>emotion escapes from what was just<br /> a love-lit haven --<br /> darkness bequeaths sufficiently,<br /> like as all my embracing thoughts,<br /> to drown the surrendering earth<br /> tonight<br /> <br /> it moans for you,<br /> oh, for how eloquence formalizes in<br /> the way you've expired<br /> [as all angels know]<br /> that unforgiving puddles articulate their sting<br /> from the windows of my own secret-self<br /> while i aim to glance meagerly<br /> into your depth<br /> <br /> dreams aren't enough<br /> yet all i have to ever hold you anymore<br /> as you lay appealingly amid the bed we made<br /> breathing in your satisfaction<br /> for how you graced such denouement into light<br /> <br /> i yearn you again-- have always yearned you and pray<br /> it is enough to ever take you in<br /> <br /> because until the day i die<br /> i'll ever confide in only you...<br /> your beauty: my aphrodisiac<br /> <br /> and i swear i love you.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Robert Anderson</b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;<br /> what else does a man need to be happy?<br /> - Albert Einstein</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-SPANISH:</b> suerte, noun / luck<br /> “Lucky be a lady tonight” is a famous line from a song, and for Spanish speakers luck, la suerte, is as important as it is for English speakers. Sometimes la suerte is kind to us:<br /> Example:<br /> Tuvo muchísima suerte de salir del accidente.<br /> He was incredibly lucky to survive the accident.</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-swear-i-love-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-2032972140524934582Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:45:00 +00002011-11-28T19:45:59.890-05:00aginglifelovememoriespoets G-IRemains Belong To You<center> <i>By: Shilpi Grewal</i> <br /> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUb3GG7aFPidpb_rfAsf5HB_g1h8YI9L3Xk1Srgck1xJC7H3EGZG3PeZ1Gtthf91eTm2EG7Wwo5HVIn0dZPa55c6EKuvvXTctNnI1bO-MLoET9WYrG0USXT6BOYo0bHiwztKGGOzdlkbWn/s1600/flowerspoem.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUb3GG7aFPidpb_rfAsf5HB_g1h8YI9L3Xk1Srgck1xJC7H3EGZG3PeZ1Gtthf91eTm2EG7Wwo5HVIn0dZPa55c6EKuvvXTctNnI1bO-MLoET9WYrG0USXT6BOYo0bHiwztKGGOzdlkbWn/s320/flowerspoem.png" width="320" /></a></div><center>One of those days when i think it through<br /> Look into what i've done and how time flew<br /> Me, who was so untamed,<br /> How appearances be-fooled us two<br /> <br /> <br /> How pointless it seems now<br /> All makes me think just how<br /> The time have made me stronger<br /> And what took to make through<br /> <br /> <br /> Friends that were everything<br /> Now i am just left with few<br /> Nights that were so lonely<br /> The mistakes that made me new<br /> <br /> <br /> The pictures i have lost,<br /> The memories that made through,<br /> The voices that once lingered<br /> Are dimming down too<br /> <br /> <br /> How losing doesn't hurt any longer<br /> Maybe that’s part of walk through<br /> Accepting fault isn’t hard now<br /> I wish making them was optional too<br /> <br /> <br /> But since love is all that matters<br /> Believe me i love you.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b><br /> Shilpi Grewal<br /> https://www.facebook.com/shilpigrewal<br /> https://twitter.com/#!/shilpigrewal</b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> It all depends on how we look at things,<br /> and not how they are in themselves.<br /> - Carl Jung</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> regalare: to present / verb<br /> Example sentence: Il giorno del pensionamento, i colleghi le regaleranno una collana.<br /> Translation: On the day of her retirement, her co-workers will present her with a necklace. </i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/remains-belong-to-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-2203075689950857401Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:55:00 +00002011-11-16T19:56:44.457-05:00adorationfriendshiplovepoets S-UUnending Love<center> <i>By: Rabindranath Tagore</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagFMxOa8pwjjynoceOurEkW03pFlCqlfBbCoirnoSn71z1wa7SSFgMuqP8kpp9o0BJmezHymZiOu4O5FaP1QERm0ITbi0zryKeQRKSWFgx8oOXE6hqpJ_Ecbdikr9etx4OHw1D0zZ-Mfb/s1600/unendinglove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagFMxOa8pwjjynoceOurEkW03pFlCqlfBbCoirnoSn71z1wa7SSFgMuqP8kpp9o0BJmezHymZiOu4O5FaP1QERm0ITbi0zryKeQRKSWFgx8oOXE6hqpJ_Ecbdikr9etx4OHw1D0zZ-Mfb/s1600/unendinglove.jpg" /></a></div><center>I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...<br /> In life after life, in age after age, forever.<br /> My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,<br /> That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,<br /> In life after life, in age after age, forever.<br /> <br /> Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,<br /> It's ancient tale of being apart or together.<br /> As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,<br /> Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.<br /> You become an image of what is remembered forever.<br /> <br /> You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.<br /> At the heart of time, love of one for another.<br /> We have played along side millions of lovers,<br /> Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,<br /> the distressful tears of farewell,<br /> Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.<br /> <br /> Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you<br /> The love of all man's days both past and forever:<br /> Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.<br /> The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -<br /> And the songs of every poet past and forever.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Rabindranath Tagore<br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Learning.Wisdom.Everyday">Learning Wisdom Every Day</a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> If patience is worth anything,<br /> it must endure to the end of time.<br /> And a living faith will last<br /> in the midst of the blackest storm.<br /> - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-SPANISH:</b> imagen, (noun) / <br /> image, picture<br /> Example:<br /> - Una imagen vale más que mil palabras.<br /> A picture is worth a thousand words. </i><br /> <br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/unending-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-9067305997352914248Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:04:00 +00002011-11-11T16:04:59.780-05:00changeconfusiondisillusionpoets S-UThe Visions<center> <i>By: Shekhar Srinivasan</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLlWCFSJIQrSQN3LwfamSCQOk6qamsb1uga5Akp_SpZgLhvp8SN8TWFM_F9oeVNWnV5j70f1ldgXSOW0GcgK16DywiFQtWv2_QjoC4Vld4C0-YAgzURqsKvnybisC63EzV-hsKKxxe60d/s1600/jurass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLlWCFSJIQrSQN3LwfamSCQOk6qamsb1uga5Akp_SpZgLhvp8SN8TWFM_F9oeVNWnV5j70f1ldgXSOW0GcgK16DywiFQtWv2_QjoC4Vld4C0-YAgzURqsKvnybisC63EzV-hsKKxxe60d/s320/jurass.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><center>Chased during the day by vicious lions,<br /> Burned in the night by the fire dragons,<br /> Living in a dream of dreadful scorpions,<br /> Thrown into a land of giant roaches in billions,<br /> <br /> Driving the bike along the highway,<br /> Run over by the truck going astray,<br /> Gazing out of the window of a running train,<br /> Smashed by the pole into severe pain,<br /> <br /> Wandering the wooded jungles of Jurassic Park,<br /> Finding myself within inches of the T-rex in dark,<br /> Sinking with the ship into the waters of the Lost Ark,<br /> Surprised by the grisly sight of a sharp teethed shark,<br /> <br /> Fearing the loss of memory due to amnesia,<br /> Staying outdoors in panic and claustrophobia,<br /> Driven to nuts by spiders and arachnophobia,<br /> Living in a shell due to anthropophobia,<br /> <br /> Fearing the ghastly sounds of the night,<br /> Seeking a calm place of humble respite,<br /> Overwhelmed by the restless crowd of the day,<br /> In search of a supporting friend along the way,<br /> <br /> God, please help resolve this chaotic confusion,<br /> Please free my mind of this horrifying delusion,<br /> Convincing me it’s no reality but an optical illusion,<br /> Shunning away a life of such dreadful seclusion<br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://shekharsrinivasan.blogspot.com/">Shekhar Srinivasan<br /> Unleashing The Power of Thought</a> </b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.<br /> ~Edna Ferber</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/visions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-5206604285136556826Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:06:00 +00002011-11-09T19:49:18.045-05:00adorationlovepoets A-CI Found Your Heart<center> <i>By: Ata Augustyn</i> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPDA3rGZZ1GgH2ZoZpUBpARk_hCGZqBFm30eug28iw-ZWskTVvtZLGYzksq0NgsLeVdmMA_ABzoYxSWMlxNChoNELB_pL6MKLJsGpbYHGVgLVKASRejmM2hs-Ij3OSZYlzR5A0ctA4T2x/s1600/lvpoem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPDA3rGZZ1GgH2ZoZpUBpARk_hCGZqBFm30eug28iw-ZWskTVvtZLGYzksq0NgsLeVdmMA_ABzoYxSWMlxNChoNELB_pL6MKLJsGpbYHGVgLVKASRejmM2hs-Ij3OSZYlzR5A0ctA4T2x/s320/lvpoem.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I was in your kiss<br /> It made me a princess of your carmine dreams<br /> It dressed me in a rose's scent<br /> It ornamented my love's beads<br /> <br /> I wandered through your lips<br /> They made me a fairy tale of your wonderland<br /> They opened so many reddish pages<br /> They led my lips' blissful steps<br /> <br /> I found your heart<br /> a small wonder with a huge feeling<br /> a strong breath with a delightful breeze<br /> a bouquet of kindness with a love ribbon <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://poemhunter.com/poem/i-found-your-heart/">Ata Augustyn</a> </b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> "When love is not madness, it is not love". <br /> ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist's Corner:</i></b> sano: healthy /adjective<br /> Example sentence: Alcune sane abitudini possono aiutare a vivere meglio.<br /> Translation: Certain healthy habits can help you to live a better life.<br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-found-your-heart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-7558764659426643918Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:09:00 +00002011-11-08T20:09:42.031-05:00childhoodchildrenjoymemoriespoets A-CyouthA Memory Old<center> <i>By: Kristen Denise Brown</i> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKsrimsrjU-C0NcI7LebeDuynbPu4Y_JA6az3ffee3qogAfC_0BxvpDNGC_l_w_3KksbU2nE5Y8LeSgP-YgrTBn1Fuc7S9O2ujMh6t34y-W1JUPI95U3QqrvkQ_dmuMcMaN7HTLoGAA8D/s1600/children_playing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKsrimsrjU-C0NcI7LebeDuynbPu4Y_JA6az3ffee3qogAfC_0BxvpDNGC_l_w_3KksbU2nE5Y8LeSgP-YgrTBn1Fuc7S9O2ujMh6t34y-W1JUPI95U3QqrvkQ_dmuMcMaN7HTLoGAA8D/s320/children_playing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><center>I remember laying outside the house<br /> remembering the days when we were young<br /> those days seem so long ago<br /> but back then we had so much fun<br /> <br /> I remember children laughing and playing in the field<br /> seemed everyday our hearts would heal<br /> just to be there to laugh and play<br /> seemed like it'd be, forever that way<br /> <br /> But so long ago, were those days<br /> They dont last forever, some memories fade away<br /> We live, we learn, we grow from young to old<br /> then to our children and theirs our story will be told<br /> <br /> Of how we met and were kismit<br /> the times we shared, and showed how we cared<br /> the warmth of your smile, the smell of your hair<br /> and then our memories, will to, be theirs <br /> <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-memory-old/">Kristen Denise Brown</a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> The winds of grace are always blowing;<br /> all we need to do is raise our sails.<br /> - Anonymous</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-FRENCH:</b> bûche de Noël / English translation: Yule log / noun<br /> Example sentence:<br /> French: Pour le dessert du repas de Noël, ma mère cuisine toujours sa fameuse bûche de Noël faite maison.<br /> English: For Christmas dinner dessert my mother always bakes her famous homemade Yule log.</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/memory-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-2387210316185527334Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:38:00 +00002011-11-04T15:38:19.696-04:00animalschildrenhumorpoets A-CLonely Crafty Squirrel<center> <i>By: Michael D. Bosc</i> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yi1mnXHm70lQp3ymapq87VwMDpRu9yqmzfiBoNU6jK1TeFJFv7MmrtZbjGOmyOBmavTBcUWSK73MjS5b1F5Akoo5ZN4UaQOWey777FogK_UFhc4-L3FR2UrO7IXi0f5Z0v3O7sQYo0Xi/s1600/lonelysquirrel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yi1mnXHm70lQp3ymapq87VwMDpRu9yqmzfiBoNU6jK1TeFJFv7MmrtZbjGOmyOBmavTBcUWSK73MjS5b1F5Akoo5ZN4UaQOWey777FogK_UFhc4-L3FR2UrO7IXi0f5Z0v3O7sQYo0Xi/s1600/lonelysquirrel.jpg" /></a></div><center>I have a friend called B.J.<br /> Who shouts and chases me<br /> He can never catch me<br /> As I run up the tree<br /> <br /> His wife has now joined in the game<br /> And whenever she see me<br /> She shouts and flaps a tea-towel<br /> But it is not the same you see<br /> <br /> This weekend they both ignored me<br /> They had visitor you see<br /> They did not want to come and play<br /> That really was a shame<br /> <br /> I ran along the back fence<br /> Then I climbed the tree<br /> I also ran along the wood that<br /> They use for a frame<br /> <br /> So now I sit upon the post<br /> Looking at their door<br /> Hoping one will see me and<br /> Come out with a roar<br /> <br /> Then I can scamper off<br /> And run up my tall tree<br /> Then we’d be back to normal<br /> B.J, his wife and me<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>(c) <a href="http://alovingson.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/lonely-crafty-squirrel/">Michael Douglas Bosc<br /> My Poetry </a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. <br /> ~George Eliot</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/lonely-crafty-squirrel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-7087862359101694060Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:11:00 +00002011-11-01T17:11:56.227-04:00conceitlifepoets V-XpoliticsThe Click Clacks of Cheap Glass<center> <i>By: Jeremiah Walton</i> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KH73JDS9KisrU_D40GzASEphKHVMPXlXn7FJyc5Q3QL7qLYfAUxB11j3iUalzAvRK4Eg7tdG-EfPpdUzwF4wcHkb2nnSmfQf5EBPXqp8KqCpgX2Am_wp-TZYjOqR2hhz-gIZOegh7XFY/s1600/richwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KH73JDS9KisrU_D40GzASEphKHVMPXlXn7FJyc5Q3QL7qLYfAUxB11j3iUalzAvRK4Eg7tdG-EfPpdUzwF4wcHkb2nnSmfQf5EBPXqp8KqCpgX2Am_wp-TZYjOqR2hhz-gIZOegh7XFY/s320/richwoman.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><center>The click clack of high heels<br /> Against a set marble path<br /> Walking down brick tracks<br /> Following the ridges of my back<br /> Like a train and its tracks<br /> Click clack click clack<br /> Walking up stone stairs, like coyotes in a pack<br /> Scavenging off the deceased<br /> All dressed in black<br /> The snap of fake nails being pressed on<br /> Chewed ruins cracked, now colorful dunes<br /> With the tactless taste of tobacco under the skin<br /> As tasteless music played, these fingers convey<br /> A drunken orchestra of piano keys placed in an array<br /> And the flowers are laid<br /> In the vase of the slain<br /> Why you here so soon?<br /> As the funerals fumes exit the sir's tomb<br /> Where the cremated body is burned into flesh<br /> An hour or so will go, before<br /> The ladies and lords appear, saying they held the dead dear<br /> With their eye lashes long, and their hair well groomed<br /> And with their social rankings assumed<br /> They murmur in small segregated groups<br /> One and another in and out of the loop<br /> Drinking fine wine as they whine about the futures that loom<br /> To meet the same fate, as ashes in a vase<br /> Doomed to have their relatives assume<br /> Control over their net worth when they're worth about as much as the dirt<br /> That their corpses will be buried in<br /> The rick wrath that comes with the click clacks<br /> Followed by the final clap<br /> And a toast<br /> But before that<br /> You'll hear someone screaming that their water's from tap<br /> Disinherited relatives talking shit behind a dead man's back<br /> The cremated flesh in a Good Will sweater vest<br /> A stuffed body stage, the actor's a doll, with the same clothes and all<br /> As the dead man in a vase without a face but still with the ashes of a case of a million dollars burned<br /> That each relative thinks they deserve<br /> But in ignorance, <br /> There is a crass cheer of upper class glass to old lifeand new money that they think they've earned<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Jeremiah Walton <br /> <a href="http://www.nostroviatowriting.com/">Nostrovia! Poetry</a> </b><br /> <br /> <i>~ Jeremiah Walton is the author of the free ebook "To Your Health!" and the book "Nostrovia!" View his writing at website and make sure to participate in the Weekly Poetry Contest!</i><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> There is more hunger for love and appreciation<br /> in this world than for bread.<br /> - Mother Teresa</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-SPANISH:</b> desgracia, noun / misfortune, bad luck<br /> The basic meaning of desgracia is something unfortunate. So, in the following example it means bad luck, rather than its false friend ‘disgrace’.<br /> Example:<br /> Es una desgracia que haya* tenido que abandonar el Tour de esta manera.<br /> It’s bad luck that he’s had to drop out of the Tour like this. </i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/11/click-clacks-of-cheap-glass.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-707887417780006891Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:51:00 +00002011-10-29T19:51:22.640-04:00friendshiplifelonelinesspoets P-RShip and Friendship<center> <i>By: Ravi Panamanna </i> <br /> <br /> <br />  </center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwB1OpgIi7x8sYYwiAJvQkZO1ik6FA9drEy3PhYAEyJSI1gnwYwW6inPpFZWGTdWkJelUg1If2C2Ljx6dm-LQC_s1TaiP3moIt2AGGUuqIcwpPX9w8_nVeD0WrROVlxhb0Nt5CStB7TsM/s1600/shipmoored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwB1OpgIi7x8sYYwiAJvQkZO1ik6FA9drEy3PhYAEyJSI1gnwYwW6inPpFZWGTdWkJelUg1If2C2Ljx6dm-LQC_s1TaiP3moIt2AGGUuqIcwpPX9w8_nVeD0WrROVlxhb0Nt5CStB7TsM/s320/shipmoored.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><center>Ship is moored in a port<br /> Friendship blossoms in the heart.<br /> Ship is tossed by winds<br /> Friendship withstands any wind.<br /> <br /> Ship cruises along the sea<br /> Friendship- the depth one can’t see.<br /> A ship takes you to many lands<br /> Friendship shows you many wonderlands.<br /> <br /> A ship carries tons of cargo<br /> Friendship- strong and pure is void of ego.<br /> A ship sails unto new horizons,<br /> Friendship opens new horizons.<br /> <br /> A ship is caught in ice-berg,<br /> Friendship gets beyond all ice-bergs.<br /> A ship sinks in the waters<br /> Friendship gets beyond all Waterloos.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://poemhunter.com/poem/ship-and-friendship/">Ravi Panamanna </a></b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> It doesn’t interest me<br /> what you do for a living.<br /> I want to know<br /> what you ache for<br /> and if you dare to dream<br /> of meeting your heart’s longing.<br /> - Oriah</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/10/ship-and-friendship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-8669486440070099606Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:24:00 +00002011-10-27T18:24:47.179-04:00betrayaldeceitdisillusionpoets S-UpoliticsThe Art of Leaving<center> <i>By: Shekhar Srinivasan</i> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgnr6iCDxV1FKi5AQnR_H81maG0-RCshqW4sPT-J0k3tVddk3SZjlHcUavLRoNQZPYcwx1UCPYYl7iNDlYYJdp88cP8ll6HGnQfmpCXXyHCxHdCtgwuztgDlJYhZNBnT7GKsjh8ReEgLN/s1600/artleaving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgnr6iCDxV1FKi5AQnR_H81maG0-RCshqW4sPT-J0k3tVddk3SZjlHcUavLRoNQZPYcwx1UCPYYl7iNDlYYJdp88cP8ll6HGnQfmpCXXyHCxHdCtgwuztgDlJYhZNBnT7GKsjh8ReEgLN/s320/artleaving.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> With a foot-long hair and a ghastly beard,<br /> A constipated grimace appearing weird,<br /> An orange dress and a stick to bear,<br /> A false mask on the outside, they wear,<br /> <br /> Claiming to know the art of living,<br /> Through the path of charity giving,<br /> Exploiting the weak minds of society,<br /> Use the same charity to earn their living,<br /> <br /> Selling themselves as priests of spirituality,<br /> Driving people away from objective reality,<br /> Extorting a hefty fee under the ambit of God,<br /> The saintly garb and their business at odds,<br /> <br /> Hiring corporate managers for marketing & finance,<br /> Extorting the money in full advance,<br /> To run their show, they put up a fake stance,<br /> To their tunes, they make the people dance,<br /> <br /> People wake up and please rise,<br /> To stop the pervading menace of this surprise,<br /> Using the gifted power of choice,<br /> Become healthy, wealthy and wise.<br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=77435809&gid=1958482&goback=.gmp_1958482">Shekhar Srinivasan</a><br /> <br /> </b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> All in the dark we grope along,<br /> And if we go amiss<br /> We learn at least which path is wrong,<br /> And there is gain in this.<br /> We do not always win the race<br /> By only running right;<br /> We have to tread the mountain's base<br /> Before we reach its height.<br /> - Ella Wheeler Wilcox</i><br /> <br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; 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Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/10/art-of-leaving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-6849686685674761288Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:29:00 +00002011-10-26T15:30:24.059-04:00lifenaturepoets D-FSunrise Sunset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVvZwsjP5lbyu4su8kTK2xAVAsChL1_av-0xEkq0fCD9sEbhc0P9kEkwOuaX1Vd_rgTUMUzZ_0jIqnrqwzQ5OHdIeMHxQmjs3dr2d-8fJFotkL3rcFCA5q27w3c3b4BeD7f5ktLVAJ2oy4/s1600/sunriseset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVvZwsjP5lbyu4su8kTK2xAVAsChL1_av-0xEkq0fCD9sEbhc0P9kEkwOuaX1Vd_rgTUMUzZ_0jIqnrqwzQ5OHdIeMHxQmjs3dr2d-8fJFotkL3rcFCA5q27w3c3b4BeD7f5ktLVAJ2oy4/s200/sunriseset.jpg" border="0" height="178" width="237"></a><br /> </div><center><br /> the sun slowly rising<br /> creeping upward<br /> ever so slowly<br /> light streaking across<br /> the sky<br /> mingled in with<br /> scattered clouds<br /> bits of pink and orange<br /> playing hide and seek<br /> nature starting its<br /> stretch<br /> morning yawn<br /> still a chill<br /> in the air<br /> muffled sounds<br /> of the waves<br /> rolling to the shores<br /> soft cries of the birds<br /> as they search<br /> for their daily food<br /> circling overhead<br /> the sight of a fish<br /> breaking the water<br /> the quiet movement<br /> of people slowly<br /> making way to join others<br /> in a singular way<br /> along the sands<br /> looking forward<br /> to a new day<br /> looking for change<br /> or continuation<br /> of what has been<br /> bestowed upon them<br /> for some<br /> the search goes on<br /> <br /> the sun heavy with<br /> a full day behind it<br /> slowly gathering<br /> downward heading<br /> reaching for the horizon<br /> the expectations<br /> of the day<br /> maybe fullfilled<br /> the darkness creeping<br /> from behind<br /> pushing at the colors<br /> of the soon<br /> night time sky<br /> a quiet time begins<br /> birds flutter about<br /> searching for the nest<br /> energy of the day<br /> all but expelled<br /> fish drift off to sleep<br /> to the depths<br /> they call home<br /> some do gather<br /> chairs for sand<br /> drink in hand<br /> slowly settle in<br /> to watch nature's show<br /> a stillness returns<br /> words not uttered<br /> lost in thought<br /> light turns to dark<br /> the cycle to return<br /> the day wish to continue<br /> or the hope for<br /> a new begining<br /> <br /> what is your wish? <br /> <br /> <b>Raymond Denzel<br /> <a href="http://www.rjacobpost.blogspot.com/">R. Jacob Post</a><br /> </b></center><center><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" border="0" height="104" width="180"></a><br /> <i><br /> "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for."<br /> ~John A. 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A place where my young feet<br /> use to run in the freedom winds of innocence<br /> but now as I look down this narrow street<br /> I do not recognize the sorrow/ there is emptiness<br /> as the price of destruction has diminished once proud<br /> eyes and now there is no sun that rises about this sky<br /> just clouds that have dampened a tough cement<br /> into a muddy paradox of nothingness.<br /> <br /> I use to run up and down this paved road singing<br /> the sweet tunes of whistled happiness<br /> manipulating older ears into their own sweet remembrance<br /> of how their time here use to be. The older folk<br /> always renewed history in telling the stories of their younger years<br /> and now my own proud tears<br /> bring this street back alive.<br /> <br /> These lampposts have lifted their rust and fresh lights<br /> shine down upon the feet of bicycles ready to smile again<br /> and faded graffiti walls have washed themselves<br /> of decay and now reach out to embrace<br /> trees that have lost their names; these same trees<br /> have found their identities again and now sparkle<br /> in the sunlight of those golden days before crime<br /> kidnapped the aspirations of many dreams;<br /> before poverty took over the stage of hope<br /> and before time took away the history<br /> of a neighborhood that once held hands<br /> upon this street of unity.<br /> <br /> This poem is a memory<br /> This poem is about /a place that will never be again<br /> that place I used to call my home but my feet<br /> still cry for this street because my heart<br /> has never abandoned the beauty that nurtured<br /> my growth; the beauty once absorbed by the foundation<br /> of these sidewalks now dismantled<br /> by the migration of everything that made life here<br /> possible…<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://flexwriterblogsonline.net/tarringovaughan"><b>Tarringo Vaughan © 2010<br /> Tarringo T. Vaughan - The Mind of a Creative Writer</b></a><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> weltschmerz \VELT-shmerts\, noun:<br /> Sentimental pessimism; sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life.<br /> Example:<br /> Cohen confused his mood with his chronic weltschmerz. He spoke at great length on the vicissitudes of a sensitive spirit, his dissatisfaction, the inadequacy of this sphere as far as he was concerned.<br /> -- Daniel Fuchs, Summer in Williamsburg</i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/10/place-i-used-to-call-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-5268851913072861979Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:40:00 +00002011-10-12T19:44:18.519-04:00childrenhumorpoets M-OPoetry, Prose and Joe's Elbows<center> <i>By: Joe Mohr</i></center><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIoxwUVU1YZAgFQJITPydP2xs3tvz04q3xT8FyBhpabkQu9kgxrpjtrpF0_RwAHC8idqAIf3ib4_vY6T6L8SBezb9BtpI20Ppu7vQqXnAK7apUiGEe_TCTmvJM7O5zasOcPvhOOEmcUnRn/s1600/joesprose2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIoxwUVU1YZAgFQJITPydP2xs3tvz04q3xT8FyBhpabkQu9kgxrpjtrpF0_RwAHC8idqAIf3ib4_vY6T6L8SBezb9BtpI20Ppu7vQqXnAK7apUiGEe_TCTmvJM7O5zasOcPvhOOEmcUnRn/s640/joesprose2.png" width="410" /></a><br /> <center><b>Joe Mohr<br /> <a href="http://poemsofjoems.com/2011/10/10/poetry-prose-and-joes-elbows-and-why-joe-picks-his-nose;">Poems of JoeM's</a> </b><br /> </center> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a><br /> <br /> <i><b>Daily Quote:</b> "To leave the world a bit better ...<br /> to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.<br /> This is to have succeeded."<br /> - Ralph Waldo Emerson</i><br /> <br /> <i><b>Linguist Corner-ITALIAN:</b> mondiale: worldwide / adjective.<br /> Example sentence: La seconda guerra mondiale è stata più terribile della prima.<br /> Translation: The Second World War was more terrible than the First. </i><br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span></center> <div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011</span></center>http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/2011/10/poetry-prose-and-joes-elbows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994571166564051227.post-1886270584080736398Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:12:00 +00002011-10-08T15:23:59.520-04:00childrenfantasyillusionpoets A-Cpoets G-IWho Knows if the Moon's a Balloon (Video adaptation)<center> <i><b>By: Good King Friday </b></i><b> </b></center><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinDNkVVLzWHC0rQPkkFBRr7QzohPeAqtPre82g2GG6lckTjj48IIX16NFCWabOJYCpbHNXQt3SDrulyyvqn2quE6crZLT3nhKdUS-32c1_wxtQQkUSTVOtY5tgneirhCJJEXeiFOhTLNvs/s1600/moonballoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinDNkVVLzWHC0rQPkkFBRr7QzohPeAqtPre82g2GG6lckTjj48IIX16NFCWabOJYCpbHNXQt3SDrulyyvqn2quE6crZLT3nhKdUS-32c1_wxtQQkUSTVOtY5tgneirhCJJEXeiFOhTLNvs/s320/moonballoon.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">Always seeking to diversity the creative offerings on our Guest Book, we have provided something very unique for readers to view today. The following original YouTube video was sent to us with the accompanying annotation:</div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><i>"My name is Christina Giacona and I am with the L.A. based band Good King Friday and we have written a song using the text of E. E. Cummings "Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon". Along with setting the text, we have also made a stop-motion animation video to accompany the song. From one poetry lover to another. Enjoy."</i></blockquote></div><br /> <center><br /> <object style="height: 270px; width: 380px;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nlMF76OKUtg?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nlMF76OKUtg?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width=380" height="270"></object><br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://www.goodkingfriday.com/">Good King Friday </a> </b></center><br /> <br /> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s1600-h/borderflowtan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYvFZP57LeP0MZAX1C3BTebIbTXj2b3AYk5yntvXZeCsU4BP3_HCiis3i_a6zrIsqafPDHmQ2Kwfyznoo2ceFtbRXC6oJio3mm9E5HOs78IvlE7jnVBsEqBhYOfED3Zq1oxYfy3mgaLiX/s320/borderflowtan.jpg" width="180" /></a></center><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Daily Quote:</b> "Ultimately, we must learn to trust ourselves. When we do this intimately and intelligently, the world opens full of meaning before us. We find that we ourselves are the doorway to a fathomless understanding of the source of life itself. We need only to learn to walk through it."</i></div><i> <br /> </i><br /> <br /> <center><i>-- James Thornton</i></center><br /> <br /> <br /> <center><span style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Enjoy these other unique locations: </b></i></span><div style="line-height: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/CoffeeTablePoetry/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetry.3.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=amocakd2g5i1cvq76nbscdisl0&w=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/FreeIphoneAppsForYou/%7E6/3" target="_blank"><img alt="Cool iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Apps" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeIphoneAppsForYou.3.gif" style="border: 0;" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; text-align: center;"><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=8s11hb853eegmcfe4vuk6gt7mo&w=3" target="_blank">↑ Grab this Headline Animator</a></div></center><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://coffeetableguestbook.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK</b></span><b></b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> is a division of <a href="http://coffeetablepoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers</span></a>, and is updated often.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b> The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select</b></span><b><a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets&loc=en_US"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> E-mail</span></a> <span style="color: black;"> or </span> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CoffeeTablePoetrysGuestBookForPoets"><span style="color: brown; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RSS Reader.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"> Also, come follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/coffeetablepoet"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Twitter</span></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/aEV6Eq">Facebook.</a>Poets and Advertisers-please contact us to post your press releases, new book info, graphics and more at: </span></b> <a href="mailto:%20coffeetablepoet@gmail.com"> coffeetablepoet@gmail.com</a> </div><br /> <br /> <br /> <center style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Posted by V. 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