http://surreal-circus.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by The Surreal Circus en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:05:57 GMT 2010-01-04T22:05:57Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975994&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace There wasn’t a sign of a rain cloud In that clear Montana sky But you could hear a sound like rolling thunder From canyon walls so high. You could feel . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:19:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975994&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-04T18:19:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975837&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace look in kind nurse's eyes "I'm her son.   She doesn't know me." I drink compassion Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:35:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975837&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Guy W. 2010-01-04T16:35:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Bitter taste of an afternoon A moment streams down the roof. The noise of rain enters. The northern window opens its thirst. Is it you homing? is it you a drenched bird is . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:01:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974777&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-04T01:01:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975059&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Sometimes it is great Sometimes, not is great I think it depends on whether you're a "glass half empty" Or "glass half full" kind of person I prefer "glass not half empty" Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:21:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975059&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Ferosh (Site Translator for LOLSPEAK)is O. 2010-01-04T05:21:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975191&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace In Legends of eld, three women dealt with time. One was the Dreamer another the Scryer, and the third was the Seeker. They have also, in more modern times been called The Dreamer (she never . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:41:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975191&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Sharon P. 2010-01-04T07:41:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975045&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace     Lady Diana riding across the winter sky Casting her beams enticingly on the sleeping earth Wandering into a bedroom and onto slumbering lady Caressing her face, her neck, her . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:12:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975045&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-04T05:12:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975066&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace     On a mountain ledge that the white man Would someday call Inspiration Point Overlooking a lake that would be known as Jenny Sat a boy.   No longer really a boy But . . . Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:27:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977975066&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-04T05:27:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974589&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Buffalo dancer, buffalo dancer, Dancing in the fading twilight. Clad in head and hide and horns. Spirit reaching to find the herd. Bobbing weaving, charging, . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:39:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974589&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T21:39:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974385&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace The Yule cycle was spent The twelve days of darkness since the Solstice And the Bard could feel it   He could feel the light filling his mind He could feel it enlivening and awakening . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:06:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974385&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T18:06:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974340&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace     Star shine on the prairie and the dark of the moon Deep silence shrouded, yet not so silent Wind stirs the Buffalo grass A coyote howls and a distant train whistles   . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:44:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974340&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T17:44:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974324&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace it is so hollow the place where once lived my heart waiting your return is there any meaning left your absence   leaves just a void   Michelle Wooten © 1-3-10 . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:35:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974324&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Michelle W. 2010-01-03T17:35:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974189&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace       A million stars light the bowl of the sky A thousand “beefs” bedded down for the night Night hawk takes up his rounds, softly crooning. High in the sky . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:44:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974189&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T15:44:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974312&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Your words drenched me with color and light A blanket of intimacy, swirled, blending patterns of the warmest amber and majestic purple I could not separate one piece of the quilt from another They . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:14:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974312&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace JustMe ~I'm happy to be~ 2010-01-03T17:14:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973528&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Sepulchral Satin, Caress Savoured Hogarth Curves, Whisper Sweet Nothings...     ccl'010 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:41:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973528&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Curt L. 2010-01-03T03:41:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973468&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace There’s a word used by rodeo cowboys That’s as vast as the western sky. It’s a noun and a verb and attitude. And that single word is Try. It’s . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:26:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973468&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T02:26:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973005&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Did you ever open your Bible and read a passage over and over until it no longer made sense, until you were dizzy with choices?  How to interpret something that sounds straightforward, but in fact . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:05:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973005&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Susan Budig 2010-01-02T23:05:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974096&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace   Feel the deep pulling song inside, visions’ hungry words, sounds sweatstained into highs' stare from wet stars soaked in thigh high surf. . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:26:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974096&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Laura M. 2010-01-03T14:26:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973595&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Dusk comes early in deep midwinter. I went out to do errands later in the day on December 28th, and saw this color show over the fairgrounds. I couldn't resist driving into the parking lot to see . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:29:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973595&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Alison H. 2010-01-03T05:29:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973512&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace                                                              . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:23:30 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973512&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Thomas W. 2010-01-03T03:23:30Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973447&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace   In the biting cold of the December night The Bard looked up at the full moon, the Blue Moon But she said nothing to him Perhaps he was Druid after all And it was still Yuletide . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:06:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973447&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-03T02:06:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973253&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace   Ringing the Changes     Seconds of afterlight, Sun lapsed into horizon Quiet of new snow, cold blanket to trees, roofs, road Gentle twilight, before . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:36:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973253&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2010-01-02T22:36:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace   The child we leave I go down gradually; go under. Drown. The pregnant river radiates my soul.   I know I am waiting on the pier; a child. Two boats playfully . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:10:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-03T01:10:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973351&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace By moving photos between albums on my own page I've resubmited them to selected groups?! Oh gad! Beware of an Ade tsunami possibly heading your way (I'm so sorry!). Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:10:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973351&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Adrian Eve Revenaugh 2010-01-03T00:10:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972157&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace                 Here are the responses to last week's prompt:   Singing My Way Through Life, SatWE by Elsie Duggan . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:03:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972157&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Atticus *. 2010-01-02T20:03:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973088&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Sinead showed her beauty Undressed in her bed, lying Beside Finn, who in his sleep, Spoke some other’s name, but She sexing it hot, heard it not, But in her own over the top . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:54:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973088&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Terry Collett 2010-01-02T19:54:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973070&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace The playful aspect of boy in the man was a saturated ink of movement down the waterslide of his mind her pen dripped a song into the fragrant perfume of . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:43:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973070&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Purrrrrrrrrrr~Genki dashite~Nantoka naru-yo! S. 2010-01-02T19:43:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972871&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace     It was the beginning of a new year A new decade   And the Bard stood in the very center of the Wood A place not often visited and then only by invitation   . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:00:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972871&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-02T17:00:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972835&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace I had the yuckiest dream just before I woke up.   Apricot was sitting on the table minding her own business when I spotted something hanging from her mouth. At the same time, my mother who . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:28:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972835&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Sharon P. 2010-01-02T16:28:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972605&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Love Poetry   The language of love poetry Should be as fluid as melting ice And as warm as a cup of tea   1/2/2010 7:52 AM Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:58:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972605&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace John Doyle 2010-01-02T12:58:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972019&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace This is a poem I actually wrote many years ago, but it lacked a satisfactory finish. But over the years, especially in the last year, the ending with an implied moral warning has congealed. And it wasn't . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:33:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977972019&grpId=3659174697241313&nav=Groupspace Gary (The Eclectic) Timothy 2010-01-02T03:33:53Z