Tag: poetic
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March 10, 2007 02:08 PM EST --
All winter long I've been so cold.
My feet nearly freeze since I got old.
I get bundled up and jump into bed.
But the sheets are so cold, it's something I dread.
My heating pad quit, so what . . . more
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April 08, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
Pouring Poetic JAVA this morning!
To get your day started this morning . . .
WE'RE POURING POETIC JAVA!
Have a cup . . .
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March 02, 2008 04:01 AM EST --
A kitty named "Zelda"
Her paws, soft, are upon fallen gold
Of rustling foliage. Cold sundown
Turns around to a shadowy cottage.
A cottage with a coach and love-strokes
On . . . more
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February 17, 2007 02:07 PM EST --
The unyielding flame
Changing shape, burning with life
Iconoclastic
more
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February 25, 2007 11:04 PM EST --
A Poet's Arrival . . . more
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August 11, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
The lunch bell’s vibrato scream startles him back…
Back from the world where an equation equals the sum of its parts
He grabs his brown paper sack and heads for the stairs
Clutching . . . more
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July 29, 2006 04:49 PM EDT --
Forty-Eight years ago today,
Dr. Reeves sent me on my way
To St. Vincents Infirmary in Little Rock,
Where they put me in a hospital frock.
We'd had our Christmas the night before,
Anticipating . . . more
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May 22, 2007 05:44 AM EDT --
Beginning
with something flashy
to grasp one's attention
keeping the interest
throughout.
Stanzas, maybe one or two.
A rhyme here and there,
just to keep it fair.
A smiling . . . more
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September 30, 2007 07:39 PM EDT --
In the desert it rains in your dreams or on occasion.
In the desert the rain is miles away
And the sky is painted black and blue and gold and white.
In the desert it rains with the odor of a thousand . . . more
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October 11, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
Welcome fellow Poetic License and Poetic Judgement members and anyone who might stumble upon this poem.
"For man, autumn is a time . . . more
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August 18, 2006 04:41 PM EDT --
ripples on water
spread arpeggios in streams
hands practice ballet
water ripples streams
cadenzas stream in ripples
ripples stream the air
raindrops . . . more
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September 09, 2006 01:37 PM EDT --
Antiseptic whitewashed walls glared into her weary, wary eyes. Wary with dreaded anticipation, as the pain throbbed in her womb like the heartbeat of an earthquake's epicenter.
This was the final . . . more
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September 10, 2006 07:57 AM EDT --
BIRTHDAY BOY
Late afternoon,, drinking stale coffee inhaling a freshly packed smoke
surrounded by businessmen and homeless souls seeking shelter
swish of the waitresses, clatter . . . more
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January 16, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
I dreamt of peril at sea last night
As I slept on the ship of despair.
I heard the screams of many trapped souls
In need of angels in air.
Tenacious waters billowed and swallowed
The . . . more
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November 15, 2007 12:05 AM EST --
This merciless medium beckons me,
Waking me from my peaceful slumber.
Make liquid your soul in throes of rhetoric,
Shine your light so that others may see.
It demands.
My mind scurries to avoid . . . more
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November 20, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
Men Without Poems
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
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December 04, 2007 05:05 AM EST --
Am I too presumptuous to dare talk about writing a poem? I have no training in the science of poetry and do not know technical words associated with poetry. A comment was made to a poem I wrote saying . . . more
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December 15, 2007 12:10 AM EST --
Laurels
Twig of consolation, sickly and covetous evergreen,
How can you satisfy?
Phoebus Apollo might make you graceful, that god overlooking an eternity of nymphs;
Your venom might spangle the . . . more
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January 20, 2008 09:33 AM EST --
Vertical Pipes in Green and Red
Broken windows
Shards of glass
Quincy granite
Bricks and mortar
Vertical pipes
Green and red
Memories lost
Disconnected
Rusting . . . more
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April 13, 2008 03:11 PM EDT --
"Their Thoughts Collided" by René A.
Thinking has its setbacks
some days
At other times
those thoughts collide
Into someone else's life
someone else's space
their . . . more
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