Tag: thirteen blackbirds poetry review
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February 18, 2009 04:49 PM EST --
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
She wears the lace white skirt
In church she fiddles fidgets
Whistles words where children
Should be seen not heard
And chocolate on her face . . .
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March 07, 2009 07:51 PM EST --
Four thirds pie
That’s one and a bit;
Will you cut it into five?
And don’t fight
If they’re not all alike.
Four thirds pie are
Stop . . .
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April 01, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
The colors are gray.
The box, brown cardboard grayed with age.
The tin inside.
She scrapes the layers of dust, a hint of light
Of days gone by.
It rattles.
Dry.
. . .
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October 30, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
On the roadway
an old quince remains
round, oozing in its sourness.
No longer the golden apple
of its heyday, it has been trampled,
its essence strained,
its seeds cracked. . . .
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December 12, 2007 07:59 PM EST --
Life
is not a Barbie doll’s house--
spotless and somewhere-over-the-rainbow-like
Life is…
leaving your Pepsi out the fridge,
that old pizza crust on a plate, on the floor
where you . . .
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January 07, 2009 01:38 PM EST --
I looked to the sky for images
Cloud-painted high
In spring-cleaned splendor
Cried
Because the rain has washed
The wonder all away.
I looked to summer sun for promises . . .
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February 06, 2009 06:54 PM EST --
S ad, s orry, s ighing
S et my lonely s oul to crying
S auntered round the green today
S he wa s n’t there.
I s ank the s ummer plant s
In s andy . . .
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November 09, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
Winter approaches.
The caged bird sits, still on his perch...
missed migrations.
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November 12, 2007 05:31 PM EST --
ALZHEIMERS
Please stop and think
Because as we get old
We don't always remember
The things we are told
We remember the stories
Of times that have passed
And especially the . . .
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December 09, 2007 05:39 PM EST --
It’s a perfect exercise
this cutting and chopping
onions without you.
The grief, the mad
shapes the chopping
makes it all right. . . .
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January 17, 2008 03:30 PM EST --
Mama used to say
It smells like snow ,
and I didn't understand,
but knew that when she said it,
snow was surely coming.
Daddy would put chains on his truck,
and . . .
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February 28, 2008 10:49 PM EST --
February's snow fell gently
praising the green verdancy
of the holly on the side of the house.
Snow did not fall with the diligent message
of the unexpected power of nature, nor did . . .
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January 16, 2009 01:10 PM EST --
On the flip side
The light side
The night side
The dark side
The hard side
The easy side
Between the sides
Is my side.
The flip side
Is this side
Is that . . .
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February 10, 2009 09:42 PM EST --
I was warm until you said “Let’s go
For a walk” in the wind and the rain.
I was warm until you rolled over in bed
And pulled all the covers away.
I was warm until your frozen feet
Sent . . .
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February 25, 2009 01:19 PM EST --
Penny for ’em, tuppence ha’pence,
’Ere you let your thoughts run free
Never stopped to count the cost
Never thunk a thought be lost
You gave away a pen’orth and it’s nowt comes back . . .
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April 01, 2009 11:20 PM EDT --
Ends
Are just
Beginnings
Turning
Round.
Friends
Attach
The winnings
Love has
Found.
Ends
Will push
The spinning
Friendships
Round, . . .
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July 16, 2009 05:52 PM EDT --
Red hair in the sunset’s orange glow
And moon’s pale snow is yellow ed
By the haze over the green .
It’s growing dark my love. I’ve seen
The sky turn slow from . . .
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August 14, 2009 12:44 AM EDT --
It’s the shape of a cloud and the color
Is blacker than gray and it’s boiling
With sounds in the distance that may
Be the howl of a dog then the roiling
Black column is evil and . . .
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October 29, 2007 01:53 PM EDT --
The pond watches as
ice wraps brittle branches...
Spring abides in its chrysalis
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December 02, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
We come from similar places,
scarred by love,
scarred by anger,
but the scars are hidden
and they have taken root
and wrapped themselves
around our hearts;
Our love cannot go deep. . . .
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