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April 24, 2013 07:12 PM UTC --
He tickled her funnybone
With jokes and non sequiturs
He thawed out her frozen zones
When in her ear he whispered
Emanuel Swedenborg’s kiss
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April 23, 2013 08:15 PM UTC --
Nin
The Nine
Nine Stories
The Rise of Nine
The Nine of the North
A Fort of Nine Towers
For God Has Ninety-Nine Names
The Nine: . . .
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April 22, 2013 09:31 PM UTC --
Do you plant trees, a garden, a window box ?
A community garden in your neighborhood?
An inner city garden like Will Allen’s?
Have you heard of Findhorn?
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April 18, 2013 07:33 PM UTC --
If someone wants to flatter a woman who ages beautifully, they would likely say, “You are like a Kerman carpet, the more it is trampled, the more beautiful it becomes.”
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April 17, 2013 08:39 PM UTC --
Of being zero I remember naught
Nor one, nor two; but at three gazed upon,
fingered over Grandma’s carved green carpet
and at four was cast out of Mama’s . . .
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April 17, 2013 03:02 PM UTC --
Perched atop cornices
Power lines, lattices, he caws
Overhead; through our awe
We note his loud guffaws at us
A blackguard, mischievous
A bold opportunist, . . .
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April 15, 2013 04:52 PM UTC --
Huge ship
First trip
Fast clip
Ice snip
Passengers sense fast clip--ice snip, drown
Titanic dream, huge ship--first trip, down . . .
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April 12, 2013 11:05 PM UTC --
Huffery puffery
don’t give me guffery
I don’t like trying
this poetic game
It seems so trivial
pablum or cereal
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April 12, 2013 03:17 PM UTC --
I do not know what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then:
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.
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--from “A . . .
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April 10, 2013 11:54 PM UTC --
Blossom the Bat
( Observed from a video from the Bat Conservation & Rescue, Queensland, Australia)
So rare, this little blossom bat
Rescued from . . .
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April 09, 2013 08:54 PM UTC --
Secluded in his cabin
the hermit abides
Wishing he had friends who cared...
in whom he could confide
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April 08, 2013 11:27 PM UTC --
How
did
you twist
me round your
little finger like
an alvania mollusk spiral
or a robin’s nest with lining of twig, grass and hair
or the . . .
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April 05, 2013 11:46 PM UTC --
What do you do when your young prince grows ill
And no one believes there is anything wrong
When nothing helps, neither tonic nor pill
And they take your money and . . .
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April 04, 2013 09:00 PM UTC --
In vain do I await my shining invite
into Gather’s Luminous Writers’ brilliant light
I’m sure it must be a slip or oversight
It seems I . . .
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April 04, 2013 04:55 PM UTC --
So patiently he waits beside my chair,
His golden eyes upon me all the while
As I sit writing, a lost solitaire.
He wonders why I seem so unaware . . .
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April 03, 2013 09:39 PM UTC --
Fjords of the Northwest
Named by Spanish captains,
Norwegians and English
Might is Right ruled the day
Stolen from the Salish
Fjords . . .
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April 02, 2013 06:19 PM UTC --
Housework can wait
Pick up your pen, your brush, your bow
Housework can wait
Or is it your chosen fate?
Close your eyes to the mess, let it go
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April 02, 2013 06:05 PM UTC --
This poem is pure fiction. My husband would prefer I wear leopard-spotted clothing than blue dresses. If you need any blue dresses in a size medium, let me know. I have graduated to purple.
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April 02, 2013 12:40 AM UTC --
Oh dear, today I was busy with a family member's birthday, and I neglected to post this in time for the contest....c'est la vie...hope you'll enjoy it anyway.
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March 14, 2013 04:46 PM UTC --
My haiku on tinywords.com...
http://tinywords.com/2013/03/14/12206/
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Alison H.
North Olympic Peninsula, Washington
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