Tag: poetry
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April 10, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
I asked the dawn: "Where is the dewdrop that wet my lips last night and was suddenly gone before the sunrise?"
The dawn smiled: 'It's in the lightness of breezes and fragrance of flowers." . . . more
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March 25, 2006 01:25 AM EST --
surely one more verse?
one more thought or one more quip
gather one more hour
more
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August 21, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
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When the frogs die
When the skies darken
When the canopy opens
When the bat eats its last insect
When the song sparrow is silenced
When the sun is blurred black
When the . . . more
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June 21, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
In my tiny New Mexican town, the sun splays my shadow against caked earth. We're getting more rain than usual, but the ground still remembers the drought, pulls the rain from the clouds, yanks it deep . . . more
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August 17, 2008 09:39 PM EDT --
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How To Make A Bomb
Charcoal's tricky.
You can unearth
bones centuries old
and grind them back
to carbon, just as
you did while looking
out a window seeing
the first black . . . more
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November 09, 2007 12:55 PM EST --
I'm too lazy
to think.
And I'm to damned lazy
to drink.
So I sit,
hunched over
in my chair.
And lazily
sip from a straw.
I sit like I'm molded . . . more
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August 26, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
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Worker
Edward, are you working now?
In and out of systems and pathways
through these unseen gates, these
opaque cells and target organelles
in exploratory mode toward the . . . more
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June 15, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
Mr. Gola squinted,
hands resting on a scarred school desk
and he preached from our book of earth science
like all that matter mattered
like we cared, or listened, or intended
to finish those five . . . more
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July 30, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
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The boy that teased my daughter
went to Iraq and came home without
an eye. It turns out a laundry list
of my daughter's high school friends
went to Iraq and we're finding . . . more
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August 14, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
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Fine Attire
One is drawn thin.
Led unceremoniously
through the needle's
eye, sewn fragilely
into the warp,
the fluffy fibers
barely showing
through along
the . . . more
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August 23, 2007 09:04 AM EDT --
Thursday, August 23
Wild Card!
Post your best story, poem, or article on writing! A prize (Yes! A real-life prize that I will ship to you!) will be awarded to the piece that I enjoy the most:
The Navajo . . . more
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September 10, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Volume 3, Number 5 ~Poems on Poems~
A poem should be motionless . . . more
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September 10, 2007 09:26 PM EDT --
Our tragedy unfolds in these few lines.
Structures piece words into art and beauty.
Miracles happen within these confines,
as we perform our passion's duty.
We lay siege to the page--deftly wielding . . . more
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December 14, 2006 07:30 PM EST --
For civil libertarians, Christmas came early this year with the electoral rebuke to the Bush administration and its cohorts in Congress, who have sought to undermine important individual protections guaranteed . . . more
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November 17, 2007 08:59 AM EST --
Golden sky and setting sun.
Autumn leaves sway softly.
The breeze gently blows my hair.
more
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April 06, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
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POETRY CENTRAL, Vol 5, No. 6 Poetry Competion
Every month (or even more often) I will select a poem, from poems submitted to me personally, which will appear . . . more
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October 02, 2007 02:02 PM EDT --
I've finally got my poetry blog up and running. It is a weekly blog with poetry, essays and critiques of contemporary poetry. There is also a link to my published poems in poetry . . . more
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November 04, 2007 08:05 AM EST --
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March 10, 2008 06:34 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Vo l 5 No. 4
Life Cycle of a Poem: A Day and a Half's Journal in the Life of an Inarticulate Poet
"It is a contemporary version of the medieval . . . more
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November 12, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
Here is the logo for the Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry Group and eventually for the Poetry Magazine. It's a linoleum "woodcut" illustration which my wife, Susan, just made. Pretty . . . more
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