Tag: poetry
group name: poeticlicense
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July 18, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
When and where we are conceived, only time knows
If we'll make it to this earth, only time knows
Where we come from, only time knows
The major events that'll shape our lives
And make us . . . more
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May 28, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Simply reading your words
Fills my moody cup with joy
I taste your presence through the sense of them
Wandering through the spaces in between them
I bask in the warm comfort of their . . . more
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October 23, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
BOWL
an empty hollow
that can be filled
giving life
Or if bereft
is filled
with death
Deep or shallow
glass or wooden
many forms
many shapes
they matter . . . more
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May 18, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
Winter always yields to spring,
Her robes hang solemn with rain,
Petitioning the resting earth
To cede the advent of her garden,
Graced by the psaltery of oriole’s song,
In yearning, joy and . . . more
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July 15, 2008 09:12 PM EDT --
I believe
I just want to believe
So I Believe.
What else is there, everybody believes?
I can believe anything that I want to believe.
I'm not fake, I have common sense
And . . . more
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May 23, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Acrostic poetry can be traced as far back as ancient Greece. It was a very popular method of form poetry and still is today. Acrostic poetry is very specific in its form and has a well defined structure. . . . more
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April 25, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
A longish preface: I was moved by the pictures and article published by High Flying Spider Woman about her father, and they inspired me to write this. My father was an Air Force (newly formed) . . . more
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July 05, 2008 10:11 AM EDT --
Birth
This is the deepest of all partings,
Foreshadowing reunions and re-partings:
The first breath,
The found thumb,
The day you walked,
and walked away,
I saw . . . more
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August 12, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977037962
Cindy T. has inspired several people with the above Haiku. She agreed to collaborate with me in sharing the haiku responses . . . more
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June 19, 2008 03:04 PM EDT --
"I Looked Away"
© Suzette Molnaire
I hastily
looked
into
the face
of the Sun,
and found
its blinding
profundity
more
than I
could handle. . . . more
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November 22, 2007 03:38 PM EST --
I saw fire blaze in his eyes.
I put out the fire.
Holy book in my hands.
* Disclaimer: My son has been fighting religion for a long time. I just want it to be known that I never laid a hand on him. . . . more
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June 01, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
We know we often misknow truth;
How we prosper is a wonder:
Diswonting* mores in Suwon*
To fund our wonky* trades down under.
You can call us snow-blind jobbernowls*,
With no true . . . more
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October 23, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Concrete poem and BOWL single word challenge
...........................BOWL.............................
a............................................................d . . . more
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May 25, 2007 02:33 AM EDT --
Work Sucks
An acrostic: WORK SUCKS
W ill I wake up on time
O r will I oversleep again?
R estless with anxiety
K nowing my day will begin.
S eizing the day means
U nderstanding it's lost. . . . more
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February 19, 2008 06:47 PM EST --
Mornings we find glasses and teeth
for each other and laugh
at new marriage late in life's plan.
Adjusting to new quirks,
body parts quickly declining,
we play the game, "despair . . . more
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February 20, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
Hidden our secret course
. . . more
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August 28, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
Carpe Diem
An acar in my bones warns me that the carefree summer’s past.
I pick the last carnation; muscari lying beneath the soil will embrace winter’s caress
And all my Cartesian . . . more
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October 16, 2007 06:15 PM EDT --
I want to write well
To be read by the masses
Like Tom Eliot
If only I had
His thorough education
And his brilliant mind
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May 07, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Acts of nature answer to no one...
the law of nature doesn't require law ful deeds,
just phenomenal ones.
An act of God is their defence,
and who are we . . . more
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May 31, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
Renovated Dreams
I linger in the remains of your stinging absence.
My bewildered self lays down more path daily
Conviction, convention, satisfaction, bliss…
These words have been respirated . . . more
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