Tag: writing
group name: poeticlicense
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July 04, 2008 12:16 AM EDT --
When you sit down at the blank page or screen, you have three simple tasks:
Trust.
Let go.
Leap.
Trust.
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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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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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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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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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October 23, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Concrete poem and BOWL single word challenge
...........................BOWL.............................
a............................................................d . . . more
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December 13, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
Rude Awakening
Groggy at sunrise
Slow shuffle to the bathroom
Warm rump meets cold seat
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October 31, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
The walls of my mind were not made
With enough space in between their way
The cornerstones are being worried
Worried away
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May 24, 2008 03:55 PM EDT --
Silent river flows along mossy banks
just as it did many years ago
when I was a little girl;
The picnic table still stands,
wood rotting away as if from a slow cancer, . . . more
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June 08, 2008 04:16 PM EDT --
So many times
she would pray
for a touch
a tear
a sign
she was alive,
and
so . . . more
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July 15, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
I brush crumbs to the floor
to make way for paper and pen,
wondering why
I'm left with the remains
of someone's late night sandwich
when all I want to do is
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October 31, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
Forgive me father, for I am sin.
Bartemaus:
I remember once, of a time long, long ago, before my birth. It was a time of hardship, a time of strife. That time was called The Awakening. . . . more
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January 11, 2008 10:45 AM EST --
( John , this was scratched on hard ground with a fingernail :-)
I see you.
From the corner of my eye
I see . . . more
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February 21, 2008 01:53 PM EST --
Snowy white moth flirts browning grass.
Ebony bird struts lethargy.
Lazy oleanders bleed red buds.
While cars silent wait on black asphalt lot.
Summer sun slows to orange burn.
Cigarette . . . more
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February 22, 2008 08:26 AM EST --
My unabridged lover waits unperturbed,
Lexicon of love, sweet kiss, soft word.
I nestle beside him, leaf page by page;
Awash in warm ardor, calm undisturbed.
Down pathways of reason my thoughts . . . more
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October 31, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
I drifted down like an autumn leaf
My glory fading from red to brown
It's time to shed an old skin
I've been alive too long, existing
One moment at a time, one particle
Of sand.
There's . . . more
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January 25, 2008 02:29 PM EST --
Pain suffocates
like a dense atmosphere
where songbirds could neither fly nor sing.
It . . . more
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May 15, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
I pricked my finger
for the hundreth time today
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May 16, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
I have nothing that is truly mine
other than the words I pen;
They cannot be stolen, and if ever lost,
I know they are somewhere inside;
Imperfect . . . more
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June 05, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
May the light guide you,
infuse your being,
calm your fears,
guide you through the storm;
May joyful days find you,
filling you with laughter,
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