Tag: poem
group name: enthusiastsofall
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March 20, 2008 02:15 AM EDT --
sestina
Money for Nothing in Sugarville, Tennessee
On my left hand, I wear a diamond ring,
A gift from my old man, he calls me his sugar.
On my right hand, I wear nothing.
Today the . . .
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November 02, 2008 03:22 PM EST --
I wear my desire
Like a tattoo on my wrist
Like a washcloth hanging over the kitchen sink tap
Like pea vine tendrils cutting through snow.
I wear my desire in the palm of my hand
Held . . .
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December 18, 2007 04:45 AM EST --
Suffused cumulus
Precipitates the first drop
To flip a crisp leaf
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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February 13, 2008 11:41 AM EST --
For the little valentines out there, and those a little older whose minds love to come out and play--Happy Valentine's Day!
Flowing ribbons,
Colored valentines,
Friendly thoughts
Of . . .
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October 20, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
Inside writhing, squirming, screaming,
Head spinning, swirling, streaming,
Fear feeding, growing, controlling,
Misery unrelenting, maddening, roiling,
Terror afflicting, torturing, overpowering,
Mind . . .
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August 12, 2008 02:47 AM EDT --
I've had my ear to the rail for some time now.
Three yards up the line, my sister huddles,
waiting, same as I.
. . .
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October 09, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
Thoughts are random and scattered,
Like fragile leaves caught in a whirlwind.
Twisting, turning, until tattered,
The memory of your words leaves me badly chagrined.
They play in my mind like a broken . . .
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November 11, 2007 09:23 AM EST --
My Place
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1999
Young eyes
capture this paradise
of salt-white sand
and watercolor seas.
Giant sugar-mound dunes . . .
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October 28, 2007 12:23 AM EDT --
Minnesota Ties
Carole Shukle
Copyright 1996
Stately sunflowers stand
like golden-haired women
gathered to gossip. Yellow
heads bob in the . . .
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November 13, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
Whirlwind
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1999
The world is like a child’s top,
spinning out-of-control.
An invisible . . .
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March 27, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
Beneath your lonely feet
Walk a long desert.
The gold of a sky
Eternal, liquid.
Fire of sand touches
Both your lonely feet.
They call those bushes snake flowers.
The breeze . . .
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November 02, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Love
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1995
Love looms like a giant shadow.
He blocks my flight, and touches
me with hands like forged steel.
Like a doe escaping . . .
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November 03, 2008 01:38 AM EST --
A prose poem tells a story with lyricism and poignancy. It's not just taking a piece of writing and calling it thus. There are rules to this form and you can find them here . . . .
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November 03, 2008 01:55 AM EST --
The Second Anniversary...
...is the one when you realize it's for real. Until that time, one can
go on thinking it's all a fairy tale or a nightmare, which . . .
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January 17, 2007 04:28 PM EST --
Silence.
Three in nature:
Sun’s setting in the west,
Orion’s constellation. . . And
Snowfall.
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The cinquain challenge request was to devise a . . .
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September 25, 2008 01:12 AM EDT --
That's the way it sounds to me
My hand dragging in the water
As you bow her violin in key
We laugh and drink Vichy water
My hand dragging in the water
The contrails in the sky
We laugh . . .
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June 30, 2008 07:28 PM EDT --
Washed up,
but never clean,
hanging by a thread
to your dirty dreams
that carry you off
like a random wind,
twirling you around
in your secret sin.
Better stop . . .
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November 04, 2008 01:19 AM EST --
In just a moment
I knew---But I was lost in your eyes
So I said it didn't matter,
That you were never mine to keep.
I basked in the heaven of your smile
Ignoring the hell in my heart, . . .
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December 19, 2007 02:21 AM EST --
This is a sad one, friends. Such is this fact of life: not everything in it is jolly. Never fear though, tomorrow, someone's tomorrow, will come on new golden rays . . .
Now when you weep . . .
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May 27, 2008 10:49 AM EDT --
Flying
Tu ne seras pas oublié.
You were not ready when you flew from earth,
snatched, like a bird in a storm.
Now I sit at your desk writing the last words in your journal.
I . . .
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