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August 09, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
ABC's of Sue
A... is for Andrew, my beloved twenty-something son.
B... is for Bellevue, home . . .
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January 08, 2009 10:59 AM EST --
FIRE
rage out of control
ashes leave an awful taste
and burnt bones can't dance
Michelle Wooten
© 1-8-09
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May 21, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
you're left
without a soul
naked and barren
no one to hold
no one to acknowledge
that you were a part of them
sadly
the shadows take you
they aren't picky
about who they hang with
and . . .
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August 07, 2007 08:20 AM EDT --
WHISPERS . . .
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May 31, 2007 05:47 PM EDT --
i have faith
in the innocence of my daughters
small and wondering
they are soft
their hair is perfect
god save the man
who tries to date them
i have faith
in the woman
who raises her children . . .
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August 15, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
This is a poem by Bangladeshi contemporary poet Masud Khan. A friend of mine and I have recently transalated this for an anthology.
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Mon Semblable By Masud . . .
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September 20, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
In every cemetery I’ve seen
a stone with my name
over a long-occupied grave.
(It’s a common name; still,
I’m glad to see the spot’s
already taken, and not mine.)
I found this . . .
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June 29, 2007 02:34 PM EDT --
Poppa was there
in the "big one"
he was happily drinking in a pub
san francisco, california
and his unit called
to the front lines
i don't know the hell he'd seen
just that it . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:56 PM EDT --
She lays a hand on my
shoulder. "Ain't the sky beautiful tonight?"
I don't respond. Sure, the pink
and blue, almost melancholy sunset
is indeed beautiful. But
I shrug . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
Four years of war. I can barely comprehend how many lives have been lost. When I was a child, one of my earliest memories is of my mother crying when she learned the Vietnam war was over. I couldn't . . .
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February 14, 2007 04:41 PM EST --
"This we know -- all things are connected like the blood which unites one family."
Chief Seattle
He Loves Me (free verse)
He loves me,
he loves me not
eliminated from the equation . . .
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December 07, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
This came to my e-mail via my girlfriend. If you read it and want to send it to friends, you have my/our permission to copy and paste and send to all who would read and remember.
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October 25, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Welcome Poetry Play on Words members and anyone who should happen on this poem.
" One of . . .
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October 16, 2007 02:24 AM EDT --
love poem by moonlight
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I told you my heart was wrapped in bloody
newspapers, ripe with the stench of
long and brutal battles.
I tried to deny you entrance
when you rang while I was
entranced . . .
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February 17, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
There are a lot of writers here at Gather. Some of these writers have moved up to the next level in their writing career and have been published.
I thought it appropriate, to book writers . . .
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March 13, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Welcome Poetry Play on Words members and anyone who should happen on this poem.
"I worry about everything, all the time"
T.C. Boyle
Sca red Sac red . . .
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March 07, 2007 07:44 PM EST --
The car is our vardo, our gypsy
caravan. We speak our words
for cheap bread and expensive
wine. We pray for the ins of
Ginsberg, the knack of Kerouac.
We are a living limited offer, our
infinity bartered . . .
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January 02, 2008 10:53 PM EST --
Chrono met ers . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:11 PM EDT --
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Pi Poem)
A picture's . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
Meta
I despaired
I railed at God
I swore my family would be
. . .
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