Tag: poetry
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March 29, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
Looking back at my marriage,
my parent's marriages,
my sisters' marriages,
other family and friends' marriages . . .
I can see it is not so bad to not be married,
to have . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
What is there left to say
It wasn’t right anyways
I spent most of my time crying
He spent most of his time fighting…
For Me
For Us
For a Future
I love him
I always will
But . . . more
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January 06, 2007 10:36 PM EST --
What happened to the youthful days
when bedtime meant falling onto the sheets
in the wee hours of the morning,
mascara streaks across the pillowcase,
too tired to wash face
after dancing and . . . more
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April 10, 2008 07:22 PM EDT --
For Boris G., bozlich.gather.com , a poet who dreams poetry, then makes poems of his dreams. You will be amazed when you read some of his articles. I particularly recommend: REVELATA CELESTIA . . . more
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February 22, 2008 06:12 PM EST --
Once more I want to ride the carousel,
whose galloping ponies' bright-painted thighs undulate and sing to my core,
and yet fear shrieks: hold fast the pole, hold fast the pole, hold fast the . . . more
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September 06, 2006 04:14 PM EDT --
Slow Down
My baby boy will be twenty nine in eleven more days.
I am not old enough to have a son that old.
His baby boy started pre-school today, following
behind his older sisters, the baby . . . more
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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 . . . more
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February 13, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
I wrote this in response to Amy George's challenge: Bad Poetry Contest (Can you be the worst poet on Gather?) I think this definitely classifies as bad, but I thought everyone may get a good . . . more
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May 14, 2007 06:20 AM EDT --
I originally published this in response to the very first Two Word Challenge by David L "Bottled Promise." I thought with the recent happenings in my marriage (it ended), it felt . . . more
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January 13, 2008 11:20 AM EST --
Welcome Play on Words members and anyone who should happen on this story.
Mat rimonial Affir mat ion (499words) . . . more
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January 20, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
I was 19 and you, 21: full of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Apollonaire at Montagne's Bistro drinking Slibovice, we imagined we were Revolutionaries side by side with Papa and Gertrude, ignoring the obvious . . . more
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August 25, 2006 11:35 AM EDT --
My father was one of nine children. His parents came from Russia and settled in New York . Although they died before I was born, I feel a strong connection because I was named in their honor. . . . more
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July 23, 2007 05:11 PM EDT --
as if in a dream, I walk through branches
in filmy nightclothes as cloud wisps catch
the underpinnings of raiments and thorns shred clothes
and the cloven hooves beat a solemn sensuality in marked dactylic . . . more
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December 04, 2007 05:36 PM EST --
I enrolled in a poetry class this semester and now that it is almost over I can post my final versions of the assignments. Writing poetry by assignment is not always easy and often doesn't . . . more
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December 05, 2007 10:26 AM EST --
I enrolled in a poetry class this semester and now that it is almost over I can post my final versions of the assignments. Writing poetry by assignment is not always easy and often doesn't come . . . more
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August 28, 2007 09:55 PM EDT --
In tribute to my sister who is 39 today!
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- Maya Angelou
Ode to My Sister
Sweet sister, you . . . more
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April 04, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
I grew up with books, they were in my hands most any waking moment. I could read while doing dishes, cleaning my room, and most any daily task. Every year my head impacted with a pole holding . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:53 PM EDT --
Welcome Poetry Play on Words members and anyone who should happen on this poem.
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the . . . more
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July 08, 2008 08:04 AM EDT --
Within the sea, the Crab resides
Holding the cradle of life in
sensitive hands that nurture
others as she nurtures her creative
self weaving poetic pieces of
Solitude and Detachment as . . . more
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December 07, 2006 03:41 PM EST --
I thought I heard a voice today
though no one spoke a word
I thought I felt a whisper in the air
but only saw a bird
I trembled as I past the place
I walk through everyday
I thought a saw a vision . . . more
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