Tag: poetry
member name: Sarah A. (I KANZ B UH RITUR!!!!) , YEZ!!
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January 09, 2009 03:13 PM EST --
Things I’ve Lost
(Not Counting Cats, Dogs, Eyeglasses and Socks)
One tarantula, lost through divorce
A stone fish, a boa, two canaries, my horse
Three teeth, a toenail, a sliver of bone
A great-aunt . . .
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January 24, 2009 11:56 AM EST --
Race and Riot
My cats come in on little cat feet
That is, like an elephant herd.
They hang from the ceiling and teeter on doors,
And ignore my discouraging words.
As they leap from door . . .
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January 24, 2009 04:23 PM EST --
Night Light
When but two sheets are to the wind,
You shed your life like a serpent’s skin
And are reborn in each moment
A child
Without judgement,
Without sense,
Without tomorrow.
Beguiling . . .
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January 26, 2009 11:44 PM EST --
Nights Before the Mast
(Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea)
For all the alcoholics and those who ride herd on them...
In the dark of the night when the bottle is done
And the voices are calling aloud . . .
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April 21, 2009 09:35 PM EDT --
Little Boa
So sleek
You do not rustle,
But stand up
To stretch your
Length out
Over the listing edge,
And down,
Slipping
From this brown sack
Where I set you
For a moment’s
Keeping. . . .
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February 07, 2009 03:15 PM EST --
Am I but a string?
A reductionist's plaything?
No, I'm a frayed knot!
(Old jokes are the best jokes...)
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February 11, 2009 08:25 PM EST --
Farm Pond
First stubble, then steps of chimney stone;
The water’s sweet as birch sap, warm as blood.
Cut-paper lilies, frogs sliding among
Plump lily pads that poke from soft brown mud.
Dragonfly, . . .
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January 23, 2009 07:13 AM EST --
Sloppy in the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose mess this is I think I know.
She never seems to clean it, though.
She’d rather write and gather points
Than be a drudge and sweep this joint.
. . .
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August 05, 2009 12:28 PM EDT --
The Limerick’s muse attracts those Put off by the harshness of prose. It seems less of a crime To zing with a rhyme Those whom one secretly loathes.
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August 06, 2009 06:02 AM EDT --
When annoyed and tempted to sue, I take time to think these things through. Why pay an attorney When sweet revenge comes free? Oh, what a little kudzu can do!
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January 24, 2009 06:54 PM EST --
Defying Diagnosis
I brought you home and
In an unwashed window hung you
By the thinnest thread
A shattered prism, heavy in the hand.
Squinting I see laced
Within your limpid clarity
Translucent . . .
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May 23, 2009 09:22 PM EDT --
It is the blue hour When deer slide from the shadows And owls take wing.
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August 07, 2009 10:04 AM EDT --
Camel Meal
Some wag planted vines at the zoo, (In the dark, so nobody knew). The camels were ecstatic, Their munching emphatic, Since zoo cud now tastes like kudzu!
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February 15, 2009 09:17 AM EST --
My mother had been ill for a long time. She was dying, but very slowly.
Years passed. We all glided along, me raising my child, my brothers Will and Bob doing their highly important . . .
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May 02, 2009 11:34 AM EDT --
My Heaven
Somewhere between the dimensions
There is a meadow of blue grass
Where Barbaro runs free.
Beside him, proud Ruffian
And the stalwart Eight Belles,
Slim foals by their sides,
Canter . . .
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June 06, 2009 10:44 PM EDT --
The Passionate Curmudgeon to Her Love, If Any
Don’t live with me if you’re my love, For we’d a thousand cynics prove Let valleys, fields, hills and woods Divide us for our common . . .
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September 04, 2009 11:52 PM EDT --
Once sinew, muscle, bone, Now I am but a Tiger’s pelt Tossed down before Some fat uxorious merchant’s Spoiled wife.
I was Shadow and line, Invisible in the Sunlit grass, Red sunset . . .
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August 07, 2009 05:30 AM EDT --
There once was a small New World monk With a tail like an elephant’s trunk. He could climb up to heaven, And count to eleven And prop himself up when quite drunk.
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February 08, 2009 03:18 PM EST --
Still Life With Dogs
I don’t look like a movie star,
Or even an aging ingenue,
But like a portrait of the queen,
Your eyes follow me everywhere.
No longer does anyone gaze
Raptly at my weary . . .
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February 08, 2009 09:44 AM EST --
Up Against My Will
Once I watched the moon
Rise and set,
And you can just bet
If I saw the sun, it was only done
On occasion.
Then came the storm,
No heat, no light,
No way to stay awake . . .
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