Tag: poetry
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November 21, 2008 10:53 PM EST --
Un time ly Sa n ta
Let's play Santa with the backyard children.
It is early fall with ashes and golds.
Touch the heads with hazel hairs, careless
tussle with them, offer sweets . . .
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November 17, 2008 06:46 AM EST --
Moon for a girl
Passionate moon is reducing
to a pale disk, deep down the dim
tunnel of night. "Don't go." Still moon
peters out. A pitcher-glass, full
with potent . . .
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February 11, 2008 01:44 AM EST --
gamble everything for love,
if you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee.
if you want the unseen world,
your not living your truth.
both wishes are foolish, . . .
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November 23, 2008 12:11 AM EST --
Everything returns
"Returns are welcome"
is written over the sealed envelope
of his life. His first pet,
which came from near-death
and with his help,
became . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:32 PM EDT --
"Healing Tree" is Montreal based Michaela Sefler's sixth volume of mystical poetry. Her previous titles are: "Still True";" A Fortress in My Heart"; "The Sun is . . .
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September 17, 2008 05:26 AM EDT --
Magisterium
By Joel Deane
Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN:978 1 74097 179 9 | RRP: $19.95, 73pp, paperback
It’s hard to pinpoint the power in Joel Deane’s <cite>Magisterium.</cite> . . .
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November 21, 2008 09:11 AM EST --
Rainbow competetion writing
Gray particles move
The dusts of thought settle on top
of the bleak table strewed with scraps.
Look at the window, the gray sky
can be seen like an old . . .
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February 20, 2008 03:02 PM EST --
My taste in reading has changed slightly over the years, but there are some people who's work I always love to read. Rilke, has always meant alot to me, after getting a copy of "letters to a young . . .
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October 13, 2008 02:06 AM EDT --
These observations are from Robin Skelton's The Practice of Poetry. Do they resonate with you?
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"The poet is one who thinks in poetry, and . . .
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January 11, 2008 02:46 PM EST --
The first time I saw my husband walking down the street, I thought....! I'm going to spend the rest of my life with him. There was something so sexy in the was he looked at me I thought I was going . . .
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March 22, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
The closed doors.
The closed doors look at his back.
You know they are insignificant!
He will not look back to see nameplates.
The sky welcomes a new wonderer,
A fellow of its eternity! . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:22 AM EDT --
He has no calendar
His cheap cigar burns to suppress smells.
A moment of respite and a strike
To light up the smokes from a death-stick.
Now a young sun leans on blue terrace. . . .
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March 26, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
To the psychiatrist
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Tell her who is resting on your couch,
A cliché we live
Spread amid the movements of planets, . . .
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November 11, 2008 02:47 AM EST --
"Dish up some Mama Stew and you won't leave the table hungry."
I'd like to brag up and recommend a wonderful collection of stories, poems and art about the great work of mothering: . . .
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February 29, 2008 09:49 AM EST --
Tears of an angel
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Winding up his wings
He sits on the steep end of the temple
The angel.
Down there people,
People touching
The marvels of ancient . . .
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March 02, 2008 04:01 AM EST --
A kitty named "Zelda"
Her paws, soft, are upon fallen gold
Of rustling foliage. Cold sundown
Turns around to a shadowy cottage.
A cottage with a coach and love-strokes
On . . .
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March 08, 2008 01:02 AM EST --
They arrested pa!
The storm on the northern sky
He eyes the yellow painted door,
Fingers quivered on touch of
The ancient woods and red bricks.
The crisscross of the net . . .
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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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August 18, 2008 01:30 PM EDT --
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Word for Word Poetry: A Tribute to Jason Shinder with Mary Louise Parker, Michael O'Keefe and More
Academy Award-nominated actor . . .
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September 23, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
Postcards from the Asylum
By Karen Knight
Pardalote Press
ISBN 978-0-9803297-2-8, 96 pp, paperback, $AU 23.95, Aug 2008
Karen Knight is one of Australia's most respected poets. She's . . .
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