Bonus from the archives - Experimentation in Standard Time
Experimentation in Standard TimeAutumn urban afternoonsget shorter and sweeter -standing in the middle of Eye StreetI await a very specific angle on the bow,as my ship called Earth comes about:a unique...
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in the seeking and the strivinga something that just won’t fit infor a man like medistrustfulness and self-suspicious fearWas crowded out by bills and laws and hateabout where it all came from, deep...
View ArticleLisbon notes that almost got lost
August 23rdcaracois and caroletathe cobblestone sidewalksare quaint, but the cracksbetween the stones are filledwith cigarette butts and dog-shitAugust 27thFilomena bought mea dozen handkerchiefs in...
View ArticleRandomized sonnet lines for November 21st
We need something dramatic,to soothe digestion and aid regularity.Whole peppercorn and clove buds are sounds, simple wavelengths colliding off.Now your daddy and his sister were just –but the sparrow...
View ArticleRandomized sonnet lines for November 22nd
United endlessly in time and space;I write it out in long hand,before that smile. Our spirits span the milesyour presence left me longer. I forgot,it matters not. I worship at your feet,or at least...
View ArticleMountain verse – December 13, 2014 (12/13/14)
I took the wrong turn –or missed my turn –but still reached the bakery,the destination.It’s easy to get all caught upin structure and techniquewhen you are writing/reading prose –but with poetry,...
View ArticleSome poems from the 2013 Archives
#1. Invitation “I knew too that through them I knew too that he was though, I knew too that he threw them. I knew too that they were through, I knew too I knew too, I knew I knew them.”...
View ArticleNOT ONLY THAT, HE CAN COOK TOO - Laura Lee
No herringbone brick walkways in this dirt garden,Just hard-packed earth, cool under my feet in the shadeOf the scarlet runner beans climbing their pole.Vichyssoise served from a silver tureen aboard...
View Article“He Bought the Sunday New York Times” - Lowell Murphree
He bought the Sunday New York Timeson the day before his 65th birthday.as an act of self-conscious generosity,On the day after his birthdayhe was still making his way through the lead article in the...
View Article'POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY' BY AUDRE LORDE
January 17, 2013Photo by John WilliamsThe quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through...
View ArticleSonnets in English by Fernando Pessoa
I - Whether we write or speak or do but lookIWhether we write or speak or do but lookWe are ever unapparent. What we areCannot be transfused into word or book.Our soul from us is infinitely far.However...
View ArticleSonnets in English by Fernando Pessoa
II.If that apparent part of life's delightOur tingled flesh-sense circumscribes were seenBy aught save reflex and co-carnal sight,Joy, flesh and life might prove but a gross screen.Haply Truth's body...
View ArticleSonnets in English by Fernando Pessoa
III.When I do think my meanest line shall beMore in Time's use than my creating whole,That future eyes more clearly shall feel meIn this inked page than in my direct soul;When I conjecture put to make...
View ArticleFernando Pessoa - The Tobacco Shop
The Tobacco ShopI’m nothing.I’ll always be nothing.I can’t want to be something.But I have in me all the dreams of the world.Windows of my room,The room of one of the world’s millions nobody knows(And...
View Article#NaPoWriMo2016
If it’s April, it’s NaPoWriMo, that is, National Poetry Writing Month, a month when poetry devotees (like me and many of you) commit to writing at least one poem per day. There are several blogs,...
View ArticleBonus: “Before”
beforebefore dawn breaksbefore daybreak –before getting wiped away –Before I fall asleep each night I readbefore I killed myself at the endBefore I learned to read and writebefore I started...
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after a late Saturday nightafter a long day of work, classes, whatever,after all the parades and football gamesafter all, a possessive lover without gender whoafter calculus class,after human death...
View ArticleBonus: "if"
if accurate, we hit the mark,If deer could speakIf Grandma Lena were here today,if I am early or late …if I could write a song of loveIf I were a sculptorif I were you – the dictionary –If only I could...
View Article14 randomized lines...a sonnet!
We exist independent of the filthand every opportunity Oolong’s second infusion tastes much smoother than the first,I thought it was a clever argument, but one that was closedWe grew, became adults...
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quiet, flat. Where were all the shoppers?need to conjure up my parents and my grandparents,are gaps in time, that soon take flight –like blood coursing through America’s veins.And blossoms tantalize...
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Bonus:My wife said I should write a poemalong this trail –But quality of intellect anda knight in shining armor - this is Second Life, silly. Sharing with us our laughter, and our fears.sip some scotch...
View Article14 more randomized lines
Bonus:When passing passions blue bid me adieu,My heart and soul in pain are drenched.To guide, to entertain, and to enthuse.Our friendship, our love is a complex being,but truth shouts out despite the...
View ArticleLines that begin with "this"
This cautionary tale includes one plea:This earthly form of dirt and dust and clay,This flesh that toiled and suffered on the earth,This frame that housed a spirit and a mindThis is the Captain, this...
View Article14 randomized lines that begin with the definite article "the"
the forms, the rhythms of your loveliness,The passion, pain, excitement of the day.The hull, the shell wherein no true love thrivesThe eager group, polite despite, is dressedThe legends say something...
View ArticleBonus from the archives: End of ModPo - Final words
Final wordsGoodbye but not farewell.We will continue our conversationsand social media chats –with new friends,with old friends.And we will continue writing poems:together in small groups,and at home,...
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