Tag: poetry
member name: David P.
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July 11, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
The sprout emerges
roots drawing in nourishment
from the forest floor
nearby flora competing
struggling to feed and to thrive.
(This is an entry written for the Gather . . .
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August 08, 2008 04:55 PM EDT --
The Yellow River, the Huang He
winds and twists her way through the land.
Along her ancient enchanted shores emerge
clusters of human life, communities launching
the beginnings of a . . .
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February 13, 2009 01:28 PM EST --
It wasn't the sweater
though thick and wooly
nor even the fire
with its base of glowing embers
and blazing flames that licked
thier way around the wood
. . .
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June 20, 2008 10:02 PM EDT --
On toward evening,
when Apollo was completing the final segment
of his long arcing ride across the sky,
the emanating rays of his gleaming chariot
blanketed the earth,
not with . . .
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July 18, 2008 12:42 AM EDT --
I know you have felt it
the surge in your inner core
when sensors in the soul
ignite with numinous energy
vibrant
when something like
rich liquid life flows through your being
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February 27, 2009 11:04 AM EST --
Lost in thought
he put up the groceries
Mint extract next to the vanilla in the spice rack
Chips in the pantry, eggs in the fridge
He'd been elsewhere mentally while shopping too
Not having . . .
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February 21, 2009 02:08 PM EST --
The French Quarter sights, smells and sounds do enthrall
Shiny beads fly to the bold who bear all
Some churches observe Shrove Tuesday that night
Serving pancakes, a G-rated . . .
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February 18, 2007 12:53 AM EST --
I’d give my right arm
To be ambidextrous
I’d give lungs or gills
To be amphibious
I’d give all my mobility
To be ambulatory
I’d give and take
To avoid ambiguity
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June 28, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
Sometimes the words flow
they gush
in fact flood
they rush
through the canyons
of cranium pass
They splash in your noggin
Jump from your pencil tip
Squirt through your fingers . . .
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October 24, 2008 02:09 AM EDT --
Through the cycle of the running seasons
begun in Fall and now back round again
no one knows the artists' varied reasons
they here unleashed the power of the pen
Prompted by . . .
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March 27, 2009 02:17 PM EDT --
A lovely house in the country
theirs for the whole weekend
complete with privileges to dig
in the weedy overgrown gardens
But for now they welcome nightfall
Blazing red sun sinks in the west
as . . .
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June 18, 2009 11:11 AM EDT --
The human being stands alone among
the sundry living creatures of the earth.
the gift of language comes upon the tongue
the pow'r of reason active from our birth. . . .
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December 04, 2007 03:59 PM EST --
....................spending...................
................money in hand...............
.......not mounting crippling debt........
......averts the woeful plastic Yule.......
..........blessing . . .
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March 06, 2009 10:36 PM EST --
His is a world of noise
the cacophony
the downtown scene
walking from the train to
the overgrown obelisk with
windows running up all eighteen floors
blaring taxis, screeching brakes
buses . . .
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November 10, 2007 01:11 PM EST --
This piece a poem in a Japanese form called "tanka", is a collaboration with photographer Maryann C. of Otter Photography. If you care to see more of her work, go to her page: blindtasting . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:55 AM EST --
The quest comes naturally at first
the child
born to learn
hungry for knowledge
the human brain
who, what, when, where?
and the ever present, why?
a sponge
never sated
unless stagnation is chosen . . .
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January 31, 2009 11:50 AM EST --
Our lives don't offer straight and level trails
though we would love a steady, even plane.
While wishing order, chaos oft prevails.
And who on earth can keep from knowing pain?
We humans, . . .
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March 20, 2007 01:30 AM EDT --
Strike it rich, Oh yeah!
Just know, the prize strikes back
with blows few winners can stand.
Could be otherwise, perhaps,
if prudence and sound counsel were applied.
Still, parasitic hangers-on . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:28 PM EDT --
I had a nice week at the beach on Galveston Island, TX. while there, I loved watching the water fowl, and was especially delighted with the morning flight of the Roseate Spoonbill that fed in the . . .
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November 14, 2008 09:15 PM EST --
Aimless and drifting
rational
but with reason suspended
like a spinning top
moving only as outside forces dictate
thoughts adrift
actions tethered to nothing
no cause
no goal . . .
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