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The Dogs
He said he didn’t hear the dogs barking. He has on now all that he’ll probably need. The late winter sky was darkening. The train was here. Was he embarking? She squeezed onto the narrow place with a leg over the edge. He said he didn’t hear the dogs barking. The wheels once again were turning. That...
Re: Market
It is said Chairman
Mao knew a great many
songs about heartbreak.
Mao knew a great many
songs about heartbreak.
Re: sleepless
Clutching this blackness
like a pillow to my chest
while I toss and turn.
like a pillow to my chest
while I toss and turn.
- March 20th, 2011, 12:16 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: FAT DAMES LOVE. ( STRONG LANGUAGE)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2302
Re: FAT DAMES LOVE. ( STRONG LANGUAGE)
In my experience
with love, the bigger they are,
the harder they fall.
with love, the bigger they are,
the harder they fall.
Lines
The days of their life together Compressed into a form denser, harder, More beautiful than the chalky lightness of their youth, A map that shows which mound covers the old site, He saw these things on his wife’s face. The frustration at taking this trip alone, There are only so many trips—they are n...
- March 13th, 2011, 2:48 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: following up on a thought
- Replies: 3
- Views: 370
Re: following up on a thought
Joel. This is a nice piece, but I am not keen on it ending with a contraction. I think the near-rhyme you would get from "we are" would cover your scheme and read better. Obviously your call.
Ma Femme
My mind wanders easily to you. You flirt subtlely, teasingly with my muses and my fears. I hear you laughing, a soft breeze on my cheek as if I were being caressed. I think of things that please you: long mornings lounging like lizards in the sun, evenings together in the shadows. While I pet your b...
- March 12th, 2011, 1:37 pm
- Forum: Haiku
- Topic: I’m Coming
- Replies: 0
- Views: 668
I’m Coming
“I’m coming,” woke me
from deep sleep. She had dreamed her
mother was calling.
from deep sleep. She had dreamed her
mother was calling.
- March 12th, 2011, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: jack up my junk DNA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 552
Re: jack up my junk DNA
Rabbit-- I am very fond of this piece. I agree with Saw -- the following stanza is as good as it gets: like the poet coming down from a lost poem one that took lifetimes to find the right words like some threads of some latent memory all wrapped around a few lines of immortality I offer the followin...
- March 9th, 2011, 2:51 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: finding yourself vs. founding yourself
- Replies: 5
- Views: 591
Re: finding yourself vs. founding yourself
Good villanelle, Joel. "Doggèd" and "hound" in the same line is a nice touch.
- March 2nd, 2011, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: dear innocence --
- Replies: 7
- Views: 680
Re: dear innocence --
I like this well.
The closing of "with guilty notes" in a letter to innocence is very good.
The closing of "with guilty notes" in a letter to innocence is very good.
- February 10th, 2011, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Jingle,Jangle the Love Triangle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 422
Re: Jingle,Jangle the Love Triangle
Oops! Wrong angle to the dangle.
- February 10th, 2011, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Trouble With God -- a spiritual
- Replies: 1
- Views: 239
Trouble With God -- a spiritual
Ain’t nobody knows my trouble with God. Ain’t nobody knows my trouble with God. If He loves men of peace, then why all this blood? Ain’t nobody knows my trouble with God. Yesterday, God took away my feet. Yesterday, God took away my feet. Now I can’t even walk down the street. Yesterday God took awa...
- February 10th, 2011, 1:32 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: River of Souls -- different version
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1026
Re: River of Souls -- different version
Down By The River
--
A river of souls
courses around us each day,
tugging and tugging.
--
A river of souls
courses around us each day,
tugging and tugging.
- February 9th, 2011, 9:43 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: BLACK HEAVY RAIN. (STRONG LANGUAGE)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 543
Re: BLACK HEAVY RAIN. (STRONG LANGUAGE)
dadio -- Another fine effort. Think about the line "without you knowing it." I don't think it fits with chimes that frighten the fuck out of you. Obviously your call.