Tag: about life
member name: poetrandy R.
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August 24, 2008 08:05 AM EDT --
dog guarding owners
scares beautiful deer away
they scamper in fright
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March 31, 2009 02:52 AM EDT --
Survival’s secret lies not in
outlasting life’s challenges,
not in battles won or lost,
nor in the joys and sorrows
we all experience.
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May 24, 2009 04:54 PM EDT --
Life is a medieval gauntlet to be run
with strong will, tenacity, determination.
The gauntlet’s clubs and sticks
are simply a part of life’s . . .
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August 24, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
as a retiree, put out of the business world,
people say I should have plenty of time,
but, whatever time is,
I don’t have any of it to spare
time after time I’m late, . . .
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September 21, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
If I were to draw, paint or sculpt
a mosaic of me, like my mom
tried to do in her little man painting,
I’d probably fail miserably!
I did not inherit any
. . .
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January 20, 2009 04:49 AM EST --
a hospital stay didn’t go my way,
a test didn’t turn out well yesterday,
a scare like this is all one needs.
we all are living on borrowed time.
some verdicts . . .
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March 31, 2009 03:28 AM EDT --
tender white blossoms
emerge and stir in spring’s
lively breezes
wind blown palms
outline bare desert hillsides -
noisy ducks flee pond . . .
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May 22, 2009 07:51 AM EDT --
summer’s heat
summer’s heat
earth’s sultry days -
life’s restful times
summer time
warm . . .
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September 16, 2008 05:46 AM EDT --
Who let the children play?
Your stock’s value went away!
The CEOs have had their day!
Start a stock market holiday?
Who’s to blame for all this mess?
Can we ever have . . .
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June 05, 2008 01:51 AM EDT --
Images,
feelings,
pictures
thoughts,
visions,
intuitions,
sights,
music,
itunes,
ipods,
as well as song and dance
are supremely human things.
such endeavors as . . .
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June 05, 2008 01:55 AM EDT --
Terror,
Look in the mirror,
Look at TV,
Look at the Movies,
Look at the papers.
Read the statistics
Dead Soldiers.
Maimed and mutilated
Men, Women, Children. . . .
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June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . .
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June 04, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
I grow old
oak trees of 150 years
come back to life
new green leaves
spreading out branches
I simply decay
just a bit at a time
new buds into . . .
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August 24, 2008 04:59 AM EDT --
to anguish too long is a sheep without its wool.
to anguish at all is a bell silent without its clapper.
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August 24, 2008 05:35 AM EDT --
birds, dogs, cats can they remember?
is flight, great eyesight, a sixth sense
such a marvel?
can man ever learn what they already know?
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June 30, 2008 01:19 AM EDT --
I published 20 rules for
writing modern poetry,
here's a poem that just
can't follow those rulez!
rule one: never use words
with . . .
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September 09, 2008 01:33 AM EDT --
quincy quail’s extended family
lives under the mugu pine bushes
in our front yard. flimflammery
is their main weapon against predators.
the quail familys display . . .
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September 21, 2008 12:19 PM EDT --
In ancient Celtic times,
in the lands of Eire,
Faeries flying and jumping on the
backs of green yellow belied frogs
were common sights in gardens
across the . . .
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July 20, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
I feel warmth, fullness
summer's here, then so am I
days lengthen to night
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August 04, 2008 09:35 PM EDT --
missiles, supersonic airplanes, big bombs,
cannot find the deadly Taliban in their caves or
mountain hide-aways. we can’t fight gorillas
nowadays. we won the revolution . . .
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