Tag: feelings
member name: poetrandy R.
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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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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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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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September 13, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
Elections Senryu
humans gather for
those big conventions, fun, games ~
then they vote for what?
Autumn Haiku
animals . . .
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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 14, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
incidents of daily life are a dance
in time, a pirouette in learning,
a waltz of happiness, a procession
of confusion, or a jig of
sorrow and shame, the steps
of the dance . . .
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July 18, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
war in winter
destroyed all of
both Hitler's forces
and Napoleon's grand army,
showing nature always wins
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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 08, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Senryu 1
those girls talk too much
when they gather together
excluding all boys
Senryu 2
time has come to stop
complaining . . .
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July 01, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
for Donald Hawley - 7/1/2008
soothsayers, seers and saints
have a corner on the future,
perhaps scientists do not,
stuff happens, no longer a dream. . . .
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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 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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June 11, 2008 12:47 AM EDT --
silence is an owl ready
to kill, its talons on a branch
alert for prey, flies away
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June 12, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
the sky is filled with so many visible objects,
many can be seen with the naked eye,
others require binoculars or a telescope,
with help the heavens open up to a . . .
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July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
lost old poems,
some from high school,
others from college days,
still more about love.
moving like all insults,
allows us to lose these things.
tears and woe, there's . . .
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June 11, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
Coyotes, bobcats, owls inhabit our minds and acres.
Who would ever think that oak and pine trees hide
wildlife and fulfill our dreams? A house of a single
story . . .
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June 11, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
Here's a few I gleamed from Ted Kooser and several other noted poets, as I understand them:
DO'S & DON'TS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
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June 21, 2008 04:15 PM EDT --
Like an infant wanting her food,
I'm not really in a great mood.
Being held here against my will,
they may come and get me still.
Like a starving mongrel, I'm ready, . . .
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July 13, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
I once had an old book on Metaphysics
(written before quantum mechanics)
when read front to back it was impossible
to understand, yet if you read it from back
to front, everything . . .
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June 12, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
Grandpa Joe's favorite possession
his filly "Goldie" a beautiful palomino horse
sired by Roy Rogers' famous "Trigger"
Goldie's dam (or mother) . . .
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