Tag: poetry
member name: poetrandy R.
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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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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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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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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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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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June 13, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
summer's solstice starts
desires sexual, physical,
emotional attractions
pleasant longer days
shorter nights filled with
lust, desire, temptation
summertime . . .
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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 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 01:56 AM EDT --
P oetry
S O fine,
Se E ms like a game,
Bea T it's got,
Yeah, R hythm, too!
A bit of Y oung, it's got.
A good thing
a N d fun it is.
Sa . . .
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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 11, 2008 12:46 PM EDT --
Here are a few terms serious poets should use and understand:
abstract/concrete
alliteration
allusion
anaphora
anecdote
aphorism
assonance
blank verse
cadence
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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 05, 2008 04:39 PM EDT --
night sneaks upon us
like a swarm of locusts
invading fertile fields
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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 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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July 13, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
Daffodils white, yellow, gold, buds,
surround the long black driveway
shoots pushing up
green sprouting
bluejays announcing
woodpeckers busy
tiny oregon junkos . . .
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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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