Tag: words
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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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 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 17, 2008 10:59 PM EDT --
Grandpa Joe had eighteen cats,
kept in a dark never ending
cavernous place he called the barn.
These feline fiends ran like race horses
when approached.
. . .
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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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September 06, 2008 02:02 AM EDT --
This poem is dedicated to my sweet daughter, Jenna. It's theme is literally taken from a visit to her back yard garden.
We have always had birds in the garden, . . .
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September 08, 2008 05:33 PM EDT --
father had sky blue hair to match his eyes.
mom was coifed in very light green hair
with hazel eyes and always wore
a sepia house dress with a matching
flower . . .
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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 20, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --
picnic at the park
intimate meeting at their home
dancing with my wife
seeing them listen to the music
kayaking on the lake
swimming in the club's . . .
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July 20, 2008 02:49 PM EDT --
neighbors, acquaintances, friends
hors d'oeuvres, cold, hot, tasty
deserts and petite fours
finger food and coffee
conversation, . . .
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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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August 25, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
will wonders never cease!
they did it again, with a splash!
apple just released another winner!
the newest iphone is here,
in your local cell phone store!
the new apple . . .
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July 18, 2008 06:30 AM EDT --
owl ukiah
an owl on a silent flight,
night becomes a hunt,
where bird or prey must survive
war ukiah
war becomes ghastly hatred, . . .
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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 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 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 21, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
roses now in bloom
now filled with rainbow colors
the summer solstice
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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 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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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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