Tag: poetry
group name: famousfirsts
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May 18, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Whispers across the breeze, painted with the scent of daffodils and clover to warm my soul, just after the rain.
Carefree thoughts dwindle through the vats I call my brain, eyes heavy, . . . more
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July 12, 2007 05:57 AM EDT --
In the quiet of the dark, I arose. I arose to pitch black slid to grey, hoping for a water color wash. I looked up, hoping for rosy dawn, but did not find her. The impatiens on my balcony opened, . . . more
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May 29, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
There I see the lucid reflections of so many that stand so proud, never giving an inch only to be swallowed by the beast of pride.
So loud and proud that this is who they are that if the slightest wind . . . more
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October 29, 2006 08:11 AM EST --
The following poem by Kipling touches me in one way or the other.
If by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust . . . more
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May 12, 2008 09:04 PM EDT --
last month, cold snowrain out my window danced,
pushed crocus further toward the mantle;
still, I await the hush when sunlight streams,
world stops, holds its breath! in eternity,
while purple . . . more
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July 14, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
Senility is Setting In
I felt rather peckish so
I got up from the computer and
I went into the kitchen where
I put the loaf on the breadboard then
. . . more
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July 29, 2006 11:11 AM EDT --
Beneath the oaks
sunlight splashes
like dappling on a pony.
Even the very old
no longer recall the days
when the horse drawn carriages
. . . more
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June 24, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
The First Time I Understood the Power of Zen or as Billy Jean King would say "staying in the Now"
I had always thoroughly detested doing the dishes. I think it might be that I never got . . . more
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January 17, 2007 01:05 PM EST --
This is the final chapter of my recent 32 day trip of Africa (Cape Town to Cairo) and post trip to Jordan.
It was good to get to sleep late before we had to go.
Hamdy got us all checked in-no . . . more
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September 16, 2006 03:58 PM EDT --
Our entrance to Moscow was certainly grand.
Wide boulevards stretched over the land.
Not enough film for all the gold domes,
Wedding cake buildings, diplomat's homes,
Towers, and spires and bright . . . more
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May 19, 2007 01:44 AM EDT --
I exhale and the journey begins in the fibers of my roots my being starts to rise like a mighty nation formed from a single thought.
As I lay and look to the mighty nebulas I am taken to the beginning . . . more
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July 06, 2007 04:12 AM EDT --
Run to the mountain, the pond, to Walden: run on two-year old legs that crouch in the sand as we laugh and scoop sand-buckets for sand castles. Run fast before time steals, shifts in my mind's eye. . . . more
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July 11, 2007 07:59 PM EDT --
After reading my Zen Dishwashing poem, flit wanted a poem about vacuuming. This Haiku explains
Why I Like to Vacuum on a Sunny Day.
Motes swirl dizzily
Thru' shafts of golden sun, . . . more
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August 04, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Leaves rustling in breeze,
Clouds scudding in azure sea.
Heatwave has broken.
more
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July 13, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
Plea from the Battered
Wrap me in a blanket of caring and constancy,
Enfold me and make me feel safe.
Show me my fears for a future are groundless
And the pain . . . more
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June 18, 2007 06:27 AM EDT --
Wings of life
Fluttering her wings
Amidst the sweet scent
Giving flowers competition
You are stagnant
But I can fly
And spread my colors
in the sky
Just out of bud says . . . more
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February 01, 2008 06:30 AM EST --
I will deep my hands in the spring,
destroy my reflection in the water
and forget my past.
I will drink the sweet water
from my cold palms and become young.
The water will run through my . . . more
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July 04, 2007 09:44 AM EDT --
Today, July 4th - I will be Featuring the strongest of articles that relate to a holiday. Not just Independence Day, USA - but Canada Day, any National Holiday, or any other holiday, anywhere, of your . . . more
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June 27, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
On Wednesdays, I will be featuring the strongest of the content that comes into the group. The group's stated genres are the following: fiction, poetry, memoir, creative non-fiction, . . . more
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February 22, 2008 06:12 PM EST --
Once more I want to ride the carousel,
whose galloping ponies' bright-painted thighs undulate and sing to my core,
and yet fear shrieks: hold fast the pole, hold fast the pole, hold fast the . . . more
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