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- January 31st, 2015, 6:37 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Soldier's Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1277
Re: A Soldier's Life
Thank you for your words...all words.
- January 31st, 2015, 6:36 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: In Response to a Recent Question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 219
In Response to a Recent Question
One of the last times I saw you your hands were waving wildly Your hair was messed, a left shoe was tipping almost to the floor You were talking to someone, you were seeing and hearing no one You were going where nobody knows You were talking to empty air, you were between then and now, you were a s...
- January 31st, 2015, 11:49 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: half of yesterday
- Replies: 6
- Views: 319
Re: half of yesterday
Nice. Can't imagine what you could do in a whole day. Sleep gets in the way sometimes.
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- January 31st, 2015, 11:42 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Soldier's Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1277
Re: A Soldier's Life
"...but what's a father?"
A guy who died of Alzheimer's five years ago. He went down that hill one night and never came back.
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A guy who died of Alzheimer's five years ago. He went down that hill one night and never came back.
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- January 30th, 2015, 2:23 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Soldier's Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1277
Re: A Soldier's Life
Arcadia:
Thanks. "Gracias" is the kind of word that makes the world a better place.
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Thanks. "Gracias" is the kind of word that makes the world a better place.
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- January 30th, 2015, 2:21 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Soldier's Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1277
Re: A Soldier's Life
One of my sons is currently a student at Madison.
I grew up in northwestern Wisconsin...Indianhead region (look at a western border of WI on a map...you'll see it.
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I grew up in northwestern Wisconsin...Indianhead region (look at a western border of WI on a map...you'll see it.
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- January 30th, 2015, 12:08 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Soldier's Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1277
Re: A Soldier's Life
This poem has taken many forms now. It was recently accepted as a monologue for a Theater magazine. The version here is a longer poem version. It started small. Has grown up a bit. Kind of like me. I appreciate the positive comments. Very much. @Revolution...I was born in Wisconsin. Moved away in 19...
- January 29th, 2015, 11:25 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Love In The Library
- Replies: 3
- Views: 510
Re: Love In The Library
Thanks for posting. Really like the library for a setting…where we learn things. Nice.
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- January 29th, 2015, 10:30 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Soldier's Life
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1277
A Soldier's Life
We leave one step at a time from many things: the table after eating, a failing job, a disproved belief, a broken argument of a home, one hand against cold glass, the other on the key to the door. It was like this at our house when I was a kid... father would argue with mother about whatever married...
- January 28th, 2015, 11:38 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: I want to write a poem
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1011
Re: I want to write a poem
"sorry, I can be an overly sensitive anxiety-ridden paranoiac depressive... I'm disabled."
You're not really all these words...you're just human.
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You're not really all these words...you're just human.
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- January 28th, 2015, 11:16 pm
- Forum: Haiku
- Topic: january 2015 ku
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11196
Re: january 2015 ku
Your time starts right now
it begins with the first wind
please don't lose the key
it begins with the first wind
please don't lose the key
Re: thank you
"...and the flowers don't really need any arranging" "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. .." Your quote reminded me of this. One of my favorites from the Bible. Like your poem. ...
- January 27th, 2015, 6:40 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: poet in the used book store
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1153
Re: poet in the used book store
One of the best bookstores in the country: Book Court in Brooklyn. Every get a chance to go in, don't miss it.
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- January 25th, 2015, 11:58 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: The White Angel & The Hound
- Replies: 10
- Views: 792
Re: The White Angel & The Hound
This is more than a fairy tale, I know...and yet....
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- January 25th, 2015, 1:59 pm
- Forum: Haiku
- Topic: january 2015 ku
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11196
Re: january 2015 ku
I just saw Seinfeld in concert. Guy was fabulous.
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