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by 68degrees
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.
by 68degrees
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...
by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
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...
by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
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...
by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
January 28th, 2015, 11:16 pm
Forum: Haiku
Topic: january 2015 ku
Replies: 85
Views: 11194

Re: january 2015 ku

Your time starts right now
it begins with the first wind
please don't lose the key
by 68degrees
January 28th, 2015, 9:45 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: thank you
Replies: 9
Views: 325

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. ...
by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
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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by 68degrees
January 25th, 2015, 1:59 pm
Forum: Haiku
Topic: january 2015 ku
Replies: 85
Views: 11194

Re: january 2015 ku

I just saw Seinfeld in concert. Guy was fabulous.

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