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- May 19th, 2019, 7:58 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Prose Poem About My Least Favorite Subject
- Replies: 1
- Views: 223
Prose Poem About My Least Favorite Subject
Trump is strumpet to his own ego----he is mirror-diseased. He is the idol of mean, rotten, people who drop solid food out of their mouths as they try to eat with their hands and close their eyes and grunt under their breath the same time their rotting teeth chew----what a feat!---they grunt givemegi...
- May 18th, 2019, 11:38 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: kind of doing the Ferlinghetti thing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 635
kind of doing the Ferlinghetti thing
Thunder Speaks its poems directly to the ear No fear booming loud, obtrusive Knocking dinner conversations off the table Picking up beauty with a napkin Flashing that lightning smile Broccoli saying “cheese” And tasting so good Like air to a pair of full-sailing lungs Oh, the storms of poetry in the...
- May 10th, 2019, 7:37 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: What Do Our Leaders Believe In? (six question marks)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 441
Re: What Do Our Leaders Believe In? (six question marks)
Emptiness-----the old cliché---empty kettles make the most noise----warmongers are always rattling rhetoric. How could we elect such a rotten administration and followthe same evil path again and again. No, far from everybody voted and votes for these horrible people but why can't the good overturn ...
- May 10th, 2019, 7:33 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: The Art of War
- Replies: 8
- Views: 749
Re: The Art of War
Your observation is right---suffering and destruction. war if it is an art is not a gift to humanity---far from it.
- May 10th, 2019, 7:30 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: lighthouse
- Replies: 3
- Views: 352
Re: lighthouse
creativesoul's comment (which is a poem too) is better and more personal than the comment I'm writing but I do like the "lighthouse" as a symbol. The opening of the poem is thought-provoking and elicits an emotional assent granular time rolls backward, forward the beach of our composure always in mo...
Re: The door
This is a nice one. I felt good after reading it. Yeah, old age and definite imperfections in our lives but love opens the door.
Re: gehenna
the images come rapid-fire but the reader can reread after the first time thru and take the time to dwell on each. The title drew me in. I like the basic metaphor on which the poem turns
gehenna speaks in rapid fire's blink
gehenna speaks in rapid fire's blink
- May 10th, 2019, 7:17 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: April is the Cruelest Month
- Replies: 9
- Views: 643
Re: April is the Cruelest Month
I like this poem----that is the bottom line of my feelings on it. The first stanza is super Almost out of Winter, they assault again, late blizzards and hoary religious wars. Desperate and dire, they try to draft you, like smoke rubbing old English panes. And Jesus? Well, that is the truth. Peace is...
- May 10th, 2019, 7:13 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Lyric of A Mixed Metaphor Maker
- Replies: 2
- Views: 343
Lyric of A Mixed Metaphor Maker
thoughts tumble down splat on the empty space of silence they aren't square or cubed formulations they don't gust with rhythmic sounds my fault my genetics my leaning my patience are not up to corralling them into a pen whipping the fat off them they still stink with the less than ideal world they w...
- May 4th, 2019, 3:21 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: LOVE behaving like wingless beasts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 478
Re: LOVE behaving like wingless beasts
LOVE/angelizing/its wings----------great start to the poem. And this:
risque encounters
adrift with passions
set fire, breathing
living dragons copulate
in the skies darkened
by veils of clouds,
and the ending on a bed of ideals----really a nice inventive poem.
risque encounters
adrift with passions
set fire, breathing
living dragons copulate
in the skies darkened
by veils of clouds,
and the ending on a bed of ideals----really a nice inventive poem.
- May 4th, 2019, 3:09 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: They come!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 478
Re: They come!
Brutus? A hero perhaps but the empire came anyway. Lady MacBeth saw the daggr---if I remember correctly----but that was after the fact.
When words become deeds, the horse is out of the barn.
When words become deeds, the horse is out of the barn.
- May 3rd, 2019, 6:12 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Unity Lost
- Replies: 7
- Views: 515
Re: Unity Lost
Sad times. What was always there but hidden, maybe restrained is out in the public square like the evil times of the history---hopefully we can avoid the worst possibilities---but the potential is pretty bad.
Re: wishes
actually you have a good poem here. Though you may be consciously frustrated---in your own evaluation---you do a lot with that frustration. The car keys metaphor is excellent. I can identify with that---everybody can. And I like the sea-weathered shack in Key West---where Hemingway lived and Wallace...
- May 3rd, 2019, 6:00 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: A Public Display
- Replies: 2
- Views: 274
A Public Display
"keep your mouth shut' anything that explodes in your mind gets said your social being is dead you rave like a deranged president you have that urge to burst into language to boom non sequiturs to bellow stupid jokes you really have no sense of humor things just get said finger on the trigger you ne...
- April 18th, 2019, 5:43 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Starting with Nothing and Somehow Communing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 479
Starting with Nothing and Somehow Communing
starting with nothing but empty words no, not meditation not OM not a guru's black hole of an eye in which he is not home but somewhere on a plane with God jetting over existence silently 34 thousand feet up thoughts appear disappear are the roar of the jets but not in the pilot's ears quiet peace t...