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Analog Gestures
A nod to National Poetry Month
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Why Everyone Should Know Something About Mental Health and Psychopharmacology
Mental illness affects everyone. As such, we need to learn more about it and how to help those in need.
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Mediocre Lives
maybe not so mediocre after all
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The Tale Weaver
This could also be The Tail Weaver I suppose
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Love's Promises
Love is the answer
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Loosened Mortar
what we do for love
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Loose Connections
we can miss each other in the dark
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Summer Ghosts
love lives long
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Scrubbed Clean
grace is found in unexpected places
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Afternoon Delights
a slice of life piece for a beautiful afternoon
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The Sound of Stillness
The earth breathes.
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Waiting For a Lune
A small piece of poetry
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Distances
How do we measure the distance between us?
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The Me I Seek to Avoid
Even despair has its place
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A Wish List
love in all its forms
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A Spider's Story
exploring differences and tolerance
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Poetry's Younger Brother
poetry isn't always pretty
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Transformation of Desire
Look for what is underneath.
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Rain in April
It is raining today.
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Tenterhooks and Lies
This could be political, but was not originally intended that way.
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Gifts of Life and Death
We give what we are.
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How to End a Conversation
Some conversations are not meant to be.
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Brittle Etchings
Sometimes I write first then find visuals. I found this picture and it spoke to me. I still think there is more poem here than I have written. Some pictures are like that.
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Dancing Motes
My # 2 for National Poetry Month.
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Welcome to National Poetry Month
Welcome to National Poetry Month, or NaPoWriMo
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Does Your Small Business Meet Regulations?
Small businesses face many types of legal regulations. Research and planning are key to getting your business off the ground safely.
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Silent Troubadour
I long for beauty, and sometimes, I find it
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Wine Sunsets
We can be frightening, even the children
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What You Need to Know About the Law: Making Sense of Legal Documents
Struggling to understand legal documents? Here is a lawyer's insight about reading and interpreting legal documents. I cover common legal terms, important questions to ask, and other facets of dealing with binding documents.
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6 X 5
An experiment. How many different ways can this be read?
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Expiation
That old search for salvation.
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Amused Muses
Muses are not always kind.
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Images Retreat
I hadn't meant for this to be a sad poem, but sometimes, they come out that way.
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Stillness: A Poem of Waiting
A poem for the Advent and Christmas season. Whatever your beliefs, I hope this poem speaks to you a bit. My wishes for peace and joy to you all.
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Quiescence
I think about stillness and its relationship to silence--it seems the language of the soul
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You Take My Eyes
Genna's challenge, a poem--Of the Shadow and the Gray--
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Gratitude, a Line of Light
I am thankful and humbled to be awarded a Hubbie this year. Thank you!
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Parenting Your Teen: Skills and Stategies
Some advice for difficult times
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Stillness Turns
Everything Has its Season
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Music Education In Schools: Why We Need It
Music is important right??? Right!
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Speak to Me of Life
I am drawn to the stories we all carry inside us.
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A Chocolate Sky
A poem of color
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Catalyst of Dreams
Dreams are on my mind
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The Disguises We Choose
A poet's disguise
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A Story Unfolds
A reflection.
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Littered Floors
Sometimes love is like that.
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A Space Between
the space between us is where things bloom or die
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The Tender Spot Inside
We all have them, these places we forget about, that cause us to feel when we least expect it.
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Absolution in Sound
My #25 for National Poetry Month death found you on a Saturday in the snick and whoosh of air pumped into lungs that could no longer pull in. there was a conspicuous absence of black. hospital whites across neutral...
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Car Thieves
My #24 for National Poetry Month you hey you yes, I'm talking to you. you who stole my car so blithely so easily, yes you. car thief. you stole more than just an old Honda Civic an old car runs, and running cars...
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Breathe Through It
A little ditty about troubles.
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Streams Meet
A reflection.
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a small goodbye
a friend says goodbye
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I Slip
Tired bones find their way to sleep.
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Coverage
Words decontructed.
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midnight calls
I have been up late a lot lately
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The Fiddler Plays
A reflecfon on Fiddler on the Roof
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Pebbles In the Way
The colors of stars
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Eyes Leak
A poem about seeing ourselves in the tears we shed.
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5:00 p.m.
My favorite time of day
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Kenning
I am fascinated by the knowing that lies in our subconscious and how we access that knowledge.
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Wrapped Days
A slice of life poem
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The Faceless Name
On the nature of poetry--an enigma.
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Baseline
Not sure what this is about for me--
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Time Given
This piece was written in anticipation of an upcoming wedding--both a gain and a loss--
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Rehearsals
Having a wonderful time on stage right now--
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In the Ground of Things
Happy Eater! I found this photo and this piece came out--
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The Pain of Titles
I hate that I have to choose a title first and then write my piece here. Drives me buggy!
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The Crowded Heart
Hearts find their way toward love
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Mapping My Way Home Again
Maps can be helpful when we can find them.
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vertical submissive
I often find my net empty as I set down to write--Here is the result.
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A Mark Upon the Heart: A Response to Billybuc's Challenge
Thank you Bill--check out BillyBuc's challenge and other's responses
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The Catholic Church's Morality Clause, An Abandonment of the Right to Privacy
This may be a controversial subject for many.
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My Scale, Revisited
Oh the pain. After the holidays! I wonder if you can relate?
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A Door Once Opened: A Response to BillyBuc's Challenge
This is my response to BillyBuc's Challenge: A Door to Nowhere
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Love at 59
My husband gave me an early birthday present yesterday and made dinner.
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The Need for Darkness
A seasonal poem. Happy Holidays!
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Relevance Speaks
Just coming off of NaNoWriMo! Glad to be here again!
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The Woman on the Mountaintop: A Response to Bill's Challenge
For Bill's Challenge. Don't know if I followed the rules--I seldom do.
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NaNo Nano, I Am Here And There
A Reflection on Nanowrimo
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A Cascade of Dreams
A bit of oddity this morning--my flowers drape through the trees. I wrote this in an old chair underneath this bower--
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Ode to the Toilet
A small ditty!
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The Sorrowful Songs
Sorrowful songs, that inspire. Thank you BillyBuc for the challenge
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The Poet's Poverty Line And Other Such Matters of the Purse
In response to SEO
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Negligence and Why It Matters
Policy and the Law
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A Word About Writing
The role of the subconscious.
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Dance The Last Dance With Me
My #30 and final piece for National Poetry Month
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Finding Joy In Small Things
My #29 for National Poetry Month
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A Prayer of Abundance
My #27 for National Poetry Month
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Avoidance as a Dance
My #26 for National Poetry Month
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Blink and I am Gone
My #25 for National Poetry Month
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An Illustrated Guide to Stress Balls
My #24 for National Poetry Month
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A Bilingual Approach to Love
My #23 for National Poetry Month
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It's All About the Vantage Point
A silly piece. My #22 for National Poetry Month
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The 10:30 Poem
My #21 for National Poetry Month
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The Way Through
With a nod to Robert Frost, My #20 for National Poetry Month
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We Bang The Drum Slowly
A time of reflection; a time of sorrow
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A Substitute Afternoon
My #18 for National Poetry Month
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Anger's Pot
My #17 for National Poetry Month
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The Cough That Slew Sleep
I have the cough from hell right now. My #16 for National Poetry Month
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Disappointment's Face
Disappointment lies heavy within. My #15 for National Poetry Month
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Love in a Time of Baseball
love in the smallest of moments--my #14 for National Poetry Month
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Heartbeats: A Fibonacci Sequence
I am playing with form today, using a fibonacci sequence. My #13 for National Poetry Month.
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Strength in Small Things
For National Poetry Month. My #12, a small poem about small things
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Unnoticed Tears
My #11 for National Poetry Month
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The Big Show
The title here is a bit misleading, but perhaps that adds to the irony here. My #10 for National Poetry Month.
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A Free Write
For National Poetry Month, my #9
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Eating By Color
This piece is a more narrative one. My #8 for National Poetry Month. Thank you for your visit.
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Interlocking Pieces
My #7 for National Poetry Month. Thank you for reading it.
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A Frisson
A Frisson is a French word really. It means a sudden passing shudder of emotion. Debussy set a beautiful piece, La Chevelure, from La Chansons di Bilitis, to a poem based on this word. My #6.
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Perspective's Light
My #5 for National Poetry Month
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Semaphore
My #4 for National Poetry Month
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Joy, Tethered
Poetry seems for me to be the language of the heart. My #3 for National Poetry Month
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Beauty In Death: Two Short Pieces
For National Poetry Month #2
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Winds Blow Me Into Being
April is National Poetry Month. I hope to be able to post a piece every day this month. This is #1
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Pandora's Dream
A magical place, a magical dream
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Expressions: A Found Poem
lobster Tails knit themselves free of their past within the kingdom of spirits flavoring new evidence of a gallery afar jealously guarding the back door in search of the warmth of home, they explore a flavor from the...
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An Absence Felt
A poem felt somewhere in the small of me
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Silvered Memories
A poem
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The Edge of Dreams
I have been thinking lately about those parts of us that we put away in order to be "acceptable" in society and what that costs us.
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A Tincture of Glass
A love poem I think!
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Dreams on a Wednesday
Dreams, Frederick William Burton, 1863 In the public domain in the United States. wikimedia commons I blanket myself In the softness of dreams unfulfilled On a Wednesday. Each morning Lifts its cushion Of tenderness...
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The Skin of Trees
A poem of healing, of being embraced by nature. This piece was the first piece I wrote coming out of a dry spell, and for me, I will always be grateful for this piece.
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An Understanding
A poem about the texture of understanding
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Rooted Within It
For National Poetry Month 2013 # 18 --Yikes--I am so far behind!!!!
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A Part Of
Originally written for NaPoWriMo. A stream of consciousness.
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Pearled Moments
For National Poetry Month 2013 #16
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A Thread of Leaves
For National Poetry Month 2013 #15
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A Tipping Point
For National Poetry Month 2013 #14
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Blast! The Title I Want Was Taken!
For National Poetry Month 2013 #13
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November Dreams
For National Poetry Month 2013 #12
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Dustbowl
For National Poetry Month 2013 #11
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Dreams Sought
For National Poetry Month 2013 #10
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12 Gauge
For National Poetry Month 2013 #9--Not all poetry is autobiographical, but all poetry sits in its truth
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Repast
A poem about writing and reading poetry
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The Viscosity of Love
For National Poetry Month 2013 #7
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Love is a Train
For National Poetry Month 2013 #6
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The Air of Freedom
For National Poetry Month 2013 #5
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Colored Locks
For National Poetry Month 2013 #4
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A Hearth Run Red
For National Poetry Month 2013 #3
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The Cry of the Loon
For National Poetry Month 2013 #2
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An Argument Re: The Need For Imagination
For National Poetry Month 2013 #1
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Spring's Motif
A moment to enjoy spring's thaw
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Conscience Awakened
This is a piece written about how conscience functions or doesn't in our psyches.
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Among The Weeds
a poem about resiliency
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I Float
I love the shorter forms. Here is an abbreviated verse, recalling the shorter Japanese forms. Short forms can be stunning in their brevity. I hope you enjoy this one.
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Fired Breath
Shorter forms of poetry, like the orchid, can be beautiful.
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Ictus
ictus def: a metrical stress; the instant when a beat occurs
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Peace and Light
Originally written for the holidays, I find these are applicable everyday!
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A River of Mercy
A poem about empathy
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Ophelia's Lament
John Everett Millais, 1852 wikimedia paintings And I come whistling The lute’s harmony Close in the dell The eyes of death Filled with Crimsons and yellows A petal each day Counted and lost A brilliant hue For each joy Now...
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The Purple Voice
The process of writing, whether poetry or prose, fascinates me. This piece is about that process.
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My Heart: A Tanka
When I was a young adult, I had the opportunity to live in Japan for a year. I learned to speak the language when I was there and carried my studies through upon my return to the United States. I have not spoken Japanese for some time. As a...
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Sullivan and Sarah
The heat of summer beats against my temple as your spirit hovers, a softest breeze against check and eye. My heart beats as yours cannot. Wilt thou seek me now, as I seek you? I know not where you have fallen, but I felt...
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How to Deal With Your Debt and Still Have a Life
An article on how to live and cope with debt productively
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An August Afternoon
iew looking up at trees on a summer's day. The Loantaka Brook Reservation in Morris County, New Jersey, has 570 acres of nature trails for biking, jogging, horseback riding, picnics, athletic fields wikimedia commons Scented green, ...
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Poem's Exile: An SEO Keywords Poem
A humorous look at SEO and Google through poetry
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Caffeine's Contribution
Gotta have my java!
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Autumn's First Touch
i have no thought other than observing wind chimes tinkle as wind picks up, biting porch nipping shutters poised in relentless readiness they sound an A on wind’s new chill the rain will start soon ...
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The Doorway of My Dreams
A poem about dreaming and daring
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Desire's Seed
door hinged by unacknowledged desires rusted by the inevitable tables of misuse time’s ally periodic breezes blow by scraping paint in their eagerness to dance in the light motes know the freedom of air the lightness of being ...
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My European Vacation
I wrote this piece originally as an explanation for an anticipated absence. I still like this piece and hope you will too. Without preamble (not much anyway) I wanted to explain my upcoming absence. For the next 6 weeks you see, ...
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Unspent Desire
This is one of those writes which filter up from the subconscious. I have some idea of what it means, but maybe not really--maybe it is just a dream.
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A Thorn of Penitence: A Poem about Redemption
A poem about redemption. We all need it from time to time.
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A Different Reality
Dali, Vanitas Vanitatum wikimedia paintings Salvatore Di Giovanna, The Paradise wikimedia commons i find that i am easily distracted from the realities of my vision and drawn by colors and shapes and by their relationships across the...
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The Perfect Vehicle: A Poem of Tears
Pearl of Grief Rembrandt Peale wikimedia commons I have found that a tear is the perfect vehicle a rivulet of hope etched on the heart’s edge on a bad day the despair of loneliness wiped down and cleaned for the...
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Now Lately Done
For National Poetry Month #30 ending is upon me moment of silence pencil stops scribing done and a blank moment of breath beseeches the new day as loam rises and deposits its silt upon the stillness of the moment and the...
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Humility Borne
For National Poetry Month #29 do i now become spectator to my own decline to my own demise as bit by bit parts wear out and like an overburdened motor i am idling too high waiting for the drop-- waiting for the engine to...
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Words Sieved
Katyare, own work wikimendia commomns counting days words syllables meter assonance sibilance nth degree counting down dribbling words melt Dali-like sieved in colors bright and triumphant as they splat onto the...
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Teasing
For National Poetry Month #27 better not expect too much for libidinous youth has etched its sprightly way along the path of this body wrapped it in clear paper which crinkles pleasantly upon its unwrapping pull open my...
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The Pointedly Intellectual
Dozvald János, A képen a diaporámára specifikusan jellemző, két diapozitív összevetítése útján keletkező úgynevezett harmadik-kép látható, illetve itt annak számítógépes rekonstrukciójáról van szó. wikimedia commons ...
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Writer's Block Revisited
A poem about writer's block
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Love's Language
Love's Language interpreted.
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Pounds and Ounces
For National Poetry Month #23 I hate my scale and equally stubborn, it retaliates. Willful and capricious in nature, it awaits my daily visit with glee as it calculates to the ounce and announces the latest of my failures. ...
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Pastiche
An older love poem--but with a bit of sadness
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Words: Jumping Tracks
For National Poetry Month #21 Do you know the word in Russian for white is “bela?” And the word in Japanese for snow is “yuki?” And in my convoluted mind the track for Russian and Japanese often converge And I get bela...
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We Make A Pocket
For National Poetry Month #20 hand nestles within mine we make a pocket we make a life we have logged years of raising children of making music of work of disappointment of bad jokes and countless cups of coffee ...
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Short and Sweet: A Set of 10-Word Poems
For National Poetry Month #19 Cooling Temporary cooling of thought can lead to deep freeze later. Yuck Bacterium nurtured on petri dish, black tongue defines you again. Endurance Wednesdays are my loneliest days and...
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The Asphalt of Enterprise
They zip by, these scions of enterprise, with their dreams and ambitions. The asphalt kisses their feet. In the absence of a heart, a pocket full of the lint of love past flickers briefly upon the stage of bottom lines while children...
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The Hem of My Sins
Self forgiveness.
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The Singer's Heart
For National Poetry Month #16 In the singer’s heart, dwells the child who once jumped from rock to rock without fear of falling. Open In the singer’s heart, the soul flies across emotional terrain mapped in the...
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Twigs
For National Poetry Month #15 sighed song shivers now through snaking arms of trees lone bird at twilight copyright all rights reserved April 15, 2012 Audrey Howitt. You may not use or copy without the express written permission...
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Sale Day
The following piece of poetry is a short piece originally published during April (National Poetry Month) 2012. It speaks to the need, in an SEO driven market, to continue to nurture and develop creativity. For National Poetry Month #14 ...
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The Grace of Love: A Poem of the Heart
For National Poetry Month #13 the power of your face when you smile to unlock my frozen heart continues to stop me in my tracks confounds me wordlessly i can only love you back copyright/all rights reserved April 13, 2012...
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Anticipated Grief
I think a lot about getting older and about what I want out of those years
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Adrift
Funny how I feel when I re-read old work.
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I Will Not Clean My Room Today
I will not clean my room today, no way, not today. I will not clean my room today or any other day, I say. A dwarf lives under my bed you see. That dwarf, well, he scares me. A dwarf lives under my bed you see, and he seeks to make...
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The Awakening Moon
I love the magic of the night. I love its restorative qualities.
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Debussy: St. Sebastian, A Singer's Odyssey
I sang a piece by Debussy with SF Symphony Chorus last year and this poem came out of that experience: The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
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The Secret
or National Poetry Month #7 My heart tires so easily with the holding (how did I manage) Unsettled soul (alone) I trod darkened seas of foam and spray which hurl their rapacious faces upon me. (cold) I cannot hold, nor seek...
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Karmic Retribution
For National Poetry Month # 6 I have to write about my anger, my disappointment, my absolute incredulity, at the dishonesty, the thievery, which sends my self-righteous self into paroxysms . Over and over again I will...
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Terrain of the Heart
For National Poetry Month 2012 #5 Tears fall, overflowing cups. Without specific reason, each day they travel their specified path, signposts to a deeper reality-- unmapped, uncharted. Are there enough poems in me To...
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Altar of Graphite: A Writer's Reflection
For National Poetry Month 2012 #4 I tried to fashion something beyond my ken in the voice of a poet more eloquent than me, more word-worthy. But the voice failed me as I tried to fashion haphazard art from tarnished 2-bit words...
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Solace at the Close of Day
For National Poetry Month 2012 #3 Think not O heart heavy with time’s solace of tears. For the day draws to its close, and as fitting, so does life itself. copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2012 Simple, yet...
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A Heart Made New
For National Poetry Month #2 i seek a place of solace where the sands stop shifting long enough for me to catch my breath and to free the wind of my name such that this long sliver of silvered light can catch the gossamer...
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Your Name
a lyrical piece for your enjoyment
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Endings #2
Su primera obra literaria expuesta al público fue una poesía introductoria a su obra ¿Quién mató la pintura? en 2006, Museo de las Américas Cuartel de Ballajá, Viejo San Juan. Por: Arcadia Panet wikimedia commons Today will be the last...
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My Private Hell
A poem about feeling trapped
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The Hum of You
Love reaches down to touch us when we least expect it.
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The Pap
Pap smears: No one likes them, get them done though!