Tag: poetry
member name: Lavonne W.
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February 13, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
Found a shriveled black thing
under the bed
while vacuuming today.
Gingerly picked it up.
Humph, I puffed. An apple
and all the time I thought
that sickly, sweet smell
was love.
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October 08, 2008 12:59 AM EDT --
Ladybugs cluster
around lights, performing
the rituals of procreation.
The smell of their community
marriage bed fills my utility room.
Nurseries are hidden
within walls, a gift . . .
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October 03, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
Backlit,
an S-curve silhouette
patters in the bathroom.
Jars and bottles
tapping on the counter.
Frogs peep-singing,
heard through
the window screen.
Nestled,
her match is already . . .
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February 13, 2008 09:38 PM EST --
jealous monarch
little king in a red hat
wars on daedal windows
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February 29, 2008 07:34 PM EST --
Waves shuffle the deck
present me with a new hand
before I can act on the old.
It's conch to jellyfish low
when my ante
disappears with a bubble
down the gullet of a clam.
Damn ocean . . .
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July 18, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
OK, then
write a poem about…
an egg he said
holding aloft
a refrigerated
orphaned embryo
OK, then
Shall it be about
the greenest blue
of the robin's hope
or the sly speckled . . .
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October 03, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
Fall flushes first
in poison ivy;
with a scarlet shout
ivy vines up the pines
and chokes color
from oaks
forcing the forest
to rummage
the last of its palette
before the canvas
is . . .
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October 09, 2008 09:25 PM EDT --
A rusty iron bell
nailed to the porch wall
tolls in a hot breeze.
She loves the sun so
I sit very still
while she sleeps in my lap.
I am so still
that a lizard runs across my shoe . . .
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October 15, 2008 11:22 AM EDT --
On Bryn's dresser sits
a ceramic fairy,
all purple and gold and glitter.
It's holding a sign
that says "Jesus loves me".
She goes to bed
happy as a lark.
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March 10, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Lying in grass, drinking blackberry wine
I watch two hawks arguing territory with crow.
Ee-ow, ee-ow, I call. They respond,
settle differences; quiet descends. . . .
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June 01, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
I hope you get well soon.
I'm enjoying the book.
I found your medical center receipt
in the middle of
the chapter about
The Jungle Goolah Boy
The spine is cracked right there . . .
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March 10, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
All myths
break even
on the sand
I'm
Greek for the sea
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June 05, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
An interesting website:
http://www.red-coral.net/Amer.html
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February 16, 2008 12:41 AM EST --
saw the photographer next door
leaving with a suitcase
asked him how long he'd be gone
and should I check the mail
he shook his head
she thinks I left the house last night
but I slept . . .
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March 03, 2008 09:32 PM EST --
The Chilled Air
Across my street
is a telephone pole
and beside it
is a white cross
marking the last stand
of a boy fleeing the police.
Last summer
I drove a stretch
of Highway . . .
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March 02, 2008 06:30 PM EST --
and a ship sinks
funny
what goes through
the mind of a tired man
who drinks
Irish whiskey
as the evening glides
hour by hour
thinks about
how bad life can be
how good life . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:19 AM EST --
There's a bare spot
about three feet off the ground
on the gum tree at the wood's edge.
I can see it from the
window over the sink.
In the twilight Cervidae
scars the tree, rubs . . .
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February 13, 2008 03:39 PM EST --
Revised:
A dream of July
I was hunting
scarlet birds in a verdant wood;
each dart striking true.
Then from behind a tree,
large and unafraid,
his muscular . . .
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March 02, 2008 10:49 PM EST --
Backlit,
an S-curve silhouette
patters in the bathroom.
Jars and bottles
tapping on the counter.
Frogs peep-singing,
heard through
the window screen.
Nestled,
her match is already . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:32 AM EST --
just past Cave Springs
there's a gas station
by the looks of the stair step
facade it must have been built
sometime in the teens
the gas added later
I hear her voice
when the clerk . . .
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