Tag: poem
group name: grasswriting
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October 28, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
Kaleidoscope
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1996
What is love?
Midnight on New Year’s Eve? Clamorous horns?
bright jabber, . . . more
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June 10, 2008 11:03 PM EDT --
Shaved Head
I should've cooked, done housework.
But I didn't know how angry he'd get,
At first I thought he was being a jerk,
and that's all it would be.
He'd . . . more
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December 18, 2007 04:45 AM EST --
Suffused cumulus
Precipitates the first drop
To flip a crisp leaf
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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June 12, 2008 03:05 PM EDT --
Why Not?
When I came home late last night;
she said, "Look, I can't live with you anymore."
I replied, "Why not?"
Shaking her head, she showed me the door. . . . more
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August 09, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
ABC's of Sue
A... is for Andrew, my beloved twenty-something son.
B... is for Bellevue, home . . . more
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November 11, 2007 09:23 AM EST --
My Place
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1999
Young eyes
capture this paradise
of salt-white sand
and watercolor seas.
Giant sugar-mound dunes . . . more
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November 02, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Love
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1995
Love looms like a giant shadow.
He blocks my flight, and touches
me with hands like forged steel.
Like a doe escaping . . . more
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August 16, 2007 01:30 AM EDT --
Note: I am hoping for constructive critique on this poem and hope those who have some background in the varying styles of poetry will take the time to give me such.
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August 15, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
We are very pleased to announce that the winner in the Gather.com “Express Yourself” Poetry Contest is Arlene H., for her poem “The Lagoon.” She has won $100 from Gather, and of . . . more
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July 22, 2008 06:30 PM EDT --
The hourglass was now empty
And suddenly she was out of time,
So she walked away from a life
That no longer seemed to rhyme.
The sand had slipped through her fingers
Through a crack in the bottom . . . more
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December 10, 2007 06:30 PM EST --
Double Ended Rainbow
© 2005
By Carole S.
The tiny rainbow arched
Just beyond my reach.
Both ends touched
My backyard.
No pots of gold, . . . more
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June 02, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
Written May 5, 1999
The homeless are here, yet we don't see them much,
. . . more
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August 29, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Alive, Alive, O (revised)
To look around the corner of a time, a hovering, . . . more
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September 02, 2007 05:48 PM EDT --
Never alone (revised)
From his promontory,
space divides the emptiness beyond,
permits a blinded soul
to look upon . . . more
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October 27, 2007 09:55 PM EDT --
Welcome all Poets and Writers members and anyone who should find this poem.
" Aim at being loved without . . . more
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November 13, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
Whirlwind
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1999
The world is like a child’s top,
spinning out-of-control.
An invisible . . . more
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December 05, 2007 11:57 AM EST --
Welcome all Happy Birthday members and anyone who should find this poem.
" One cannot really enjoy speed to the absolute limit if there's a destination involved. " . . . more
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March 06, 2008 10:51 AM EST --
Welcome all Prose Poems for the 21st Century members and anyone who should find this poem.
" The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. " . . . more
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October 21, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
This poem was written about my daughter when she was born. I had to remember back quite a few years to remember my feelings. She was born in 1970.
Bonding
. . . more
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December 29, 2007 07:42 PM EST --
Sometimes, when I least expect it,
I think about you, and it makes me smile.
I remember how we use to laugh,
the way you would touch my hair,
the way you would say my name.
Sometimes, when . . . more
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