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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
The fog this morning wasn’t veils
of gauze, or cotton-wool, or anything
so benign. It was like drowning.
Every breath inhaled aquaria
seething with their miniscule inhabitants,
translucent as a chunk of beach glass clouded
by abrading sand and restless surf. We moved
like divers through the tangled kelp.
So hard to see. It’s [...]
Was it flarf?
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
If you don’t know what flarf is, check out the Wiki and some of the sources it references. And don’t feel bad: I’ve been roaming the poetry blogosphere for some 3-4 years, have run across the term frequently, and didn’t bother to look it up until [...]
Winter Forms
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
Reflecting nacre fog and phantom sun
the river’s brighter than the sky today,
a path of ripples, luminous and gray
that’s trod by winter geese in black and dun.
These sober citizens in drab attire
are surely not the birds who filled the skies
of last year’s autumn with their haunting cries,
that [...]
Props
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
Your absolute best
can’t match my worst—
and keeping abreast?
You’d be the first.
You did put the flam
right after the flim
but lately your sham
could use a good shim.
Struck
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
The moonlight on the desert
is a truly wondrous thing
it makes the sand as golden
as the coffer of a king,
though scorpions still sting.
Across the dunes that glistened
rode an agent of the dark
determined to deliver
a swift and silent arc
to a duly sanctioned mark.
No glimmer of compassion
helped to soften his [...]
January Poetry Collection
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
Hello, poets.
Below you will find a list of poems I have found at our member’s sites. I enjoyed each of them. Please take a moment to check them out and leave comments.
Thank you.
Your Blog Manager,
Sara
Poets Who Blog January Poetry Collection
1.River by Zouxzoux.
2.Monochromatic by Paisley.
3. Untitled by John [...]
Emily Dickinson, the philosopher of Closed Space, meets Samuel Beckett, the muse of entropic amnesia
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
An Emily Dickinson poem, No.443, has the cloistered poet speaking elliptically, mysteriously about her duty to her small labors and benign daily obligations in the wake of a personal catastrophe; her resolve to stick to her routine with an even greater conviction is an extraordinary will to [...]
The Concerns of the Air-Breathing
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
The fish seem to have slipped away
frightened by the swirl of red mud
from banks collapsing into flood. It was
a harsh winter.
They waited patient under ice
breathing slow without bubbles, while we
cursed and shoveled snow and dodged
falling branches,
the concerns of the air-breathing, while fish
lived in stasis behind their [...]
Cataract
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
The mountain speaks in voices
many mortals can’t perceive
it rumbles and rejoices
rising up with every heave,
relating all the anguish
men endure to reach a peak
while scolding those that languish
when there’s still so much to seek;
it cries with tears cascading
down it’s thoughtful craggy face
unsettled by the fading
depth of vision in [...]
Ruthless Erosion
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
For 3 Word Wednesday: Caress. Jagged. Ruthless.
gentle ocean waves
caress jagged coastal cliffs
ruthless erosion
Collection available! Knocking from Inside
JOHN UPDIKE, RIP: Our Best Novelist is Dead:
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
We’ve lost one of our greatest novelist, John Updike, who died of lung cancer at age 76. Norman Mailer, in a breezy dismissal of Updike’s novel Rabbit Run, called Updike the sort of writer who was popular with the mass of readers who knew nothing about writing. [...]
Ceded
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
How long before another rock
collides with our blue haven
obliterating everything we know
in a planet-wide inferno
while leaving craters graven
by the future building block.
Trespasses
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
We are bound by buried lines
that lurk like deadly mines
or choking twisted vines
which cling to reaching limbs
with parasitic whims
while daylight slowly dims
behind dejected drapes
prohibiting escapes
for those who’d rather traipse.
Your Karma Ran Over My Fox
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
Last night—this morning—someone speeding hit
a fox. I found him dying in the brush
where he had crawled, just inches from his dig.
I tried to get him to a vet, but he
repelled me with a sharp-toothed snarl, no quibble
but a rank defiance and good-bye.
The conference champion gets a [...]
Shady
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
The sunshine through the trees
becomes a strobe light in my head
as I nonchalantly breeze
beside a quiet riverbed,
I can tell the day is waning
by the angle of the light
but I’ll savor what’s remaining
like a boxer prizes fight.
The jangle of my chain pervades
this shaded little trail
bisecting rising blades
that grow [...]
Bitten
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
The musty and primeval spoor
that comes from deepest growth
inveigles me to linger like the moss
but I have made a binding oath
and will tarry here no more
for someone may be saddened by the loss—
forsaking Eden’s lush embrace
to don eternal gold
I hear the roaming creatures smugly jeer,
though later when [...]
New Blog on our Blogroll
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
I’m pleased to announce we have added the site Appreciating Poetry to our blogroll. This site is quite unique. First the poet finds a poem online that he likes, then he pens a poem that has been inspired by it.
If you stop in to check out his [...]
FREE writing contest
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Press release:
ReadMe Publishing is offering a FREE writing contest for all poets where winning poems will receive cash prizes and the top entries will be published in a print collection.
Details:
Everyday Musings
Everyday something around you happens that is poetic if you notice. We want your best poems (up [...]
Wordle: Inaugural address
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
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Robert Burns
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Today is Robert Burn’s birthday. Now I’ll roll over and go back to sleep.
I suppose I should honor the good man, but I always thought his poems sounded unintentionally comic. It’s bigoted of me, yes, but the untamed Scot accent makes me think of someone running the [...]
Cell phoning in the city
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
The sad backatcharolls off the stiff lower lip
and scatters like
cigarette ash
before the sidewalk can claim it,
the yackety-yack
with the lack of tact
in timbre and pace
makes listening to this world
a disgrace to the language
we have
and the faces god gave us,
wide eyes and
pliant mouths
squinted and frowning
at people they cannot see,
nothing [...]
Elitist Poetry
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Just got off the phone with someone who decided to make their nominal inquiry as to how I was doing after a-long-time-no-see into a springboard to revisit some old resentments. Poetry came up in the course of a miserable (and loud) stumble down Memory Lane, an art [...]
A Poetry Contest With A Democratic Twist
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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
In response to my question “Who decides whether a piece of literature is good or not“, Poetic Republic is sponsoring a new twist on the poetry contest - a democratic twist.
The contest is characterized by rounds where 12 participants vote on each other’s poems and the [...]
Oath of Office
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Poet Frank Bidart writes about the odd and confounding ritual of issuing in a new President with “Inauguration Poem”, a skimpy , momentarily evocative lyric that promises to deliver a moral , but evaporates on the breeze instead. Just as well, really, since these slight stanzas are [...]
Poetry and Prose Webzine
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The Poetry and Prose Webzine recently posted a new podcast.
To listen to the poem Invoking St. Ciaran by Maureen Boyle visit Ink, Sweat and Tears by clicking here.