Tag: poem
group name: wordpainting
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February 14, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
for Inmaculada Cara Martin, beloved wife, forever my valentine. With special use of the public domain lyrics from Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart's immortal song, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, now a jazz . . . more
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July 20, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
The robin's alarm and the crow's rude cackle are all to be sensed...
The world still sleeps, except for the birds of pre-dawn...
So complete is the darkness here, no laws exist, . . . more
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December 09, 2007 05:29 PM EST --
for Will Evans, to whom this email poem was addressed
Yesterday was my wife´s saint´s day,
so I was offline and not answering calls
if you called--I don´t think you . . . more
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July 07, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
See the sly boy's face...
Between the thicket of two pines...
Look up, see the sunshafts...
Busting through branches, through leaves and tangle...
Of maple fronting . . . more
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July 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
He's quite certain that his parched throat, his squint means no disrespect to the sun.
Morning breaks and with comes the bravery of songbirds seeking food
It humbles him ... . . . more
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October 10, 2006 04:58 AM EDT --
I fashion my surreal masterpiece
time when music was passion
imagine psychedelic rhythms
electric feelings
harmony and balance
creating sculpture through experiment
wild aesthetic symbols perform . . . more
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April 27, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
This "picture poem" was written about three years ago. I've only written a handful of them. This one probably depends on the visual imagery to the extent that it doesn't work . . . more
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March 05, 2007 05:28 AM EST --
Dawn bares her rich palette-
Seductive awakening
Tar stained gulls hover-
Scolding thieves
Sea reflects sun's rays-
Blinding illusion
Waves pound the virgin sand-
Tidal release
. . . more
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March 20, 2008 11:23 PM EDT --
All I Ask
All I ask is this:
put it back where you got it.
Yeah, that's it. Simple.
When you're finished, just put it back.
--And I want it in just as good of shape
as when you . . . more
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March 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
for Ludolf Grolle De Rochefort, pre-Simulationist painter, poet and patterner of invisible textures.
you don't ever get straight
though you try hard
and at times it feels just right
in . . . more
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April 29, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
The times when she would sit
in the small, yellow-papered kitchen
near the bay window, she would gaze
outside, silently, and I
wondered, what is she staring at?
The crooked branch that used . . . more
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April 29, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
Let’s play funeral home
she said, seated before her vanity mirror
I watched her powder her face
fragile skin like tulip leaves
cherry rouge seeped into the crevices
around her eyes and near her . . . more
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August 17, 2008 09:39 PM EDT --
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How To Make A Bomb
Charcoal's tricky.
You can unearth
bones centuries old
and grind them back
to carbon, just as
you did while looking
out a window seeing
the first black . . . more
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September 23, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
libra's child
What is this "love" that pulls me to you?
A gauzy veil of hope, desire, imagination
woven with faery dust and good strong rope
irritating, clinging, anchoring and ringing . . . more
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December 14, 2007 03:56 AM EST --
For Angela Claire Dotson. The first part of this poem was originally titled On The Other Side Of The Sierras. It appeared on Gather on March 19, 2006. I have since added a new free verse section to . . . more
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August 11, 2007 10:55 AM EDT --
For Kathryn Esplin-Oleski, versatile journalist, fiction writer, and poet, who I am lucky to count as one of my virtual friends on Gather. The documentary on global warming featuring Vice . . . more
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May 27, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --
She rushed head-first into every crevice
of her life, arms wide as if to embrace the unknown
and the wondrous-strange soon became dull-familiar
until the silence took on a bellow of its own.
. . . more
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July 22, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
For all contemporary artists who get mired in the latest critical theories and lose hope. This one especially goes out to my pre Sim homegirls Amy George and Jill Pazerackas of . . . more
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February 28, 2007 02:13 PM EST --
For my youngest brother Patrick Walter, brilliant and versatile actor and writer, now living with his beautiful wife Monika and baby Yrja in Norway's northernmost Arctic Circle, who probably has . . . more
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July 26, 2007 08:27 PM EDT --
All is not well in suburbia
when at midnight you arise
to find a jackhammer tearing the street
and a backhoe lunging into the asphalt;
You block your ears to the noise and know
you will not sleep because . . . more
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