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Archive for December, 2011

Full Circle (A rumination in 3 strokes)

Full Circle (A rumination in 3 strokes) Stroke the First – Dante’s Laugh Another cycle eats its tail While you’ve killed time Hacking through a Frisco fog And now you’re hit Like a mole in headlights Squinting At the fact A circle is endless Welcome to Limbo That flag’s still out there Snapping, flapping And [...]

Wednesday Poetry Challenge #7 and #8

(Starting Date for this Challenge is Jan, 1, 2012 — posted early to provide proper advance notice. Do not start this until the New Year — you can even consider this a New Year’s resolution — will repost this every Wednesday until the New Year.) Poetry Challenge #7 is to create a journal of links [...]

The Sassoon Collection: x. Particle Show

The Sassoon Collection x. Particle Show AND still they come and go: and this is all I know— That from the mind I watch an endless particle-show, Where wild and listless forces flicker on their way, With charged and uncharged parts from small stringy strands Because all spin so fast, and they’ve no place to [...]

The Sassoon Collection: iii. Blonde

The Sassoon Collection iii. Blonde Her head-weak thoughts that once eagerly gave way to looks that leapt sure from eye to brain and into heart, Weaving unconscious promises of love, Are now thrust outward, dangerously heard from lips to air. And he who has watched one world and loved it all, Star-struck with blindness, an [...]

Wednesday Poetry Challenge #8

(Starting Date for this Challenge is Jan, 1, 2012 — posted early to provide  proper advance notice.  Do not start this until the New Year — you can even consider this a New Year’s resolution — will repost this every Wednesday until the New Year.) As stated in Poetry Challenge #5, the level of participation [...]

Example Response For Poetry Challenge #8

Response to Poetry Challenge #8. This can be done as a page or a post.  Doing this as a post. Journal for Poetry Challenge #8 WEEK 1: Jan, 2, 2012 Pretty Little Scars by Vampire Weather I like a strong message but am especially pleased when the mastery of handling words is directed at supporting that message.  This poem [...]

The Sassoon Collection: viii. Middle Age

The Sassoon Collection viii. Middle Age I heard a creak, and a groan And felt a twinge of wooden pain A man running in a crowd Deep in its shadow he moved. ‘Ugly work!’ thought I, Gasping for breath. ‘Time must be cruel and proud, ‘Tearing down this body.’ With gutsy glimmering shone my dignity [...]

Message to Ida Straus

Message to Ida Straus Don’t ask me where – send her this message and do more than that: get a reply. What happens after the wave takes you off the deck chair and the water floods your senses freezing your skin, bones filling up your lungs topping them off for the long journey? Where do [...]

Wednesday Poetry Challenge #7

(Starting Date for this Challenge is Jan, 1, 2012 — posted early to provide  proper advance notice.  Do not start this until the New Year — you can even consider this a New Year’s resolution — will repost this every Wednesday until the New Year.) As stated in Poetry Challenge #5, the level of participation [...]

Post Example of Response for Wednesday Poetry Challenge #7

Posting this first before posting Poetry Challenge #7. This is an example of the post or page that can be used for this challenge. I am creating this as a post as well as a page. Totally up to you as which option.  Below is the contents: Journal for Poetry Challenge #7   DAY 1: Jan, [...]

The Sassoon Collection: vi. The imperfect cook

The Sassoon Collection vi. The imperfect cook I never ordered something to be perfect, Though often I’ve asked for fiery spicy or without sugar as a small invasion Of mastering cooking. I never asked that your dishes Might stand, unburnt, moist and savory Pointing the way toward gastronomical peaks like a sign-post. Oh yes, I [...]

The relay

The relay I know I must, but how, I ask; I must understand that of which to ponder.                   Action waits for thought,                   and thought seems far away;                   action is distrusting. Is it this or that; how does this impact that, how does that get impacted?          Action’s fate depends on thought;          if thought runs too far [...]