Tag: writing
group name: poetsnook
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May 28, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Simply reading your words
Fills my moody cup with joy
I taste your presence through the sense of them
Wandering through the spaces in between them
I bask in the warm comfort of their . . . more
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April 23, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
I feel the ache
It surrounds my every bone
I can see the scars on my flesh
I remember each cut
Suddenly I'm drained.
I've never felt this cold.
My soul gasps:
What . . . more
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May 19, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
I feel the burn in my brain.
Somehow your named got etched in there by mistake.
It pesters me all day, it invades my transistors.
I feel my heart malfunction...
I thought I'd pay that guy . . . more
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January 04, 2008 11:22 AM EST --
This life is not enough
to understand a woman.
What a thing she is!
No dictionary has enough words
to say about a woman
whatever she is.
Sometimes we think
the woman is just like the summer. . . . more
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January 27, 2008 02:09 PM EST --
Dark
Angelic wings
Extending out to stroke the air
A hidden canopy
Blinding out the beam of light
That shuns my eyes
The mysterious soul
That lies in this frame
Hushed through . . . more
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November 21, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
Tempera men tal " Men "
I realized my predica men t when my mind com men ced with worri men t.
I've thought of all sorts of men , from cattle men with taut abdo men s to . . . more
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February 27, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
Two Cats' Prey (double Tanka)
While trying to type
Something darts by my window.
Half hooded green eyes,
Intent on cat's prey, she leaps.
But misses, . . . more
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March 10, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
(revised)
When sixty's face
set to my age,
my voice broke loose.
No wisdom, grace,
only mute rage.
Written word ruse
to hide my fear . . . more
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November 15, 2007 04:42 PM EST --
'You have chosen me from low estate to be your queen and companion, far beyond my desert or desire; if, then, you found me worthy of such honor, . . . more
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July 17, 2007 01:29 PM EDT --
With my eyes
I will ask your eyes for permission
To enter the space of your aura.
And if you grant it to me,
I will raise my mouth to
Sweetly kiss your cheeks
As one would greet an old . . . more
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September 05, 2007 06:10 PM EDT --
Dislodged pebble rolls,
Writes its journey in the sand--
A legend is born.
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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May 28, 2007 12:34 PM EDT --
When you aim high,
To make your own sky,
And you begin to work,
With the decision of do or die.
Leave no stone unturned,
And hit the nail on the head.
Work full twenty-four hours, . . . more
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February 26, 2008 04:08 PM EST --
The wise gardener
Knows how a garden should grow.
The wise lover, too,
Uses same ingredients —
Mysterious elements.
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August 04, 2008 09:12 PM EDT --
"Next Stop Poem Contest Submission"
Night Train Serenade
On still summer nights
with the windows open wide,
I hear faint, familiar music;
steel . . . more
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April 01, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
I am just one player
In this game.
This time,
My heart is not for sale.
Memories,
Bring them into my island!
How to respond
To unfounded allegations.
You think it's hard?
Try harder. . . . more
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September 09, 2007 12:51 PM EDT --
What did you learn in school today?
That Mrs. Shush is mean!
She is the meanest grown up
That I have ever seen!
Oh dear! What happened?
Who would be mean to my Zach?
Mrs. Shush, . . . more
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February 19, 2008 06:47 PM EST --
Mornings we find glasses and teeth
for each other and laugh
at new marriage late in life's plan.
Adjusting to new quirks,
body parts quickly declining,
we play the game, "despair . . . more
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February 26, 2008 08:37 PM EST --
Are we
More a union?
Is sex more passionate?
Am I imagining this as
We part?
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February 22, 2008 11:37 PM EST --
My heart in a perfect blend of sepia toned film
Leaving traces of negative tape
Sitting in the water
My life caught in pictures
Silence put out for the world to see
Placed in scrapbooks . . . more
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February 26, 2008 03:33 PM EST --
(a Cinquain)
Small house
Buffers wild wind
On hill top and surveys
The view, keeping me protected
Inside
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