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I've not been one
to tell you how to drive.
It's your car, your gas.
I'm here for the ride.
Right now,
it's up to you
when we arrive.
But this is what I'm seeing
from my side.
When fearing...
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Depression,
grief,
the sinking pit of "Why?"
Fate's wheel turned down.
As I remember
when misfortune struck,
defeat or worse
how I betrayed myself,
I chant "If only...then."
Elation,
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The speeding carts
in darkness lunge and squeal,
(eyes glow then fade)
down through a dragon's jaw,
passed bats and skulls.
Kids shriek with anxious awe,
but, though we duck,
few think the...
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I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to...
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(Homostrophic)
The State of Ohio is full of trees when compared with my native land. Wow! I have to say we need
to start planting more trees on the island not only on Arbour Day....
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Janet Kuypers reads the original poem during her live readings at the Cafe in Chicago 08/26/08, and the "Poetry Wheel" (Mach 2, since she also read a number of pieces at Poetry Wheel 02/26/08).
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Janet Kuypers reads the original poem during her live readings at the Cafe in Chicago 08/26/08, and the "Poetry Wheel" (Mach 2, since she also read a number of pieces at Poetry Wheel 02/26/08).
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Employing a poem-as-script strategy, “Dying For the Pleasure” is a blackly humorous, kaleidoscopic trip down Memory Lane, the car a metaphor for power, an extension of desire. Once behind the...
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Constantine Cavafy 1863-1933, Greek poet living most of his life in Alexandria.
This is probably my favourite of Cavafy's poems, the one where the mundane and the divine most closely intermingle....
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New Years Pace
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)
History is written by whiners and lions of discontent.
Aggressive cowards of utilitarian survival,
dipping their pens in...
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