Tag: poems
group name: poetrybyus
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November 04, 2007 02:58 PM EST --
Hello, this is AJ Richman with two questions. One, are there any poetry contests on gather anytime soon? And if so, which one of the poems(if you read them) that i wrote should i enter? Please leave some . . . more
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February 01, 2007 08:29 PM EST --
Deeper and deeper
The snow continues to pile
This is a rare thing
I know some of you get plenty of snow so it is no big deal, but this is a rarity here for us. We had snow on . . . more
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January 31, 2007 06:20 PM EST --
snow and sleet mixing
to make a wintery mix
it is really cold
the snow is sticking
first we have had this winter
a fireplace would rock
heads up mouths open . . . more
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April 02, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
*This is a poetry style I found out about yesterday by happenstance. It is most likely a style that has been created but while we wait to find the name of such creator, I wanted to share it with . . . more
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January 29, 2007 08:51 PM EST --
Lisa is my friend
she also is my neighbor
we always have fun
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January 29, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
Johnny is a friend
to all whom he gets to know
caring comments flow
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March 03, 2007 10:02 PM EST --
Tanka attempt botched
Syllable counts went awry
Sloppy writing flops
Like the frog's tongue missing flies
Leaves the croaking poet starved
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June 30, 2008 03:28 AM EDT --
At the end of my life, I live,
And dream my way back
Through a thousand acres of time
To when I sat small and unalone,
Listening to the whispers
Of unloved maple leaves.
At the end of my . . . more
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July 06, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
We strive for the secret,
Yet never quite reach it.
And the old are still the young
With grayer hair and paper skin,
While the child plays house
In Mama's clothes,
Innocent, yet knowing. . . . more
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June 07, 2007 09:12 PM EDT --
There is a time and there is a place
And I have found neither to rest my weary face
A whisper of rain in trees
Can bring the fiercest to their knees
Hazy mists rolled across the skies
And the truth was . . . more
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January 29, 2007 07:48 PM EST --
Randy is our knight
his friendliness is catching
his white horse stands tall
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August 28, 2007 11:00 AM EDT --
Five years ago around St. Patricks Day I started a thread on Irish poetry (entitled 'Will You Taste Some Irishness?') on the New York Times sponsored (and now defunct) abuzzdotcom. . . . more
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April 18, 2007 09:36 PM EDT --
Tastes of a clarified wine
Inspires simplification, demands mediocrity
O’ where art roam
Free, pure, beyond purification by simple souls
Free of clarification to modest words
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January 29, 2007 08:31 PM EST --
Elsie is so wise
she truly is a diamond
privileged are her friends
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June 17, 2007 02:22 AM EDT --
Irene who wasn't Leon's wife
who may have been from Costa Rica
crocheted a Christmas mouse
with a gray stitch tail
disappeared shortly after
the New Year
Nerdy Mr. C
the least popular science . . . more
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January 29, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
One day I will find
the courage to write a book
for now I write poems
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March 04, 2007 04:06 PM EST --
Crystalline burden
Gravity pulls snow to snow
Down-flexed boughs bear up
Needles grip, sinews relax
These firs well vested in ice
[This tanka was inspired first by Jim Ross' poem, Winter Overload, . . . more
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August 16, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Time and a Bottle
alas, alack, and woe is me,
here's what's left at sixty-three:
insipid personality ,
with good looks gone, and mind grown dimmer, . . . more
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January 29, 2007 08:22 PM EST --
Sue is a sweetheart
with only kind things to say
glad to call her friend
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March 10, 2007 12:11 AM EST --
This does not come from my personal experience, but it is my way of reflecting the thoughts and experiences of someone very dear to my heart.
I find myself on my hands and knees,
disoriented . . . more
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