Tag: words
group name: poetscorner
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June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . .
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May 20, 2007 02:00 AM EDT --
There’s a song in my heart
with your name on it
It’s never been sung before.
I’ve listened so hard
to find the melody
to let my feelings soar.
But I do not know the words yet . . .
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December 21, 2007 11:32 PM EST --
Ever notice how you see a word often after you just
learned it? I have this experience regularly in my reading.
Recently it was with 'miasma' – now I notice it in every book
I read. . . .
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March 11, 2008 10:10 PM EDT --
Snorkeling to youthful saffron tranquility in protected water
He left the accepted standards of transformation with the night bars,
Spooning and believing Errol from varying callow equations, she was . . .
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June 21, 2007 11:47 PM EDT --
The day that gAIL went parasAILing
she set off with arms a'flAILing
over the deep blue sea.
Husband bAILey dropped shovel and pAIL
called after her, "Stop!" but to no avAIL
as . . .
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July 11, 2007 04:36 AM EDT --
Tears gather on our planet's outer shell,
from thin air they seem to materialize,
littering all surfaces naked of cover;
nature's effort,
giving a display of emotion,
for the loss . . .
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December 22, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
Dear Rhyme Collectors, I did not realize you were 30 in number already!
Good Grief - what a pleasant surprise.
I rhyme the way I first learned when I . . .
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June 11, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
Here's a few I gleamed from Ted Kooser and several other noted poets, as I understand them:
DO'S & DON'TS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
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March 11, 2008 08:54 PM EDT --
Lilies rallied beyond exuberant.
Popular, they work around the Republic,
eating pain from those with dimensional views,
Flowering for each and every single guitarist having heartswell.
Your sound . . .
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July 14, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
incidents of daily life are a dance
in time, a pirouette in learning,
a waltz of happiness, a procession
of confusion, or a jig of
sorrow and shame, the steps
of the dance . . .
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August 25, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
will wonders never cease!
they did it again, with a splash!
apple just released another winner!
the newest iphone is here,
in your local cell phone store!
the new apple . . .
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June 11, 2008 12:47 AM EDT --
silence is an owl ready
to kill, its talons on a branch
alert for prey, flies away
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March 11, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
Rosemary,
You turned the beautiful medicines
Into the essential orange flurry of the fire whiskey
My rayon and taffeta kimono charred from time
I would seem "spontaneous" with fascinating . . .
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June 11, 2008 12:46 PM EDT --
Here are a few terms serious poets should use and understand:
abstract/concrete
alliteration
allusion
anaphora
anecdote
aphorism
assonance
blank verse
cadence
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June 08, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Senryu 1
those girls talk too much
when they gather together
excluding all boys
Senryu 2
time has come to stop
complaining . . .
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July 01, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
for Donald Hawley - 7/1/2008
soothsayers, seers and saints
have a corner on the future,
perhaps scientists do not,
stuff happens, no longer a dream. . . .
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June 16, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
Into the night I sit,
waiting, crying, wanting,
memories of the days,
but a fading light of life once tasted.
Through the night I lay,
listening, wishing, dreaming,
memories of the . . .
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June 06, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
That pooch and her stuffed toy puppy,
she confronts, attacks, tries to destroy it.
I suppose confronts is a bit of over simplification,
she does chew it, bite it, throw it, and jump on . . .
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June 11, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
Coyotes, bobcats, owls inhabit our minds and acres.
Who would ever think that oak and pine trees hide
wildlife and fulfill our dreams? A house of a single
story . . .
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June 12, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
Summer Days Haiku
on warm summer days
it seems we are at peace
then the TV comes on
Vibrations Haiku
vibrations . . .
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