Tag: poetry please
member name: James Ciriaco
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December 15, 2007 12:10 AM EST --
Laurels
Twig of consolation, sickly and covetous evergreen,
How can you satisfy?
Phoebus Apollo might make you graceful, that god overlooking an eternity of nymphs;
Your venom might spangle the . . .
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November 08, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
Please Find Enclosed
Call it a chest or a cube, a puzzle box or a die cast.
I don't know. It has no head or tail,
This hard, bright menagerie that turns one face as squarely as the next. . . .
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November 23, 2007 02:04 PM EST --
Autumn Struggles in Gorgas Park
Here on this spit of ground
Above a lake of tarnished rooftops,
Antenna eddies and shoals of satellite dishes,
The earth scatters its harmony of green. . . .
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January 02, 2008 10:41 PM EST --
This poem follows the form of the Japanese tan renga: two stanzas, the first consisting of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively; the second a stanza of two lines, both of which . . .
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January 10, 2008 08:46 PM EST --
Crush
There were certain
disturbances:
Skirts high on the thigh,
front-row desks and
that shadow between
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October 31, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
The Final Thrust
It was no little thing. I tell you, sir--
The lie he gave me in my very throat,
And that with Arabella by my side;
She caught her breath and pressed my trembling hand.
No little . . .
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November 27, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
How I Broke My Eyeglasses: The Poem
I walked into a door and broke my eyeglasses.
Then I wrote a poem about it.
This is that poem.
Only I thought that just three lines might be kind of cheap . . .
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