InkstarRN• Show poetry

I just write what I feel, at that moment. If it offends, confuses or irritates someone else I won't apologize. I write them for me. They are only outward reflections or memories. If someone else get's it and even better yet, likes it , then I've made a connection with another person who can understand me beneath the surface and that's good. I'm glad to meet you.

Some events are not pleasant and no one said life would be fair. Some days darkness reigns and I give in to it. But I use poetry to express and defeat the darkness, so I can live in light.

When noise pauses, the moment silence and I become aquainted, here come little feet yelling MOM! I treasure those little pauses.
May 2, 2007

D'estaing
You say you're twenty nine and holding,
let go, of youth, take my hand and jump.
We'll slide downhill togeather, loudly,
arms up and wide like on a carnival ride.
We'll embrace whatever challenges bugle
facing them back-to- back when outnumbered.
If attacked from within, I'll hold on tighter
and we'll take it one day at a time
If thats all the time we can be sure of.

Happy 29th Birthday AGAIN, May 2007
and celebrating 24 years togeather.
copywrite Tamera Dobbins


What I Compose
by Tamera Dobbins
entered as RAVEN CONTEST
Aug 22, 2007

Ebon ink, pads softly across the page
as inspired whispers purring in my ear
are written down, as muse dictates.
Descriptions, metaphors, emotions
pour onto a once blank, barren page.
bringing forth what I compose here
without planning, just channeling.

I write not in convoluted twistings
of tongue trippings or obscure definitions
but in plain and precious crystalarity.
Taking the mundane, the every day
and in words of quiet beauty give value
to moments and memories all treasure,
the golden nuggets in life's gravel drive.

I write not for hefty tomes on shelves
analyzed by professors over eons in awe,
I strive to be the girl's jump rope chant
or the bit youngsters learn to recite.
Read, remembered maybe even treasured
by everyday people, just like me.

Writing Accomplishments for 2007


In the 2007 Oklahoma Poets Society's contests I won 1 Honorable Mention and 1 First Citation. I won an Honorabale Mention from the AP Raven contest. I had a total of 6 poems published in 2007.




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