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[My daughter tells me that a writer needs to imagine that at least one reader will have a catcher's glove and pop it with her fist and say, "put 'er there." ]
Please thank your daughter (and yourself) for a great thought for all us aspiring writers. It's worth adding to the quotes page.
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Favorite movies: Empire of the Sun, Cinema Paradiso, The Best Years of Our lives, Dancing at Lughansa, The Wizard of Oz
Favorite writers: Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain
Favorite poets: Laurence Ferlenghetti, Carl Sandburg), and Christina Rossetti
Favorite country: The Republic of Panama (a place where anything can happen)
Dislikes: country, gospel and popular music
Enjoy: Opera, Mozart, Mahler and Salsa
Many of my poems have been carried by The Panama News (a publication on line) under the psuedonym of Diego Santiago
Check out my short story: The Black Phalange (on Storywrite)
[My daughter tells me that a writer needs to imagine that at least one reader will have a catcher's glove and pop it with her fist and say, "put 'er there." ]
Please thank your daughter (and yourself) for a great thought for all us aspiring writers. It's worth adding to the quotes page.
__I Like Rhymes
Favorite movies: Empire of the Sun, Cinema Paradiso, The Best Years of Our lives, Dancing at Lughansa, The Wizard of Oz
Favorite writers: Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain
Favorite poets: Laurence Ferlenghetti, Carl Sandburg), and Christina Rossetti
Favorite country: The Republic of Panama (a place where anything can happen)
Dislikes: country, gospel and popular music
Enjoy: Opera, Mozart, Mahler and Salsa
Many of my poems have been carried by The Panama News (a publication on line) under the psuedonym of Diego Santiago
Check out my short story: The Black Phalange (on Storywrite)
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(65)- I have 1,834 comments, 341 poems, 74 stories
Poems I'm focused on
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Aung San Suu Kyi rises to see me,
we have only a minute. -
There will be no free fall
as if from grace -
My new shoes were always tied securely
for steps not yet taken and I wore them out quickly -
If I am here and do not take a number,
they do not call my name -
as if it had a surface,
oceanic steps arrive with skin like satin -
A place to blend and belong
to be a watcher not just passing -
spearmint flavored in its prime
ready for the chosen moment6 lines, 2 comments, July 15 -
I needed a haircut bad, Why not? said I,
we'll do it right there -
eyes see the invitation
lips part as portals for passage of24 lines, 9 comments, July 1 -
We shall go out to the dark
to the shriek of the place -
Love is downed in memories
fluffed to fit slow sinking measurements -
As if it had a surface, ocean waves to walk upon,
skin like satin, spelled as Satin, -
the demure deeming of a loon's cry as I neared a forest pond.
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When it is wet,
I dig at the pages of my newspaper with my fingernails -
We don't look enough at hands
when we first meet, -
Silence as a tabula rasa
a new blackboard so to speak -
because I stopped
I noticed the melting snow -
silence sits between the two of us
like a fat lady waiting
My Poetry
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Retracing the steps of yesterday's pleasure
I find myself stumbling
My Stories
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I am not sure where I should take you, or if I am the one to be doing this at all. I am quite a bit older that my readers, and my comic he
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He hadn’t thought of the word, alabaster, 1 / since they had been ashore2 / a blast of wind3 / the long-ship sliding into waves that cur
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1 / The discovery of a mouse skeleton buried in the remains of a miniature Viking longship has prompted worldwide speculation. The mouse wa91 lines, 1 comment, February 19, 2008. In , Fiction
My other items
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- A Good Cup of Tea at sharepoetry
/ / A varporous rising is taking form / the very essence of a good cup of tea / worth the musing that is sustained / within the whisps by an image with a downcast frown / that waits as if it has a word to say. / Is that a djini who is out - The Return of Hitler's Minions at sharepoetry
They were all that had remained from Stalin's keep / German prisoners, coming home, / blinking ghosts left on platform A, / dare I say... like shit? / / They had gone with banners and songs, / goose stepping, / as if the Swastika had feet - Octaroon at sharepoetry
/ Octaroon, a word that spreads like butter / Over white bread toast / Octaroon, 7/8ths of OK / Almost but not quite. / Enough to sweeten the chickorey / and leave a smoky taste / A reflection of the best, / Like a color / in itself
Guest Book
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CarolDesjarlais on May 31I was looking for your poem but I cannot find it.... can you lead me along to it?
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Nangaleema on February 14Happy Valentine's Day! - Mary Jo
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Short but cute on February 10Hows my lovely AP daddy?
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Aries : My Ode To A Beautiful Mind Aries on December 4, 2008Perhaps I shouldn't be on AP I have had 2strokes & the mental exercise has helped me
I realize I made mistakes but didn't know
how to rectify them after the poem was 'up'
My "hide" has been through enough thanks
