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The circle of the magic kiss
For dreams are made of such as this.23 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 25 9:20 AM 2006. In Fantasy -
blooms who know no more than to turn
to face the sun in unison.39 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 7 11:38 AM 2006. In Society -
Paint me with the colors of joyful life as Medicine of Earth
so, when I am clothed in death, I reflect your creation and rebirth.44 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 13 11:43 AM 2006. In Spiritual -
If you are to bide, let me stroke the dry pod
and hold the seed of you in my heart.40 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 16 9:11 PM 2006. In Spiritual -
This is a trick,
to see if we dare return40 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 17 2:54 PM 2006. In Society -
think twice about the timbre and the tone
of goodbyes and good lucks27 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 28 9:25 AM 2006. In Angst -
your voice, ringing through the cacophony
is small enough to whisper in any ear.55 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 28 10:09 AM 2006. In Hope -
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz38 lines, 12 comments, on May 22 11:41 PM 2006. In Weird
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The curtains shushed her as she drew to see
Her hope slip off on another’s wings.44 lines, 5 comments, on May 28 8:34 AM 2006. In Hope -
Sliver of the moon in her heart
ripples through the bone and tissue26 lines, 17 comments, on Jun 1 8:21 AM 2006. In Contemporary -
only then are we alone, but, yet, watched in ways,
even if blind, we’re conscious of the watcher’s wrath.51 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 13 5:32 PM 2006. In Nature -
I am Native American. Visit my soul on this path
and you can not help but know.130 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 19 4:28 PM 2006. In Spiritual -
practical means for survival. My sister and I.90 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 1 11:36 AM 2006. In Contemporary
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Come my brothers. I tend to ride you hard.33 lines, 14 comments, on Jul 18 4:47 PM 2006. In Spiritual
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Stained-glass church thoughts.0 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 22 6:20 AM 2006. In Contemporary
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Gray billowing curtains
Escaped the brightest panes24 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 24 8:26 PM 2006. In Society -
weeping midnight blue on the ragged edges
of paper I meant to make sunset of.14 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 22 11:20 PM 2006. In Nature -
Truthtellers aligned with the stars and upturned faces
of petals pulsing in new dawn.30 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 27 9:04 AM 2006. In Hope
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It will be found,
in faraway times, that this need to leave
the face of history changed, did so -
Fractured light, prism’d against
muscle, nerve, bone22 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 29 5:05 AM 2006
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What pen this is, and such surprise
at strange voice rising from blind side.24 lines, 12 comments, on Dec 6 6:56 AM 2006. In Contemporary -
She Dances In The Rain
rocking, waving her arms in the moonlight36 lines, 12 comments, on Dec 20 6:51 PM 2006
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Whose child is this, trussed
in tubes , naked to the type of lights57 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 21 5:42 AM 2006. In society
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longest night and shortest day,
prepare us for the wait33 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 27 6:15 PM 2006. In spiritual
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a great white kite, swinging to the moon10 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 3 5:24 PM 2007. In Nature
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an old tree turned in to a park
lamp post, and it is light enough
to guess at what we are digesting -
4 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 14 6:00 PM 2007. In Spiritual
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I will scribe it as I am told
over this cold cup of coffee.49 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 15 4:12 PM 2006. In Spiritual
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No free ride came and I was forced to bend
to the clay and fashion a totem -
there is much to grow
and so little tender hours24 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 20 6:15 PM 2007
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Each new insight
or inspiration comes,to her, as lovers do,
to parse the problems with phraseology.24 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 20 6:32 PM 2007. In Personal
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I was touching soft stone
bones of belief in your return,28 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 26 3:41 PM 2007. In Sad
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I am a flower missing a petal.
I am a butterfly with one wing.35 lines, 17 comments, on Jan 28 10:30 PM 2007. In Sad
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His were full of man-shadows. Yours radiate
into dark corners and you save what you find there.34 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 13 10:16 PM 2007. In Friendship
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10 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 19 11:59 PM 2007. In Contemporary
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I have painted you in poems
your transplanted roots raised babies24 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 15 7:01 PM 2007. In Society
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41 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 16 7:57 AM 2007. In Society
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28 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 23 11:18 PM 2007. In Society
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5 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 24 10:42 AM 2007
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click and clack of track chanting
overtones of screech and squeal21 lines, 12 comments, on Feb 5 10:37 PM 2007. In Life
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8 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 27 4:26 PM 2007. In Personal
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9 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 27 6:00 PM 2007. In Nature
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25 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 19 8:20 AM 2007. In Society
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7 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 23 7:08 AM 2007. In thoughts
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Hold me as we upend ourselves into beauty.23 lines, 15 comments, on Mar 1 9:20 AM 2007. In spiritual
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7 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 1 7:04 PM 2007. In Society
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29 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 18 12:45 PM 2007. In Personal
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we hooked elbows in the Blue Light,
curled into the smell of rich dark coffee13 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 25 5:31 PM 2007. In Society
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21 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 27 10:03 AM 2007. In Life
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owly wisdom is fed through this lactation
I am your midnight mentor in a man’s world23 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 2 9:27 PM 2007. In Society -
30 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 19 9:01 PM 2007. In Children's
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21 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 2 7:02 PM 2007. In Abuse
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19 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 1 1:50 PM 2007. In personal
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I am
sewn into the fabric of a poetry site
for knowing these few moments,28 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 18 9:25 AM 2007. In thoughts -
she waited like her yeasty bread
on chrome and packed chipboard31 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 11 4:10 PM 2007
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prayer and pride foremost in my thoughts
as I remember my own rise34 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 16 10:05 PM 2007. In Hope
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I have tried
to escape an ultimate undeniable reality
that you exist only in these midnight wanderings38 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 19 8:11 AM 2007. In Loss
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I want old, scratchy-bearded love
wearing a green sweater that has moth hole,39 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 20 4:35 PM 2007. In Love
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although pot-bellied
and sloping36 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 22 5:27 PM 2007. In Life
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I stir the Universe with my longing
for your complete goodbye.
33 lines, 17 comments, on Apr 14 9:18 AM 2007. In Personal
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it would take but a light gust of wind
for me to fall, blankly,
on my faithless face25 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 18 6:59 PM 2007. In Personal
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Inhaling salty sea air / to bring it as deep as lung can draw / to hold until colors escape / and force of my humanness exhales / / I brea22 lines, on Apr 26 8:07 PM 2007. In Loss
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Slaughter of innocents takes precedence
as newsworthy moments are all about massacre
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garden was quiet in its quest26 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 28 11:47 AM 2007. In Nature
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Grow fine trees of them that my grandchildren
can swing on and catch the rhythm needed40 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 31 5:53 PM 2006. In Spiritual -
On the crisp cusp of fall, a beautiful dying
flares its last red flags and sputters,16 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 2 1:17 PM 2006. In Nature
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fill the meadow with a longing
that unsettles every pool within hearing distance.
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Root bound smother, yielded / to toiling tug ~ / / I was determined / to unearth her ~ / / Who is your mother, child? / What daddy marc18 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 29 4:23 PM 2007. In Society
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Bones know your name; / they cried without respite, / channeling ache and sunken frame ~ / I grew old without a fight / / Each cell dies a29 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 30 6:20 PM 2007. In Sad
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18 lines, 9 comments, on May 27 6:22 AM 2007. In Hope
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35 lines, 10 comments, on May 24 10:42 PM 2007. In Memories
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what wings these are, I know by soul21 lines, 12 comments, on May 26 10:44 PM 2007. In spiritual, friendship
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Crow-flicked glacier slithering off soul’s carcass7 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 7 8:18 AM 2007. In Nature
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In Arabic shadows, she swallowed her goodbyes,44 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 4 8:41 AM 2007. In Society
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He was born to a woman who walked on horses
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21 lines, 14 comments, on Jun 8 11:41 AM 2007. In Sad
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Distance was in the house, / although brewing brought us together, / added a cadence to cacophony of years / it took for me to grow up / en23 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 14 6:23 PM 2007. In Family
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30 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 10 10:39 PM 2007. In Life
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I am their sister, their mother, their daughter and I am here,
right-in-your-face, eye to eye and I want to damned know
33 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 4 9:21 PM 2007. In Dark
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11 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 16 7:54 AM 2007. In Thoughts
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11 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 16 4:30 PM 2007. In Personal
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They said:
Come forward and be saved,27 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 20 6:03 PM 2007. In Society -
Soul says:
She has not come undone27 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 21 8:54 AM 2007. In Thoughts
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From thorny fire and ashy brush with death,
lies a promise pulsing and prime20 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 21 12:19 PM 2007. In Thoughts -
they’ll say such lovely things about me
only when I die.
21 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 18 7:13 AM 2007. In Dark
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9 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 26 11:21 PM 2007. In Love
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He was proud, so proud that his leaves
clapped in the spring when he had survived
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39 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 10 12:17 PM 2007. In Other
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Gather me while I am still green and growing
In my belief that circles of women can work miracles34 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 23 1:49 PM 2007. In Spiritual
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He carries weight of water
in his bones, in his lungs27 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 23 10:31 PM 2007. In Society
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He was the still small voice
in dreams cluttered with chaff,29 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 23 11:07 PM 2007. In Personal
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Now wait, someone said something about resurrection
and a three days wait .. Someone miscalculated sorrow -
I trace stone-cold statue I have sculpted
in midnight’s malingering dreams.32 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 26 9:44 AM 2007
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There’s a silver siphon curling from ecstasy’s harbor,
draining the elixir of everything I believed16 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 19 9:52 PM 2007. In Loss -
This is not about any one deep love,
nothing typically peculiar about it47 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 24 2:27 PM 2007. In Angst
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Suctioned with thick lips to stone
jutting like angry bones -
Pondering silence of spine slathered with BenGay,
I wonder at having bared my back to you10 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 28 9:30 PM 2007. In Personal
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I laid all my best blue dreams
on a vengeful altar22 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 28 9:35 PM 2007
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Dusted with sweeping stalks of year’s end broom,
lost heart garden sputters a few green leaves -
How did they know to come, perch here
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Burning sun shrivels his face into a long look out on to land
that reflects his worry, wander and parched plea.35 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 2 9:54 AM 2007 -
33 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 12 10:25 AM 2007. In Anger
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With race of blood and bleed of spin
I am a craver and a carver of earth25 lines, 17 comments, on Aug 23 8:01 PM 2007. In Friendship
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I have left a note in steam of your mirror
so when heat of life has nearly melted you16 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 25 10:48 AM 2007. In Love -
I am angry enough to spit nails,
crack wood, chew rocks and spit them out36 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 26 2:25 PM 2007. In Anger -
Flowers in garden plot,
just out pane of window25 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 28 1:44 PM 2007. In Friendship
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I have scissored hair and ashed forehead
in open-faced grief: I have no modesty left;25 lines, 20 comments, on Aug 21 2:21 PM 2007. In Ssorrow
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“See, there was this guy, David Stands On Rock.
He wasn’t my best buddy, but he is now.”0 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 28 6:05 PM 2007
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Two towers, hell’s hill, beaches littered,
choosing sides, throwing stones -
Passing a pond where frogs halted mid-song
at sound of shadow cast over bright stew of green17 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 5 9:08 AM 2007. In Personal
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Here, in a book, bursting at seams with such glorious grinding words
I find fit-to-a-tee description of you, who would give shirt to the b21 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 17 10:18 AM 2007. In Loss -
Surrender to shadow’s slip;
palm to breast,25 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 19 6:49 AM 2007 -
I stumble, stupidly,
back through valleys33 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 19 10:14 PM 2007. In Spiritual
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She slides in
under heavy cloak44 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 22 7:33 PM 2007
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Art of love made salt a strange sweetener
like ocean mist that licks leaves21 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 23 7:32 AM 2007
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When heart cracks,
all of who and what we knew41 lines, 14 comments, on Sep 29 6:54 AM 2007. In Life -
Leaves, like brown scabs slough off the body of a tree;
leering at leprocetic scars to be hidden29 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 21 2:35 PM 2007. In Society
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There is talent in the slow curl of a good cigarette
although I can not make rings to chain38 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 23 6:29 PM 2007 -
I had forgotten how laughing
started at the crinkle-up of toes,15 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 24 10:04 AM 2007. In Sad -
Anguish arches like a broken bird attempting to glide,
one-winged,to a safe landing. -
I lost my poppy somewhere
between Montana and Ohio,48 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 28 8:42 AM 2007
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After a dreadful night of pelleting thoughts,
I am come undone by sun22 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 30 8:36 PM 2007. In Healing
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Louis, like Samuel,, was an exile in a cold land,
kept himself warm with jingle of coins0 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 22 4:32 PM 2007. In Society
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Such helplessness
in desperate reach20 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 28 8:01 AM 2007. In Thoughts
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You wear a name you’ve never heard;
a signature, a near death19 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 4 9:36 AM 2007 -
I have heard if you lose one sense,
Another builds to take the vacuum left42 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 17 6:55 PM 2007. In Thoughts -
Stop your simple dark stutter
and come, carefully,34 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 8 11:50 AM 2007
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after healing
in hot spray25 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 9 5:09 PM 2007 -
A word, that gongs
from ancient soul19 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 28 8:56 AM 2007. In Inspiration
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Truth stirring up trouble
like wind moves leaves, trees,28 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 10 7:45 PM 2007. In Writing
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Plowboy
makes a trail…38 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 17 5:22 PM 2007. In Nonsense
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18 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 10 8:57 PM 2007. In Adult
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Little slivers of flesh
where you pressed “I Love You,”35 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 11 3:44 PM 2007. In Sorrow
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There was a sign: "No Trespassing Hearts"
stamped on my forehead. I breathed it41 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 15 11:26 AM 2007. In Sad
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Seeing beneath glass, through ice,
eyes frozen in misconstrued hardness,19 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 15 12:14 PM 2007
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There, between touch and feel,
is something almost giving up on us -
Your colors fade with all this water
canvas does not hold31 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 26 3:50 PM 2007. In Sorrow
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A murder of crows, a mocking of ravens
mimicking voices of ancestors -
My ears are not attuned to saving grace
No, like most,43 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 17 5:08 PM 2007. In Spiritual
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Eagle Wakening
A fire simmers in a round-stone mouth15 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 26 8:11 AM 2008. In Nature
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Feminism is left naked
until she is saved15 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 26 9:42 AM 2008
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There is a woman
under the bridge -
here is the whole of it, a book of simple words
rasping its scratchy throat that puts mild men to sleep25 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 27 4:54 PM 2008. In Literature
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We push at definitions as if putty
formed to palms of our pitiful hands30 lines, 10 comments, on May 19 6:59 AM 2008. In Society
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Metal taste of cutting edge
women’s cookie-dough fingers24 lines, 12 comments, on May 19 7:08 AM 2008. In Society
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Sneak-up moments
memory making connections84 lines, 12 comments, on May 28 1:58 PM 2008. In Humor
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littered layout of my land,
wrinkle-scroll of loosening life21 lines, 6 comments, on May 31 6:24 AM 2008. In Memories
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Folded recompense for times tender tick
to be grateful, to be glad,32 lines, 9 comments, on May 31 6:38 AM 2008. In Memories
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stir in murky waters
sacked guts25 lines, 13 comments, on May 24 1:37 PM 2008
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examining age-wrought skin
beneath subterfuge of sunlight21 lines, 4 comments, on May 29 10:28 AM 2008. In Life
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A poem, stirring in the firmament
swirls and waits in neon nests of galaxies,25 lines, 8 comments, on May 24 12:39 PM 2008. In Inspiration -
Dearest Universe,
I.84 lines, 8 comments, on May 25 5:21 PM 2008. In Romance
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I.
Plato knew the disguise of shadows53 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 8 10:12 AM 2008. In Spiritual
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After the act
of making love46 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 15 12:34 PM 2008. In Writing
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Sharpening teeth on caribou ribs
barely cooked over a winter’s picnic fire ~35 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 24 9:56 AM 2008. In Society
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30 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 24 11:00 AM 2008. In Sad
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Eden and its apple, cheeks rubbed with rose petals;
pinched pink above heavy silk skirt,41 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 2 11:05 AM 2008. In society
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Strapping myself to a plane
wasn’t an option24 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 8 2:15 PM 2008. In Life
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winter’s grip and rip and stippled fear of freezing
solid31 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 17 11:10 AM 2008. In Sad
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Arching arm, like casting line;
fly settling after its flurry in sky, -
Beyond litter and glitter
glares a frozen pane26 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 23 10:01 AM 2008. In Angst
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Through fire was I born ~
through fire I live~44 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 28 10:03 AM 2008
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Sun hides behind arms;
icy fingers and frozen palms32 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 28 10:55 AM 2008. In Nature
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Sisters, waiting out eternity and love;
the way it ought to be ~ the way it might be~43 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 7 8:29 PM
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slick, smooth afternoon
when sun backstrokes -
30 lines, 11 comments, on May 12 3:46 PM. In Adult
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With all the medical discoveries,
they have not found a way40 lines, 6 comments, on May 16 12:43 AM. In Spiritual -
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Old Chief Mountain, slump-shouldered
grey brow and darkened clouds18 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 18 10:38 AM. In Nature
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I meant to paint the moon
but ended up with your portrait38 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 26 8:57 AM -
if flight tasted like moon, or sun, or sky
25 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 26 9:33 AM
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Today I cupped my palms
breathed life47 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 7 11:00 PM -
I left on a Monday night,
muttering under a sky that lifted her skirts53 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 18 11:32 PM. In Personal -
love escapes from crack of orb;
like porous clay needing sealing27 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 4 9:51 AM. In Life
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From a plane,
this checked quilt32 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 25 8:22 AM. In Nature
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and he was moon and moon was her,
as if one soul, where stars23 lines, 11 comments, on Sep 28 8:20 PM. In Love -
The making of a woman is not a mundane thing
no such a borrowed rib kerfuffle,38 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 5 12:25 PM. In Creative
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things do not just mysterious
fade disintegrate deteriorate55 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 7 1:56 PM. In Society
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Cattails on fringe of cooling pond,
knowingly, at summer’s end,36 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 3 12:29 AM
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sorrow has never suffocated even one petal
40 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 15 9:20 PM. In Sorrow
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Living with you means
toast crumbs in the butter49 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 17 10:41 PM. In Personal
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gold-leafing on a granite wall seals sentences
a poet cannot retrieve without rust forming45 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 7 9:57 PM
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I tried to save a Ladybug from vengeful cold tongue of Nor’easters after finding her shivering under a fallen bruised-brown leaf that was d18 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 13 1:19 AM. In Nature
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