Title of Book: Silhouettes of Ink
Poems I am considering for publication.
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she is heady
waiting for the dance beneath her lashes to endby Nyx Iscariot 6 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 19 4:49 PM 2004. In Other -
(Read twice) - Rated PG-13, guys.
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Caged with your destiny
By striated memoriesby ecrivain01 38 lines, 18 comments, on Feb 1 10:52 PM 2005. In Angst -
"sit down and bow
pray for forgiveness of your sinsby sweetpearl 44 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 9 3:47 PM 2006. In Sad, Abuse, Dark, Anti-Religion, Anger -
we are unkown.by slaughter 21 lines, 34 comments, on Mar 16 12:19 AM 2006. In Human Honesty
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The women in your fantasies float.
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a distant memory of some other time.. brought forward today...
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They were an amicable race, much like us -
It is a small thing, to break down
in your own fish-tankby -ButterflyCuts- 58 lines, 22 comments, on Apr 22 6:20 AM 2007. In Personal, Dark, Contemporary, Thoughts, Voodoo, Insanity -
If I have felt my thoughts too deeply
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/ / Let us remember humbly, / the one by and through whom we exist; / she is the oceans and deserts,by cherche -d -ame 16 lines, 17 comments, on Apr 28 7:05 AM 2007. In Contest entry, Hope, Life, Nature, Spiritual, Thoughts
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Finished, you sink back gently, / indenting your shape further / into the pillow you complained about, / seeming to drift bit by bit; away.by InkstarRN 26 lines, 10 comments, on May 15 11:07 PM 2007
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How close I can get / to the sound / of your breath, / rising - / falling like a child; / all but the sky / has thinned / & Mother— / how tby -ButterflyCuts- 40 lines, 16 comments, on May 22 2:53 PM 2007. In Personal, Autobiographical, Mothers, Sad, Childhood
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They spotted fever on my lungs, / gave me shots for the pallid, limp / and worsened color I expiated / on cool starched white rooms, / cougby Cannonsfire 28 lines, 6 comments, on May 26 10:24 PM 2007. In Contemporary
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The back seat of this car smells like my mother's perfume / and musty Cosmo magazines. / I just watched the familiar slash of streetlights
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by Night Hope 36 lines, 16 comments, on Jun 17 6:15 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Sorrow, Life, Love, Spiritual, Nature
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by Rain Dancer 25 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 20 11:28 PM 2007. In Personal, Love and the lack thereof
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by zt 20 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 9 8:37 PM 2007
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like love, but less mess / I am double-talked / stuttering / & nothing says I love you better / than silence. / We contradict the classics, / tie our tongues / in attemptby Annalise 63 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 19 11:27 AM 2007. In Contemporary
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a symphony of new-baked bread:
woodwinds wafting warm roasted-nut exhalations,by Mirthryl 45 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 11 4:29 PM 2007 -
Sunrise in Kandahar
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Even when it is all over, when bones crumble,
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vivid streaks of kindred starblood
Painted the fabric of the emptiness -
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by blur 38 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 27 6:45 PM 2007
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She fell into a foetal curl
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leave your buttons home, leave your belt and your zipper and your clasps home,by mimiagatha 18 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 17 2:50 PM 2007. In Love
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There is a better place than here-
I know it.by hannahesque 21 lines, 13 comments, on May 17 5:54 PM 2005. In Personal -
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It is because of you / that I love the morning mists, / I cannot remember your face / only a soft blur in my thoughts now. / And the morninby Peteskid 51 lines, 18 comments, on Jul 21 12:44 AM 2007
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let me climb to
the peak of everest -
Toy Soldier~
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we lose our eyes in the sleepless sands.
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by Fairies on Fire 27 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 23 5:35 AM 2007. In Love
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I watched them play yesterday
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they'll realize this isn't a coming together
it's a competition.by douglasjluman 23 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 1 7:15 PM 2007 -
I tip back my head eyelashes catching pollenby RayniFebruary 26 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 10 6:25 PM 2007
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You children of the blessed tree,
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Her mother wore aprons
with thrushesby IrishYndina 50 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 19 9:16 PM 2007 -
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walkerswood pried open her heart with stained rum caps,
while she slept in a bed of poison, cuddled painby lilAj 20 lines, 16 comments, on Dec 5 9:27 AM 2007 -
by Utok Bulinaw 26 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 30 5:51 PM 2007
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Dirty Pretty breaks down by structure and theme
Themes are surrealist
-emotions embody objects I have been studying this
structure and observed the following deviations
The format should add to the reader's understanding of the poem
dirty pretty started with charcoal on skin
hieroglyphics spaced to tell a story
DIRTY PRETTY utilizes calligraphy
It presents a poem by
*non-alpha numeric Characters,
*non-uniform Capitalization
*spacing (use to create blank spaces)
to shape poetry, to add pause and/or denote line hierarchy
*alternative spellings
*and other deviations (color ...)
to visually impact how the poem is seen and digested.
Here is a poem a wrote with these structures
I’m the glasscutter.
With a di(A)mond wheel g_l_i_d_i_n_g in Oil,
a single stroke /
opens a fissure ----------
I gently Tap beside the line
deepening the grooVe
until with a ~twist of the wrists~
I separate /
the glass as planned.
rhyme and rhythm help me keep reading through a long piece
decoration can mark passages
allowing me to approach the poem from more than one direction
-image detail encroaches towards tactile familiarity
these encroachments sometimes crawl into the structure
trying to burst through the page to make a connection
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by belly 26 lines, 18 comments, on Aug 4 2:35 PM 2007
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They came to tell me today that you have drowned
and that the coat you wore when you leftby celticwarrior 20 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 30 7:18 PM 2007 -
by Nicole Hanna 24 lines, 40 comments, on Jan 3 10:48 PM
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I had danced on many doorsteps
but only left blue and yellow inkby animated lies 36 lines, 36 comments, on May 6 12:19 PM 2007
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Wow~ there's alot of my favorites listed here. Awesome.
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So many of my favourite poets here - great list you've assembled - and I'm honoured to be among these poets!! Good luck on the book
~ Nicolette
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It is truly an honor to be granted presence on a list of such excellent poets.
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wow, I'm really pleased to see how this is coming along and honored to be included among some of my favorite poets here at AP. Thank you, Elizabeth!
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I was just wondering whatever happened to this project?
I still want to participate, but I'm deleting most of my poems so I'd like to know if the book will still get published (so as to keep or not keep my chosen poem posted).
Thanks again for considering me
~Diana
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