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wbiro on November 2a bakery owner? then I will expect your metaphor/simile/symbolism will be influenced by the kitchen... (must stay true to your diction...! )
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fanniesson on October 15Mr B
When I need to shake up my muse
I stop by here for some sound poetry
Others should do the some
You always seem to be two steps
ahead of me,
but I’m catching up.
So look out!
You’re a good friend.
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ea on June 22As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles. An elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white
checked cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: “If the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden...” I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.
Hysteria by T. S. Eliot -
AiyanaCoen : A simple thought and response... on June 21It is certainly true that an unoriginal poem can be terribly annoying, but although poetry is as anything else an art and there are certain things to all arts that make the subject either wonderful or awful, if it is the first time you have had a particular feeling and wish to express it as artistically as possible yet are not among the most talented poets it does not necessarily mean your work is poor.
I, for one, am not qualified to judge the quality of a poem, so I do not mean the comment as an argument; only that since I am among the people who do not actually have a great deal of knowledge concerning the rules, history, and methods of poetry, I rather enjoy it immensely and am often inspired to write the simple words and emotions which entertain my life and mind. I wish to congratulate anyone who at least makes at an attempt at creating from their 'cliche' experiences a piece of art.
Of course, it does not mean the poem will qualify as appropriate for a trophy, as we certainly are not all 'winners', but cheers anyway for all of us who love poetry and wish to add what little beauty we have to share. -
ea : by Nick Flynn on June 13
Statuary
Bees may be trusted, always,
to discover the best, nay, the only
human, solution. Let me cite
an instance; an event, that,
though occurring in nature, is still
in itself wholly abnormal. I refer
to the manner in which the bees
will dispose of a mouse
or a slug
that may happen to have found its way
into the hive.
The intruder killed,
they have to deal with
the body,
which will very soon poison
their dwelling. If it be impossible
for them to expel or dismember it,
they will proceed methodically
& hermetically
to enclose it in a veritable sepulcher
of propolis & wax,
which will tower fantastically
above the ordinary monuments
of the city.
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When we die
our bodies powder, our bodies
the vessel & the vessel
empties.
Our dying does not fill
the hive with the stench
of dying. But outside
the world hungers.
A cockroach, stung,
can be dragged back out.
A careless child
forced a snail inside with a stick once.
We waxed over the orifice of its shell
sealing the creature in. And here,
the bottom of the comb,
a mouse,
driven in by winter & lack.
Its pawing woke us. We stung it
dead.
Even before it died it reeked - worse
the moment it ceased
twitching.
Now everyday
we crawl over it
to pass outside,
the wax form of what was
staring out, its airless sleep,
the mouse we built
to warn the rest from us.
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Judith Chandler on June 3Kittens can be more than just cute. Roses fade and love fades, most indubitably.
Enjoy! -
ea : The List of Famous Hats on June 1by James Tate
Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous
hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for
show. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all hon-
esty wasn't much different than the one any jerk might buy at a
corner drugstore now, except for two minor eccentricities. The
first one isn't even funny: Simply it was a white rubber bathing
cap, but too small. Napoleon led such a hectic life ever since his
childhood, even farther back than that, that he never had a
chance to buy a new bathing cap and still as a grown-up--well,
he didn't really grow that much, but his head did: He was a pin-
head at birth, and he used, until his death really, the same little
tiny bathing cap that he was born in, and this meant that later it
was very painful to him and gave him many headaches, as if he
needed more. So, he had to vaseline his skull like crazy to even
get the thing on. The second eccentricity was that it was a tricorn
bathing cap. Scholars like to make a lot out of this, and it would
be easy to do. My theory is simple-minded to be sure: that be-
neath his public head there was another head and it was a pyra-
mid or something. -
Rheea : Working class huh... on May 25Nice poem you left in a Vietnam vets contest.. as the wife of a Vietnam vet so much I could say to you but I will not give your type the satisfaction... we have had your kind to deal with while we deal with cancer, PTSD, and dead babies and you know what? You,Hanoi Jane and the rest who swing from negative to positive about vets are worse than the enemy.
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Simply Olivia : Hello on May 17You own a bakery? yum!
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ea on April 7welcome to AP - did you know there's a Bukowski contest going on now? http://allpoetry.com/contest/2442037
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