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by binx
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Weather
Replies: 7
Views: 7153

Re: Weather

The edited version brings a bit of Wallace Stevens to mind (Thirteen Ways...) and a word like 'precariously' is even hard to say aloud so streamlining to a more natural setting without all the commentary is good.  
by binx
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:28 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Heard From a Porch
Replies: 2
Views: 195

Re: Heard From a Porch

Thanks, Dave. Heard train sounds at an early age. 
by binx
Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:20 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Heard From a Porch
Replies: 2
Views: 195

Heard From a Porch

The sound of trains
coupling from the yard

 hammers a rhythm
in my blood 

not about humans
or God 

but about a revolution
or a medley of steel stars
by binx
Sun Apr 28, 2019 5:40 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

4/28 poem

All around her
are petal-less flowers,
frozen puddles,
a sunless morning

She alone hears birds,
the knockings on her door
by binx
Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:46 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

Colm Roe wrote:
Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:50 am
Hey binx, sounds like they found the wrong tomb :o
Interesting read.

Call me, George, Colin. And, no, it wasn't.

by George
by binx
Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:02 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

4/21 poem

One Week Later

A cave opens
in a hillside

Another man
appears

holding a dried palm
branch

He is
weeping
by binx
Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:04 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

I am falling behind--overwhelmed. Please know that I spent many hours after NaPo was over last year reading and savoring the poetry, comments and camaraderie. I hope that everyone continues to revisit the archives for further comments--I will. I'm not certain how much I will be able to participate ...
by binx
Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:37 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

4/18 poem When It's Cold Any city street is a portrait in itself— a woman with beads in her veins, children begging for insults. In any given cafe, a waitress with raspberry eyes might stare perceptively or examine emphatically; and they are sad, after all. On these types of mornings, I ask myself w...
by binx
Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:25 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

4/17 poem

End Game

Remember,
once you were good
for nothing—

now every day seems
to be all of them.

by George
by binx
Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:42 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
Replies: 828
Views: 679363

Re: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

Poem 4/16

Paschal

I dream of storm clouds,
gathering dark beyond sin,
and a man—

I hear him
breathing.


by George