Great rhythm.
A teacher said I try to hard to say stuff in my poems, i.e., I make it too political, punchy. Feel that way about this one.
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- Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Farewell
- Replies: 4
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- Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:01 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Small Worlds
- Replies: 9
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Re: Small Worlds
Nice images. Sounds like an old school poem. Over my head... about a relationship?
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:56 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Rain
- Replies: 8
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Re: Rain
Nice challenge Mark!
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:49 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Armitage Shanks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4257
Re: Armitage Shanks
Witty! Had to look up Armitage Shanks.
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:47 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Two bedrooms and a bath
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5700
Re: Two bedrooms and a bath
Thank you everyone who read and commented on this poem. Every afternoon, Nicole Wallace, on her show "Deadline Whitehouse" commemorates the lives of one or two people who died from Covid . She told of a couple, married over 60 years, who led full and giving lives, were hospitalized together. They...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Rain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5826
Re: Rain
Take it further how?
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Two bedrooms and a bath
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5700
Re: Two bedrooms and a bath
I liked it very much, esp. " one another's hands entwining fingers between them"
An older couple in a small house that collected a lifetime of stuff...
An older couple in a small house that collected a lifetime of stuff...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Rain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5826
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 1:51 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Rain
- Replies: 8
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Rain
Rain Rain washes my dirty sin soaked stained blood browned tattered torn dress—that’s a bit creamier now. Rain washes my sappy sour sorrows; beating me and my sin soaked stained blood browned dress, like rocks to laundry—a cold cleanse, cooling me. Pouring pellets pelt me, penetrating the coldness’...
- Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:51 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Nabal Means Fool (in Searching for Kadesh collection)
- Replies: 9
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Re: Nabal Means Fool (in Searching for Kadesh collection)
Here's a prose poem:
https://poets.org/poem/rome
https://poets.org/poem/rome