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by Lecram06
Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:29 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Greeting after a year's absence
Replies: 2
Views: 6919

Greeting after a year's absence

Greetings all, I thank you for the invitation to participate according to my energy and ability. The site still sends shivers up and down my spine. I have the illusion that I am going to break something so visually pleasing. Irrational, I know; but the phobia persists. I will attempt to write a "sep...
by Lecram06
Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:10 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A found poem (with a few minor tweaks)
Replies: 4
Views: 1703

Re: A found poem (with a few minor tweaks)

Colm,  Tracy sent me to your Found Poem.  I am pondering the brilliant insight and imagery of ". . . a single drop of clotted blood extracted from your mother's heart."  Your poem dropped me into the archetypal world.  Imagine if all the world religions, large and small, accepted that they have all ...
by Lecram06
Thu Dec 30, 2021 10:11 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Hello After Absence
Replies: 1
Views: 6861

Hello After Absence

Hello After Absence

A web-site phobic oldie 
dares a return trip,
after yearlong silence.

I found number FIVE
the one I liked the best.
Its shape, I guess.

Undaunted by the mountain winds,
prompted by a well-placed jab
I return a prodigal.

Marcel


 
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:51 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: registration
Replies: 2
Views: 12359

Re: registration

Please me to see last year's NAPO on the road back. I feel at home.  Marcel
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:48 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Cheers from Qwerty
Replies: 10
Views: 15106

Re: Cheers from Qwerty

Tracy,
I agree that the challenge of free verse poetry demands an attention to poetics without the frame of prescribed meter and rhyme. Of course I have no scholarship to back this up, just a feeling.  Now I wonder if I have placed this comment at the proper place.
Marcel
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:45 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Cheers from Qwerty
Replies: 10
Views: 15106

Re: Cheers from Qwerty

Welcome, Qwerty -- Cheers to you too. Glad you found our site. A poetry tutor -- what a gift that may be. Am I right? Great quote from Frost. He is entitled to his opinion, but I disagree. He wrote marvelous poetry, and I am convinced he even dreamed in iambics. And the sounds of his New England ve...
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:31 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Marcel
Replies: 2
Views: 7991

Marcel

Hello all!

Returning after a long absence. Gearing up for the April challenge. . . of course prodded by Tracy.  I am an all-things-computer phobic. Please favor me with any and all remonstrances when I fumble my postings offside. 

Marcel
by Lecram06
Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:59 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: True Story
Replies: 21
Views: 28097

Re: True Story

Indar, I am daring to post in hope that I drop my offering in the appropriate bin. You remind us of what is a universal experience, this burying of precious things either in the earth or in in our hearts and both. Your use of simple words and images cuts to the heart and avoids a distancing sophisti...
by Lecram06
Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:46 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Crabgrass Receives a Reply
Replies: 4
Views: 4725

Re: Crabgrass Receives a Reply

Thank you Indar, Tracy and aj.  It took me so long to figure out how to post even after many tutorials. With things computer, I am still in the scriptorium fumbling with indigo ink and parchment hoping the brewer was successful with his last batch of mead. This poem was written in early March of las...
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:34 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Crabgrass Receives a Reply
Replies: 4
Views: 4725

Crabgrass Receives a Reply

Crabgrass Receives a Reply                                                                                  -in gratitude, Albert K.* You have been invading me for some years now,                                                          creeping on your belly in the hours of the day,               ...