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- Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:19 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: The Dan Patch Express
- Replies: 6
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Re: The Dan Patch Express
Thank you Mark for the read on both poems and additional information. I'm jotting off a quick response as we are battening down the hatches for an unheard-of weather event here in San Diego. A hurricane with all kinds of dire warnings including massive power failures. I am scheduled to fly out Wed. ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:11 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: The Dan Patch Express
- Replies: 6
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The Dan Patch Express
The Dan Patch Express ran behind the school yard, the backs of bleachers, track and field on the other side. Even then, trains no longer whistled steam, the engineer laid on his diesel horn. We watched to see if this time he'd wave ahead of stop action sprocket drive that suspended in unreal space, ...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: City Planners
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City Planners
One night I dreamed I flew with angles over grids designed by visionaries. What an enlightening flight it was, all asphalt roofs and straight-edge canyons. Who needs trees and grass , I shouted, whipped aloft by heaven-bound updrafts. I see it now, the sacred logic. arranged in ninety degree interse...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Some Mornings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13886
Re: Some Mornings
Thanks Dave, natural events seem to be happening in unnatural ways more and more. Why not the reawakening of a volcano?
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Soul Are
- Replies: 1
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Soul Are
https://poetrycircle.com/forum/attachments/1691768027990-png.39675/ You there, you and your companions spaced on my baseboards according to decades-old building codes, what is your lineage? Once coal fed your ancestors through umbilical cords strung on power poles from one coast to the other. Your ...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:35 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Some Mornings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13886
Re: Some Mornings
Tuff little poem
I feel very complimented! Thanks Mark.
I feel very complimented! Thanks Mark.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:32 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Garden Tour
- Replies: 9
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Re: Garden Tour
Garden decorations run more to metalwork representations of plants and animals
I could get on board with that. Thanks Mark
I could get on board with that. Thanks Mark
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:30 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Garden Tour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11237
Re: Garden Tour
I t's like the Halloween pumpkin lamps still rotting and oozing on doorsteps a week after the event. Do these things become invisible to the owner? My daughters had a high school friend whose parents walked a good portion of their neighborhood every day. They invented a game in which documented Chr...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Woke
- Replies: 2
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Re: Woke
I thought about it. The title of this write is "Woke" which is now--that was then: back to that time some elements in this society wish to return----
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Woke
- Replies: 2
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Woke
One of these days, Alice,
one of these days--
POW right in the kisser--
you're going straight to the moon...
American audiences gathered
around their TVs and laughed.
one of these days--
POW right in the kisser--
you're going straight to the moon...
American audiences gathered
around their TVs and laughed.