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by Lecram06
Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:24 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87509

Re: Poetry Decathlon

#6 Etheree    Another first, not sure if I did it right. Please feel free to point out mistakes in any of my entries. I am a student here.                                    Songs                                 Are light                               Some dreary                          Can make y...
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:20 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87509

Re: Poetry Decathlon

#4  Etheree    Cliffside  poised  shit-pants’ed trembling wild  on narrow ledge–  here I be, matey,  one step from the abyss–  swaying in wind so fervent I hold pause then feet-first screaming lurch from the cliff in terrored descent to plunge feet first into cold-splash success! .             This...
by Lecram06
Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:00 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87509

Re: Poetry Decathlon

.    Poetry Decathlon Write ten poems -- one each of the following listed poems completes the decathlon.   If at the close of the Fest you have posted poems from five of the categories, then you have completed the pentathlon.  If you have posted seven, then you have completed  the heptathlon.   The...
by Lecram06
Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:56 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87509

Re: Poetry Decathlon

Tracy Mitchell wrote:
Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:08 pm
Wow, Marcel! 

Invoking the imagery and music of Neruda -- love this.

T

merci.  I'ts a joy to find these gold nuggets in the literature. Marcel
by Lecram06
Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:54 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136409

Re:  Four & Twenty

ajduclos wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:09 am
       
bumblebee enters open hosta flower
penetrates deep her veiled boudoir
blossom shimmers quivers quakes 
he leaves     both sated     fulfilled
 

...veiled boudoir awakens longing.   marcel
by Lecram06
Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:52 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136409

Re:  Four & Twenty

Colm Roe wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 6:37 pm
Blaming politicians for global warming,
while we, individually, do little 
is a popular sport,
soon to be played sub aqua.
 
 

...or sine aqua. Marcel
by Lecram06
Wed Aug 07, 2019 7:40 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87509

Re: Poetry Decathlon

"Blank Verse" I would do for you what spring does for the cherry blossom Were I at last devoid of winter storms, were heavy snows a burden of the past, the buoyant winds would cradle from the south sweet touch of warmth robins want to bring, and I at last would thaw, would melt away the chill that w...
by Lecram06
Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:14 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136409

Re:  Four & Twenty

Deb wrote:
Wed Jul 31, 2019 1:12 pm
Twist on Life

They’ll never know drive-in movies
or that Elvis was more than a clock
with swinging hips
at grandma’s Summer cabin


~Deb
Your poem hints to more beyond grandma's imagination.
 
by Lecram06
Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:12 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136409

Re:  Four & Twenty

Colm Roe wrote:
Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:16 pm
Tumbleweeds enter, stage left.
Trumps falling oblivious paths
through the scrub, but scour trails
too deep to repair...or care.
 

I hope not too deep to repair or to go around.
by Lecram06
Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:11 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136409

Re:  Four & Twenty

Cheryl12 wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:21 pm
A red ribbon is pinned
to Grandma's pillowcases.
The county fair
isn't.

I did comment on this poem somewhere on the site. There is nothing fair about a country fair. Agree.