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by Lecram06
Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:00 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest
Replies: 17
Views: 33219

Re: Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest

  Still                                                           The mirthful child and slender young girl                                                                            Still is                               She lives within me now, beneath the layers of flesh and bone and life       ...
by Lecram06
Sat Aug 03, 2019 7:51 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Double Etheree
Replies: 1
Views: 12780

Double Etheree

On The Gaspe Peninsula land of my ancestors by the river baptized st laurent far fields of golden waves chest high in fierce august sun i walk a rutted cartwheel path lost in an aimeless contemplation of blue waters and blue skies in breeze a gate left open to a yellow sea invites a step across the...
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:43 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87492

Re: Poetry Decathlon

indar wrote:
Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:26 am
Even a slight breeze
can make an old cottonwood
flutter and glitter.

As an old oak, I still welcome her breeze.
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:41 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87492

Re: Poetry Decathlon

ajduclos wrote:
Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:04 am
Cinquain


My Wife

killer
of invading
beetles in her gardens
the lady finger-snaps them dead
and smiles
 
fourth line lights up the sky
 
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:38 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Cinquain
Replies: 0
Views: 28198

Cinquain

I Wonder

Again
She touches him
He wakes out of the dream
Wordless    she hovers    eyes glowing
Rapture

 
by Lecram06
Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:28 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Limerick
Replies: 25
Views: 48965

Limerick

Modesty

Townie girls saunter forth to the river
For to see the young men, all a shiver.
The beaus were so bold,
In waters so cold,
That each arrow did hid in its quiver.
by Lecram06
Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:15 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest
Replies: 17
Views: 33219

Re: Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest

Do Not Look Back Mega Church hugs the roundabout recruits wallets can goods left-overs souls Pastor Goodperson prays at 6:00 pm come join the saved give witness to your sins Beyond the forest rise in the hollow by the reek Pythagoras at ease verses den't pretend to do what you don't understand Car ...
by Lecram06
Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:02 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest
Replies: 17
Views: 33219

Re: Poet Laureate of the MidSummer Poetry Fest

The Gallery question-- why does a bronze frog sit astride a porcelain sphere center stage on a stain glass table in full view of a wingless beaked mermaid watercolor hanging stiff on a near snow white gallery wall because-- each is a work of art they say as is the coupling of the flesh we say  
by Lecram06
Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:52 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87492

Re: Poetry Decathlon

Haiku

new day rises plumb
sky hurries excess of clouds
cattle graze at ease


lecram
by Lecram06
Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:27 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Carrie
Replies: 9
Views: 5831

Re: Carrie

  Carrie   Eleven obituaries in this week's Sentinel aged twenty-seven to ninety-one from way too young to pretty much done all mere snippets of lives compressed to word counts and fees.  Snippets of lives for most hardly a snippet for Carrie, 33, of smalltown, Maine passed away in hospital born 19...