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by indar
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:11 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: The Dan Patch Express
Replies: 6
Views: 17667

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, ...
by indar
Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:43 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: City Planners
Replies: 7
Views: 15088

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...
by indar
Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Some Mornings
Replies: 8
Views: 13040

Re: Some Mornings

Thanks Dave, natural events seem to be happening in unnatural ways more and more. Why not the reawakening of a volcano? 
by indar
Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:43 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Soul Are
Replies: 1
Views: 6136

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 ...
by indar
Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:35 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Some Mornings
Replies: 8
Views: 13040

Re: Some Mornings

Tuff  little poem

I feel very complimented! Thanks Mark.
by indar
Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

 Garden decorations run more to metalwork representations of plants and animals

I could get on board with that. Thanks Mark
by indar
Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:30 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

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...
by indar
Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:01 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Woke
Replies: 2
Views: 6292

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----
by indar
Tue Aug 01, 2023 11:23 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Woke
Replies: 2
Views: 6292

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.

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