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by Deb
Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:41 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day
Replies: 15
Views: 9275

Re: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day

That's a fascinating story, Gyppo.  Your mum's or your dad's side? I would read an entire book on these lives.

Isn't it both a blessing and a curse to be able to flesh out real characters who are oftentimes better than any characters one can conjure? 
by Deb
Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:03 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day
Replies: 15
Views: 9275

Re: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day

Thank you Tracy, you are too kind.  I'm so glad you guys pitched in. I hoped there would be no crickets. Hope rewarded. ;) Tracy, both of your poems are stunning in honesty and they took me there inasmuch as I, a child of the '60s,'70s, and '80s could travel those horrific roads. Sounds like you kno...
by Deb
Sun Nov 10, 2019 5:06 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day
Replies: 15
Views: 9275

Re: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day

One of my first poems posted at MWC in 2007 Ode to War My Grandfather went off to war fighting Japanese who'd bombed our shore. Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid the price-we dropped the bomb. Grandparents, mothers, and children burned and gone. The cost too high? Yes, to be sure. They knew what they were f...
by Deb
Sun Nov 10, 2019 4:57 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day
Replies: 15
Views: 9275

Re: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day

Okay, a rough draft of my new Veteran's Day poem.  Gifts from Hell Of 461 men, one of 32 survivors, my grandpa, O. C. Leach escaped through a porthole after the USS Oklahoma was torpedoed and capsized in Pearl Harbor. Leach and two other men, swam up into the oil-fueled fire  in the bay that was on...
by Deb
Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:15 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day
Replies: 15
Views: 9275

A Challenge - Let's See What We Can Create in Honor of Veteran's Day

Create a new poem to honor our veterans or share your archived material. I thought it may motivate a few of us to write something new.

 
by Deb
Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:38 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Greenhouses
Replies: 11
Views: 13556

Re: Greenhouses

This poem of yours arrives in the middle of my duties as the trustee of my mother's estate. She was 102, I am going through the cardboard boxes and boxes of what amounts to a family history that, in some cases spans a few generations. Little stuff, newspaper clippings, death certificates of her for...
by Deb
Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:55 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: What the Person Holds (a rewrite to fit today's events)
Replies: 6
Views: 4708

Re: What the Person Holds (a rewrite to fit today's events)

slung in holsters, galloped furiously across a continent by dime-novel heroes,   Interesting ride through time, Indar. My favorite line posted above because I cannot get it below due to my lack of patience with technology.  :roll: The short version of American's historic love/hate relationship with...
by Deb
Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:46 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When the white paneled door opens (versions 1&2)
Replies: 9
Views: 6019

Re: When the white paneled door opens (versions 1&2)

Hi Dave,

I prefer the alternate.

I like the dreamy way your poem opens, how it seems (for me) to drift on birds wings, then ends with the profound theft of time. 

This is the kind of poetry that conjures so much more than the imagery you lure us to.


~Deb
by Deb
Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:35 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: My girl friend is pint-sized
Replies: 5
Views: 3893

Re: My girl friend is pint-sized

Hi Matty? Phil?  I'm confused about what to call you. Your poem, I get it. Now I feel a little more guilty about my husband carrying my backpack on our day hikes. He volunteers, though. The frost winking is a nice touch and I love that the rucksack is filled with her checklist and not her things. Su...
by Deb
Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:29 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: No Muse is Bad News
Replies: 2
Views: 2343

Re: No Muse is Bad News

Ah, Mr. Dylan di Vilde, Tell me this is only you being playfully woeful. I always enjoy your writing. If you're truly running out of ideas, you need a road trip or a few outings for people or critter watching.  I get the ending but my loss of words seem to manifest in mere forgetfulness.  Please kee...