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by Vaughn Neeld
Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:11 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Gyppo, yes. Estella was also a victim, and you might even say Miss Haversham was also. Just as Estella was fenced in by those bars, Miss Haversham was fenced in by her extreme reaction to rejection. If you haven't read the book lately, you really should go back and try again. It means so much more o...
by Vaughn Neeld
Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:28 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Gyppo, I really like your poetic instruction on how to handle fish. Of course, I don't ever intend to touch a live one, but at least I'll know how if I ever must.
by Vaughn Neeld
Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:26 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Day 15 Anticipation Pip wanting only welcome, grips the cold, iron bars separating him from all that he desires. Estella, among seeming splendors, gazes from her mullioned window, perceiving the iron shafts as prison bars. Miss Havisham, amid unacknowledged disintegration, spins a cobweb dream for P...
by Vaughn Neeld
Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:42 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Day 14 Those Dang Ants! When I was a barefoot kid, those big old red ants were the bane of my life. When they attacked me, I would attack right back. I'd take the hose and fill their holes, and I'd watch them wash away. Or, I'd take a shovel and dig way down deep so they would go crazy trying to car...
by Vaughn Neeld
Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:38 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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This is one of the great secrets of all writing, poetry, prose, whatever. Even fairly dry technical stuff. If you do it all the time it does get easier, like exercise. Obvious really, but many writers seem to resist this simple fact. They try to train themselves to be more productive, to not waste w...
by Vaughn Neeld
Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:51 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Day 13 . . . - - - . . . (S) (O) (S) Way across the field mellow black cows graze on yellow grass. Barbs on a distant fence flick flashes of light in obscure Morse Code. Peace rising around me lulls me into a trance. If I succumb, would I fall off this ledge to float on the wind? Or would I just fal...
by Vaughn Neeld
Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:44 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Dave, the blank space between the last line and "plop" gives the poem such a wonderful punch. I really like your work.
by Vaughn Neeld
Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:35 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Lisa, re "white fringed dress," love it, love it. I often write sensual poetry, and I wonder what the young poets who know me must think. I wonder if they wonder, "She had lovers? She had wild sexual escapes? She's SO old!" Ah, those glorious 60s and 70s. I'm glad for the memories.
by Vaughn Neeld
Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:31 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Lisa, love the eagle homage. I have been listening to Naki's beautiful music, and your poem fits the mood. Von
by Vaughn Neeld
Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:25 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Day 12

Touch someone
whose color
is not yours.

Invite him over,
share a Coors.

Hear his stories,
grieve his losses.

Celebrate his dreams.
Calm his fears.