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Leaving the Nest
I want you to go into the woods
where life is lush with surplus
I want you to listen, be healthy
and grow fat in smatterings
of pregnant sunshine
watch a red squirrel skinny
down a quavering branch
toward inexperienced leaves.
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- Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:49 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Leaving the Nest
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12426
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: City Planners
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16274
Re: City Planners
Delightful! With a great closing line. My first question was whether "angles" in Line 1 is a typo. The mention of "grid" and later text suggests that there is no typo. So after rolling "angels" around for a while, I am still at a loss as to which word functions better. Each sort of subliminally ...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: North on the Starliner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16578
Re: North on the Starliner
I remember this Vintage Indar gem. A wonderful poem, like the reader is gazing out the window of the Starliner. But I wonder into what era? Would the images of the poem correspond to what a passenger might today observe from a lounge car window.
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- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: The Dan Patch Express
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17779
Re: The Dan Patch Express
Dan Patch--I grew up holding him, at the instance of the authority of my father, in the same regard as Joe Luis and Honus Wagner. I enjoy all the memories loosely tethered to the threads of this poem. How interesting and compelling is the image of the high school football practice flashing in the ...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: An experiment: Two 'spoken offerings' at this link
- Replies: 10
- Views: 20959
Re: An experiment: Two 'spoken offerings' at this link
I couldn't get the audio to fire up. I used to use SoundCloud, but the site made some changes which rendered the platform less designed for my purposes. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I'll keep trying.
Cheers.
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Cheers.
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- Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Fiona's Cat Speaks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7324
Re: Fiona's Cat Speaks
I love this Gyppo. Animal POV poems are both challenging and intriguing. You have done exceedingly well with this. After reading your preamble, I just had to pull out the cat poem I wrote back in the MWC days: Co-Author Paws padding, I never hear before she drops in a crouch on the corner of my ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 9:10 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Woke
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6356
Re: Woke
This presents such a succinct juxtaposition, which so strongly makes the point. Stunning to recall -- violence against women being such a cultural staple that that the threat is used as humor. How does it look to you if S.2 is made present-tense? The brevity of this multiplies its force. Very cr...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:15 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Consider
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6100
Re: Consider
Brilliant---
drawn from the rocks of earth,
bears memory of water, dreams of flight,
the lands, the forests, the temples of our ancestors.
drawn from the rocks of earth,
bears memory of water, dreams of flight,
the lands, the forests, the temples of our ancestors.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:13 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9750
Re: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.
Witty, engaging, endearing. Very nice,
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- Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:34 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Garden Tour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11269
Re: Garden Tour
Great picture! Love it. Here's one from me: https://i.imgur.com/gCnzTpj.jpg The devolution of yard art is so quintessentially American--and not in a good way. Pink plastic flamingos, ok. Figurines of black boys fishing? Fourth of July approaches. How about a life-sized George Wallace wrapped i...