| a poem is...
Posted: 4/2/2007 11:45:37 PM | All of the above
staked out in the desert
to reveal the bones | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/3/2007 9:55:03 AM | Antidotal
Pieces
Of
Emotional
Masturbation
In
Syncopation | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/3/2007 11:55:35 AM | one's
initials
carved
on a tree
with a
plus sign,
waiting | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/3/2007 9:47:22 PM | an attempt to assign language
to events of quantum uncertainty
a user interface
of possibility
so that reason can dance
with insanity | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/4/2007 10:39:19 AM | speech
before and after
silence
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/4/2007 12:32:08 PM | stuck in your head
not your bed
said, sung or read | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/6/2007 5:06:02 AM | Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide.
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to water-ski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
--Billy Collins | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 4/11/2007 11:33:55 PM | does it matter truely..
cuz when one says of what it is..
it is not held with contempt...
for one eye views ont hing..
another views another..
yet in a poem it is but this...
one truth..
one thought..
captivated in a mind....
set forth in words in motion on a pixelated screen..
for all to see yet for some to condemn...
a poem is what one thinks of jsut that..
ones mind..
set in motion...
fvck the hardship..
the bullsh*t in between..
the whole of the "youre wrong and im right"...
it is one views on realities based upon fiction or fact..
all in all..
a poem is but a thought...
thrown on paper ..
or typed on here for all to see....
a poem is...
me..
you..your inner being...
eyes that see...
a poem is what you are..
hard..shallow..happy..
sad..relentless..tormented..blissfulll.....
it is the person that writes it...
YOU ...damn it..
a poem is you..
Lisa Anne | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/2/2007 5:16:03 AM | Mother
by Herman de Coninck
translated by Kurt Brown & Laure-Anne Bosselaar
What you do with time
is what a grandmother clock
does with it: strike twelve
and take its time doing it.
You’re the clock: time passes,
you remain. And wait.
Waiting is what happens to
a snow-covered garden,
a trunk under moss,
hope for better times
in the nineteenth century,
or words in a poem.
For poetry is about letting things
grow moldy together, like grapes
turning into wine, reality into preserves,
and hoarding words
in the cellar of yourself. | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 5:13:41 AM | ...a stab in the dark,
a pretense that there is light
when there is no light,
as yet,
to be seen.
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 5:40:27 AM | yet to be seen
is that which
will come before ones eyes
life I am told
is full of surprise......... | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 6:47:13 AM | ... whatever
in any weather
a wet feather
tethered to language | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 6:51:32 AM | language can....
express just who
we really are
within our own private abyss | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 8:35:42 AM | ...an act of intimacy.
It is not given casually but is an act of trust
Wherein I assume you are here
Because you desire what I have to offer.
This is a revelation of how I spend my nights
of a lover my mind took for a while
of a conception laid in sheets of paper
of a hard-born **stard awaiting acknowledgement
So treat my exposure decently
For there are lovers who have never seen me as naked
As I am when I write
Poetry | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 10:25:52 AM | I Notice the Dark Side
Half the poems are bit-ching put to rhyme
They just keep it going on time after time
They wish someone dead
They can’t move ahead
To stay stuck in your bitter rut is a crime | |
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| a poem is...
Posted: 5/15/2007 12:14:14 PM | ...the answer to a question
you've been waiting
to be asked.
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| a poem is...
Posted: 6/2/2007 5:58:35 AM | what lies between the lines
waiting to be dis-covered | |
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| A poem is...
Posted: 7/10/2007 6:31:18 AM | | Something you had to read in school for a grade. Otherwise you would not have bothered. | |
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| Complete the following:
Posted: 7/11/2007 9:27:05 AM | a poem is a philosphical dream or a potential truth and sometime wishful thinking.
A poem could be just about anything. | |
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| Complete the following:
Posted: 7/11/2007 9:39:35 AM | A poem is...
A journey into the past
and reflection of the future
A path through your heart
penetrating into emotions
Thoughts scattered
needing to find a "home"
A pen, the voice
for words often left...
unspoken | |
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lkl
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Joined: 6/6/2007
Msg: 546 | |
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Posted: 7/11/2007 10:59:34 AM | A poem is:
Words, thoughts, dreams, and rhymes,
Bits of concentration for a small period of time.
Informative, inquisitive, impulsive, and true,
Even if it is only the truth to you.
Daring, compelling, and remarkably shy,
Often leaving the reader to just stop and ask why.
Meaningful, comical, and magical too,
A poem is simply a reflection of you. | |
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| Complete the following:
Posted: 7/16/2007 6:54:12 AM | A poem is:
a verbal whiz
a synapsis
of a word like this
A poem is:
champagne with fizz
like a midnight kiss
with a girl named Liz.
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| Complete the following:
Posted: 8/14/2007 4:19:06 PM | a poem is
a bullet to the brain
splashing blood and idea
all over your
pretty white dress | |
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| Complete the following:
Posted: 8/14/2007 4:21:48 PM | A poem is.....
Paint in the wind
A hurricane to the shore
A flicker in a fire
And being able to
Move the hair....
From your eyes.... | |
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