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Posted: 12/7/2007 7:50:10 PM | Wooby, REM and Autumn, thank you! It's always so odd to prepare for something you've never laid eyes on. I never had ultrasounds done, there was no need. So your life is like "If you build it, they will come"......
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crones
outer beauty
is muted
staggering
inner beauty
grows
overlooked
pheasants
among flamingos
enough
to break
your heart
the way
it goes
©LS 5/17/07
Great Virtue
This was reworked and posted after I had encountered several profiles of men my age, who wouldn't date women in their own age group. Very disheartening..... | |
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Posted: 12/8/2007 9:21:32 PM | stray cat
stray
away
from my door
don't look so lonesome
don't look so wet
don't wrap around
and purr when I pet
don't be so grateful
for leftover food
while my own act hateful
and hiss and brood
on your best behavior
I know it's an act
I'm not your savior
and that's a fact
*sigh*
stray cat
c'mere
on the steps
right here
and let me scratch
behind your ear......
LS 11/26/07
Daily Poet, Om's Palms | |
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Posted: 12/11/2007 3:18:40 PM | afterglow
bathed in love once more
candle light, wine
and Santana
I wear your whisker burn
bandana
sheen of sweat
rumple sheeted
satiated and repleted
LS 11/24/07
first, last - Parables of Dreams Prose or Poems
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writing from memory people......nothing in real time.... | |
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Posted: 12/13/2007 4:32:29 PM | winter slump
the muse has gone
it's certainly fled
could i find it
maybe under the bed
it's the winter slump
as winter sets in
sleet and snow outside
so, i'm hiding within
i don't have to shovel
that's the landlord's job
so it won't get done
but, i won't sob
if i slip and fall
i shall just sue
believe you me
that, i know how to do | |
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Posted: 12/13/2007 4:37:53 PM | et,tu, Brutus?
hours stretch empty
vacuum brain
slack jawed
staring
oh....
was I watching
TV?
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| Gently as though
Posted: 12/14/2007 8:56:11 PM |
Gently as though
through a needle's eye
the code will wither
the seed will die. | |
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Posted: 12/14/2007 9:16:19 PM | that one gives me shivers.....did you know tens of thousands of bees have disappeared?.......
It's good to see you home....and visiting.....didya see Bicpen was in Stanzas?
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I need a hatbox
don't box me in
the confines of
your squared edges
too sharp
to suit
my curving
morality
don't you know
complacency
is a
bondage?
made small
by comfort
my mongrel heart
discerns the trap
snatching bait
before the latch
is snapped
LS 11/04/07
om's palms, daily poet, abstract rhythms | |
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Posted: 12/14/2007 10:58:24 PM | I have been walking around in a daze
creeping out of bed on cold mornings
to shiver my way to work
it's as if Christmas is putting me into slow motion
and no matter how hard I try
I seem to be avoiding it
holding it back from happening
when work becomes your focus
and this is my busy time of year
I live, eat and sleep to bring
the abstract into play
and when I return to my home
I gaze up into the Christmas tree
and wish it was there always
alive and growing
one day at a time
snow threatening to stop me
from having fun
I feel it coming in the air
the wind has turned
now coming out of the east
but still I want to follow it
into the city
see the lights
hide in a small cafe
and pretend Christmas happens
every day in our hearts. | |
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Posted: 12/15/2007 9:20:03 AM |
complacency
is a
bondage
Complacency is a what? Complacency is a WHAT?
That's not just poetry, Dude - that's a freaking political manifesto!!!! | |
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Posted: 12/15/2007 11:33:56 AM | I'm chuckling here because it's a pretty frank admission of why I'm still single, after almost 20 years....I have been with someone I was still fascinated by, still looked at with lust, who made my ideas into realities and served as a catalyst to adventure...I'm not willing to merely settle, having had that once....
Jer, did you ever read the Stephen King novel where they gave everyone free drugs to make them too complacent and addicted to protest the government? Brilliant, and scary...he didn't define the drug, but it sounded a bit like opium...
Autumn, it's supposed to hit here on Sunday....I'm hoping to have it plowed by work time Monday...
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Djelem, Djelem
Kalderash
Machavaya
Lovari
Churari
Gitanoes, Romnichal
Rudari, Sinti, Manush
Boyash, Ungaritza, Luri
Bashalde, Romungro,
Xoraxai
we originated in India
and moved to Europe
in 1050 via Iran and Persia
the world is afraid of our nomadic culture
our wagons and horses taken
our language ,music
clothing and trade banned
we were exterminated
in WWII
Porajmos
by Einsatzgruppen
sterilized in Czechoslovakia
and Norway (until 1997)
our children removed
and placed in segregated classes
marriage between us prohibited
men and women in separate work houses
children sent to orphanages
and state institutions
greenfields are scarce
and our stopping sites barricaded
we are losing our culture
of movement
Djelem, Djelem
LS 6/24/07
Daily Poet | |
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Posted: 12/15/2007 11:52:27 AM |
Jer, did you ever read the Stephen King novel where they gave everyone free drugs to make them too complacent and addicted to protest the government? Brilliant, and scary...he didn't define the drug, but it sounded a bit like opium...
You mean to tell me that people I know and respect (such as my lover who is devoted to him) actually DO read S King? I’m kinda afraid to the way some people are afraid to try homosexuality because they might like it! Let’s say I DID like him so much tht I’d want to read EVERYTHING he wrote. By the time I got through with the existing books, how many more would there be?
Serously, though, do you like him or love him? And why?
And if I were to try just one of his books, which would you suggest? | |
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Posted: 12/15/2007 12:14:08 PM | Lord, Jer.....not sure.....I would begin with "The Stand"....most would agree that's one of his best books...and not written as horror, per se...last winter I read the Gunslinger series, and that kept my mind busy...
You'll have a hard time running out of books, yes, he is a very productive writer, but don't let that fool you into thinking his books are dreck...he's also a damn good writer...Dean Koontz is good too. Try the Odd Thomas series, or Moonlight Bay series...
I'm not a book snob, on some of these book threads the books listed put me to sleep...I don't consider myself a mental midget, (... then, who does!) but some of those were just such dense reading my brain had trouble wrapping around the ideas...you'll find no pseudo intellectual here, if I'm not enjoying the book, I'm not finishing it just to crow I've read it...and it works, a good writer will educate you painlessly...
I have always read for escape, so fiction is my preferred genre...as a child, I won the library award every summer, and had read most of the downstairs before they relented and let me into the adult book section at twelve....
My mother would read, and I would sit on the stairs behind her making unconscious impatient noises in my throat because I read faster...so anything she read, I read...and boy, she was a voracious reader...my entire family reads nonstop...
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pilgrimage
Knowing...
we are no longer alone....
we touch
anchor reality
hearts come home
grateful incredulity
fellow soul
hold fast our hand
withstand
the passage
through life's foundry
family love and labor
bitterness and favor
journey bittersweet
until we reach
the boundary
LS 11/11/07
first, last, Parables of Dreams, Age of Innocence | |
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Posted: 12/16/2007 8:54:11 AM | I cannot convey how c-c-cold I am....here by the window is one of the coldest spots in the house.....but that's where my built in desk is located....
My east windows are glazed with at least an inch of ice...
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marine life
Until it's time to lay
in the distance
as it loves the shore
the sea comes
crashing in
salty mother
of us all
bearing odd gifts
scuttling crabs
pulsing jellyfish
alien denizens
of an underwater world
we threaten
with our surface
tension
LS 11/11/07
first, last, Om's palms | |
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Posted: 12/16/2007 9:14:34 AM |
marine life
Until it's time to lay
in the distance
as it loves the shore
the sea comes
crashing in
salty mother
of us all
bearing odd gifts
scuttling crabs
pulsing jellyfish
alien denizens of an underwater world
we threaten
with our surface
tension
LS 11/11/07
first, last, Om's palms
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As fine as this is - and I think it’s VERY fine - 1) I felt it was unfinished or that finishing in that didactic mode was less than the richness of what preceded it deserved, and
2) I had some difficulty knowing whether line 3 was meant to complete the thought begun at line 2 or to introduce a new thought. (I don’t know whether you hate commas or that you’re just short of them but in case it’s the latter ,,,,,,,,,,)
3) In line 1 it should be “lie,” damnit, not “lay. | |
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Posted: 12/16/2007 9:24:04 AM | marine life
as it loves the shore
licking again
the sea comes
crashing in
salty mother
of us all
bearing odd gifts
scuttling crabs
pulsing jellyfish
alien denizens of an underwater world
we threaten
with our surface
tension
disrespect
too numerous
to mention
LS 11/11/07
there you go, professor....
it was a left over line from first, last....the poem just didn't develop in that direction... | |
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Posted: 12/16/2007 2:52:50 PM | Speaking of me as "professor," I got a very rude shock last night when I heard from a guy who'd been one of my first sudents at UBC and in the course of our convesation he mentioned that he was about to turn
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SIXTY, which makes me VERY OLD!
VISION
The long day darkens. Soon, the night
will pulp over all of us
a plump berry of unlight.
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Posted: 12/16/2007 5:08:59 PM | so.....did you like it better? Oh, and I meant to add "acts of disrespect/too numerous to mention.....
here's one I wrote about unlight....I like messing around with the themes in Humormongers thread....
shadows on the mountains
nestled
mountain towns
tiered layers
of twinkling lights
like snow on
fir tree boughs
shadows
on the mountains
hover
creeping
blue tinged
cover
descending
twilight
hushed
a reverent
lover
kneeling down
to kiss
the mound
of mother
LS 12/15/07
Great Virtue, Daily Poet
Been so flippin bored....thank god for cooking, made some tuna salad, quiche, and no bakes...where has everyone been? | |
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Posted: 12/17/2007 5:46:25 AM |
so.....did you like it better? Oh, and I meant to add "acts of disrespect/too numerous to mention.....
I still felt it ended with a bit of a lecture whereas it had operated beautifully as a summary of observations. “Only connect...” wrote E.M. Forster, and while you do that mostly and well in the poem, at the end you brought out the hammer you’d been hiding behind your back and...whacked us with it!
The ever so slightly bent back
of the girl who serves you
your espresso reminds you
of some other way in which
she might be bent in service
to you but, for now,
you dip your face to the dark,
sweet steam rising from your cup
and thank whatever powers that be
that not all of life is sexual! | |
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Posted: 12/17/2007 2:14:03 PM |
3) In line 1 it should be “lie,” damnit, not “lay.
Ah, Jer. . . . Will the teachers of the world never learn (not speaking of you, BTW) that when they precede *anything* with: "This is very very difficult, doubt you'll ever be able to learn it. . . ." that they are perhaps creating a self-fulfilling prophecy? The lie/lay one, I lay firmly at *their* feet so far as blame goes, and then lie back in my recliner with great satisfaction, lol! [Not of course even to mention: "Now I lay me down to sleep. . . . ] This is certainly stuff up with which we will not put!
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Posted: 12/17/2007 5:41:25 PM | at the end you brought out the hammer you’d been hiding behind your back and...whacked us with it!
if only I could whack lazy people into disposing of their garbage a little more mindfully!
I feel very strongly about it....I have watched a garbage barge go out to sea...it's disgusting that we can put a man on the moon, yet we still haven't learned to deal with our own waste...
I know the environmental movement is very trendy right now...and any attention this worthy cause receives is good...but I've always believed in recycling, reducing garbage etc....ever since the early eighties when I hiked, and saw true wilderness and what exactly we are threatening...
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cowgirls in love
cowgirls in love
unwind by the fire
applying their lipstick
to fill one desire
to catch the attention
of a cowboy for hire
female strength and competence
a thorough demonstration
of what a woman really is
role playing detonation
they aim to show the girlie girl
the jeopardy of trying
to catch herself a cowboy man
without even applying
work ethic, self reliance
and genuine abilities
brought up short with only beauty
and no electrical facilities
LS 11/11/07
Daily Poet and Unfinished Business | |
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Posted: 12/18/2007 8:14:09 PM | Wonderful how your interests and attention range & you can and and write about all of it!
If your favourite politician took steroids
would he or she be able
to leap over tall buildings?
Reduce the deficit?
End the wars in X, Y & Z, or
tell the truth?
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Posted: 12/18/2007 8:29:25 PM | If my favourite politician took steroids
they would terminally shrink
his already insignificant
cojones
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Posted: 12/18/2007 11:35:18 PM | If my favorite politician took steroids would he/she tell the truth? NO....they's still lie. Only it would be about whether or not they took steroids.
On another note (as it's quite late here and I don't rest......yet)
Sleepness nights follow
My restless heart
That seeks a hollow
In which to lay.
Nestled in warmth
Covered in love
A place to light
During sleepless nights.
Think I'll try that space right over......................there.
V
oncelucid
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Posted: 12/19/2007 7:54:44 AM | | I love this, V., my darlin' notwithstanding the one grammatical error that I won't say nothin' about. It's always the case with you of why write a paragraph when a good, straight sentence will do! | |
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Posted: 12/19/2007 9:22:41 AM | I KNEW you'd point that out (even though you didn't quite do so). And I did it on PURPOSE....thought it sounded better even though it was grammatically incorrect. And I noted a spelling error too...but too late to repair.
You know me....woman of few words....just spoken many many times! 
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