tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004418965495262922024-03-13T10:25:20.798-07:00The WordParty BlogThe WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-55404840292517290212012-06-17T22:04:00.001-07:002012-06-17T22:06:16.014-07:00National Poetry Month - Update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Hi Folks,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Here's a poem that knocked my socks off during our Poem-a-Day poetry challenge. This poem was in response to the "Ode" prompt from Day 14. And some fun WordParty trivia: Fred Schneider from the B-52s actually attended a WordParty when we were at Club Deluxe many moons ago. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Bouffants Kate red and Cindy yellow pump</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">beneath strobe light and lava lamp, party out of</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bounds and work that skirt like space ladies, shake that</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">butterbean Keith, shake that that cosmic thing Ricky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">blow the building in a Fred topaz hot pants explosion, my</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">B-52’s tell it like it T-I is, nip it in the bud, throw that</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">beat in the can and shake your good stuff out on a dirty</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">back road flaunt your queen of Las Vegas, flaunt your big</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bird, your deviant ingredient, your junebug and juicy jungle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">back to loevland cause I’m on a detour thru your mind,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">blasting by way of UFO to the wild planet – planet Claire where I</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bebop-frug in hero worship to a song for a future generation</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bebop-frug to a theme for a nude beach, me and 52 guys and 52 girls</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bikini here in Mesopotamia, 53 miles west Venus where</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bodies electro whammy! in an ultraviolet whammy kiss</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">basking where they say there’s a moon in the sky (called the moon)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">basking in the deep sleep trism of a dreamland,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bites of cake, rock lobster, and quiche Lorraine</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">barking spaced out synth boogie runnin’ around and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">breezin’ a revolution earth 6060-842 miles per groovy wig</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">baby so dance this mess around, cause we he, she</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">breaks for rainbows while hallucinating Pluto and you can</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bet this boy-girl from Ipanema goes to Greenland to escape the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bad influence of the devil in my car flashing legal tender like a</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bribe and trying to communicate his crazy channel z scheme a</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bad idea that is too much to think about, to close to a party pooper</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">broken a vision of kiss in a dead dry county hanging out with some dead-</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">beat cronies sucking away all the world’s green laughter in one</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">boiled breath of too much housework, ain’t it a shame… well give me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">back my man Fred, my Kate, my Cindy, my Keith and the late</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">boy wonder, Ricky cause I’m leaving my private Idaho and shagging on down to the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bohemian funplex, the intergalactic-interdimensional set way</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">back in the middle of a field Love Shack a giant future cosmic thing of</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">badass funhouse funplex summer of love good stuff cause I want to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">beach party and make love in the year 3000, Juliet of the spirits</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">blonde Debbie and every wig-adelic riff created by the original party</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">band, I want to stand in a hot corner and roam with my eyes wide open to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">brunette, blonde, red-headed bouffant bliss baby… Hey is that you Mo’ Dean well</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">brother get dancing now to the quantum cosmos keyboards and keep this party going.</span></div>
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<br /></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-35400474887858287332012-04-30T21:19:00.001-07:002012-04-30T21:20:36.039-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 30 - Work Poem<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sadly, today is the last day of April, which means this is the
last prompt I will be posting for National Poetry Month. I hope you have
enjoyed the challenge and encourage you to send your poems to <a href="mailto:wordparty@gmail.com">wordparty@gmail.com</a> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I also hope that you will come to the WordParty on May 15<sup>th</sup>
and read some of what you wrote during the challenge. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Let’s face it: writing poetry is hard work. Revising
that darn poem for the 23<sup>rd</sup> time, trying to find the right word, sound, rhythm, meaning, yes it can be challenging. But as poets know, the unnamable mystery, beauty, and magic that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">a poem can offer is so worth the work. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So, for this last prompt, write a “work” poem. Take it
however you like: don’t have a job but want one, did have a job but lost one,
have a job but hate or love it. Write about how you avoid work, or how you are
always late to work, or someone at work you admire or dislike. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">why am i doing this? Failure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to keep my work in order so as</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be able to find things</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to paint the house</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to earn enough money to live on</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to reorganize the house so as</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be able to paint the house &</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be able to find things and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">earn enough money so as</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be able to put books together</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to publish works and books</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to have time</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to answer mail & phone calls</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to wash the windows</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to make the kitchen better to work in</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to have the money to buy a simple radio</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to listen to while working in the kitchen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to know enough to do grownups work in the world</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to transcend my attitude</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to an enforced poverty</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be able to expect my checks</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to arrive on time in the mail</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to not always expect that they will not</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to forget my mother's attitudes on humility or</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to continue</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to assume them without suffering</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to forget how my mother taunted my father</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">about money, my sister about i cant say it</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">failure to forget mother and father enough</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be older, to forget them</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to forget my obsessive uncle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to remember them some other way</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to remember their bigotry accurately</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to cease to dream about lions which always is</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to dream about them, I put my hand in the lion's mouth</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to assuage its anger, this is not a failure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to notice that's how they were; failure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to repot the plants</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be neat</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to create & maintain clear surfaces</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to let a couch or a chair be a place for sitting down</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">and not a table</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to let a table be a place for eating & not a desk</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to listen to more popular music</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to learn the lyrics</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to not need money so as</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be able to write all the time</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to not have to pay rent, con ed or telephone bills</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to forget parents' and uncle's early deaths so as</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to be free of expecting care; failure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to love objects</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to find them valuable in any way; failure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to preserve objects</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to buy them and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to now let them fall by the wayside; failure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to think of poems as objects</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to think of the body as an object; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to believe; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to know nothing; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to know everything; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to remember how to spell failure; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to believe the dictionary & that there is anything</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to teach; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to teach properly; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to believe in teaching</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to just think that everybody knows everything</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">which is not my failure; I know everyone does; failure</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to see not everyone believes this knowing and</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to think we cannot last till the success of knowing</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to wash all the dishes only takes ten minutes</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to write a thousand poems in an hour</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to do an epic, open the unwashed window</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to let in you know who and</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to spirit thoughts and poems away from concerns</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to just let us know, we will</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to paint your ceilings & walls for free</span></div>
</div>
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<br />The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-40431053556123969502012-04-29T23:19:00.001-07:002012-04-29T23:23:11.061-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 29 - Memory Poem<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Day 29</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Memory</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Write about an event you see differently now that a little time has passed. Perhaps you have grown in some way that makes you see the situation differently. Perhaps not. What and how do you see the situation now? Has the memory faded or is it still clear as daylight?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps the event is ....the time you called up an ex-boyfriend after 5 margaritas to tell him what you REALLY think about his new girlfriend, listening to gangster rap while at your grandmother's house, your wedding, a friend's wedding, birth, death, anything really goes here!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Swoon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by James Tate</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">One of Daniela's breasts fell out of her blouse</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">during dinner in our favorite restaurant. I liked</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">looking at it and didn't say anything. The waiter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">liked looking at it, too, and just smiled. The other</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">diners tried not to stare, but some of the men couldn't</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">help themselves. Daniela takes a certain pride in her </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">breasts, so perhaps it wasn't an accident. I knew I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">should say something to her, but i was also getting</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">really turned on. It was as if I had never met this </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">woman before. The public aspect of breast exposure</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">had a mystery to it that I couldn't name. I said,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"The fileto tre pepe was exceptionally good tonight."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I stared at her breast as if it were about to speak.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"The gnocchi was delicious," it said. "You're looking </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">especially beautiful tonight," I said. "It's good</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">to get out and see the people," it said. Daniela</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">had gone into a swoon or trance of some kind, and the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">breast had taken over. When the waiter came for the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bill, he said to Daniela's breast, "Very nice to see you tonight."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The breast blushed, gently swaying in the candlelight. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sleeper Wave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Ingrid </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The chill was damp, deep
in your bones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">there simply was no
warming up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Memorial Day at Dillon’s
Beach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">was filled with grey
hues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the sky darkening <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">sand cool to the touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">salt in the air,
everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the sea a darker shade
than the sky,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the sea like a rabid dog <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">waves foaming at the
mouth along the shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My family members never
seemed to notice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the froth and intensity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I ran up the beach <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">playing in the dunes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">They turned their backs
to her,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">and she raged, higher and
higher in the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The water was a wall
coming toward us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I screamed “LOOK OUT”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">but no one listened to a
5 year old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">it overtook, swallowed
them like small fish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I sucked in my cheeks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">jumped up and down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">held my breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">counted 1-2-3-4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">they were all still
there, when the water receded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Laughing. They were
laughing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My mother with her head
swung all the way back, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">her wild and free belly
laugh, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">wobbling on the wet sand
like a drunkard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Aunt & Uncle dripping
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">with the sea’s ravishing
act, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">one helping the other up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Missing-in-action, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">my Father’s red and white
plastic flip-flop <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the cheap kind from
Walgreens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">eaten by the ferocious
jowls of an angry sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-86371313147539399622012-04-29T22:29:00.000-07:002012-04-29T22:29:42.907-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 28 - Heroic Poetry<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Day 28</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Little Heroes = Big Poems</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Bear</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I like it when a flower or little tuft of grass grows through the crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic." -George Carlin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Write a poem about something really small that you find heroic. Write about it using "large heroic" language. This is a chance to really run wild with hyperbole.</span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-7546225298798017492012-04-27T13:51:00.002-07:002012-04-27T13:52:46.135-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 27 - Seasonal Poem<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 27</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Seasonal Poem</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Today's prompt is: write a seasonal poem. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps you are inspired by or depressed by a certain season. We all know<span class="description"> "April is the cruelest month" according to </span>T.S. Eliot in "The Wasteland." Or perhaps you are delighted by spring and summer months floating our way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few examples to get you started:<span class="description"><br /></span></span></div>
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<div class="tab-content active" id="poem-top" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<h1>
<span style="font-size: large;">[in Just-]<br />By E. E. Cummings</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span class="author"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings"></a> </span></span>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">in Just- </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">spring when the world is mud- </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">luscious the little </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">lame balloonman </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">whistles far and wee </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">and eddieandbill come </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">running from marbles and </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">piracies and it's </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">spring </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>
<br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">when the world is puddle-wonderful </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>
<br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">the queer </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">old balloonman whistles </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">far and wee </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">and bettyandisbel come dancing </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">from hop-scotch and jump-rope and </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">it's </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">spring </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> goat-footed </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">balloonMan whistles </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">far </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wee </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Every day You Play with the Light of the Universe</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">by Pablo Neruda</span></b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Every day you play with the light of the universe.<br />
Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water.<br />
You are more than this white head that I hold tightly<br />
as a cluster of fruit, every day, between my hands.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You are like nobody since I love you.<br />
Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.<br />
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?<br />
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window.<br />
The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish.<br />
Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them.<br />
The rain takes off her clothes.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The birds go by, fleeing.<br />
The wind. The wind.<br />
I can contend only against the power of men.<br />
The storm whirls dark leaves<br />
and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You are here. Oh, you do not run away.<br />
You will answer me to the last cry.<br />
Cling to me as though you were frightened.<br />
Even so, at one time a strange shadow ran through your eyes.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle,<br />
and even your breasts smell of it.<br />
While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies<br />
I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,<br />
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.<br />
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,<br />
and over our heads the gray light unwind in turning fans.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My words rained over you, stroking you.<br />
A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body.<br />
I go so far as to think that you own the universe.<br />
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells,<br />
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.<br />
I want<br />
to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.</span><br />
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</div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-39280889449873226352012-04-26T14:39:00.000-07:002012-04-26T14:39:07.276-07:00WordParty Challenge - Day 26 - Love poem<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 26 </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Love Poem <br />by Ingrid<br /><br />This prompt is meant to be playful: Write a love poem from your right hand to your left hand. Or, from your left hand to your right hand. What does one hand do for you that the other cannot? Vice Versa? Look at the appearance, skin, color, nails, scars, and write about it. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Which one is dominant? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A HAND </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">B</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>y Jane Hirshfield</b> </span></div>
<pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></pre>
<pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A hand is not four fingers and a thumb.</span></pre>
<pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nor is it palm and knuckles,
not ligaments or the fat's yellow pillow,
not tendons, star of the wristbone, meander of veins.
A hand is not the thick thatch of its lines
with their infinite dramas,
nor what it has written,
not on the page,
not on the ecstatic body.
Nor is the hand its meadows of holding, of shaping—
not sponge of rising yeast-bread,
not rotor pin's smoothness,
not ink.
The maple's green hands do not cup
the proliferant rain.
What empties itself falls into the place that is open.
A hand turned upward holds only a single, transparent question.
Unanswerable, humming like bees, it rises, swarms, departs.</span></pre>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>MY FATHER'S LEFT HAND</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">By David Bottoms</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes my old man’s hand flutters over his knee, flaps </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />in crazy circles, and falls back to his leg. <br /><br />Sometimes it leans for an hour on that bony ledge. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />And sometimes when my old man tries to speak, his hand waggles </span><span style="font-size: large;">in the air, chasing a word, then perches again <br />on the bar of his walker or the arm of a chair. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />Sometimes when evening closes down his window and rain </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />blackens into ice on the sill, it trembles like a sparrow in a storm. <br /><br />Then full dark falls, and it trembles less, and less, until it’s still. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-50558609075766163092012-04-25T10:21:00.001-07:002012-04-25T10:22:49.609-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 25 - Bar Poem<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 25</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Bear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bar Poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Write a bar poem of no more than 25 lines where
you meet a fictional/mythological/historical/character(s) for drinks.<br /><br />
Is it a modern day dive bar or a old-time pub? What do you and your
compatriots drink and discuss? Are you talking, playing darts
or pool? Dancing? Making out? All of the above?</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Here are some ideas to get you going:</span></div>
<ul style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you go to a bar with Miss Piggy and she gets into a jealousy driven fight with
another woman.</span>
</li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">
Maybe you meet Mary Poppins at a pub and she feels completely out of place and
says nothing sipping on her Irish coffee.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">
Maybe you go to a sushi bar with Izanami and she goes into a drunken rage
because people stopped worshiping her for Buddha.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">
Maybe you meet Richard Feynman at a bar who spends the evening correcting all
your errors.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">
Maybe you spend the evening being condescended to by T.S. Eliot.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">
Maybe you and Benjamin Franklin people watch at a tavern and make snarky
comments.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">
Maybe a Galileo marvels at the new technologies of a present day bar.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;">
Title the poem with the name of the bar (I.E. At The Pie 'n' Mash, At The Elbo
Room etc)</span>
</div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-27653913707987045542012-04-24T14:50:00.002-07:002012-04-25T10:11:34.906-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 24 - Recycle a Line<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 24</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Recycle a Line</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Ingrid </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This prompt is inspired by a longtime WordParty friend & poet, EK Keith. Every year she takes a poem-a-day writing challenge. This year she's not only writing daily, but using one line from the previous day's poem and writing a new poem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, like an exquisite corpse poem, though I would rather call it recycled poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the prompt:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Take a line or lines from any of the previous poems you've written during the challenge, and write a new poem! You can use multiple poems and/or lines. </span></div>
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<![end--><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />Worrying about
the Future</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by E.K. Keith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">April 22 and 23 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an infinitely
expanding universe every bellybutton is the point of dead reckoning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as we drift as we
shift towards the future while we look at the still twinkling lights of long dead
stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stop worrying
about the future as I understand in a twinkling</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the overlap of
the future and the past is the present</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our hands touch </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm worrying about the future
again because the past failed to prepare me for the present</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I'd give anything for a time
machine with anti-lock brakes to keep us from crashing into the future like a
drunk on a joyride on a moonless night no headlights car crumpling fenders
buckling</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the smack the impact I swear I
don't know what happened and I never saw it coming</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Send your poems to wordparty@gmail.com</span></div>
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<br />The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-29410887473137832112012-04-23T16:10:00.004-07:002012-04-23T16:12:22.604-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 23 - Favorite Word or Letter<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 23</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Write a Favorite Word or Letter Poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all have them, favorite words, letters, phrases. Today's prompt invites you to write using those words and letters in a poem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some examples:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saying Things</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Marilyn Krysl</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three things quickly - pineapple, sparrowgrass, whale -<br />and then on to asbestos. What I want to say tonight is<br />words, the naming of things into their thing,<br />yucca, brown sugar, solo, the roll of a snare drum,<br />say something, say anything, you'll see what I mean.<br />Say windmill, you feel the word fly out from under and away.<br />Say eye, say shearwater, alewife, apache, harpoon,<br />do you see what I'm saying, say celery, say Seattle,<br />say a whole city, say San Jose. You can feel the word<br />rising like a taste on the palate, say<br />tuning fork, angel, temperature, meadow, silver nitrate,<br />try carbon cycle, point lace, helium, Micronesia, quail.<br />Any word - sa y it - belladonna, screw auger, spitball,<br />any word goes like a gull up and on its way,<br />even lead lifts like a swallow from the nest<br />of your tongue. Say incandescence, bonnet, universal joint,<br />lint - oh I invite you to try it. Say cold cream,<br />corydalis, corset, cotillion, cosmic dust,<br />you are all of you a generous and patient audience,<br />pilaster, cashmere, mattress, Washington pie,<br />say vise, inclinometer, enjambment, you feel your own voice<br />taking off like a swift, when you say a word you feel like<br />a gong that's been struck, to speak is to step out of your skin,<br />stunned. And you're a pulsar, finally you understand light<br />is both particle and wave, you can see it, as in<br />parlour - when do you get a chance to say parlour -<br />and now mackinaw, toad and ham wing their way<br />to the heaven of their thing. Say bellows, say sledge,<br />say threshold, cottonmouth, Russia leather,<br />say ash, picot, fallow deer, saxophone, say kitchen sink.<br />This is a birthday party for the mouth - it's better than ice cream,<br />say waterlily, refrigerator, hartebeest, Prussian blue<br />and the word will take you, if you let it,<br />the word will take you along across the air of your head<br />so that you're there as it settles into the thing it was made for,<br />adding to it a shimmer and the bird song of its sound,<br />sound that comes from you, the hand letting go<br />its dove, yours the mouth speaking the thing into existence,<br />this is what I'm talking about, this is called saying things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, The Fifteenth Letter of the Alphabet</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">by Ingrid Keir </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>for David
Meltzer who took the time to ask:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Do you have a
favorite letter?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, big letter </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sandwiched between N and P </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">suspended in alphabetic space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">groaned </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">during the sweating waves of passion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">under the tendrils of surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">your single never-ending ring</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">an infinite song, bellowing—</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">boredom, flickering white fuzzies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">behind the glass of the television.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Story of O</i>
read by lovers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wrapped in the slippery sheets of ecstasy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">zero, nada, zilch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you can make me feel low, low, low. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">heavy, weighty,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so much on my tight shoulders</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so much on my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that poem is quite intriguing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">can I hear a little more…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">yes like that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would not make it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">without your help</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">this vowel round and fat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, O, O,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to O you to death,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with words like POETRY,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Obama, Oprah, Ophelia, Oboe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ontario, Tip Toe, Vertigo, no-no,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">YoYo, Mistletoe, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O say can you see</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ommmmmmm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O, fifteenth letter of the alphabet, I ode you. </span></div>
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<br /></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-89151978310688588372012-04-23T15:58:00.003-07:002012-04-23T16:00:54.032-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 22 - Write an Ode<div style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 22</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Write an Ode </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Jennifer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Write an ode to a very odd, processed and unnatural food
item at the grocery store. Perhaps it is one you love, hate or may secretly like but are
afraid to admit. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /></span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-87284295899816683522012-04-20T15:57:00.000-07:002012-04-21T14:32:32.467-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Day 21 - Science-Fiction Poem<div class="tripane message content showqr" id="yui_3_2_0_1_13348613567675404" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" tabindex="0">
<span style="font-size: large;">Day 21</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Science-Fiction Poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Bear</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I
am an avid fan of good science fiction art especially city/landscapes and
recently I have been taking inspiration from them to write poems. The best science-fiction blends the
fantastical possibilities of the future with some comment on the human condition
so I challenge you to write some Sci-Fi poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“What
is Sci-Fi poetry? You know what they say about definitions—everybody has one.
To be sure, it is poetry (we'll leave <i><span style="font-style: normal;">that</span></i> definition to you), but it's poetry with
some element of <i><span style="font-style: normal;">speculation</span></i>—usually science fiction, fantasy, or
horror. Some folks include surrealism, some straight science.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="font-size: small;">From the Science Fiction Poetry Association</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look
at the series of pictures provided (or find your own) and really study one you take a liking to or
even a dislike to. Write a poem about that
future as though you are living in it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://pjdancing.com/Future/Future.html">http://pjdancing.com/Future/Future.html</a> </span>
<br />
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<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">You
can talk about the larger picture presented:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">How the landscape of Earth has
changed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">How the human race had to move because we destroyed our planet?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">What kind of future job you might have.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Where you are living in this scene.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Traveling to foreign planets.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Technology and its impact. </span></li>
</ul>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Or
you can zoom in on a window, a light, a door, an alley somewhere in the picture and imagine
a more domestic scene. Talk about what
is going on and try to tie the little scene to a larger idea.</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Is
there a lover’s quarrel going on?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A
drug deal?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A
business meeting?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Sex?
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Is
a family having dinner?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Is
a mad scientist trying to take over the world?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Did
the robot butler suddenly start question its existence? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Did the automated vacuum droid suck up the cat or your underwear? </span></li>
</ul>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Like
any form or style of poetry Sci-fi poetry comes in many voices and so here are some
examples to show you the myriad of directions you can take this prompt:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Old
Robots Are The Worst</span><br />
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
</div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Bruce
Boston</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Lurching
down the stairs,<br />
asking questions twice,<br />
pacing in lopsided circles<br />
as they speculate aloud<br />
on the cycles of man,<br />
the transpiration of tragedy,<br />
debating the industrial revolution<br />
and its ultimate unravelling<br />
in sonorous undertones. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">And
all the while<br />
they are talking and pacing<br />
and avoiding our calls,<br />
we must wait and listen,<br />
annoyed, yet with increasing<br />
wonder at the depth and breadth<br />
of their encyclopaedic knowledge,<br />
the strained eclectic range<br />
of their misunderstandings. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">And
all the while<br />
their tedious palaver grows<br />
more sophistic and abstruse,<br />
the nictitating shutters<br />
of their eyes send and receive<br />
signals we have yet to translate,<br />
a cyberglyph of a language<br />
composed of tics and winks<br />
and lightning exclamations. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">At
last they come to answer,<br />
to wheel us to the elevators,<br />
and you know, despite their<br />
incompetence and intransigence,<br />
beyond their endless babbling,<br />
one gets attached to the old things,<br />
inured to their clank and shuffle,<br />
accustomed to the slow caress<br />
of their crinkled rubber flesh.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">The Internet in Heaven </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Sara Polsky</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
morning heaven's cybercafe opens, you're among the first </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">who
line up outside, nostalgic for the days when you actually </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">paid
with a coin from the heavy foreign handful in your pocket, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">always
more than seemed fair for ten minutes. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">When
you sign on, my instant message service creaks like a door's hinges </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">not
oiled enough to admit a ghost. I don't remember </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">choosing
the setting, and changing it would be far easier </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">than
erasing the same sound from door or bone. But I don't. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">We
talk, through our fingers, of everyday things: </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">How
hard you find it to dress for the weather </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">in
heaven this week. How, at my office, birthday cakes now come </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">from
a bakery you never tried but would have loved. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">I
press the video button in vain, wanting to know without asking </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">whether
you carry tissues in the coins' old place in your pocket </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">in
case of tears as we type. I keep the light off, the brightness up, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">so
I can be sure both our faces are glowing.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The Mesozoic Tour Guide</span>
<br />
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Ken Lu </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Do
not pet the dinosaurs, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Or
try to feed them popcorn. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">They're
used to ferns and ginkgos, not </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gelatinized
angiosperms.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">If
baby theropods warble, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">It
means they like your yellow dress. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Keep
your arms inside at all times. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">This
is not a diorama.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Should
that ankylosaur charge, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Poof</i>—automatically we'll </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Jump
a few million years ahead </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">To
catch the earliest birds.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Let's
camp on that hill tonight, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Under
younger stars. Instead </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Of
Orion, which won't gel till </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Next
eon, we'll look for Bronto.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'll
go slow, to give you a chance </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">For
some majestic pictures. But </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Where
or when was that turn to see </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
nesting pterodactyl pair?</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Oh,
forgive me. I'm distracted. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">It's
all because of my husband. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Fifty-six
tours ago, he left </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
trail to chase a dragonfly</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">As
big as our cat. "Wonderful!" </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">He
shouted, and disappeared </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Through
a strand of fiddlehead ferns. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">I
have not seen him since</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">This Apocalypse</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Andrea Blythe</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">All
the clocks stop at midnight. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">A
butterfly flaps its wings, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">and
they shred under the brunt force </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">of
shifting poles. White-jacketed scientists </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">in
white rooms stand passive as two colliding atoms </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">give
birth to a black hole—ravenous child </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">that
drinks and drinks, and is never sated. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">An
improbable combination of zeroes and ones </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">creates
silicon sentience; every computer </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">experiences
epiphany; every machine begins </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">to
erase the futile gestures of humanity. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Saucers
hang like lazy silver cigars, each full </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">of
little grey aliens with little grey zap guns. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
dead get up, take a stroll, and famished from their repose, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">crack
open skulls like walnuts. The four horsemen </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">(those
real live cowboys) ride in, whooping, hollering, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">and
make a great ruckus on their express train steeds. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">A
meteor swings in, joins the hullabaloo; the sun swells </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">and
bursts with pride; and mushroom clouds bloom like poppies. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile,
Christ and Muhammad slice open wormholes, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">and
usher refugees to salvation. Buddha sits serene </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">on
a Himalayan mountaintop, grooving to the poetry </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">of
unraveling reality, palms open as if to offer </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">a
last chance at transcendence. Beneath the curve </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">of
a porcelain blue tsunami, Cthulhu stretches </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">his
long, long limbs and crawls out of bed. And in Tokyo, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Godzilla
offers his home town a final flaming kiss goodnight.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">11th Hour Sonnet</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Andrew Kozma</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
sheets are filled with dog hair, but the dogs </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">are
missing. All the doors are open. The earth </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">is
rejecting the rain. Water tests our worth </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">through
slow disintegration. All the cogs</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">of
our lives have broken teeth. Nothing holds </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">its
place no matter how hard you nail it down. </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Water
lips the steps. The sun scolds </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">us
with its absence. Out the window, the town</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">stretches
like a corpse no one will claim, and yet, </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">though
the rising water smells of sulfur, and the phones </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">are
severed ears, you wilt under the net </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">of
my hands as if these troubles are our loans</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">on
life come back to give evidence. Who cares what they say? </span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Even
we don't know what we've done. How could they?</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">Undercover</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Bear</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">In
upper left of the cover a yellow window light clings like tree sap</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">to
a redwood spire of future-metal angled over the blue-black city like</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">a
cyborg brontosaurus necking to devour the future-cityscape horizon.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">You
never give this square beacon of humanity credence or voice.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">It
is one in a swarm of fireflies swarming future-towers and landing pads,</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">and
fogged in ports, and dark future-alleyways, common like air.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">On
the other side of the pane a couple fighting over dirty dishes isn’t really</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">arguing
over the burnt pan and unwashed spoons it is something outside</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">the
ruined casserole, maybe it is infidelity, maybe addiction, maybe it is outside</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">the
apartment; crime, poverty, revolution maybe, maybe it is larger</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">than
even the sprout of future-world iron and future-world steel, maybe</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">it
is the end of their world and all grievances and regrets have reared up</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">in
an army of cybernetic emotions
programmed to destroy the other.</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">But
you only ever notice the flat spheroid starship sailing smoothly</span></div>
<div class="yiv161035617MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: large;">like
a stingray across the foreground to the skyline’s fading cerulean dusk.</span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day 20</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Commuter Poem</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Jennifer & Ingrid</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">When we lived in NYC, we were always happy to see <i>poetry in motion</i> while riding the subway. In March, the NY MTA and the Poetry Society of America relaunched the poems inside the subway cars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See here: <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/by_popular_demand/">http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/by_popular_demand/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's prompt is to write a Commuter poem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What do you see and experience while driving, biking, walking, riding the bus or train, from here to there? What images move you? What do you see around you? Take us along and help us see the commute through your eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">“Allen
Ginsberg, inspired by the traditional Japanese haiku—three lines of five, seven
and five syllables—invented the “American Sentence,” one sentence of seventeen
syllables…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>—</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ordinary Genius:
Guide for the Poet Within </i>by Kim Addonizio</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">What is
essential when writing haiku or American Sentences is a brief moment of sudden
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American Sentence is a quick snapshot that allows the reader into the moment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Write a series
of American Sentences or Haiku after taking a walk in your neighborhood for 30
mins. What images and actions come to the surface? What can you tell the reader
about your surroundings?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Here are some
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Four skinheads stand in the streetlight
rain chatting under an umbrella.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">—Allen
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Rainy night on Union square, full moon. Want more
poems? Wait till I’m dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">—Allen
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">He speeds past fatal car crash site in general
direction of Venus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">—Paul E Nelson</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">That’s not a fly on the lip of the urinal –
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">The men at the car wash dry droplets—two red
towels windmill— record speed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">—Ingrid
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">And a famous
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">The old pond —<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"> a frog jumps in, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">sound of water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">—</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Matsuo Basho translated by Robert Hass<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Please email your American
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</span>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-53003863918491806792012-04-18T16:52:00.000-07:002012-04-18T16:52:06.154-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Day 18</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Deconstructing Cliches</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.susanmariebrowne.com/">Susan Browne</a> taught me you have to uncliche a <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1334792617_1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">cliche</span>.<br /><br />And since I have often enjoyed listing cliches in my poems I thought why not work with that as a prompt?<br /><br />So follow the link:<br /><span class="" id="lw_1334792617_2"><a href="http://www.westegg.com/cliche/random.cgi">http://www.westegg.com/cliche/random.cgi</a></span><br /><br />You should see 10 random cliches before you. Now, you have two choices.<br /><br />1. Take one of these cliches and use it as the title of your poem and then examine that cliche looking up the origins of that saying or questioning it.<br /><br />For example with "<span id="yui_3_2_0_21_1334787642148552" style="line-height: 14px;">Not enough room to swing a cat" some questions to ask before writing the poem might be:<br /><br />How much room does one need to swing a cat?</span>What kind of cat are you swinging?<br />Why are we swinging a cat at all?<br />Why is the cat letting us swing it?<br /><br />Another example is "The road to nowhere" and <span style="line-height: 14px;">some questions to ask before writing the poem might be:</span><br /><br />Isn't nowhere still somewhere?<br />Where is the road going? To the middle of nowhere?<br />Where is this road located?<br />Who is on it?<br />What is on the side of the road?<br /><br />2. Use all 10 cliches in your poem to illustrate some larger idea about the human condition.</span>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-78592457647223013152012-04-17T10:43:00.000-07:002012-04-17T10:43:11.719-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #17<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Day 17</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Erasures</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Erasure poetry is created by taking text and editing it into a poem. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A few years ago I endeavored to do this with Poet & Editor of Wave Books, Joshua Beckman as a nontraditional interview and his poetic response. (Unfortunately this info was housed on our old website so I cannot link to it, but if you would a copy of the interview & pdf of the response, please email me and I'll forward it).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Wave Books has a great method for doing this online on their <a href="http://8.12.36.246/erasures/">website</a>. Another option would be to take an actual text and paint or whiteout the words on the page you don't want to use for the poem. I've seen poets make visual poetry in this way, using the book as an art poetry piece. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Most of all, have fun! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Cheers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you were a musical instrument, what would you be and why? This prompt of course ties in to the theme of celebrating Jazz Appreciation and National Poetry Month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, what would it be? A bazooka (yes it is an instrument), a itsy bitsy ukelele, harmonica, a gigantic bass, a sexy sax, geeetar or some congas dying to be thump thump thumpppppped?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What songs would you play? Where would you like to be played?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This prompt is inspired by Geordie's reading of Jayne Cortez' poem "If the Drum is a Woman" last month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, don't forget to bring your poems to our open mic tomorrow night (Tues 4/17) and show us your stuff! I'll still be posting writing prompts through the end of April. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, send 'em to wordparty@gmail.com if you would like to share. I will post some of the goodies once the month is finished. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With love & Poetry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ingrid </span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-80745423993693385922012-04-15T22:43:00.000-07:002012-04-15T22:45:25.591-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #15<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And became famous</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> The Horse With Violin In Mouth</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The vault of rock is painted with hands,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of men’s palms, no more,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">No other picture. There’s no one to say</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Religion or magic, or made their tracings</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In the idleness of art; but over the division of years these careful</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Saying: “Look: we also were human; we had hands, not paws. All hail</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You people with the cleverer hands, our supplanters</span></span></div>
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</div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-14400513850020393192012-04-15T22:25:00.000-07:002012-04-15T22:27:31.590-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #14<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Day 14</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Write an Ode</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The dictionary says an ode is "typically a lyric poem addressing a particular subject in an elevated style." Many famous poems have been written in this way, and Neruda has an entire book of odes which looks at simple items like the tomato, a box of tea, the honeybee. In short an ode is a way to examine and express your admiration for something or someone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Write an ode and have fun with it. Examine the texture and life of whatever it is you are examining!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">See these examples:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ode to the Bee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">by Pablo Neruda</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Plentiness of the bee!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Coming and going</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">from orange, blue and yellow</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">from the softest softness of the world -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">she hastily enters on business the flower crown</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and exits with golden coat and yellow boots.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Perfect with a waist of lines of dark bands</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">with tiny always busy head and watery wings</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">she enters scented windows, opens silken doors</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">enters the sanctum of the most fragrant love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">stumbles over small droplets of diamond dew</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and from all visited houses she takes mysterious honey,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">rich and heavy, of dense fragrance</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and liquid light that falls down in drops</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">until she reaches the bee palace</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and deposes the product of the flower, of the flight</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and of the seraphic, secret sun.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Plentiness of the bee!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Sacred elevation of the unity,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">palpitating school!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Sonorous buzzing multitudes that tune the nectar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">passing swiftly drops of ambrosia -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">it is the siesta of the summer of green and of the solitudes of Osorno.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Above the sun stitches his lances in the snow, lighting the volcanoes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">wide as the oceans is the earth, blue is the space</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">but there is something trembling,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">it is the burning heart of the summer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">the heart of multiplied honey,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">the noisy bee in the living comb of golden flights.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Bees, pure selfless workers,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">thin, flashing proletarians, perfect fearsome militia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">that in war attack with suicidal stings</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">buzz, buzz over the earth’s realms</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">family of gold, windy multitudes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">shake the fire of the flowers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">the thirst of the stamens</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">the sharp thread of fragrances</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">that unite the days and make the honey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">surpassing the wet continents</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and the farthest islands of the sky of the West</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Yes:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Let the wax raise green statues</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">let the honey overflow in infinite tongues</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">let the ocean be a comb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and the Earth be a tower and tunic of flowers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Let the world be a cascade,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">magnificent head of hair,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">unceasing growth of Beedom!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ode on a Grecian Urn</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Of deities or mortals, or of both,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,</span></div>
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Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:</div>
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Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave</div>
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Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;</div>
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Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,</div>
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Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;</div>
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She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,</div>
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For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!</div>
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Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed</div>
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Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;</div>
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And, happy melodist, unwearied,</div>
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For ever piping songs for ever new;</div>
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More happy love! more happy, happy love!</div>
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For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,</div>
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For ever panting, and for ever young;</div>
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All breathing human passion far above,</div>
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That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,</div>
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A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.</div>
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Who are these coming to the sacrifice?</div>
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To what green altar, O mysterious priest,</div>
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Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,</div>
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And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?</div>
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What little town by river or sea shore,</div>
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Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,</div>
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Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?</div>
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And, little town, thy streets for evermore</div>
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Will silent be; and not a soul to tell</div>
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Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.</div>
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O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede</div>
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Of marble men and maidens overwrought,</div>
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With forest branches and the trodden weed;</div>
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought</div>
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As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!</div>
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When old age shall this generation waste,</div>
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Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe</div>
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Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,</div>
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all</div>
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Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."</div>
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</div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-67237238810909624842012-04-13T10:58:00.058-07:002012-04-13T11:31:02.400-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #13<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 13</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Visual Poetry</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">by Ingrid</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> A couple of years ago I began deviating from only writing poetry on the page. See here for the specifics: </span><a href="http://web.me.com/ingridkeir/Site/Ingrid_Keir/Entries/2009/5/21_Visual_Poetry.html" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ingrid Keir</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I participated in the 1st Visual Poetry & Performance Festival at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco. The poets and artists displaying poetry in varying ways absolutely thrilled and excited me. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of the organizers of this festival, Adrian Arias, is a talented and prolific artist, poet, photographer, painter, drawer and father. He has taken poetry to all-encompassing route that can include language, photography, drawing, and even homemade ceviche (as some of you may recall from past readings). His work and process I find fascinating, take a look at his website and blog for some inspiration: </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://poemofthedayadrian.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://poemofthedayadrian.blogspot.com/</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://adrianarias.net/poetry" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://adrianarias.net/poetry</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For today's prompt, please create a visual poem. Here are some additional examples or suggestions. Feel free to come up with your own!</span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Form the words on the page into a symbol </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A photograph and word combination</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A natural element spelling out a verse </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://www.northbeachcontrarian.com/agneta_falk.html" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.northbeachcontrarian.com/agneta_falk.html</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_21_visual_examples.html" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_21_visual_examples.html</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://www.concentric.net/%7Elndb/patchen/patchclr.htm" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.concentric.net/~lndb/patchen/patchclr.htm</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeverse/pool/" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeverse/pool/</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><a href="http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/works.html" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/works.html</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Most importantly have fun. Please forward your submissions to </span><a href="mailto:wordparty@gmail.com" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">wordparty@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-87403956056330351512012-04-12T10:34:00.001-07:002012-04-12T10:45:03.725-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompts #12<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After many years of writing free verse and spoken word, I found something curious: I enjoy form. I like the rules and the specifics being dictated. Writing this way is like solving a puzzle. Now you can take it or leave it, make this as difficult or easy as you choose, but these next few prompts are meant to challenge you with the limitations of form. I'm including a few examples as well for you to reference. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prompt #12</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sonnet</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Write a Shakespearan sonnet, or some variation of a sonnet. If you want to make it particularly challenging, write it in iambic pentameter.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's review some of the features of a sonnet:</span></div><ul style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">14 lines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A volta, or turn toward the end of the poem </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Iambic Pentameter (but you can also write a great sonnet without it)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg</span></li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some examples:</span></div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SONNET 43<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">by William Shakespeare</span></span></h3><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, <br />
For all the day they view things unrespected; <br />
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, <br />
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed. <br />
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, <br />
How would thy shadow's form form happy show <br />
To the clear day with thy much clearer light, <br />
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so! <br />
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made <br />
By looking on thee in the living day, <br />
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade<br />
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!<br />
All days are nights to see till I see thee,<br />
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><h2 class="title" itemprop="itemreviewed" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">LUCIFER AT THE STARLITE</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">—after George Meredith</span></span></h2><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Kim Addonizio</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Here's my bright idea for life on earth:<br />
better management. The CEO <br />
has lost touch with the details. I'm worth<br />
as much, but I care; I come down here, I show<br />
my face, I'm a real regular. A toast:<br />
To our boys and girls in the war, grinding<br />
through sand, to everybody here, our host<br />
who's mostly mist, like methane rising<br />
from retreating ice shelves. Put me in command.<br />
For every town, we'll have a marching band.<br />
For each thoroughbred, a comfortable stable;<br />
for each worker, a place beneath the table.<br />
For every forward step a stumbling.<br />
A shadow over every starlit thing. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE ANGER OF WOMEN</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Garrison Keillor </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="fullpost">The anger of women pervades the rooms<br />
Like a cold snap, and you wait for the thaw<br />
To open the window and air out the anger fumes,<br />
And then a right hook KA-POW to the jaw!<br />
And she says three jagged things about you<br />
And then it's over. She bursts into tears,<br />
The storm spent, the sky turns sky-blue.<br />
But a man's heart can hurt for many years.<br />
I have found the anger of women unbearable.<br />
And when my goddesses have cursed the day<br />
They met me and said those terrible<br />
Things, I folded my tent and stole away.<br />
I yielded to their righteous dominion<br />
And went off in search of another opinion.</span></span><br />
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<h3><span style="font-size: large;">FOUNTAIN PEN<br />
by Ingrid Keir</span></h3><span style="font-size: large;">A faded blue box full of dusty bones, <br />
or so I presumed until I eased the lid off <br />
to find gleaming tools, colored gemstones.<br />
My Grandfather’s fountain pens—cast-offs<br />
from a legendary man I know little about. <br />
I hold each slim piece, gently draw off the cap—<br />
the arrow shaped nib, black ink spout,<br />
eighteen-karat gold, the point enwrapped.<br />
The distinct sound his pen makes on paper—<br />
like a dog’s toenails scratching hardwood.<br />
This slim tip—perhaps was his biographer,<br />
ink sucked to the automatic cartridge like blood. <br />
I dream of knowing the secrets within his pen,<br />
what I’d learn if his thoughts were actually written.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="fullpost"> </span> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And these do not follow the Shakespearan form, but I had to throw them in for good measure:</span></div><h2 class="title" itemprop="itemreviewed" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BLACKBERRY EATING</b> <br />
by Galway Kinnell </span></h2><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I love to go out in late September<br />
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries<br />
to eat blackberries for breakfast,<br />
the stalks very prickly, a penalty<br />
they earn for knowing the black art<br />
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them<br />
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries<br />
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,<br />
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words<br />
like strengths or squinched,<br />
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,<br />
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well<br />
in the silent, startled, icy, black language<br />
of blackberry -- eating in late September. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SONNET IN PRIMARY COLORS</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Rita Dove<br />
<br />
This is for the woman with one black wing </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect<br />
among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,<br />
who painted herself a present--<br />
wildflowers entwining the plaster corset<br />
her spine resides in the romance of mirrors.<br />
<br />
Each night she lay down in pain and rose </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
to her celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,<br />
Lenin and Marx and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1334251432_2">Stalin</span> arrayed at the footstead.<br />
And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting<br />
like children along the graveled walks of the garden, Diego's<br />
love a skull in the circular window<br />
of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><h2 class="title" itemprop="itemreviewed" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SONNET XVII<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
by Pablo Neruda </span></span></h2><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,<br />
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.<br />
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,<br />
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.<br />
<br />
I love you as the plant that never blooms<br />
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;<br />
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,<br />
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.<br />
<br />
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.<br />
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;<br />
so I love you because I know no other way<br />
<br />
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,<br />
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,<br />
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-48223103731090889002012-04-12T10:29:00.003-07:002012-04-12T10:29:49.598-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #11<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prompt #11</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Bear</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Music Collection Poem<br />
</span> <div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Go to your music collection and find one your favorite music albums (it helps if the album has interesting song titles).<span> </span>Let’s use The Beatles ‘Rubber Soul’ as an example.</span></div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The number of stanzas is the number of words in the album title.<span> </span>Rubber Soul means this poem will have 2 stanzas.</span></div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The number of lines in each stanza is equal to the number of words in the song title of your favorite track on the album.<span> </span>For me it would be ‘In My Life’ so each stanza will have three lines. </span></div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The number of words per line must equal half the number of tracks on the album rounded down.<span> </span>So with 14 tracks on Rubber Soul each line will have 7 words.<span> </span>An album with thirteen tracks would round down to have 6 lines in each stanza.</span></div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Each stanza must contain one word from each song title in album order.<span> </span>Avoid using bland words like it, him, has, them… where possible and use the more interesting words.</span></div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="yiv1978305471MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If possible use the album title as the title of your poem.</span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-74294953333409518382012-04-10T17:00:00.002-07:002012-04-12T09:22:40.421-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #10<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Day #10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">List Poem</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">by Ingrid</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">List poems are one of my favorite forms. Here are some examples with varying, lengths, styles and ideas for list poems:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><ul style="color: white;"><li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Signage on the highway (don’t do this while behind the wheel)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Facebook or Twitter messages</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Items/label in your pantry and/or bathroom</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Questions </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Take lines from various poems/songs </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Business jargon </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Academic jargon</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Warnings your parents gave you </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I love these Richard Loranger poems:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I WANT A POETRY and WE HAVE TO BECOME HUMAN</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.esquemag.org/2012/02/04/richard-loranger/">http://www.esquemag.org/2012/02/04/richard-loranger/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">THINGS NOT TO SAY TO A PREGNANT WOMAN</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">by Ingrid Keir</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Are you having twins?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">At which hospital are you going to give birth?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">When are you going to pop?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Looking at you makes me tired.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Is that baby here yet?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I really don’t like that name. It reminds me of an old person. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Wow you are big as a house!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">My friend was in labor for 40 hours and had a 12 pound baby. You should call her to talk about her labor experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">You look really uncomfortable. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">How much longer until that baby arrives?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">You are just acting this way because you are hormonal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Can I touch your bump?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Wow your boobs are huge! Hopefully they won’t get too saggy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Should you be drinking that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Do you know what you’re having? Is it what you wanted?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Are your ankles swollen yet?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">You ARE waddling aren’t you!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">TO-DO LIST</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">by Jennifer Barone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;"><br />
pay rent<br />
lose 10 pds.<br />
do laundry<br />
open a 401k<br />
cash checks<br />
figure out what to do with your life<br />
sign up for meditation <br />
meditate<br />
become a better listener<br />
call your friends back<br />
take italian lessons <br />
get italian citizenship<br />
move to italy<br />
stop obsessing over that boy<br />
type up and organize your poetry<br />
organize your whole house,<br />
especially your papers<br />
go to the dentist<br />
try to relax<br />
practice yoga<br />
learn ayurveda<br />
get to sleep at a decent hour<br />
stop being late to work<br />
eat healthier foods<br />
drink more water<br />
take your multi-vitamin<br />
fix your portfolio<br />
quit your job<br />
stop worrying so much<br />
get a pedicure<br />
sell all your stuff on eBay<br />
get health insurance<br />
update your website<br />
become a samurai warrior<br />
practice positive thinking<br />
stop being so negative<br />
buy a plane ticket</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><h1 style="color: white; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">GOOD NEWS</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">by Dan Brady</span></div><h1 style="color: white; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><h1 style="color: white; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">I want some good news people</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">No, not that “born again” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Bible humping bullpucky you’ve heard tell of … nope</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want good news … and not just for a minute here or there</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Like you get during a KPFA fundraiser</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Not what you get on Faux News during a slow day</span></div><div class="Heading11" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">No, by God I want the real deal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want a whole workweek stuffed full of it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">With each book-ending weekend fit to bursting </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to know what it’s like turn on the TV and feeeeel good</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I wanna feeeeeel good very time I think about … anything I can think of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to be double dipped, full up, schmeared, with good news</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I tell you I want to look at the sky</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And not think about “chem-trail” conspiracies</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to feel the wind in my hair</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Without wondering what kind of toxic crap is being carried along in it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">From the sewers of India, China’s deserts or Japan’s nukes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to wake up, turn on NPR and hear about wonderful things</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Expanding forests, glaciers coming back along with fish populations</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Safe cell phones that pay YOU to use them</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Free food being given out, rent reductions running rampant</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear Obama talk</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">About giving back trillions of dollars to the people</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Closing Guantanamo, giving up on nuclear power</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Bringing troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Balochistan,Turkmenistan, Nepal, Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico and the other 123 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear him go on about perp walking Bush</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And his whole suffering asshole crew</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Placing a stay on every act that rim jobbing bunghumper ever made</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">That prisons are being shuttered </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Because millions of people have decided to care of each other</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">That godless heathen multi-nationals are hiring shit loads of people</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Because they’re bringing rock solid, plan your retirement on them</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">God blessed union jobs back the good old US of A and by the millions</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear about green houses, green cars, green factories,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Green make up, green jobs and a greening self-sustaining world</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear about how every person entering the job market</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Says the same ding-dong thing,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">“Gee, I don’t know which of all these jobs I want?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">AND “Say, why don’t all you companies take a number for crissakes!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And, mind you, I want the good news to go on every frickin’day</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear how millions are giving up smoking </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Taking up Pilates, volunteering for charity work</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">That everyone has two chickens in every pot</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">A good, well-built, American car in every garage</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And by that I mean one that gets 500 miles per fuel up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Takes a 50 mile an hour crash with no damage</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Or injury to its passengers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Last as long as you frickin’ want to keep it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And gets free tune-ups, brake jobs and tires while you own it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear about scenic passenger trains making a come back</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">How scientists are being listened to … Hello!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Got global warming on the run</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Replaced oil, nuclear power and natural gas</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Found a way to prevent alcoholism</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Using the cure for cancer that we already have </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And have begun to terra-form the Earth for god sakes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear day after day of good news</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">So that by the time the fourth day dawns</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I’ll have some idea of what life is like in a world that makes sense</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">So that I’ll be looking forward to the next damned day</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">So that I’ll be glad to wake up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Donate to good causes, of which there’ll be thousands </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And every one of them will be doing very well thank you very much</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want all the guns in the world to be turned in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Broken up and melted down to make … anything else!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear that every soldier, intel wonk, officer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Commando or insurgent</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Has renounced violence and are getting busy … </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Building shelters, planting trees, cleaning beaches </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Counseling hopeless, caring for the needy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Handing out bread, bringing in water</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Giving emergency care to the destitute </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Rescuing cats from trees and kissing babies</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I wanna see them all get busy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Fixing every leaky toilet, broken window, noisy refrigerator</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And every god blessed pothole in the known universe </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">That they are working with farmers to grow more food</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Unlocking potential, opening floodgates</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Applying bandages, splints and helping, helping helping!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear about bastard banksters making micro loans and giving grants</span></div><h1 style="color: white; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">That defense departments have been shut down!</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">That research and development funding</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Is going to making better computers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Cars, planes, trains, tractors, shoes, lights, batteries, houses, cities, colleges, schools, basketball and food courts!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear about better understanding</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Between religions, races, politicians, historical enemies</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I want to hear about borders being erased, hatreds evaporating</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Ignorance giving way … reason running rampant</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And every form of love being accepted by everyone everywhere!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">By god, I want a week of such good news</span></div><h1 style="color: white; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">As people have never ever, ever, EVER had</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">So when I go outside</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And get my free cup of fair trade, organic, sustainable coffee</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And an organic “everything” bagel with a wild caught salmon schmear</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Everyone will be walking about more than a bit dazed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">More than a bit confused </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">But each and every one will be happy, happy, happy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -27pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Hallelujah, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; margin-right: -27pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Brothers and sisters, but I yearn, dream and pray for such a week </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I say I want a week of good news</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">A flood, an ocean, a sky full of wonders </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">So that every memory of this time; this horrific, festering butt hole</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">This stupid-assed, jack shit, fucked up universally acclaimed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">And God awful world of unholy, rank, festering, pustulant oozing scabs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">Is gone. I say I want a week of good news, my friends </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">I say, I want a week of such good news</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: large;">That glory unbounded I know, I say, I just know, we all want to see!</span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-42277031693768511092012-04-09T16:56:00.000-07:002012-04-09T16:56:41.151-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #9<div style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Day #9</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instant Poetry by Dan Brady</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Objective: The poet will create a poem in 10 to 60 minutes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Materials needed: A pad, writing implement, preferably a pencil, a radio, a watch or clock with a sweep second hand and a timer. <br />
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Procedure: Tune the station to any talk station, though this is not a strict requirement. You have the clock where you can see it easily and the writing materials, the pencil and paper conveniently handy. You will set the timer for 5 minutes. </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you press the timer to start its countdown you watch the clock and every ten seconds write down whatever word is being said on the radio. As you can see talk radio may be easier than a music station. This procedure will create a list of 30 words. When the timer goes off stop.<br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now the variable instructions for creating a poem – from the most difficult to the easiest.<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Variation One: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You must use all the words, in the form spoken, in the order listed. You may add twice as many “other words” so that the total word length of the poem is 90 words. Extra special points or considerations if you can make it rhyme. Oh, yes, it has to have narrative sense. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Variation Two: You must use all the words, not in any particular order and you may change their form, from past to present, adding prefixes or suffixes and so forth. It does not have to rhyme. You are still limited to the 90 word length<br />
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Variation Three: You must use the words in any order or form, you are not limited to the number of words you may add. <br />
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</span></span>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-77321720421646038302012-04-08T11:13:00.002-07:002012-04-13T10:22:26.846-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge – Writing Prompt #7 and 8<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">It has been a busy weekend (it is my birthday AND Easter) so apologies that prompt </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">#7 is late! I hope you are keeping up with the challenge. If you’ve missed a day of writing, don’t worry just pick it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">up again today!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I’ll be posting some stellar responses we’ve been getting tomorrow. If you’d like to share your responses to any of our prompts, please email them to <a href="mailto:wordparty@gmail.com">wordparty@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Ingrid<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Prompt #7 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">by Ingrid<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Sit in a public location (a park, the student center, the parking lot at the gym) for 30 minutes. What do you notice, smell, hear? What can you invent about overheard conversations? Some of the best writing can come from these moments colored by the imagination. For example, the dog walker with the tangled leashes of 15 different pups, the couple yelling obscenities at one another while playing tennis in the park.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Prompt #8 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">by Jennifer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Write a poem about a lover who got away, or who you never culminated your affection for. Write about about what may have happened to you if you did.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div>The WordPartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826394483153439396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900441896549526292.post-10466637297785432252012-04-06T21:35:00.001-07:002012-04-12T10:40:54.280-07:00WordParty Poetry Challenge - Writing Prompt #6<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Day #6</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">by Bear</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Prompt: This prompt is inspired by the work of Carol Ann Duffy. She is a Scottish poet who writes in the voice of historic and fictional women, many whom often have famous husbands. Write a poem from the point of view of a historical women who had a more famous husband or brother. (i.e. Abigail Adams, Lil Armstrong, Marion Aldrin, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Constanze Mozart, Michelle Obama, Christopher Columbus' wife Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Lauren Bacall etc)</span><br />
<div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Two of the poems below are by Duffy. The first example is a poem from Shakespeare's Wife's perspective. The second is Miss Havisham from <i>Great Expectations</i>.</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Anne Hathaway</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">by Carol Ann Duffy</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">The bed we loved in was a spinning world<br />
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas<br />
where we would dive for pearls. My lover's words<br />
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses<br />
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme<br />
to his, now echo, assonance; his touch<br />
a verb dancing in the centre of a noun.<br />
Some nights, I dreamed he'd written me, the bed<br />
a page beneath his writer's hands. Romance<br />
and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.<br />
In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,<br />
dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -<br />
I hold him in the casket of my widow's head<br />
as he held me upon that next best bed.</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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I haven't wished him dead. Prayed for it<br />
so hard I've dark green pebbles<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#dark%20green%20pebbles" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a> for eyes,<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#ropes%20on%20the%20back%20of%20my%20hands" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">ropes on the backs of my hands I could strangle with.<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#Spinster" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days<br />
in bed<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#cawing%20Nooooo" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a> cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#the%20dress" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a><br />
yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;<br />
the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words.</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#some%20nights%20better" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a>Some nights better, the lost body over me,<br />
my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear<br />
then down till suddenly bite awake. Love's<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#bite%20awake" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a><a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#Love%27s%20hate" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">hate behind a white veil; a<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#red%20balloon" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a> red balloon bursting<br />
in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding cake.<br />
Give me a<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#male%20corpse" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a> male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.<a href="http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/havisham_commentary.htm#don%27t%20think%20it%27s%20only%20the%20heart" rel="nofollow" style="outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.</span></div><div class="yiv352465054MsoNoSpacing" style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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