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4 responses to “ODE Poem”

1. 

   gingerivers

   January 29, 2006 at 1:55 pm

   Wonderful poem Sharon!

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2. 

   Rachel

   January 29, 2006 at 5:16 pm

   This is wonderful! If I ever teach a class on odes again, I’d love for my students to read this.
   Have you read Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Common Things?

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3. 

   SB

   January 29, 2006 at 6:05 pm

   Thanks, both of you — and Rachel, I’m flattered. Of course you should always feel free to use any of my poems. And I don’t think I have read that Neruda — and I bet it’s in my bookcase.
   Sadly, I have to wait till next week . . .

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4. 

   Poetry

   June 9, 2007 at 11:23 am

   4 June 2007
   After the storm, my mind cleared.
   And a high wind arose and blew the tropics north.
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   running quartz crystals through a blender.
   sand through your engines.
   bubbles in your bays.
   estuaries reaching out toward forbidden seas…
   sand through your eyes.
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   5 June 2007
   Calm as baby’s breath
   as peaceful as the storm’s eye
   Clouds spread and drawn with rough strokes of stratospheric winds

   a warm and windy tropical day.

   7 June 2007
   Black water at dusk.
   Lighting on the horizon.
   Warm winds coming in across the darkening waters.
   A flash of white wings as an egret takes flight.
   And Thunder like God clearing his throat.
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   8 June 2007
   Morning star in the still of the clear, dark waters.
   a sky as clear eyed as a young girl.
   bruised and tattered storm remnants limp off in the gathering light.

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