poetry thursday
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Love 2
2. Love is a blustery fellow.He takes me on carnival rides, swings me through air like a doll. I’m a doll with strings; I’m a puppet.I fly, I fall, I twitch. Love is tall and thick and loud. He orders me about. I obey. I obey for the joy of it, for the thrill. Up… Continue reading
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Poetry Thursday
I’ve been thinking, again, of you and others. How something we don’t understand binds this universe together. That the dark matter of our brains may be what makes us who we are. How instinct, genetics, and experience weave together in a rope we may use to climb or tie or hang ourselves. Or others. How… Continue reading
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Poetry Thursday|Cam’s Poetry Meme
This week’s prompt was Cam’s poetry meme: 1. The first poem I remember reading/hearing/reacting to was … "Jabberwocky" is a poem (of nonsense verse) written by Lewis Carroll, and found as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). It is generally considered to be one of the… Continue reading
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Poetry Thursday
This week’s prompt was If these walls could talk: This house speaks. Floorboards groan, walls crack like lightening bolts. Windows insist Wash me! Snow- melt drips, drips,from the eves. Paintings proclaim blue, green, gold; they announce Alaska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania. Listen, you can hear wings: parakeets, iron angels, carved wood… Continue reading
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Poetry Thursday
This week’s prompt was to attend a reading, which I planned to do (of sorts) but the car wouldn’t start. Water in the gas line. So instead, let’s deconstruct yesterday’s Snapshot Poem, shall we? It seemed fine when I first posted it, but then … a little help from PoetryEtc and others, and a… Continue reading
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