Totally Optional Prompts
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Dog & Cat
Run! says the dog. Run! Run! Run! Bark woof grrr! No! says the cat. No! No! No! Hiss spit rrrllll! I’ll eat you! says the dog. I’ll have you for lunch! Claws! Teeth! says the cat. I’ll bloody your nose! You look tasty, says the dog. Yum yum yum! I’m muscle and bone, says… Continue reading
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Snapshot Poem 05 February 02008
Super Tuesday The citizenry is aroused. The citizenry is saying No! No! No!But that’s not all. The citizenry is saying Yes! Yes! Yes! Smoky rooms are in disarray. Pundits have much to say. Conservatives are thumbing through the dictionary. The left weighs liberal versus progressive. Boomers wax nostalgic. The young dance in the streets. Thin… Continue reading
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Why Must It Be Beautiful?
MP3 File What is it for, all this beauty? The curve of the spiral from the laddered twist of DNA to the vast wave of galaxies; the green luna moth, breath- taking & ordinary. Does the prey see beauty in its predator? Do gazelles admire the leopard? Does the seal lift its sleek head… Continue reading
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snapshot poem 30 january 02008
i ask for a dream to answer the question i dream of a seal an affectionate seal it wants to be in the house with the women it slips through the door like water the seal is blue . . . mottled . . . purple and gold it’s the swimming colors of oil… Continue reading
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Ephemeral Sonnet
We write on water, we poets. Most of us. Some write on sand, brief calligraphyfor seagulls, shore-birds and the slow inev-itable tide. A few write to stain the sea, so intense, the color of their ink salts the words of their inheritors years beyond their own decline. It’s not their fault that rules and ideologies… Continue reading
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