STUTTER NONSENSE

Few mortals reach Olympus summit

     Walt Whitman shouted Vivas for

          All those who have failed

               But done so with dignity

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Piece by piece, this heart, mends itself as one.

Thought by thought, this mind, builds itself into one.

Listen to my voice, drool and spit combined

it shows that this mouth still cries as one. Read more

rAGE

Iraq of rAGES twisted old-line curves

            GOP Grandstanding Olde Party-line disconnected

                        Auld Lang Syne walkabout constitutional

                                    Critical Condition Short Of Breath

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“Virgin Mother” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999.

She didn’t know

where her feelings came from

but they were there

to be reckoned with.

She always needed

to offer gifts to the shore

so she could take

what she wanted most: Read more

most everyone

has the authority

to do

whatever they can get away with Read more

DE FACTO

Losing candidates DEvoted egos DEflated

Legs to stand on DEfeated

Fish DEbaters off the hook

Cheaters DEtested forget credentials DEfiled

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I

dawn comes

to the flatland

on the otherside of the hill

Billy Ralph climbs shadow

Wamba roosts on his shoulder

pearl essential glow outlines borders of Earth

sky slides back in silence

one by one, stars

lose themselves in growing depth

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Eat! A video by Martha Cinader Mims
put to the audio track Eat! from the CD Living It!

HEROIC STRUGGLE

Less hyped yet equally important

Paralympics ignites Flame of Hope

Serving as Agent of Promise

Exhibiting boundless courage mindful strength

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the cat

on hind paws  

claws (ouch!) in my sitting leg Read more

Ode to Unconventional GOPherville

I fizz Mini-Soda gee whiz

Bordering on decarbonated Canada Dry

Land of Ten Thousand Lakes

And millions of slaphappy mosquitoes

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All I want, is to know what the truth is…
Wrestling with ideas and covers,
in this bed of seaweed made of green pain.
The shoreline is a distant memory.
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Emily D wrote notes to herself
and put them in a drawer,
a box with no locks.
No TV those days Read more

ANTSY  PANTSY

Everyone knows an ant can’t

Move mountains hill lobbyists maybe

Compound eyes unenlightened tunnel vision

Seeing war through rose-tinted trifocals

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Bill Vartnaw will be a featured poet on Tuesday, August 26, during the Listen & Be Heard Radio Open Mic.

opening kickoff

first down & 10 yards to go

on the 47 yard line…

midway through the second quarter

first down & 10 yards to go

on the 47 yard line…

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Dana Teen Lomax will be a featured poet on Tuesday, August 26, during the Listen & Be Heard Radio Open Mic.

Which proves that when a person or an event comes along to jolt or appraise me I can take some appropriate action, although I am better known for my hospitable remarks.

                 –Grace Paley, Wants

an effort to Pan’s lost child

you check the difference

in priss and tomboy

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ROLLING STONE

A Rolling Stone gathers momentum

     Uphill Helter Skelter Gimme Shelter

          Climbing Earth Wind & Fire ladder

               Mighty Mighty Happy Feeling Spirit

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Dream vividly,

drinking down colors uncloaked,

unfit for the idle consumption

of the minimalist mortal mind… Read more

BEIJING XXIX

Porcelain dolls sportingly welcome visitors

     Great Wall Martithon yin-yanging pandamonium

          Shop-‘til-you-drop agony of defeat

               Chopsticks relay race Shanghaied jump-starts

R/L Confucian swimMing poor ewents

     Blest stloke buttelfry flea styre

          Going off deep-end swansong dives

               Making splish-splash trusting in Gold

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