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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Imagining the sun shall not rise in the morning

And the stars in protest won’t yield to the dawning

‘Twas decreed that the heavens surrender their wonder

Before infinite night descends or we’re put asunder.

Blind the rage, now blind with fear; ignorance, blind, I do not hear

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WASHINGTON DK

Bleeding gums McNovocain root canal

   Achy breaky transcend dental medication

      Olde stale pharts passing gas

         McBushleaguers fighting tooth and nail

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Alicia Jones will be one of the featured open mic poets on Tuesday, August 19, 2008, during the Listen & Be Heard Open Mic Radio Show at 8pm, PST.

I’ve learnt how to deal with my anger
To overcome my struggles
And not letting everybody be a stranger
How my heart was smuggled
The lies that were told
The criticism that led to fear
The lies that were sold and bought
All the common sense I’d forgot
The beauty that within I’d lose
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 Bill Vartnaw will be a featured poet on Tuesday, August 26, during the Listen & Be Heard Radio Open Mic.

3.

Armies cross your heart in moonlight.

Naked, they can barely stand

                                                       the discipline. Read more

BITTER-SWEET TOOTH

Poking the bottom of every

Chocolate in Whitman’s sampler assortment

Searching for lone gooey caramel

Filling cavity bittersweet tooth craving

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I’m not what you assume,

I see the world in twos,

I see your dark side through your pleasant lies.

I take my time I read between the lines. Read more

OCEAN PACIFIED

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Tidal wave capsizing swashbuckler image

^^^Frothy whitecaps drowning hopeless surrender

^^^^^^Storm clouds murmur sailor warnings

^^^^^^^^^Distant raspy cough percussive thunderclap

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 DDE will be a featured poet on Tuesday, August 19, during the Listen & Be Heard Radio Open Mic.

The weight on my hand is different
Yet welcome like an old friend
And brings me no burden
But even though it rests on but one finger
It affects my whole body Read more

Washington DCeipt

Demoncrazy cornerstone laid in 1792

   Off-White House actually slate gray

      Ivory Towergate 570 gallons whitewash

         Repainted façade true lies coverup

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