Archive for November, 2008
No Thanks, Giving
The premise of this holiday
Is a wonderful thing.
No pretenses and ceremony
Just Families gathering
Thanking Creator for his gifts
Under the Skin of this Turkey lies a spoiled heart Read more
No commentsFEUDING RIVALS
FEUDING RIVALS
Battle lines drawn eons ago
Block neighbors no longer friends
Consumed by hate warily co-existing
In peace devoid of harmony (or dissonance)
Condemned to divergent religious alliances
Dutiful struggle divided by faith
Uneasy truce bitter conflict covert
Suspicion prevailing way of life (or death)
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A Poem Of The Night
a poem
is a thought
of flowers
near frost,
dangling stiff
bitten by
the vampire of
late fall,
hanging desolate
near dusk
from a pot
on a patio porch-
with a yellow bulb
light beaming
conspicuously outward
over chilled
yellow green
glazed grass. Read more
11/25 - Blog Talk Radio Show - USA - L&BH Radio Hour and Open Mic
L&BH Radio Hour and Open Mic |
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| When |
11/25
8:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/listenandbeheard
USA |
| Other Info | L&BH Radio Hour and Open Mic Nov. 25, 8-9pm PST At the start of the show I will be joined by Listen & Be Heard Theatre Critic Maria Vrobel, to talk about holiday shows around the Bay Area and hear her recommendations. As always, the show will also feature announcements posted at Listen & Be Heard Network Arts News, some storytelling, some arts editorializing, and calls from listeners with thoughts to share and arts announcements. Poets are encouraged to call in with a poem. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/listenandbeheard/2008/11/26/LBH-Radio-Hour-Nov-25 |
THE TERROR OF POETRY
What does it take to be held in custody under British laws, arms trading with al-Qaeda? Fund-raising for the armed resistance, money laundering or drug running? Well, little of the above has ever been made to stick but the heinous crime of writing verses, that’s another story.
No commentsFOSTER CHILD
FOSTER CHILD
Bewildered kitchen helper parental discard
Licking bowl batter poured into
Greased baking dish oven preheated
Roundabout layers frosted when cool
Stubborn past refuses to budge
Jokers wild 52 card pickup
Shuffled full house to house
True natal date bluffer guesstimate
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Vases
Shattered like glass, the green leaves within leave us lief with grief and twisted belief.
I can hardly see through this fog.
It’s smothering my senses.
The dog senses senselessness,
but my six pences build fences Read more
CHAMELEONS
The King Cat (for my friend Socks)
Socks, you are such a warm and cool
Benevolent cat
How I envy you and your life
You live your life like a Vagabond,
A Hunter
And a King
Warmed by your lounging space where you lay about
By the firelight
That sometimes you will share
Rather reluctantly
Or by the portable heater
Which you claim and covet as your own
O, so selfishly
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STUNNED SENSELESS
STUNNED SENSELESS
Nature neither kind nor cruel
Mostly indifferent instinctive spiritual animism
Attuned to subtle dissonant rhythms
Shaman foreshadowing ominous soulful alerts
Sunburst flurry of sea swallows
Menacingly thrashing wings overhead shrieks
Ruffled throat feathers throbbing pulsations
Rip tide current eerie calm
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911
Light
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It’s a most wondrous little thing.
That innocence-
We’re never as blissful in our lives,
As when we’re that young.
Keep your youth, little one. Read more
No comments11/18 - Blog Talk Radio Show - USA - L&BH Radio Hour Open Mic
L&BH Radio Hour Open Mic |
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| When |
11/18
8:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/listenandbeheard
USA |
| Other Info | L&BH Radio Hour encourages poets to call in to our weekly internet radio show with a poem and/or announcements about poetry events anywhere in the U.S. L&BH Radio Hour Nov. 18 Listen & Be Heard Network Call-in Number: (718) 506-1481 Go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/listenandbeheard/2008/11/19/LBH-Radio-Hour-Nov-18 to listen and for live chat and "click to talk." My featured guests this week will be Eloise Cotton and Armando from Armando's in Martinez. Maria Billingsly from the Martinez Opera will also join us. We will be talking about current events at both establishments, what's going on in Martinez, California and what it takes to keep the doors open at these venues. As always the show will feature announcements posted at Listen & Be Heard Network Arts News, some storytelling, some arts editorializing, and calls from listeners with thoughts to share and arts announcements. Poets are encouraged to call in with a poem. Wishing you Peace and Poetry martha cinader mims |
Dead Oak Tree..
There can be a strange beauty in death..
It stood alone, as if an outcast from the nearby woods. How did it get there? You could tell it once was a mighty Oak tree, like the many that still stood tall and alive nearby. Once it’s great limbs held a massive amount of lush green leaves. Now, it’s limbs looked brittle and barren, void of any life. Read more
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Words Written
I write my songs about lost loves
dreams that might have been
memories of summer nights
stories with a bitter end
my words are written about the past
sometimes it’s hard to explain Read more
No commentsAVARITIA MALA EST
AVARITIA MALA EST
Predatory raiders lavishly increased profits
Incorporating leaner everyday meaner incentives
Replacing stock with skyrocketing debt
No commentsBody Language
I see you across the room,
Your eyes are fixed right on me.
They start at my head,
And go down to my red, high-heeled shoes.
I try to concentrate on something else,
But my eyes continue to return back to you. Read more
No commentsTo My Child, Yet To Be Conceived…
for your sixteenth birthday
I will make you a mixtape.
full of your favorite songs,
well, the ones that I can remember,
and the ones I had you listen to
as we grew up together,
and I learned how to be a father
and you learned how to be a better
you through trial and error, Read more
