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| 09/06/2016 10:42:18 PM |
What is holding you backby MargaretNetComment: Rib cage, skull cap,
funny bone, silly hat,
Daddy's smug dismissal,
sarcastic wolf whistle,
walls and ceilings,
thoughts and feelings. |
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| 09/06/2016 10:39:32 PM |
Freedomby bobnospumComment: I practiced for hours,
studied the techniques of others,
imitated movements and postures.
This was not the freedom to pursue happiness,
this was the happiness of pursuing freedom. |
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| 09/06/2016 10:35:37 PM |
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| 09/06/2016 10:32:24 PM |
look upby jmritzComment: 1. face heaven
2. find the meaning of something
3. do both at once |
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| 09/06/2016 08:20:35 PM |
Life is a Roller Coasterby DCrest01Comment: You're strapped into a narrow vehicle of flesh.
Any divergence from a predefined course is met with terrible consequences.
When you figure out how to enjoy it, it's over. |
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| 09/06/2016 08:19:12 PM |
Yes of course it hurts when buds burst.by MonaComment: I tried to explain my garden to my cardiologist.
I wanted to walk him through the affinity of species
on hand-placed stones. I cried about caterpillars.
The seasons meant more to me than a mortality clock.
Entire existences pulsed out and back. I guided life,
mostly watching and weeding, occasional touches.
I wanted him to know what my heart was doing. |
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| 09/05/2016 11:53:06 PM |
Conflict!by dtremainComment: A heron eats, a salmon dies, there is no conflict here.
A nation goes to war, its people puff with pride,
then try some rituals of grief, then tire of killing,
the same as the other side. No conflict, only truth,
only the violence of pianos being played, perfectly tuned. |
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| 09/05/2016 08:04:28 PM |
"Funny Shop" A Poem of Great Worthby LydiaComment: Leaves made of silver filament
glimmering down from a pewter tree,
John Lennon's eyeglasses,
purchased but never worn,
banana bicycles, painted grapes,
the Rolodex of Zsa Zsa Gabor
with names angrily scratched out,
blades of toy helicopters,
tiny gods with broken legs,
suicide notebooks, gilded ziti,
and one item so precious
you'll never find it
among the dust and noise, even though
you came in with it. |
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| 09/05/2016 06:56:29 PM |
And in the Summer Hazeby vawendyComment: two fishermen sail out,
decks full of hope,
empty of envy,
among a million fish
who dream of sky and trees,
lacking only the hook of it. |
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| 09/05/2016 06:51:57 PM |
Ghosts Love the Smell of Lemonsby skewsmeComment: Nobody knows why. Is it the rind?
Do they remember the yellow?
Does the sourness purse them back
towards life?
Of course, every ghost is a story,
unique, though not told,
but all are over, and maybe crave
a palate cleanser. |
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