Tag: poetry
group name: originaliterate
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January 24, 2009 04:23 PM EST --
Night Light
When but two sheets are to the wind,
You shed your life like a serpent’s skin
And are reborn in each moment
A child
Without judgement,
Without sense,
Without tomorrow.
Beguiling . . .
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April 21, 2009 09:35 PM EDT --
Little Boa
So sleek
You do not rustle,
But stand up
To stretch your
Length out
Over the listing edge,
And down,
Slipping
From this brown sack
Where I set you
For a moment’s
Keeping. . . .
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November 03, 2009 11:22 PM EST --
Forty people moved today
Their souls thrown out to die
I have until midnight to pay
It’s ten below, landlord…pass me by!
. . .
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December 29, 2008 12:41 AM EST --
It is too hot to sleep
I think of you and want to weep
I toss, and I turn
And, still, I yearn
And, still, I burn....
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February 08, 2009 02:55 PM EST --
You say I go left,
so I go left.
Then, you ask why.
I turn back to go right,
just as you say.
Then, you repeat go left.
But I went left,
and you wanted right
So, I went right,
but you wanted . . .
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September 19, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
We are oft' fed tripe
Seldom feasting on nectar
We eat and applaud.
Karen Micallef Tylutki
Copyright Sept. 19, 2007
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January 05, 2009 07:05 PM EST --
A resolution for this new year.
It is what she vows, eyeing
the number on the scale.
He watches her from the doorway.
She is unaware, and he is wary.
He knows that there will be another
resolution . . .
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January 24, 2009 06:54 PM EST --
Defying Diagnosis
I brought you home and
In an unwashed window hung you
By the thinnest thread
A shattered prism, heavy in the hand.
Squinting I see laced
Within your limpid clarity
Translucent . . .
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April 01, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Iron Butterfly,
The Rolling Stones
Gracie Slick's haunting tones.
The Moody Blues
The Beatles, too.
Hell yeah,
Put on the Who.
Roll one up,
Load the bong,
Have you heard
The . . .
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October 14, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
High upon the ramparts, where the air is thin and needy
She waits, and watches, while the world whirls
Long fingers carefully smooth down her dress
Fluttering like birds upon a feast in . . .
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July 01, 2009 08:58 PM EDT --
Rain
Falling
I miss you
Today
Memories
Run
Through my mind
Today
Rain
Falling
Like tears flowing
Today
. . .
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March 25, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
Twelve years and counting,
Though it won't be long now.
I can hear it in your voice,
Yet, you keep holding on somehow.
The memories started way back when.
Your bark was but a yip.
It . . .
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December 28, 2008 07:12 PM EST --
Just when I feel safe,
you turn me upside down
and bleed me dry
from the inside out.
Just when I think I know you,
I see a stranger
sitting before me, . . .
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September 19, 2007 12:13 AM EDT --
I begged you for the little slice
Of lemon from your dinner tea.
With cunning grin, you cocked your head
And slyly gave it o'er to me.
My eyes were wide, my tongue grew slick -- . . .
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December 23, 2008 02:50 PM EST --
Wild wind kisses, chills and slaps.
Winter dancers assault from above.
Frozen rink threatens from below.
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January 09, 2009 10:58 PM EST --
It is always foggy here
in the morning and at night.
Sometimes, until close to noon.
It is always foggy here
when standing at this bus stop
waiting for the big yellow bus.
It is always foggy . . .
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November 03, 2009 09:55 PM EST --
A tear seeps endlessly through all those forgotten days
Crying out to be heard as it oozes on it way
My ears hear only now---I cannot spare time . . .
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January 23, 2009 05:54 PM EST --
I'm just talking to myself
You're not really listening
I'm just shouting to myself
You're not really caring
I'm just screaming to myself
In this soundproof booth
You've . . .
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January 29, 2009 10:49 PM EST --
She keeps vigil
through this long night.
The halls are quiet.
Nurses move in a hush.
She keeps vigil
through this long night.
The journey is
almost near its end.
She keeps vigil
through . . .
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April 03, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
Good evening, Gatherites, and welcome to OriginaLiterate's 'Singing For The Unsung', a weekly feature for articles within this group that have received less than twenty comments, and thus could . . .
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