Tag: poetry
group name: justwriting
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May 06, 2008 10:33 PM EDT --
La'Tuin
The La'Tuin, a poetic form created by Laura Lamarca, consists . . .
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April 19, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Gossip
Round and round it goes;
Where it stops, nobody knows.
Rampant, vile, vicious lies,
Roll around tongues, pretentious in guise.
Circulate within a domain . . .
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February 19, 2007 02:32 PM EST --
It is a frigid, sunny morning, made brilliant by the sun's reflection on the snow outside. I sit in the center of the class, not committing myself to the front row (the conspicuous overachievers) . . .
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December 04, 2008 11:05 AM EST --
Usted Es ( mi ángel terrenal)
©Robert C Burnham
You are my Heaven on earth.
You are the stars in my sky
You are the water that soothes my thirst . . .
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October 18, 2007 09:05 PM EDT --
Courtesy Encarta ® World English Dictionary:
*paranomasia; pun: a play on words, especially a pun [Late 16th century. Via Latin from, ultimately, Greek paronomazein , literally “to name differently,” . . .
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August 01, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
they removed a chunk
stole it from a mysterious place
pink and hidden
and dropped it into a sterile plastic jar
left it on the counter
for me to contemplate.
it looked at me
waiting . . .
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November 14, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
I Wonder…
When pioneers crossed the American* pr air ies,
Did children in pr air ie schooners* know . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:43 AM EST --
Cherished(for Muni)
You catch my tears
And drink them
Transmute to mirth
You feed me
How is it in four days, four meals
You find me?
Where near forty years
The fathers four failed . . .
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October 04, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
Early morning
biting air
on skin still warm
from dreams of you.
shuffling across
chilled floorboards
the shower welcomes me
with a hot caress
that allows the fog
to linger. . . .
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September 23, 2006 10:59 AM EDT --
Our lives are like a book.
Before I take you within my hands
To read your story
I'll run my hands gently over your cover,
Feeling the richness and quality of your fine leather binding, . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
"WAR IS SELDOM WITHOUT LOSS"
S oldiers
of daring boldness, intrepid . . .
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September 30, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
I wrote this tonight after a big fight with my husband and talking about divorce. I taped it to his computer screen.
Suffocating,
leave me alone
. . .
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December 31, 2007 09:41 PM EST --
Aliens grace the hills just to the right of the highway;
But I'm driving fast, and have passed the sign that leads off to the byway.
I recognize not the . . .
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May 27, 2008 10:08 PM EDT --
My thoughts
get frozen in the tundra
beneath the treeless plain;
between the ice cap
and timber line that separate . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:40 AM EST --
Sing(for my namesake)
I see your melancholy
You see mine
In this city of crazed bees
You float with serenity
Your words strong and true
Pierce my armour through
Sing, you say
Find . . .
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August 19, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Disappear
I don't want to inconvenience you
I don't want you to even see me here
I would prefer you walked right past me
My wish is to disappear
I don't want you to see my faults
I don't . . .
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May 26, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
I used to do it when I was young,
Though I don't do it any more.
I did it in my room all alone
At night after I locked my door.
I could have done it in the day,
But I . . .
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February 14, 2007 01:16 PM EST --
Blank sheet of paper
Hostage to my empty pen
Bleeds tears of dry ink
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