Tag: poetry
group name: firesmithwrites
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July 23, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Sea swells, she sells sea shells no more.
Sea swells, sea dwellers fading away.
Sea felled sea dwellers, hot air today.
She sold sea . . . more
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May 13, 2008 11:30 AM EDT --
This week's prompt is the number three
Rictameter is a form of unrhymed poetry of nine lines with the syllable count 2,4,6,8,10,12,10,8,6,4,2 with the first and last line being the same. You can . . . more
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May 04, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
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April 23, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
They've made a p act
With summer's rainbows;
Light re act s
With water.
Holy f act s
Are counter act ing rumors;
Science does
As science . . . more
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April 28, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
In memory the sky is gray
We'd driven far that day
Trapped in the car
And every light a target
"Are we nearly there?" he'd say.
In memory the sky is . . . more
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February 01, 2008 07:33 AM EST --
Hopper Visits a Diner
Her hands for warmth enfold the coffee cup.
Remembering her pale translucent skin,
The veins that bear the cool blue blood within, . . . more
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March 06, 2008 08:03 AM EST --
March
Verse
Now March is here the trees stretch out their limbs
To feel the roaring air and warming sun
And riffle through their wardrobes once again . . . more
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January 26, 2008 04:11 AM EST --
Hell
I
While mourners stand and weep upon the Earth
Before Almighty God your soul is weighed.
His agents have been watching since your birth
And judgement . . . more
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March 12, 2008 05:42 AM EDT --
My Violin
Our rosin powders mingle in the case,
Where, fallen from the belly and the bow,
Each particle trapped in the velvet space
Becomes our common . . . more
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June 11, 2008 05:35 PM EDT --
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June 25, 2008 05:55 AM EDT --
June 22 nd 2008
The dawn comes swooping, smearing shades of grey
On grey and deeper grey. The ill-formed clouds
Race in stampede like endless ghostly . . . more
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May 02, 2008 03:58 AM EDT --
Quicksand at Night
The sand is inanimate. It has no soul.
Its speckles of silica and shell swirl
In the gritty Moon-drawn tide,
Rise and fall without pity
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August 04, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
Family Business
Gulls'eyes watch as the brothers prepare to ship their last order.
Heads, spines and guts for offal, they slit, slit and slit the flesh and . . . more
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January 27, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
In the Supermarket
Is he a footman or a charioteer?
A few yards down the aisle his busy wife
Selects the treats and staples for their life,
The trolley . . . more
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May 16, 2008 04:39 AM EDT --
The Third Hole
Plink! (like hammer tapping a bottle of coke)
The sweet-spot of the titanium wood
Propels the ball further than you thought it could.
You strike . . . more
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February 24, 2008 06:09 AM EST --
An Eschatological Discourse
The wandering earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling . . . more
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April 17, 2008 03:32 AM EDT --
The Capstan's Arc
"Please tell me. Did my father save my life
That day I swung upon the capstan arm?"
"Of course. Though light, my . . . more
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May 08, 2008 04:54 AM EDT --
Goldilocks and the Three Bears of the Apocalypse
Look at her. Sleeping. The picture of peace.
No shadows cross over her complacent face.
No frown on her forehead. . . . more
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May 30, 2008 04:02 AM EDT --
Sandro Filipepi (Botticelli) lived most of his life in Florence and, having been patronised by the wealthy Medici family, for whom he painted such masterpieces as The Birth of Venus, he fell under . . . more
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July 02, 2008 04:10 AM EDT --
The Old Man and the Tree
The day Jack Brand was born the topsoil moved
Aside, displaced by gentle force, nature's
Relentless strength when roots split free and . . . more
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