Tag: poetry
member name: Tracey W.
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July 27, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
The balletomane went to the ballet
the ballroom musicians played allargando.
But when the ballerina appeared,
even the wallflower stood and cheered.
The music soon changed to allegretto
as . . .
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April 06, 2008 08:35 AM EDT --
I want to thank you all for you patience last week. I had to buy a new hard drive and may have to pay to extract info from the old one if my back-ups weren't sufficient. . . .
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February 08, 2009 02:35 PM EST --
What great poems we had this past week! I hope you will all be as inspired with this next challenge. This is a special Valentine's Day Edition . It . . .
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September 28, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
Falcon Fly.
Your windswept feathers
taste the world for me.
Watching you dip and soar
I am set free -
While leather gauntlets call you home.
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February 15, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
This is only the second time in two days that I have been able to access the site and I have been trying through all three of my browsers. I hope this doesn't go on too much longer. . . .
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December 11, 2008 04:58 PM EST --
Let's start back up with something really fun. I know this isn't Monday, but I wanted to give you a head start on this challenge. It will be due Sunday, December 21 . . .
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April 07, 2008 06:50 PM EDT --
Thank you all for your patience this last week. I'm rebuilding and hopefully I haven't lost too much. I'm glad to be back and hope you are ready to A-maze me!
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May 12, 2008 09:56 PM EDT --
Our Poets in order of appearance:
Samantha B/Archie Bottoms with Itchy,
Amy S. with "Itchy Elaine" ,
Susan B. with Cat and Mouse ,
Anita R. with Time . . .
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June 25, 2007 12:06 AM EDT --
1. To Give "First North American Serial Rights;
2. To Give One Time Rights;
3. To Give any other type of rights to your work that are common or not so common in the marketplace . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Braving my new circumstances
with brazier hot tears;
those barbarous traitors
haven't betrayed me in years.
Now refusing my barest control,
they fall, un-barred and cold.
Freezing barbs . . .
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November 30, 2007 09:58 AM EST --
The f row zy d row sy Princess
couldn't even lift an eyeb row
to wonder at the fearsome row outside her b row nstone door.
It was too early even for spar . . .
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October 03, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
Inside
Why do I hide?
The open window taunts
Whispering the joys of outdoors
Calling me to that world I'll never know
The glass is tear - stained and hazy
All . . .
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September 24, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
The contestants in order of appearance were:
Elemental Being by Susan B.
The Last Wedding Dress by Marty Wynhoff
OLE RED by Ernie Johnson
Terza Rima - Circling by guatami tripathy
Dusk by Alison Pearce . . .
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November 15, 2007 11:19 PM EST --
F air y Penguin, your name is air y-f air y.
F air y Godmother to you was unkind.
Your tiny little body must be very air ish
in the chill New Zealand brine.
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August 29, 2007 06:52 PM EDT --
I am Icarus, carving the sky.
I fall singing as the ocarina;
deformed, yet caressing the wind
that knows my careless fate
A fate at once careening
out of control,
yet held fast by the jeweled . . .
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March 08, 2009 05:22 PM EDT --
It has become too difficult for me to properly keep up with the group given the challenges I am currently facing. It is not fair to all of you who work so hard every week to submit . . .
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August 10, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
I cry so hard
the tears can’t fall.
My breath rasps in
each ragged sin.
Oh why did I have
to love at all?
Why couldn’t I have
just stayed small?
But I’m in the . . .
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July 27, 2007 04:34 PM EDT --
It took three engines to pull that train
car after car after car.
It bounced past our window all night.
I lay awake and wondered
does the engineer have a wife to get home to?
Will he make it home . . .
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December 06, 2007 04:39 PM EST --
Arm ed al arm ists missed the arm istice
with the h arm less farm ing gend arm e.
Their arm ies were arm ing arm adas
while the w arm hearted farm ers . . .
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November 23, 2007 01:59 PM EST --
Gentle men always the guards men be;
Ennoble men t your goal ele men tally.
Noble men avoid noninvolve men t with care,
Tourna men ts testa men t to your fair
Lisso . . .
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