Tag: poetry writing
member name: Tracey W.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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March 02, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Our Poets in order of appearance:
•· Erin P. with Splendor Fades ,
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March 16, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
Our Poets in order of appearance:
•· Charles William Hoffman with Sandmen ,
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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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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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October 23, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
Our Poets in Order of Appearance:
• Susan B. with Envy
• Tom Curl with Envy
• Sheila D. with Envy
• Pheonix. Ra with Sea-Green Parrots
• Lydia with . . .
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October 28, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
Our Poets in Order of Appearance:
· Catherine K. with Bowl
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February 13, 2008 08:44 AM EST --
I am empty, but not for long.
Soon I will be filled to capacity, to bursting!
I wait.
It won't be long now.
The others before me have all gone.
My darkness will soon end and . . .
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February 21, 2008 10:53 AM EST --
B lindness creeps up slowly
L ike a lover,
I nsidiously staging its quiet coup.
N o prisoners will be taken.
K nowing this, it is all the more cruel.
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March 03, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
Here are the rules. I will supply the first three lines, then the next person, or team, will supply the next two line stanza. In Renga, the first three line stanza typically . . .
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March 12, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
B uoyant and brilliant at parties,
O dette is always the center of the social
U niverse. Her singular
N arcissistic ways are only eclipsed . . .
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Ethereal Exploits - a Renga, by Rene Allen, Tom Curl, Mary Z., Amy S., Alison Pearce, Linda B, Mary S., Anita R., Charles William Hoffman, Angie O., Kathy W., Laura B., and Tracey W.
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March 13, 2008 04:45 PM EDT --
Speaking quietly
Celestial bodies
Share stories of the void
sometimes whispering softly
of ethereal exploits
Hushed invisible zephyr
Shapes rocks and worlds
Stellar wind without . . .
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March 31, 2008 04:16 PM EDT --
Our Poets in order of appearance:
•· Kay M. with Purple People Pusher ,
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