Tag: poetry challenge
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Alzheimer’s
lost to himself he wanders . . . awayfrom himself trying to find what was lost,but having no memory of that, he searcheshigh and low with eyes blind to all meaningsave what’s seen in surfaces. there are timeshe picks up objects simply because someimpulse demands it, a moment passingand he stares in consternation at whathis…
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Antemeridian Monday
eyes too fatigued from letter and allergeneven to dream, bloodshot and weeping airwhere no tears will form for sloth and ailment,even the brain is hazed, dazed, sluggish toform, frame, interpret image . . . here the worldmelts away into pools of abstraction,not only meaning but the compulsiontoward meaning slips away, absents, escapes. here, in the…
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All Bosched Up
QUATORZAIN 41 In the garden of freshly pierced hearts,I’m doing time with a shadow of you,thorn quivers in your hand crimson blood-stained;and I stare hollow-eyed all bright withsoft admiration and honeyed words beggingyou to forgive my tenderness in lightof your crystal ice delicate touch. Youpirouette in time to music I’m deaf to,and I misstep cloven-hoofed…
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Sonnet Exercise
this is just an exercise, no actual sonnet was written: when I procrastinate, my muse, let’s callher Liza for the sake of argument,badgers me like a boubous boiling upunder my metaphorical skin – whichis very similar to corporealskin, but itches via dissimilarsenses . . . she castigates me now for thisstrange digression into metaphysics,but it’s…
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Picking Back Up…
From my apparently unrecoverable blog bitterhermit.wordpress.com The 1000 poem project was completed some time in 2013. Time to start another challenge. Perhaps a bit less ambitious? My day-job pays the bills, but sucks the soul out of me; I write in fits and starts these days. We’ll start with a hundred-poem challenge and see how…
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