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Shakespeare contests this
who knew with words -to ersatz
words favored - for sought
who knew with words -to ersatz
words favored - for sought
"That isn't a word"is a phrase limited to
Today's state of mind.
That 'that' is not thatcan only be understood
by language dancers.
M wrote: "She seemed to murmurof autumn’s crows, of fenceposts,
of the late first frost,
of wind rasping leaves,
ragged corn rows, small swift feet,
the child we had lost."
Love that!
As the dancer castspun silver across the page;
rapt, the reader wept.
Beautiful, Nicky!In a stricken way
she stammered, turning her eyes,
as though damned, on me,
her hair dripping spray
from the wind-hammered silver
of a midnight’s sea.
Thank you Ryan & M! - I just loved Guy's idea of language dancers; I was thinking about it all day and rushed home to write it!
Stricken, damned, alone:The siren was heartbroken
to find me immune.
Those sunburned summersleft me blind to her voice’s
beckoning fingers.
He sang all summer,"That girl is like a sunburn."
I blistered his back.
She confessed in minorchords as we wandered old piers’
sunset-engraved boards.
jojoba contrailsarc through pink autumn sunsets;
summer's last jetwash
Thanks, M. Feathered in midnight
winter coats, crows slur murder
with discordant notes.
He crowed his murderTo the highest day time star
Righteously alive.
Ryan wrote: "Thanks, M. Feathered in midnight
winter coats, crows slur murder
with discordant notes."
love 'discordant notes' !
Bloodied and stony:A crow left of the murder
To cry evermore.
With a heart as hard
as ice, the tears, streaming down
his face, have frozen.
as ice, the tears, streaming down
his face, have frozen.
[[ Leslie, nice. You still ok with my giving a gentle English lesson? I think you mean 'has' or 'is' not 'have' here. ]]
His face is unseenwhen viewed from far away
and his heart unfelt.
(If she was referring to his face as frozen, yes. Saying that the tears, which are on his face, have frozen is correct.)
[[ Rachel, true enough. Interesting scan. I wonder which Leslie was intending? ]]
Thanks Guy and Rachel. I was referring to the tears :)
:-) Funny I wouldn't scan it that way when I read it. Hello Leslie.
Frozen yet streaming,his tears, who snored while dreaming
after three tall beers.
His tears' habitat:
rust colored cheeks from the sun -
almost matched his rum.
~or -- like heeltaps of rum.
rust colored cheeks from the sun -
almost matched his rum.
~or -- like heeltaps of rum.
Better stained by tearsof rum than have a roadie
bite you on the bum!
Too busy drawingconclusions to sketch in shades
of uncertainty,
she exclaimed, “The more
I’m exposed to light verse, the
more I develop.”
M wrote: "Better stained by tearsof rum than have a roadie
bite you on the bum!"
aw, M - that nearly makes it worth it!
I tried to come up with something along the lines of “Go tell Aunt Roadie the old gray goose is dead,” but it didn’t quite come together.
With sand-freckled rumshe worshipped the sun and gave
up all her pale flesh.
The flesh was stable
but the soul did ask pointblank
for psalms to cradle.
Or "My flesh was stable
but my soul did ask pointblank
for psalms to cradle."
but the soul did ask pointblank
for psalms to cradle.
Or "My flesh was stable
but my soul did ask pointblank
for psalms to cradle."
A psalm in the cribA hymn throughout the long years
A curse on the grave
The flesh was stable
with balefuls of desire;
an animal farm
flesh - a dutch uncle.
palatial, baleful, wasteful.
a mad policy.
flesh - a dutch uncle.
thickset - he is volatile
Self will's eruption.
with balefuls of desire;
an animal farm
flesh - a dutch uncle.
palatial, baleful, wasteful.
a mad policy.
flesh - a dutch uncle.
thickset - he is volatile
Self will's eruption.
Rachel wrote: "A psalm in the crib
A hymn throughout the long years
A curse on the grave"
Cat Grimalkin wrote: "The flesh was stable
with balefuls of desire;
an animal farm
flesh - a dutch uncle.
palatial, baleful, wasteful.
a mad policy.
flesh - a dutch uncle.
thickset - he is volatile
Self will's erupt..."
Haiku is just threads
the selvages of some sounds
frayed when turned sideways
with repasts of Love
come jeremiads of ends:
the siege of suppers
A hymn throughout the long years
A curse on the grave"
Cat Grimalkin wrote: "The flesh was stable
with balefuls of desire;
an animal farm
flesh - a dutch uncle.
palatial, baleful, wasteful.
a mad policy.
flesh - a dutch uncle.
thickset - he is volatile
Self will's erupt..."
Haiku is just threads
the selvages of some sounds
frayed when turned sideways
with repasts of Love
come jeremiads of ends:
the siege of suppers
Where wends warp and weftwhen grey remnants of small words
weave wisps of wonder.
A low thunder ofapproaching drums! Nothing left
of my life but thrums.
Struck by his thunderShe saw the light of her day
And embraced her night.
Midnight suns in May
Outside - cold, Inside - Wonder.
Rolling (tousled) Bengal lights.
Outside - cold, Inside - Wonder.
Rolling (tousled) Bengal lights.
Tousled Bengal thighsAre wondered at at night
Waxed on by moonlight.
Fellini moved herWith satyrical disdain
And a cat - like purr.
Mussolini knew
Hitler, an ailurophile.
The Bast tacks of love.
Hitler, an ailurophile.
The Bast tacks of love.
It's not who you knowWhen the feline's in the bag
But who you can blitz.
And the latent meu
galling - strains the galoot's heart -
a cast away cat.
galling - strains the galoot's heart -
a cast away cat.
the market value
of cats eyes and testicles
heed exotic tastes./
of cats eyes and testicles
heed exotic tastes./
Taste is an intent.
The china bark of incense -
medicine friend.
The china bark of incense -
medicine friend.
The intent of goodHas with great wit made hip cats
Woe begotten twits.
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promises an endlessness
of words that are not.