Category: poetry
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27/28/29 April is National Poetry Month – today is the last day
There is something really amazing about finishing something that you didn’t think you could to. I am letting my last poem come in this evening. But I am finding inspiration everywhere, which says “write, write, write”. 27Twenty-sevenAn age in which I discovered myself again.Decided that certain things were inand certain things were out.InartcreativityspiritualitydivorceOutLiesCovering upSettling forOther…
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25/26 April is National Poetry Month
25Twenty-five: When I decided to move down here to be with you.Never having left my birthplace, family, friends, loved onesand took a risk and jumped.Best decision I ever made.You just happened to be involvedIt would take me a few more years to leave you. And even after all that water,all the therapy, and all the…
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24/30 April is National Poetry Month
Hunk on Table Ten:Where were you four years agoWhen I was slutty?
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23/30 April is National Poetry Month – Cadburry
Eating Easter Eggsof the Cadbury Cream kindOh how I love thee.
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22/30 April is National Poetry Month
Empathic – the ability or capacity to recognize and sometimes share in the feelings of others. Told by a therapist long ago that I was very empathic.I feel sometimes, too much.Sometimes it is too much for me to look into the eyes of another human being and see what they are feeling.If they are suffering…
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21/30 April is National Poetry Month
It is not enough to have known you.It is not enough to have the shared moments with you.It is not enough the brief sprinkling of time and space that held the words spoken between us.There is never enough time and space for that.You, funny, witty, own sense of humor and timing,not reluctant to reach out,…
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20/30 April is National Poetry Month
Nineteen “It’s the last year of your teen-aged years” she said,I was going to marry her sonThirties, two children and a drug habit that would take him from everything. I didn’t know that.I also didn’t know that love didn’t come on the end of acid filled tongues,rageful fits of thrown items across rooms,squeeling tires peeling…
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17/18/19 April is National Poetry Month
17. Why? Why did I decide that writing a poem a day would be a good idea?Why did I decide to embrace my creativity instead of stifle it? Why did I decide that 3 yoga classes in one day is a sane thing to do?Why did I decide to do yoga again the day after?Why…
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15 and 16/30 National Poetry Month "Early"
Early (too early for Haiku) Neighbors pounding tileSix-thirty in the amSunday morning foul! BlueIs one of my favorite colorsSky blue, ocean blue, midnight blue, turquoise and all shades in between.It is also a favorite color to paint emotion,heart as blue as midnight, blueness of my tears, bluish hint of his smile,in the blue of my…
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14/30 April is National Poetry Month
Snowcold wind blowing driftswhistling through cedarssharp chill on my skingray soft skies promising morenever felt so close to Godthan here.
Jennie Olson Six 