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JohnnyWood
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since 2007-03-26
Posts 8


0 posted 2007-04-01 04:22 PM


A laggard tea-bag of a sun
Dips into boiling waters
Of carefully brushed
And swabbed
Yards of horizon
Attention to refraction
Off foggy fingers
Mimicking the swirls
Of Armada in the distance
As it reaches out its ribcage
To swallow every winged-blot
And stumblin' slob
With ear bent to the cast
Making sure its lunchsack is packed
Reel strung and waxed
Against wishes of Father Jovial
And his flock of northern-eyed dove
With hymnbook in hand
Sing a number for Uncle Dontgiveadamn
As he dips his webbed toes
And walks on water
With a flask full of Kentucky
And pocket full of yesterday's
Derby-numbered stubs
The fog opens its recipe-book
Cooks up the brightest eyed
Mouth-wide catch of the season
And waterflies walk on tiptoes
As the pike licks algae clean
Every stone as smooth as the next
And the jutted log sways in morning trance
Caught in the web of a 10 year-ago lure
Who's father long went home
To a plate of mashed starch
And gravyed protein
A bean from the yard
Pickled in momma's jar
She opts fishing with a spade
In a garden full of blushing-red
Orbs with grins on their faces
I spy from my train
Back to York again
What I so hated in my raising
But suddenly doesn't seem so bad
Starin' at a billion lights
Clamored around teeth chatterin' horns
Blowin' an absent minded hoot
Like myself right into a hydrant
No room to breath a poetic thought
Or think about Rumi
Or grin about stars
Or kissin' Annie in the yard
One wide map with riddles to solve
Stray too far
You get thrown to the dogs
Its enough to make a man
Want to evolve



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midnightblues
Senior Member
since 2000-07-01
Posts 1597
Singapore
1 posted 2007-04-02 07:35 AM


Hi Johnny,

I like your writing style.. Very  intense and descriptive

Love,
MiCheLLe

If there cannot be equal in affection, then let the one with more be me - midnightblues

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