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Open Poetry #45

The Sandburg’s August Cat

Huan Yi
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0 posted 2009-08-17 05:34 PM

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Autumn
Is stalking summer
In Waukegan Harbor

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[This message has been edited by Huan Yi (08-17-2009 08:51 PM).]

Alwye

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In the space between moments

1 posted 2009-08-18 07:26 PM

Is it stalking on little cat feet?

Much enjoyed.

Huan Yi
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Waukegan

2 posted 2009-08-18 07:30 PM

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Of course,
the unrepentent brute . . .

Thanks for reading

John

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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

3 posted 2009-08-18 08:43 PM

'Tis the coming
of the word early
winter beckons
coldly.

2islander2
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by the sea

4 posted 2009-08-19 03:24 AM

enjoyed, brief but good

yann

GBride
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5 posted 2009-09-12 08:03 AM

Oscar Wilde said, "Simplicity of the last refuge of the complex"

jwesley
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6 posted 2009-09-12 09:30 AM

John, as usual I enjoyed this, as I do all your works...but somehow found this one incomplete.

j.

Huan Yi
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Waukegan

7 posted 2009-09-12 02:35 PM

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Thanks all

J

I think the allusion to Sandburg's
poem is important:

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Sandburg/Fog.htm

Thanks again

John

Marchmadness
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8 posted 2009-09-13 03:53 AM

I enjoyed this allusion to Sandburg's poem which happens to be one of my favorites.
Ida

jwesley
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9 posted 2009-09-13 08:58 AM

oops...stopped in this morning forgetting that I'd read this already and . . . it was perfectly complete...

...woe is me... the mind is further gone than I'm gonna let anyone know...

j.

2islander2
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by the sea

10 posted 2009-09-13 12:01 PM

hello John, your poems are magic.

yann

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