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Spiral Pages - a poet’s would-be notebook
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Spiral Pages - a poet’s would-be notebook |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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Why? I do not know....I guess it's that I was trying to winnow this notebook for the poetry, and something made me feel that it was really a single poem written on those random pages....a poem of me. waves call the rocks move one by one they sound like guns LNE100TX link channel HV90P-T it is a gentle kaido drawing life from a single flower and flowers from life and I would hold you like a prayer vacuum separation VS import LOX safety issues Praxair firm bid for the tank grass greening crazily after forevers of rain ...... had danced the almost-swoon of body rhythms twirling, twined in time Van Kampen botched the cost basis call again Lono Kanaloa Ku “....is not for women who are trying to perceive” bow reverence I will follow her the unity candle bow reverence haven moved 529-B Hermes Ave poets’ nights Chamomile and Zanax, Rabbit, Peter; Dick and Jane we’re settling for more while life winnows down to primary colors; still they blend for us and we too gentle down into pastels of dun and gray soluble oxygen demand ? nitrate/nitrite residual why? total dissolved sulfide 1.7 ppm a glass-bottom soul it is Maui rain diamonds and tangerines D:\> IPCONFIG/ALL and the DNS subnet mask – default gateway cream and coffee milk and chocolate all stay bittersweet scent of stones and ti for two a cafe with no street milk OJ bread cheese ~~Pringles! |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
A poem of a life in process Ed. I really like it. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
I have to do poetry around life....which is why I carry the notebook in the first place, of course..... I wish sometimes I could do life around poetry, but I don't think there's anyone alive who could manage that without losing both. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
Enjoyed this one Ed are you sure you didnt mix up your shopping list among a few?..Enjoyed the humour of some of them..they are ''fragments'' of your life...but it illustrates your mind well...can i say that without sounding insulting?...LOL..Enjoyed the read..thanks.. Goldenrose. Desire for nothing except desirelessness,hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.avatar Meher Baba. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Well, there are some who think an illustration of my mind WOULD be an insult -- to the viewer! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
ohhh! loved this... and pototo chips? Nobody can eat just one! I think that's the way it is going to be reading your poems, too! ~ Klassy ~ |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
That's why I put that list last....because there are milk and cheese and bread in life....but Pringles are a little celebration! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Yay for Pringles!! My favoraite kind of chip! I enjoyed this poem, although I think some of your work stuff got mixed up with it...but that's what makes it unique and you. Which is a good thing!  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Yep, the work stuff gets swizzled in....need to take a note, no paper....ok just this once write it in my poetry notebook, mumble-mumble.... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Oh, and a little sidelight....the address up there...is this http://www.writersmonthly.us/ ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
poetry IS life life IS poetry and this poetic slice of life is you, breathing onto a blue screen inhaling, exhaling ie, I enjoyed the write! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
A perfect collage of a beautiful, full and sensitive life - like a journal of a Monet! I will re-read this offline (in my Ratleader folder) where I can imbibe it at my leisure (and no cost!). - Owl |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This poem... is a gift. *S* Minutiae that should be mundane - notes from your working world, snippets from honey-do lists - are sprinkled with magic by resting in your notebook... they combine with the lines of poetry to present a fascinating portrait of a magnificent man... and an incredible poem. *S* You've written life... beautifully! *S* Here's to Pringles... and to giant celebrations... like reads of your work. *S* |
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