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- Column: Poetry slammed by local paper at allpoetry
Not impressed with the slam of poetry by a local paper.
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/Comment/article/241785--no-rhyme-nor-reason - haiku: spring at allpoetry
Leaves melting
beneath a cold snow, - Vicarious at allpoetry
They lean
- Irony: a short study of black and white. at allpoetry
An avoidance of gray,
the cat bravely greets - Thirty minutes at allpoetry
Cold morning;
floor to door, - Missing Stocking at allpoetry
With sleigh bells ringing and his cheeks bright red
Santa thought all were sound asleep in bed. - Storehouse for the Little Ones ( or Promptorium Parvulorum) at allpoetry
I put off,
hesitated, - My Muse at allpoetry
It seems when I practice poetry in bed (writing in my head), I can only do it facing up. - Autumn at allpoetry
the last
of the Autumn leaves - Pine at allpoetry
the music ends
and the words fade like a morning mist - Halloween at allpoetry
Just playing. - Off to Disneyland at allpoetry
Not sure what to expect
but will love the wonder - Haiku: Autumn at allpoetry
Playful autumn wind
whistles through barren boughs, - Haiku: Missed at allpoetry
a water microcosm
upon an upturned morning leaf, - Dog Earred at allpoetry
Hands stained with ink,
the poet presses himself - Spring Thaw at allpoetry
The words
frozen in ice for so long - Like a Rock at allpoetry
Like a rock across water
his words skipped - Street Poet at allpoetry
The madman laughs
to bridge the gaps in his mind - Rushes at allpoetry
Rushes
along the creek path - haiku: dying at allpoetry
a wind blown leaf
caught on a long dead limb, - Boning at allpoetry
The smell of bile on a cold tile floor; a memory she won't have in the morning. - Haiku: willow at allpoetry
a morning frost resists the days warming sun - lip reading at allpoetry
I watch her lips As she reads a book unseen - Sins of youth at allpoetry
Lolling, head canted to hear voices - Rhymes with "ips" at allpoetry
She is drunk enough not to care as she dips smooth finger tips - Haiku: happy hour at allpoetry
Dew slips through necture to fall in the morning frost, - Endless White at allpoetry
Even knowing moments after stopping - Mozart's I-Pod at allpoetry
Turned on at birth And in a moment - childhood's end at allpoetry
Time and distance expired as the sun and earth merged; - Perhaps at allpoetry
Perhaps, a cat's whiskers tickling night paths, - Prairie memories at allpoetry
The wind brushed cheeks of a gentle child; laughing and playing in a prairie field. - [ ] at allpoetry
Eyes in contact for a moment, - Round two at allpoetry
Lovers, sweat glistened, - Harmonica man at allpoetry
Harmonica man played through the pane - Frosted Windows at allpoetry
like frosted windows with carved hearts forgot; memories of dreams of two newlywed - She at allpoetry
She thinks in words she will find - Haiku: flurries at allpoetry
white and pink blossoms behind a garbage truck - Four at allpoetry
One Three Four - kilter at allpoetry
incorrectness radiates the mirrors axis - A splash or orange at allpoetry
A splash of orange against gray, rain filled clouds - Sweet Rose at allpoetry
Sweet rose, thorns covered in glistening dew create a suns rainbow of sparkling hue; - Thanks at allpoetry
A halo of sun competes with her smile of joy - a warm spring rain (draft only) at allpoetry
I fell in love in a warm spring rain upon a bed of sweet apple blossoms. - zebra at allpoetry
Zebra bottom pants in a bus load of crocs, - Haiku: pink at allpoetry
a hint of pink lost in the cold gray and green, - silken at allpoetry
silken, ethereal she wraps herself - Inspired by the frozen sea at allpoetry
resting now after so many summer storms, - No more yesterdays at allpoetry
Can she dream life as though yesterday never came, - [ ] at allpoetry
When he told me to write two lines that didn't rhyme and then to repeat them again and again - Daimonds at allpoetry
Rivers of diamonds are lost on the dead: - Rubies at allpoetry
Now all men's faces are a blur
behind saddened curtains. - Until the stars go out at allpoetry
He tore up her letters to find words - Wordsmith at allpoetry
. . - Shackles at allpoetry
silibant, he quiets me in my cage
hoping one day to set me free - Pixiku: down time at allpoetry
she woke sad and drained, point oh one down time, - Waters of Time at allpoetry
She broke the waters of time and into the panicked flow - Triolet; Inspired. at allpoetry
She writes her poems with the blood of others never having a worthy thought of her own. - half a villanelle: confidence at allpoetry
confidence slips - Bells at allpoetry
Nothing personal. Just writing. - Triolet: Tender at allpoetry
Sweetness drips like memories run from the days of our earliest delight: - Haiku: blazing at allpoetry
Cloudless, blazing sun leaves shadows on the grass, - haiku: midnight at allpoetry
the cock crows with the midnight stoke - Shuffle at allpoetry
Words at night spin and dance free from the hustle of the day; - triolet: forget at allpoetry
I know the lines I want to write I practice them in my sleep - haiku: christmas at allpoetry
Red brick chimney with hitching post for reindeer - Aluminum at allpoetry
Jammed Into a left-brained world - poetry at allpoetry
clean panties stuffed with poetry - A quarter at allpoetry
. She determined, - Wintertime at allpoetry
Sweet were her words of a childhood gone Since long were the days of her life span. - Christmas Warmth at allpoetry
Dylan Thomas sips his tea and tells - Tresses at allpoetry
He undressed his mistress - Haiku: green at allpoetry
frost covers fall leaves reds, yellows hidden away, - Enthrall at allpoetry
I search the depths of the vibrant sea and the haunts of the dead of night - Patchwork at allpoetry
. . - could at allpoetry
could I remember the gentle whisper - caw, CAW at allpoetry
caw, caw, caw, CAW at 4am they explored - In Memory at allpoetry
Instead of whining they led the way, Normandy and the desert heat, - One day at allpoetry
One day there will only be pictures - Hard earned at allpoetry
. My hard earned moment of peace - Turtledove rewritten. at allpoetry
Little turtledove I've misplaced you again though your touch still burns in my heart - rampart at allpoetry
not a slow tremble but a flicker of heart that shows itself in a eye's saddened blink, - Hollow at allpoetry
. Hollow - Deaf-Blind at allpoetry
Sad is our loss when we no longer - Kandinsky at allpoetry
She reminded me of Kandinsky's church, - Tides at allpoetry
Thoughts ripple like gentle waves - Rainbow sky at allpoetry
I took a rainbow sky and pulled from deep within - 6. Rabid at allpoetry
1. Two steps beyond panic Relax, - Shrouds: two days after at allpoetry
A half step 1. Two steps beyond panic - Giggles: entering day three at allpoetry
A half step 1. Two steps beyond panic - A half step at allpoetry
Rollercoasters and bad dreams leave us - One step closer - red tinge at allpoetry
A light A 70's sexy shag - Two steps beyond panic at allpoetry
Relax, there are still five more days - Love decending staircase at allpoetry
He kicked the dictionary down the stairs - haiku: ascension at allpoetry
Morning fog lifts the grayness of the still creek, - list poetry at allpoetry
Ears, shades beneath you hair, Brows through your sighs - To Breath at allpoetry
Medicine will never replace a tongue long enough - Old Souls at allpoetry
Old souls pass no pause for memories - She smiled at allpoetry
She smiled / at words I could not hear / and I wondered / at the many joyous momements / in her life; / a mother and father / to hold her / when she cried, / friends who cared e - subtle at allpoetry
Poems, / as subtle as a dictionary / dropped from the crotch of a tree / where he was studying / forbidden words. / Words are never forbidden, / only chains of thought, / opposed to the acce - Hailey at allpoetry
I saw your likeness on the bus today; / sad, with eyes ringed of sleeplessness, / lips long forgotten of smiles. / I remember your days of happiness / and hope the travel makes up / for the - Morning Frost: triolet at allpoetry
Morning frost, a harsher dew / thickens the blood in my veins. / Standing alone where once was two; / morning frost a harsher dew. / I see your path in crystal view / and hope once again sus - Haiku: Silence at allpoetry
Loon upon cold lake / welcomes the morning sun, / with deathly silence / - Banana Ice-cream at allpoetry
Banana yogurt ice-cream / Mongol yurt esteem / Review history to scream / Rivers forming, eyes stream / Whips lashing dream / Frozen dog team / Milk sinking cream / Words not a - Tintin repost at allpoetry
Tintin (rondeau) / He stands misplaced in our time; / all about him an endless climb, / swirling worlds around him spin, / friends support as he fights the din. / Can he survive societies slime? / E - Night Terrors at allpoetry
Sleep was not / the gentle rest / or the sweet dreams / of fantasy and lies. Instead / mornings would come / through sand encrusted eyes, / bloodshot and muscles / full of overactive ache, - Mountains of the Moon at allpoetry
Can I write of the crisp wind; / it's tales and history and / the dust of years gone by / from a strand of her loose hair? / Does I have the right / to seek out the beginning of all stars / in the d - Haiku: dark at allpoetry
a cold wind whispers / to stone and ears gone long deaf, / the rooks cheer loudly / - Breakfast at Tiffany's at allpoetry
Dawns gentle dew shimmers in a spider's weave / giving for a moment a touch of beauty. / Come my dears enter, I give you leave. / Dawns gentle dew shimmers in a spider's weave. / Sleep no - Baited at allpoetry
I nibble / on sweet thoughts of you, / teased as you play out, / baited breath caressing / ears, neck, heart. / I rise / to the sparking surface / captured in your beauty / and in t - villanelle: repost (for upcoming contest) at allpoetry
Nude, / Unease. / In solitude. / Food, / whispered pleas. / Nude. / Rude, / jangling keys. / In solitude. / Prelude: / No, please. / Nude. / Crude. / Continued - sync at allpoetry
2pm / My 7:30 coffee / 4pm / My 8:00 rounds / If it was a marriage / I'd get a lawyer / - Work at allpoetry
budgets, like bingo hall smoke, / float away, hazy blue / to consume the stars, / E-mails sit silent / at the breakfast table / begging with bloodshot eyes / for a moment / of your - Triolet: An old winter green at allpoetry
Careful hung lamps in the dead of night / to set a tree aglow in a young child's eyes. / My smile in anticipation of her delight; / careful hung lamps in the dead of night. / An old winter gre - Men are from France, Women are from France, Poets are at allpoetry
He thought like a triolet / repeating the same words / over again / while she, / although not partial to French, / perfered the sestina, / paragraphs with always / the same ending. / - Limerick: SMRT at allpoetry
There once was a smart man from London / who thought galaxies should be undone. / A history of time, / his star began to climb, / and now Mr. Hawking’s web is spun. / - Limerick: A lady from Clydesdale at allpoetry
There once was a woman from Clydesdale / who preferred another town to hale. / She thought she’d try Hamlet / but the Prince was such a shit, / they both ended up in the town jail. / - Triolet: worded breath at allpoetry
At the mercy of your worded breath, / your warmth against my silken hair; / the waiting is like pending death / at the mercy of your worded breath. / Easy my dear Lady MacBeth, / tell m - Morning Star at allpoetry
Fair morning star, bringer of the day / remove from my eyes this darkened blight / which has for long held in sway / fair morning star, bringer of the day. / To my heart and love listen and obey, / mi - And now for something....... at allpoetry
He slipped the bonds though there would be scars; / he just prefered to make them himself, / Dripping blood mixed with the scream of guitars. / He slipped the bonds though there would be scars. / T - An old lover at allpoetry
Her poetry / like an old lover quite / she revisists / the nights of endless passion, / the gentle maturing and / comfort of silent days / and the coloured beauty of fall / as we watch - Panning at allpoetry
I, / could not / take my eyes: / Long it must have been / under the porch, / skin dried and just a hint of bugs, / like desperate panners in a mined out creek. / I k - Ghosts at allpoetry
Black beret / Glasses / Not sun, / Negative space / eyes, soul / Hidden. / Words grating like the shovel on a rock in a shallow grave, he began. / Think / Wall anc - Triolet: Passage at allpoetry
a candles gentle burn, / the birds flying south: / both remind my yearn. / a candles gentle burn - / gone another turn. / mortality tart in my mouth: / a candles gentle burn, / the birds - Sweet Child (Fantasy) at allpoetry
Sweet human child, hush / sleep now in your safe dreams / for soon will come the day / We will meet as Daughter Queen. / Fill your soul with joy and love / and all you can gather from here / so - Haiku: Pink and White at allpoetry
Warm spring wind / draws pink and white blossoms / over ragged rocks / - New Stars at allpoetry
I have no need to wait for stars / when I dance the night with you / as you make my wishes come true. / Instead I find my love true; / the love in your eyes my stars / and all I ever want - Uncomfortable Pauses at allpoetry
In all the pauses / when I should be listening / to the buzz of the telephone / or my inner voice / warning me once again / you are by far / too high a maintenance friend, / I lis - First view of the new world (decima) at allpoetry
Like the eyes of a newborn child / I stare in joy at this new found land; / harsh, untamed, dangerously wild, / after months at sea will seem mild, / except for those in God’s hand. / An old - Belhaven at allpoetry
Far into the Scottish highlands / I went in search of the heathered thong, / loose kilts akimbo, and / bagpipes hard and wrong. / I wandered down paths / and up scoals till I was ravin' / to a - Triolet - Unsaid at allpoetry
Without a word / she said she loved me; / a peck, gentle as a bird / without a word, / A hug felt but unheard, / and joy given free. / Without a word / she said she loved me. / - One liner: Improvement at allpoetry
As poets, if we kept improving, our last would be our best and we know that is not true. / - Withered Vines at allpoetry
Rose; / natures / withered vine / flowing shadows, / sways with the day’s sun / but come night it merges / with the pending darkness, lost / or one with the larger desire. / In the d - Given Leave at allpoetry
I have knelt before you / with gifts and tokens / and was rewarded / with your silence. / I would die for a sound; / your lips / painted with the blood / of those before, / the gentle - Acrostic: Another Bacon Byproduct at allpoetry
Another day in fair Verona, / Niceties exchanged from Clan to clan. / Ophelia got real drunk last night, / Took off her top and into the lake swam. / Heard not of her today, or tomorrow perchance; / E - Column: Juliet's Last words (judges comments) at allpoetry
I competed in a bardic competition last weekend.
Dramatic piece - Juliet's Last Words.
The poem was a variation on an acrostic. I used Juliet's last words as the last word on each line.
Yea noise, then I'll be brief. O happy dagg - In Silence at allpoetry
/ / / / / They told me she was a poet / so I watched her, / from across the room, / the bar, / the pool, / the street. / / Without words, / she didn't seem / so poetic to me. / / / - chirurgeon at allpoetry
/ / c hasing down a wayward knight / h ell bent on destroying the line. / i f I ever caught him, we would fight, / (r emembering later to drink the wine). / u ntil of course I found a ditch / r unning h - Childhood Friends. at allpoetry
/ / / / / / I keep our memories / like a classic childhood book / glorious in my innocence / yet afraid to revisit / for fear of change. / / / / / / / - Grandfathers at allpoetry
/ / We always complained / about his calling the fifteens / until of course / he stopped. / / Now I miss his deep voice, / his port flavoured pipe / over a game of chess, / (I only watched) / and - Chain rhyme: La Tour Eiffel (reposted) at allpoetry
/ a Chill winds from the water blue, / a Barren trees with buds anew, / a Walking couples with smiles too, / b For spring is in the air. / / c Ice - It could be worse. at allpoetry
Golden rapeseed waves / across a sea of Alberta fields, / sunshine on earth / / / / A cold office and poor dim lights / and they wondered how things ever get done. / Not a worry or ever a fright: / a cold - The Path at allpoetry
/ / / I watch the ball bouncing; / walls, corners, table legs / as gravity and the strength of your arm, / your will, send it on its way. / / I wonder at my path; / the bounces and bruises, / redire - Deaf Poetry at allpoetry
/ / / She read my words / understanding the context / but never able to hear / the inflections / in my voice. / / Could my finger spelling / ever mirror the love / that cracks my voice? / / - Oh Bother at allpoetry
/ / Pooh / sat on his hunny bucket all morning / when Owl explained the significance / of the one ring. / / As the sun began to set / on the Hundred Acre Woods, / "Are you sure / I will have to le - At the Fair at allpoetry
/ / / a twisted body / lays among the spring flowers / surreal in it's grotesqueness / upon a bed of beauty. / / I pick the flowers / from the sunward side / to give to you. / / we laugh at t - blood stained rose at allpoetry
/ / / Through open windows an ice wind blows / across tattered drapes and sills of dust / to hide the path that sadness chose. / / Pages flutter, your long forgotten prose, / held open by the last knife th - Dust Bunny at allpoetry
/ / / / Rattle, prattle / down the hall / heedless of / your mother's call / Giggle and laugh / from under the bed / from where you've hidden / only your head. / / Dash away now / to anot - Home at allpoetry
/ / / / / Mountain peaks stretch long, / from their deep roots they reach / above the lands, the blue skys, / to the cold of space; the rarified air / that once had given them birth. / / / - She Runs at allpoetry
/ / / / Sand kicked backwards from her Nikes, / reversing the flow of the hourglass, / as she runs along the waters edge. / / Pine needles compressed, absorbed / and then as quick as a fleeting hart - Dream Catcher at allpoetry
Deep within the hue of your eyes
lays worry that carves my pain, - Triolet: Claymore at allpoetry
I stand defensive of your hateful laws
with a tartan hatch and a giant claymore. - Blinded at allpoetry
the sandy beach,
the golden sunset, - Xanthippe, no really. at allpoetry
About beauty causing disfunction;
effortlessly failing good hearts, - Shoes on a bus at allpoetry
You know,
how someone asks - Lost Warmth at allpoetry
glowing stars
offer no warmth, - Flight at allpoetry
I juggle the gentle balance:
crushing waves and ethereal sky - Woden and the Grail at allpoetry
And Odin hung for nine days from the Earth's One Tree,
his eye gouged for wisdom gained, loss so he could see. - Cigars at allpoetry
She can't explain
(to non-smokers) - Crystal: Lost in Nature at allpoetry
C rimson your dress and heart’s desire,
R arely though you let the visage though. - civilization at allpoetry
coated in layers of civilization
my soul buried in your thoughts, - Rondelet: Candle Light at allpoetry
A candle’s light
mirrors your heart’s shimmering core. - Lost in Translation at allpoetry
Green and blue, the river bank grass
luxuriates in the garden shade willow; - Royal Rhyme: Marry me again. at allpoetry
Can we dance in the dark of night
without the moon to guide our way; - [ I roamed about a starless sky ] at allpoetry
But no, he sat upon his rock with a starry look.
I’ll wait a little longer until I finished my book. - The Teeth at allpoetry
This Easter the bunny thought of his past;
how the Tooth Fairy and him had fought, - Sweet Melancholy at allpoetry
A sweet melancholy you exude
as you both pull and push away. - Triolet: at allpoetry
A gentle tug on heart laden sleeves
and he imagined, "Come find me dear," - Quote triolet - 3 at allpoetry
She gave me a smile
I could feel in my hip pocket - An Easter Repost - short story at allpoetry
Damn egg fetish theiving rabbit!!!
Pass the scooby-treats. - Quote triolet - 2 at allpoetry
All of those moments will be lost in time
like tears in rain. Time to die. - Triolets from quotes - 1 at allpoetry
More play. - Buds at allpoetry
In a cup
of your gentle buds - Kith at allpoetry
Kith, you tumble as you pass my way
frolicing though yard and straw. - Learning at allpoetry
Blossoms rise through the warming earth
but my heart forever feels the chill, - All cried out at allpoetry
Weeping willow boughs
touch the sodden ground, - lipgloss at allpoetry
A cool summer dress
Legs and elbows crossed - Hand-in-hand at allpoetry
our trials and our pasts now gone forever
as we hugged to the morns cold shiver - Only Love at allpoetry
I could not move
so the world came to me, - sweet caterpillar at allpoetry
You can not be an angel how much you try
or how hard to this dream you cling. - My Love at allpoetry
No we are not pregnant. I just needed her to represent the "all".
- Incubus at allpoetry
I see you
when you are sleeping. - A moments rest at allpoetry
And she rested with a satifying smile,
the world for a moment at rest. - Friends at allpoetry
I found
a familiar friend - Morning with Santana at allpoetry
Santana's music fills my ears
as I look for my Black Magic Woman - Column: Macandrew: Page 1 at allpoetry
Just saving my page as I want to change it without losing any info. - Slippage at allpoetry
and a sweet child's
frilly dreams - The Fisherman at allpoetry
A fisherman,
he jigs for words - Speaker's Block at allpoetry
Words, wished the young boy
he knew them in his mind.
