Tag: poetry
group name: changeispossible
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April 06, 2006 07:58 AM EDT --
Bob Dylan is more than a singer/songwriter. He is an accomplished and gifted poet. I bought my first Bob Dylan album when I was 10 years old. Living in Seattle in 1963, a hotbed . . . more
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June 17, 2006 05:22 PM EDT --
This is my first poem written in English instead of in my mother tongue (Spanish). Writting in a language that is not my native one is a very interesting experience that I'm enjoying very much.
The . . . more
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July 04, 2006 05:49 AM EDT --
This is one of my recent poems in English. I got inspired while walking in my favourite park in Asturias (Spain), where I took this photo.
I SEE YOU
I see you in the wind;
you come silently, . . . more
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June 25, 2006 07:33 AM EDT --
There is something about a gentle summer rain
that invites us to be still.
The birds, though calling, stay perched.
Foxes, squirrels and chipmunks
watch, but don't venture.
Sounds are muffled . . . more
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April 07, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
If I Could Choose
Don't remember me to yesterday,
a time:
Of pain when insane.
Of ghosts better to forget.
Of deeds I regret
but cannot be undone
and . . . more
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May 22, 2006 04:36 AM EDT --
When I gaze
at you
I see yesterday
on your face
and I read
the ledger
of bought and
sold and exchanged
with profit
and loss all
weighed and balanced
clearly engraved . . . more
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March 10, 2007 02:08 PM EST --
All winter long I've been so cold.
My feet nearly freeze since I got old.
I get bundled up and jump into bed.
But the sheets are so cold, it's something I dread.
My heating pad quit, so what . . . more
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April 10, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
I asked the dawn: "Where is the dewdrop that wet my lips last night and was suddenly gone before the sunrise?"
The dawn smiled: 'It's in the lightness of breezes and fragrance of flowers." . . . more
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February 26, 2006 11:15 PM EST --
For Angela Zack
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
. . . more
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March 28, 2006 09:35 PM EST --
for Laura, Robert, Abu, Edward, Will
and all my poet friends on the Path
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you
as pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight
la ilaha illa-llah, la ilaha . . . more
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June 29, 2006 01:10 PM EDT --
for Mark Christian Klopp, troubadour, chocolatier, seer
I just found a silk souk past the Gate of Scales,
I just tasted a grape from your open mouth.
The medina spirals inward sighing genie tales
from . . . more
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April 07, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
My Wish for You
May God smile on you
as gently as the morning dew
When storms brew
to come with hours long and dark
to stamp misery as their mark
And you the captain of aimless ship . . . more
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August 31, 2007 09:00 AM EDT --
She stood
newspaper in hand,
waiting
on the step for life to answer the door.
He did.
"I'm here," she said,
"to answer your ad for the love of your life." . . . more
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May 01, 2006 09:00 AM EDT --
for Angela Claire and Andalucia Dotson
may·day [máy dày] noun. distress call: the internationally recognized communications distress call.
My friend draws bright discs in . . . more
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April 11, 2006 06:42 AM EDT --
For Edward Nudelman, whose bedrock faith is a living choice
I have often asked myself, 'What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it? Jared Diamond, in his . . . more
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July 02, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
For Laura Stuart Mercer, artist of the invisible, in answer to Daniel Dennett's philosophical dismissal of 'qualia' in his books, CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED and SWEET DREAMS. Unfortunately . . . more
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June 27, 2006 05:27 PM EDT --
*Silken thread rectangles whorled in a circle between a tree crotch, traveled across by eight-legged arachnids
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July 09, 2006 08:31 PM EDT --
I/Thou
What is there in a star gazing back at me?
And is there a flower that can smell me too?
Does the road hear my feet shuffling along the side?
Yes, if God is everything.
Does . . . more
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February 21, 2006 07:31 AM EST --
for C. Brian Maddox
The Caribbean palm just looked dead leaning against the squat green house.
The shadow it cast overwhelmed a crabgrass lawn thick with old newspapers.
I looked for the FOR RENT or . . . more
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April 09, 2006 07:59 PM EDT --
I saw the sparkling halo
That was set before my eyes
It seemed to be so magical
I didn't seem surprised
There were people all around me
As a I circled the room that night
And wondered . . . more
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