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February 23, 2019

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Soft Gentle Distraction

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Soft hands are of no interest to me

Is my first thought but I realize

That’s not exactly true.

I’m sort of obsessed with them

Morbidly fascinated by the life lived

Resulting in no calluses, no broken nails

No cracked skin, no permanent grease stains

No dirt (no longer soil) embedded on the side of the index finger

Not a sign of that organic complex that

Supports life in any corner of a nail.

Lives so foreign to me and mine.

And so I sit and stare at hands

Men’s mostly.

Having a different unrealistic absurd standard

For women’s hands.

Not wondering about their soft hands

Not wondering why their soft hands aren’t repulsive

And why men’s soft hands are. To me.

Not wondering why I care at all or

Why I’m not just worried about my own damn self

Or the actual subject of this (yet another) meeting.

Instead here I fixate on pristine doughy man hands

Only wondering if I’m making a face

As I stare.

January 30, 2019

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Party Favors

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Silently unfurling

Sunshine and warmth for breath

Celebrating the dormant cold

Quietly and alone

Like me as snowflakes and

Mercury tumble down around.

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Metaphor and simile poem

January 20, 2019

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Remember Your Kindness

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Remember that time long ago when

Your heart was emboldened by gentle

Kindness? Reflect that into your life.

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A Bumper Sticker Poem

Bumper Sticker Poems – a form I created, inspired by cento and golden shovel poetry, with the following guidelines:

  • Using a bumper sticker as inspiration use the words in the bumper sticker as the first word in each line of the poem
  • The theme of the poem may or may not have anything to do with the message of the sticker
  • Title should be the words of the bumper sticker
  • May or may not be rhymed
  • 9 syllable lines
  • Number of lines depends on number of words on the bumper sticker

December 31

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1 Year, 337 Poems, 320 Poetic Forms

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Noisily tumble into salty puddles cleaning the winter away

Desperation due to desiccation

A dancer among the branches

Layered delicately ruffled and damp

Forming an army of silent patient shower spiders

But a jubilant jaunt to libation

Gangly kids tumble from the bus

Street-smart, city-wise, he is on his way

When we love ourselves as we love the other love becomes bold

One day the vine’s all green leaves and promise

It’s the best she can do, breathe in, breathe out

Where nature preaches I will be

Field guide in hand walking the land to understand

six wrinkled elbows buttress wrists and hands

Six legged sunrise

My parish is the biomass

Invisibly weakened by life so goes the heart

Curvaceous evolution

Avoiding the academic machine

Flair and glare reflecting in aviators, life somewhere between psychedelic dream and nightmare

No power button, just powerful

Too bad this ecosystem is ruled by thermostat

Life is this blue and pink treat ball

It is always practice

Stumps are shorthand for rains and winds withstood

Lust like every damn day

A stalled hurricane of potential

She’s missing the cock to her doodle do.

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A Descort Poem

 

December 30

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A Ministry Concert at the old Electric Factory in Philadelphia

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Colorful lights

dot the small spaces

left where the instruments

of strings and percussion

and voice did not fill.

These colorful orbs

the only refuge for

lightness and brightness

for two hours

in a reverberating

urban cave.

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A Free Verse Poem

Photo by CJF

December 29

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Pause

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Without or with expected applause… pause

In spite of or despite your faux pas… pause

Before breaking or following laws… pause

When considering what are and are not flaws… pause

When running towards or away from dangerous jaws…pause

Just because…pause

Without cause…pause

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A Monorhyme Poem

 

December 8

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The world is my country, all mankind my brethren and to do good is my religion

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The ambition is solitary

World domination is not the goal

Is happiness enough to fulfill?

My calm is my sanctuary

Country walks fill an important role

All creatures great and small matter still

Mankind is evolutionary

Are we able to display control?

My fear is that we won’t know until

Brethren and sistren may be wary

And we wonder what we can do as a whole

To cover the planet in goodwill

Do good until it’s involuntary

Good until we all emerge a whole

Is this a struggle that’s all uphill?

My trust is in all of existence

Religion is peace with persistence.

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(A Bumper Sticker Poem)

Bumper Sticker Poems – a form I created, inspired by cento and golden shovel poetry, with the following guidelines:

  • Using a bumper sticker as inspiration use the words in the bumper sticker as the first word in each line of the poem
  • The theme of the poem may or may not have anything to do with the message of the sticker
  • Title should be the words of the bumper sticker
  • Should be rhymed
  • 9 syllable lines
  • Number of lines depends on number of words on the bumper sticker

December 7

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Don’t Believe Everything You Think

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Don’t worry be happy – that old trope

Believe life is walking a tightrope

Everything is gonna be alright

You must always push the envelope

Think plan prepare action beyond hope

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(A Bumper Sticker Poem)

Bumper Sticker Poems – a form I created, inspired by cento and golden shovel poetry, with the following guidelines:

  • Using a bumper sticker as inspiration use the words in the bumper sticker as the first word in each line of the poem
  • The theme of the poem may or may not have anything to do with the message of the sticker
  • Title should be the words of the bumper sticker
  • Should be rhymed
  • 9 syllable lines
  • Number of lines depends on number of words on the bumper sticker