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Poem to Raymond Carver
Poem to Raymond Carver comforter thrown over my legs late morning cats asleep at my feet I am reading a tattered copy of A NEW PATH TO THE WATERFALL you said you wanted this all of your life waking each … Continue reading
Hope
Hope After everything I find it intact like a chimney standing beside a basement jumbled with black and smoking rafters. It is the bubble that rises from a sunken ship as a diver cracks into the wreck. It is the … Continue reading
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight One ran, her nose to the ground, a rusty shadow neither hunting nor playing. One stood; sat; lay down; stood again. One never moved, except to turn her head a … Continue reading
Moscow
Moscow For a while I was alone, so I dated whoever’s work I was reading, but the relationships always ended badly. I wasn’t smart enough for Wayne, I wasn’t caustic enough for David, Kevin & I were doing well, but … Continue reading
Nobody
Nobody Nobody loves me, Nobody cares, Nobody picks me peaches and pears. Nobody offers me candy and Cokes, Nobody listens and laughs at my jokes. Nobody helps when I get in a fight, Nobody does all my homework at night. … Continue reading
Honorable Mentions in Original Composition
Summer vacation Eight weeks of silent freedom September scares me ~ Shannon Proctor Got a whiff of dead skunk on the highway, Its aroma brought tears to my eyes, Nothing like daisies, hyacinths or roses, More like my dog’s dirty … Continue reading
Honorable Mentions in Existing Poems
Wendy Bousfield also found us Suppose & Ulalume … Suppose BY PHOEBE CARY Suppose, my little lady, Your doll should break her head, Could you make it whole by crying Till your eyes and nose are red? And would n’t it … Continue reading
The Runners Up!
The contests were super close so, in the category of original poem: Toadstools They sit on things and make them rot I like to kick them quite a lot Don’t mistake them for mushrooms They’re different you know Although they … Continue reading
National Bad Poetry Day ~ August 18th THE CONTEST Winners Revealed!
The day that reminds us all that it’s good to try writing poetry. Good poetry? Not necessary, there is a day out there just for you! And the winner for original composition is Liz Morath’s “The Basket” The Basket Seemed … Continue reading