tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39704547941009764862024-02-19T01:06:42.739-05:00Blogsboro Poetry ClubA means to promote poets and poetry bloggers from around the world.Billy Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16264147065000056960noreply@blogger.comBlogger774125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-11557697582132293112013-03-12T05:51:00.002-04:002013-03-12T05:51:49.603-04:00"Memories"<br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Memories </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hidden in the forest</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where the trees grow thick and strong,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's a cottage, small and humble, </span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where I lived when I was young.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's a yellow roof of thatch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And a rough red chimney there,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With diamond latticed windows</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Letting in the cool fresh air.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When work was finished for the day</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In peace I hurried home;</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Through the trees so thick and handsome,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where as a child I'd roam.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A smiling face would greet me;</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hot dinner on the grate:</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But one day all was lonely,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'Twas so early, yet so late.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No smoke came from the chimney,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No whispers filled the air;</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the memories still haunt me</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of my mother smiling there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now many years have crept along,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I sadly realise</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That never shall I see again</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The love-light in her eyes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till I walk down the cobbled path,</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And lift that rusty latch;</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Till memory brings back once more</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My home with the yellow thatch.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">© Colin Gordon-Farleigh </span><br />
Rev Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103658230037040555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-75468929839554224952012-11-10T03:24:00.000-05:002012-11-10T03:24:08.974-05:00Old Flame<br />
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Rev Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103658230037040555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-26582680881490886262012-01-12T16:07:00.000-05:002012-01-12T16:08:06.247-05:00I'm Interviewed At Poets UnitedI was honored to be <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2012/01/life-of-poetmadeleine-begun-kane.html">interviewed as part of Poets United "Life of a Poet"</a> series. It's fairly comprehensive and includes some fun photos and limericks. So if you'd like to know some of my deep, dark secrets, here it is. :)Mad Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09062896853710827250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-91131154282784763982011-04-25T23:06:00.000-04:002011-04-25T23:06:49.950-04:00Maybe you'd be happier with the T-4Being sent spanking back to poverty, we expected scenes like this. One
feels that the windy neighborhoods are more exposed to the way the
planet spins. We may have used this cutting edge pool robot for two
seasons. It needs a little tightening of screws. Come and see us in our
new location: Mountain Hill Wheeled Estate Homes for Those who Can't Get
a Loan. <a href="http://captainpariah.blogspot.com/" style="color: #783f04;">You know the route</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-21554570255553729322010-12-04T09:18:00.002-05:002011-11-26T15:44:22.339-05:00haiku<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">to
the sonorous... <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.owlnight.com/2010/12/listening-to-sonorous-silence-of-snow.html">read more</a></span></i></span></div>Beatrice Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492224274542764248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-50566252181764924592010-12-02T22:50:00.000-05:002010-12-02T22:51:25.868-05:00Pursuit<p>I was irresponsible<br />
almost obsessively so<br />
I watched the grass grow green on the back porch<br />
then turn gray with <a href="http://twoofusridingrainclouds.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/pursuit-2/">the stone</a></p>twoofusridingraincloudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254312298610758626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-89214113352234669422010-11-20T08:10:00.001-05:002010-11-20T08:13:14.602-05:00Can I injure my eyes by crying?crying and traumatic globe luxation?
precursors for tears during <a href="http://captainpariah.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">sex</span></a>?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-84902313055853338062010-11-18T10:52:00.005-05:002010-11-18T11:02:47.426-05:00Ulysses Ossuary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-def/Ford-Model-T-Centennial-In-Egypt-1914-1920x1440.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 120px;" src="http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-def/Ford-Model-T-Centennial-In-Egypt-1914-1920x1440.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
I am Ulysses Ossuary, also known<br />
as Barton Bone, part-time professional<br />
ventriloquist. I throw my voice around<br />
the house afraid of getting hollowed out.<br />
I’m wary of the basement water<br />
rising through the kitchen linoleum and<br />
rivering out my open door. When thick<br />
necked hardhats and the cracked<br />
landlord inspect the suspect pipes I play<br />
a sad croquet of wickets with impossible lips<br />
and wonder about the broken hinges<br />
on the box of shoes I don’t wear anymore.<br />
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<a href="http://notinthenewstoday.com/">read more</a>Pat Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288101075289797580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-10372736991645439602010-11-02T11:59:00.000-04:002010-11-02T11:59:05.584-04:00<br />
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<a href="http://www.owlnight.com/2010/11/sound-of-ash-tree-foliage-falling-on.html">the ash...</a></div>Beatrice Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492224274542764248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-60768951259354014792010-10-22T09:21:00.001-04:002010-10-22T09:23:17.400-04:00The Loss of a DreamFloorboards creak.<div>She creeps to me where I lie asleep,</div><div>tears on her cheeks, voice cracked with sleep.</div><div>"Nightmare?" I ask, <a href="http://lizziviggi.blogspot.com/">sweeping the sheet</a>...</div>lizziviggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15921603615699013169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-22526994391672582542010-10-14T06:32:00.006-04:002010-11-18T10:59:50.154-05:00Decay and Fall<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.jaynedarcy.us/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/willow_tree_macro.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 175px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.jaynedarcy.us/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/willow_tree_macro.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
Is a mouthful of crumbling concrete<br />
a sign for a cleaning and check-up<br />
asked our professor Doctor English about<br />
<br />
a simple operation on my upper lip<br />
to make it plumper, a little stitch at the corner<br />
by a white-coated girl in the barbershop’s<br />
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<a href="http://notinthenewstoday.com/">read more</a>Pat Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288101075289797580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-66814596241545661122010-10-13T08:52:00.002-04:002010-10-13T08:56:41.611-04:00BathtimeHundreds of fleeting bubbles pop<div>with the sweep of an arm,</div><div>the splash</div><div>of a foot.</div><div>Punctuated with little girl voices:</div><div>"Pretend we're princesses."</div><div>"Pretend we're getting married."</div><div>Mounds of luminous bubbles</div><div>pile high on their heads--</div><div>delicate, ephemeral crowns.</div><div><a href="http://lizziviggi.blogspot.com/2010/10/bathtime.html">Hundreds of fleeting bubbles pop,</a></div>lizziviggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15921603615699013169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-48727191068624191192010-10-12T10:20:00.001-04:002010-11-02T11:56:21.970-04:00autumn haikucurled up<br />
<br />
in the hollow of <a href="http://www.owlnight.com/2010/10/curling-up-in-hollow-of-night-autumn.html">the night ....</a><br />
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<br />Beatrice Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492224274542764248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-86587621138265978822010-09-30T14:49:00.004-04:002010-10-14T06:32:47.425-04:00Ride<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/images/Hawaiian_bobtail_squid04.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 110px;" src="http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/images/Hawaiian_bobtail_squid04.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
The engine won’t turn over<br />
by turning a key in the trunk.<br />
Rocco my favorite actor<br />
takes the wheel to get it going.<br />
Straight out, the guy’s a respectable mess.<br />
It’s like he lives in the trees.<br />
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<a href="http://notinthenewstoday.com/">read more</a>Pat Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288101075289797580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-2681421346255309012010-09-29T04:41:00.001-04:002010-09-29T04:42:33.728-04:00Salute to Returning Heroes<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Returning Hero</span></span></b><br />
Who will be there to remember,<br />
when all has been said and done,<br />
in the cold grey dawn of November,<br />
with a flag and the sound of a gun?<br />
When our heroes return in their coffins<br />
to the bugler’s lonesome call;<br />
and the wives and mothers are weeping<br />
― for they have lost most of all.<br />
Did they give their all in battle<br />
for a brush with the news-hour fame;<br />
for a medal and commendation,<br />
of their soon forgotten name?<br />
Was there purpose in their fighting<br />
or did they die in vain?<br />
Were they sent to war for no reason,<br />
a pointless cause in the main?<br />
When the day comes dawning,<br />
and the final result is zero,<br />
we will recall the brothers and sons,<br />
who were named as returning hero.<br />
We will stand and we'll remember,<br />
and salute their forgotten youth;<br />
each year, in the dawn of November,<br />
as we consider the bitterest truth.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© 2010 : Colin Gordon-Farleigh
</span>Rev Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103658230037040555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-5429055358933641292010-09-13T08:51:00.003-04:002010-09-13T08:57:07.312-04:00Playing For Keeps<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:Georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">I listen to your old songs<img src="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/media/02/01/860687011.jpg" id="media-516204" alt="Poems - Playing For Keeps.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; float: right; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0.7em; " />
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">and for the first time</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">your words strike a chord</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">and touch me deep</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">never realized before</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">just ... <a href="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/09/13/playing-for-keeps.html">entire poem</a></span><a href="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/09/13/playing-for-keeps.html"></a></p><a href="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/09/13/playing-for-keeps.html"></a></span><a href="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/09/13/playing-for-keeps.html"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-28180279078326132122010-09-11T15:49:00.005-04:002010-09-30T14:49:15.180-04:00Worst Summer Ever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/cicada-sam.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 125px;" src="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/cicada-sam.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
Everyone said so or<br />
everyone who had no<br />
place to go which was<br />
anyone we cared to know.<br />
<br />
Digital church bells tolled the hours<br />
of sun roasted office towers.<br />
<br />
The water was too shallow for laps.<br />
A big blue tarp kept us circling the edge.<br />
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<a href="http://notinthenewstoday.com/">read more</a>Pat Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288101075289797580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-45116060107880502672010-09-04T11:10:00.000-04:002010-09-04T11:11:19.185-04:00War TrenchI feel good in this bed.
I want to pay for it, pay the charges.
I owe it to Sears, feeling this good;
I want to pay them everything I owe.
I want to pay <a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://captainpariah.blogspot.com/">my debt</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-82149903045117418592010-09-01T10:16:00.006-04:002010-09-01T10:26:09.103-04:00Sunset Reverie<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:Georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">I have a cigarette on the fire escape</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">while I wait for you to stop by</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Jimmy’s ‘Castles made of sand’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">coming down from the roof</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">takes me back to better days</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">like summers in Grand Isle</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;">-</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" size="14px" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Hasty cars rush by on the avenue below</p><p class="MsoNormal" size="14px" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-GB">while their fumes climb up the stairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" size="14px" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-GB">The sun slowly sinking</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" size="14px" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-GB">behind the skyline</span></p></span><a href="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/09/01/sunset-reverie.html">entire poem</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-410117617363167042010-08-30T04:53:00.003-04:002010-08-30T05:02:43.439-04:00Hut O' SaintsClear in the middle of the preserve sits a <strong><span style="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://captainpariah.blogspot.com/">Hut of Saints</a></span></strong>...<!-- VZAAR START -->
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Last night I sat in the half-dark of the theatre/
watching and listening to Black Umfolosi;/
seeing the ghosts of yesterday/
moving silently in the shadows./
Moyo, Mangate, Takawira, Msikavanhu;/
so close I could almost touch them/
- almost hear their breathing./
I heard the voices calling from the stage/
echoing louder than the distance of time;/
bringing past and present together/
in one loud dreaming moment./
Matambo, Ganza, Bepete, Chapurinyemba;/
all ghosts from the distant past/
- fleshed out by the men of today./
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Colin Gordon-Farleigh © 2000</span></span></span></b>Rev Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103658230037040555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-74378664075138142742010-08-27T10:17:00.003-04:002010-08-27T10:22:17.984-04:00Hope<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfHnZs2BfC-2i7PjHNnlICE6wqVwjmkhyphenhyphenvR5w3HQPTsCrgBDF7BYANnEta6nXFmD3Nca0d51OxGWmc2za4aZBrRLSsIfY13sVrSptcY0jed0bg3sF0X6oHsSs0Oq5XWWm3CoHZKjMbCo/s1600/Poems+-+Hope+-+Edward+Hopper-Morning-Sun-1952.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfHnZs2BfC-2i7PjHNnlICE6wqVwjmkhyphenhyphenvR5w3HQPTsCrgBDF7BYANnEta6nXFmD3Nca0d51OxGWmc2za4aZBrRLSsIfY13sVrSptcY0jed0bg3sF0X6oHsSs0Oq5XWWm3CoHZKjMbCo/s200/Poems+-+Hope+-+Edward+Hopper-Morning-Sun-1952.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510094236698986850" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:Georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Strenuous days </span>and nothing to believe in</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">when black coat men cast shadows</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">over empty streets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dead inside I mourn the night</span> <span lang="EN">they took you</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">your voice and defiance silenced for good</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;"><span lang="EN-GB">and like so many I understand ... <a href="http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/08/27/hope.html">entire poem</a></span></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-53612743655332714492010-08-26T14:40:00.004-04:002010-09-11T15:51:47.300-04:00Vacation Neighbors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.973therock.com/photos/album_images/ratt.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 130px; height: 85px;" src="http://www.973therock.com/photos/album_images/ratt.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
O chanting insects of the evening<br />
on the north shores of Long Island,<br />
what does your insistent clickering<br />
signal from dusk till dawn?<br />
Hey dudes party over here?<br />
Hey ladies I’m looking for love?<br />
Hear me, the loudest bug around?<br />
Check out my stick in the ground?<br />
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<a href="http://notinthenewstoday.com/">read more</a>Pat Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288101075289797580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-34815463915987032082010-08-19T10:32:00.000-04:002010-08-19T10:32:40.938-04:00Toronto Island Aigin Larki<object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/XMZ2nFSBTes/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XMZ2nFSBTes?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XMZ2nFSBTes?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970454794100976486.post-79039593218165640502010-08-18T20:14:00.003-04:002010-08-18T20:19:36.582-04:00To My Sisters in ChoresWhen you clear up, you conform:<br>
Dust away detritus<br>
But also, let the tide wash away<br>
<a href="http://goenchi.blogspot.com/2010/08/to-my-sisters-in-chores.html">More</a>Goenchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18432797275200436880noreply@blogger.com