February 2011
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FINAL REMINDER: POETRY CHALLENGE SUBMISSIONS BEGIN...
****NOTE: I have decided to extend the submission period three extra days. Submissions for Poetry Challenge entries will now be accepted Tuesday, February 1st through Thursday, February 10th.
Entries received after February 10th (American date of time for those living abroad) will not be considered.
Again, read and adhere to the guidelines listed below. I do wish everyone good luck, and...
January 2011
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yesorotherwise:
I do not know the shape of my body until I bathe and entrust the timely faiths to slant the willow brook wrists. Unbreathing gesture of float insists placed garlands of Rue upon the heads of the gathered who know not where I’ve gone. The brook is too white and milked to search for a soul beyond body. This is my advantage in death, to lose my shape and bounds, to hold the lily...
REMINDER: SUBMISSIONS FOR POETRY CHALLENGE OPEN...
Below this announcement/prompt you will find the poem “Possibilities” by Wisława Syzymborska, which is an excellent example of a list or inventory poem.
Here are the details for the List Poem Poetry Challenge again:
I would like to challenge my followers to create their own list poems of preferences and to submit them to me for consideration to be posted on this blog.
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Fragmented Memory →
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By Janee San Luis
She smells of sweet ripe papayas while hands smell of rust. Every morning I would watch her— her petite weakly arms carrying a bucket which is the color of her pouty bare lips and the blood of broken men that boils with the very sight of her. She would talk to me in her thick Visayan accent while moving up and down the pumping rod of a traditional hand pump until...
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ATTENTION!!! A POETRY CHALLENGE FOR MY FOLLOWERS!!!
Below this announcement/prompt you will find the poem “Possibilities” by Wisława Syzymborska, which is an excellent example of a list or inventory poem.
Here is what I propose:
I would like to challenge my followers to create their own list poems of preferences and to submit them to me for consideration to be posted on this...
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Poem: “XX Tonight I Can Write...
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Poem: If We Were Honest by Albert Goldbarth
If...
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Shelley’s Guitar
How much more beautiful...
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Poem: “Walking Around” by Pablo...
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A Life of Its Own . . .
A couple of days ago I posted a photograph of Jean Patchett visiting Ernest Hemingway with the caption: “Madame, all our words from loose using have lost their edge …” taken from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon.
After posting this photo and quotation, I began to reconsider it. Not wanting to be mistaken for a “sexist,” I decided to delete the post. ...
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Poem: “Poetry” by Pablo Neruda Read...
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Poem: “Poetry” by Pablo Neruda Read...
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Poem: “Fable of the Mermaid and the...
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Poem: “Fable of the Mermaid and the...
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Poem: “XV I Like For You To Be...
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Poem: XV I Like For You To Be Still by Pablo...
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Poem: “If You Forget Me” by Pablo...
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Poem: “If You Forget Me” by Pablo...
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