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  • Sean North (5/18/2013 3:12:00 AM) Post reply

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  • Sue Ann Simar (5/17/2013 11:35:00 PM) Post reply

    T.P. White = Tomas de Faoite

  • John Kay (5/17/2013 11:30:00 PM) Post reply | Read 3 replies

    My Horror Story

    The lights went off all over
    the city. Everything was down.

    Becoming eerily disconnected
    from the world, we began to thaw,

    so the four of us sat around a table
    with flashlights under our chins,

    like children, laughing in the dark,
    when it was suggested that we tell

    each other some horror stories.
    My turn came, and I declined,

    as the only horror story I knew
    began long ago- as a love story.

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    • Math Man (5/18/2013 7:09:00 AM) Post reply

      hi john, the end is wry, it works and it doesn't.

    • Mary Morstan (5/18/2013 4:44:00 AM) Post reply

      Hi John, I really like the mood and form but the last two lines are too easy a solution, imo - there is something else waiting to be said.

    • Sue Ann Simar (5/17/2013 11:37:00 PM) Post reply | Read 1 reply

      John, Are you doing the love connection? I remember we talked about your next book being love poems.

  • Over Out (5/17/2013 10:57:00 PM) Post reply | Read 1 reply

    looking for tomas de faoite on PH...want to read. anyone know who he is writing under?

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  • Christine Mc|cherry (5/16/2013 2:09:00 PM) Post reply | Read 1 reply

    I read a piece by Dylan Thomas the other day about his thoughts on Poetry.

    " Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry,
    prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle,
    makes you want to do this or that or nothing,
    makes you know that you are alone in an unknown world,
    that your bliss andsuffering is forever shared,
    and forever on your own.

    Love the bit about making toe nails twinkle! I wish I had the talent to do that
    . But I can read the poetry that does! !

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    • Jerry Hughes (5/16/2013 8:46:00 PM) Post reply

      Hello Christine, those words are from a LP recording by Dylan Thomas titled 'a few words of a kind'.Cheers, Jerry

  • Lamont Palmer (5/15/2013 9:03:00 PM) Post reply | Read 4 replies

    The Arrangement



    Perhaps my emptiness is greater than your own.
    To test these levels is a testy thing;
    Bruises from wayward love scraped against
    My aching face, and yes, there are stages to it:
    Always grief and its sister emotion, ‘want’,
    Which takes the belly-fire to new rooms
    Of strange beds, moody dressers, mirrors
    Unattended by masters of the given house.
    Lust truncated; it is a wild dove kissing
    The masses, as they stare bemused into
    Unknown faces and unknown territories.
    What can I give but wholeness: my own heat,
    Like doing sixty-nine till the moon sighs and sleeps.

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    • Mary Morstan (5/18/2013 4:51:00 AM) Post reply

      I like the first two lines but what comes after reads, for this reader, as over-crafted, seems overly determined to fit words and images into this form. And the last line doesn't work - if you want to ... more

    • Sue Ann Simar (5/17/2013 11:57:00 PM) Post reply | Read 1 reply

      I don't know that I like the title for this. Like many of your poems, I like the framework and especially like some lines- " Perhaps my emptiness is greater than your own" and " What c ... more

    • Over Out (5/17/2013 11:25:00 PM) Post reply

      the ending cheapens the poem. imo, of course.

    • John Kay (5/17/2013 11:00:00 PM) Post reply

      Lamont, Some very nice lines and ima ... more

  • God Dog 8hate (5/15/2013 5:12:00 PM) Post reply

    San Francisco

    San Francisco offered secret views,
    the admission was gross,
    yet I paid, PAID in full
    (that) " detachment! "
    and that welded me to now...
    unimpeded, revelatory existence
    apprising days rife in what's
    singular presence,
    an exceedingly-benevolent vision,
    and yet...
    the streets,
    those squalid, dejected streets...
    vile n' dirty... foreboding execration -
    the streets.

    Beauty n' the Hideous -
    a polarized existence:
    with all that
    deprivation...

    I had a Mansion
    down on 6th Street
    and around...

    San Francisco

    .

  • Maggie Edge (5/14/2013 6:21:00 AM) Post reply | Read 1 reply

    Hi
    can anyone tell me how to pronounce the word sead in John Donne's poem The Good Morrow.
    'Let sead discoveries to new worlds have gone, '
    Maggie

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    • Mary Morstan (5/14/2013 7:22:00 AM) Post reply

      No. It doesn't exist. The line reads, " Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone" - and it's " The Good-Morrow" ...poor Donne... (bloody hilarious, all the same) .

  • Aman Zemen (5/13/2013 7:59:00 PM) Post reply

    Philosophy Of A 'Crazy' Guy

    There once lived a devotee crazy guy
    Who believed that he easily could fly
    On a big tree, he climbed high
    But soon he came down
    Noticing the earth is better than the sky

  • Chealsea Regis (5/13/2013 5:19:00 PM) Post reply

    I'm new to this site and would really appreciate some feedback on my poetry... thank you all xx

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