silence
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music carries me
up over back country road short cuts
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
blasting hard fast distorted buzz
clicked off in my parking lot spot
a day...
From Browsing Poetry to Browsing Art Books
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Last summer, an editor at Yale University Press asked me to serve as an
anonymous reviewer for a manuscript, and they would compensate me for my
service ...
Home Again, Home Again
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Got back from Pennsylvania a week ago, where I visited with the WCSU MFA
program to read from *Made to Explode*, which won last year's Housatonic
Book A...
Dating For Dummies – How To Gain Power Over Men
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Far From BasYc by G.L. Lambert
"G.L. I still don't get it. You need to break down dating like I'm DUMB
because I've read Solving Single [...]
Thanks for...
Jason Tandon
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Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of
poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the
Hec...
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This is the Country We Live In
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hold me to this
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becoming softer after every compromise
brittled and self-destructive, we were charring
into sharper malicious states of being
compressing ourselves into mo...
Life happens...
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My baby boy is 12...
My baby girl almost 1...
Life happened so i did not post anything in forever.
Well Same moonlight for our Dreams is coming back.
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THE JEM MOVIE'S SHANA AND COLORISM
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from a decidedly brown-skinned black girl with a big bouncy purple fro to a
beige biracial "safely black" girl with straight hair
This strikes close to hom...
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Hey there, fighter
it will get brighter.
Take a breath, a little deeper
and bring your faith a little higher.
Remember, you are a leader
not a follower..
M...
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Inhale the yawning frost
let it gather and collect
beside your sleepy heart
drowsy from neglect.
Rest your ghostly frame,
hush her muddled drawl.
You say ...
http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/thursday-poets-rally-week-31-october-21-27/ I invite you to attend Thursday Poets Rally week 31 let me know when you are ready. Thanks a lot.
Beautiful, sorrowful, and definitely colorful:) Good response to the prompt........
ReplyDeleteThe whole part that's written in black type is my favorite part. Such a sense of longing and nostalgia you captured there!
ReplyDeleteAlso the way it starts out with
"The
Dream
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each of the words getting its own line makes the beginning seem reluctant and languid. Very effective. <3
interesting blog.
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Beautiful
I love 'the watercolour of my reality spills...'
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. :-)
This is a bright splash of colour.
ReplyDeleteLove the colours in the poem and image, the fading into languor as poem progresses matched by image's colour strands fading to pastels.
ReplyDeleteSmooth poem - keep that flow going!
ReplyDeleteThis is delightful and beautiful...i love it!
ReplyDelete:-)
Love the presentation! Awesome post! =)
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amazing color poem!
ReplyDeletekeep shining!
Wow, I can vividly see all you wrote; Really lovely~
ReplyDeletehints of the necter...lingers in mind..such a beautiful words you chose to write.Loveky!
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I like how you presented this.
ReplyDeleteWow talk about a lovers poem! Your use of color was wonderful and the "breeze of my mind" ...so romantic and yet so sad.
ReplyDeleteThis flows so beautifully and is so very soft and loving! I like the presentation very much also.
ReplyDeleteI'm in love how every word is connected to the next. Beautifully writtin .<3xo
ReplyDeleteSilence. Followed by a thundering applause.
ReplyDeleteYou deserve a thundering ovation for this.
Dasuntoucha,
ReplyDeleteAn extremely pleasant read which more than evokes colourful thoughts...
Best wishes, Eileen
Beautiful as always! So moving!
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ReplyDeleteBeautifully poetic words.
Pamela
http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/thursday-poets-rally-week-31-october-21-27/
ReplyDeleteI invite you to attend Thursday Poets Rally week 31
let me know when you are ready.
Thanks a lot.
two awards for this week’s participation.
http://thursdaypoetsrallypoetry.wordpress.com/poetry-awards/poetry-awards-4-thursday-poets-rally-week-31-participants/
ReplyDeletethese awards are for participation of Thursday Poets Rally week 31.
different from Jingle poetry Potluck awards.
Enjoy!
I valued your support.
xxx
this was so beautiful, i loved it. such a dormant passion
ReplyDeleteCalm...Beautiful and Sweet!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and vivid, full of passion. Thanks for sharing!
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