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Thanks Tracy, Yes when I read about it a few years ago I knew I had to put it in a poem someday somewhere. It's deadly enough imo to need no overstatement. Hey Sharon - your hornet poem makes one want to run away to save one's soul and sanity.  And I had to rush to look up Bolton Strid - yes, deadl...

Tracy Mitchell wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:19 pm

Thank you M.

I concur - this Frenchman was watching the same dream - nice bit of writing !!
Aj

ahhhhh..........................
Aj 

Early Spring chores demand attention and my muse is taking vacation - perhaps there may be a connection Day 16 Urge To Write (I wrote this whilst in the midst of a writing deluge, my muse finally stepping forward out of the dungeon, allowed the light of day - a huge cathartic explosion from decades ...

April 16 Benny Goodman Plays Goodbye for Your Listening Pleasure Duke Ellington, her favorite, I turn the volume up further, watch her face for some reaction: her face once beautiful, now fixed, open-mouthed, gasping. Her body patched with deep plum evidence of necrosis of her flesh. Death is not b...

Wonderful use of the triolet as a social commentary tool - well done and food for thought.............

NicoleMichaels wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:26 am

MEET ASIAN GIRLS NOW

I had a love for you big as China,
and I have stopped fighting for you.  


but I carry
the salt of the earth on my tongue, 

my open-mouthed kiss, 

something you wake to
between scrolls. 　

Wow - I have no words..................
Aj
 

Gyppo wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:19 am

Which is when I grab my bag
and swing aboard the last train out.
One day it will be my last ride,
"But today is not that day."

Gyppo

Ain't Ready To Die

so sorry for your loss... 

Aj
 

I'm in such fine company here. I am amazed. I've been advised to quit apologizing but I don't think my work rises to these standards. I'll keep working on it though.  I wrote this the day of my onslaught and didn't plan to use it but today my brain is shrouded in fog. -That's a poem for another day...

So powerful, so honest... moving..............