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Hi Folks, My final three were haphazardly strewn together yesterday and the day before but I couldn't stay awake to post last night and fell asleep on the keyboard. Meant to post today but haven't been able to sit at the computer. Everything is on my laptop so I'm only posting the bits and pieces o...

I wish you all a plentiful harvest of poems. Reading such varied forms further stimulates me to experiment. It is the world of sensory experiences expressed in imagery that you all expressed  in poetry that stays with me. Merci. Marcel, aka, lecram6.

Hello all. I will comment more later, but I have to be away from home for a while today. Atop Trail Ridge Road The mountains laugh as sunshine spills from an azure sky. Columbines and lupines dance in the wind, taunting boulders for their immobilioty. Atop the world, I stare down upon a frozen lake...

I'm winding up this year's poetry 'marathon' with something relatively short and gentle.  It's been lurking in the form of a few scribbled notes since almost the beginning.  Now it's out there, roaming the streets as it were. You can only protect and hoard your verses for so long.  Sooner or later ...

Triolet 30 and final one Why did I write thirty poems in thirty days? Why not write thirty as we speak, On more if I have something to say? Why did I write thirty poems in thirty days? I'll spew out hundreds if you pay. But truth be known, I'd rather speak. Why did I write thirty poems in thirty day...

April 29 (still a day ahead because who knows what tomorrow will bring :) ) Gabriel, for God's Sake Blow Your Horn: or Understanding Divine Intervention Why is there almost universal agreement that angels are beautiful and kind: that they save, refine, enlighten individuals by sheltering them from ...

Napo 29 - 2019 Terri She grew up in a family of brothers, three of them.  Not inherently violent, but their Dad taught them all to box. Finely controlled and balanced pugilism, handing down the 'manly art' of his generation. A quiet man, but not one to mess with as many a belligerent drunk discover...

I have three possibilities today and chose the worst to post. I'm too tired to flesh anything entertaining and meaningful out of so many ideas. I've written six pages to develop after we get settled in. Please excuse my excuse. I'm so sick of moving. Uprooted I hope I live long enough to enjoy a ho...

Triolet 29

The verdict is in.
The die is cast.
Forgo chagrin.
The verdict is in.
It's time to swim
The ocean vast.
The verdict is in.
The die is cast.

27 Being someone   A rose without a name would smell as sweet So I adrift in a sea of namelessness would still not eat meat, love my neighbor and count character over skin colour, have sex with those I prefer, believe gods are chimera and the label liberal is bullshit invented by those who keep the...