National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

Post by **Tracy Mitchell** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:47 am

ajduclos wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:42 am

oy... just stick with matzah..............

Post by **Tracy Mitchell** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:48 am

AJ -- a middle leaf salute to the departing snow -- too funny! Love your writing.

T

ajduclos · Post by **ajduclos** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:07 am

Tracy Mitchell wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:48 am
AJ -- a middle leaf salute to the departing snow -- too funny! Love your writing.

T

Thanks, Tracy - I'm learning so much being in this forum - so many amazing works of writing..........

Post by **Tracy Mitchell** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:12 am

#11
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Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:20 am

11

Prism
Left eyed gate and right eyed door
the room is bigger on the inside
why ever leave when all universe is here?
What I choose enters in and is stored in boxes
with obscure names like
family
friends
the end of the world
MY VIEW on the SENSE of LIVING.
Outside is a range of reflections:
The sky a reason to get up;
Or a gray canvas for grief;
that limping cat a sad example of the need for compassion
in a mysteriously imperfect thing others call reality.
I prefer the warm bed of my dreams
or pictures of me on a bicycle leaving broken grass trails
across half-frozen fields on a morning after my last day of school.
I have no need of anything but the stories I weave,

so leave.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:23 am

Tracy
You are on a roll and your are rhyming - wow. Deb really good poem. George to the point as always. Gyppo I won't pick a fight with you - great poem.

Post by **Tracy Mitchell** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:27 am

Hey writers -- we have passed the 1/3 mark!!

[again, Colm, thanks for sharing your picture]

Gyppo · Post by **Gyppo** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:52 am

Dave wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:23 am
Tracy
You are on a roll and your are rhyming - wow. Deb really good poem. George to the point as always. Gyppo I won't pick a fight with you - great poem.

Dave, I'm a peace loving soul, I prefer it that way. But sometimes people don't respect my wants. It's useful to have another side, but I keep it on a leash.

Gyppo

ajduclos · Post by **ajduclos** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:51 am

Dave - well written and woven - "on a bicycle leaving broken grass trails"... yes............

Tracy - Collected Works is wonderfully lyrical - I hear a song, the music.........

Gyppo - you are warrior-cloaked with the soul of a sensitive poet... and I can guarantee you I would not have touched that crocus !!!!

Post by **indar** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:34 pm

April 11 (third of the way)

Thirds

One of the things that drive me crazy
are people who cut paper snowflakes by folding
their squares in quarters and eighths
instead of thirds and sixths.

Last Christmas I almost walked up to my neighbor's door
to insist they take down their ridiculous decorations
taped to the inside of their kitchen window--
home-made octagonal affronts to nature,

what kind of example do they set for our children?

(I promise I'll do better tomorrow)

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