National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

Post by **Colm Roe** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:51 am

Liking your Session Man a lot Gyppo.
Very well written.

Post by **Colm Roe** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:55 am

Lots to enjoy in your Eagle poem Lisa.

Post by **Colm Roe** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:00 am

Love #12 Tracy...fantastic final S.

Post by **Colm Roe** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:08 am

Linda, did you shock your poetry group?

I hope so.
Wonderful read, funny and sad.
Thanks for sharing...when do we get to hear about your dalliances?

ajduclos · Post by **ajduclos** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:29 am

Deb wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:48 pm
AJ, your "Darling" is a deeply moving poem. It's worthy of publication and really does, in my mind, need to be shared. It made me cry. That's what you want, right?

Hi Deb - this was a real deal culminating in yesterday's Celebration of her Life... My muse made me write "Darling" yesterday morning, to preserve it forever, for posterity. I truly didn't think of anything, of any purpose, other than to document poetically what two truly wonderful people lived, and died.
I appreciate your kind words. Glad you liked it, were moved by it.
Aj

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:32 am

Well this is still going strongly - Gyppo love Session Man, Adjuclos your Darling was very moving, Colm, your last one very intense, Tom a Wonderful Poem 12 and Indar you never write a wrong line. Vaughn 12 was tremendous, I could really relate to it.

13
I have to be good, or brilliant, better

than you; than millions of Chinese

whose burgeoning intellect threatens

to flood the world. I am mediocre.

No matter how hard I try, how many

books I read or teachers I ask

great inventions, the wonder drug,

a pirouette or triple flip or even

just getting to work before dawn

evade me. This world accelerates

as I slow down, refine my denials

until I swallow myself with a soft

plop!

ajduclos · Post by **ajduclos** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:36 am

Gyppo wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:58 am

ajduclos wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:58 pm
Gyppo - that's fine, sorta normal. Spent lots of my days in the "My name is Sue, how do you do, now you gonna die" days. Aimé is male, Aimée is female !!! deal with it !!!
p.s. did you like the recording, the music?
I did indeed. I see why you think it would have suited Cash's voice.

As a fairly mono-lingual Englishman, with the exception of a few useful phrases in other languages, I'm always fascinated when I read something someone has written in a non-native tongue.

Hey Gyppo - It's been an interesting life living in an English speaking world, a world of my 2nd language. Amazing how often after all these so many years French intrudes and informs. Marcel and I have discussed this phenomenon many times, recognizing it as both a boon and a curse, in everyday life and interactions as well as in writing.
Anyway, it's been a fun ride.
p.s. I love "Session Man"
Aj

Post by **Sharon Leigh** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:43 am

Where the apple dropped

She offers generic coffee and fresh baked Pulla,
her half-hug all sharp shoulder. The home smells
of cardamom and candles, ever present wood smoke.
I remove my jacket, she likes it warm
like a little bird. I imagine her bones
as light, as hollow, fragile. I see her fig has
gained three leaves, four inches. I see

the bag of knitting beside her rocker, its mouth
of needles and wool, the slippers she is shaping.
We fall into familiar chatter, laughter. He is
still outside in the workshop, topics
are freely feminine. I adore the newspaper
beside his easy chair, the Bible and hymnal.
On her fridge, hand written, held by a sea glass
magnet: Frost's "Nothing Gold can Stay".

.

ajduclos · Post by **ajduclos** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:48 am

Wow, Sharon - beautiful, sensitive... "topics are freely feminine"

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:54 am

14

"This is a deliberate act of coercion invading your neutral zone."

human stands straight, both feet on the ground,
eyes front, arms at rest, earthed and ready. human
stands straight, both feet on the ground, eyes front,
arms at rest, earthed and ready. human stands
straight, both feet on the ground, eyes front, arms
at rest, earthed and ready. human stands straight,
both feet on the ground, eyes front, arms at rest,
earthed and ready. human stands straight.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,”

Human stands straight, both feet on the ground,
Eyes front, arms at rest, earthed and Ready.

(the Quote in the middle of the Poem is from Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

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