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Post by indar » Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:01 pm

drab gulls

stumble sullenly

along a scarred water line

in search of crabs.

 


The promenade is boarded up.


With a little extra time today I am hopping around the thread and discovering gems like these lines from one of Dave's earlier poems---"signs" love the imagery

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Post by Vaughn Neeld » Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:29 pm

I agree that it would be great to see each thread perhaps in chapbooks. I have been working on a chapbook for years, but I am always so busy with various poetry and writing groups as well as free-lance editing, that I have had to put my own work to the side. One of these days.....

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Post by ajduclos » Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:26 pm

Now, Vaughn, NOW !!!  I've been reading your work during this April mayhem, and it is superb - chapbook now !!!!
Aj
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Post by ajduclos » Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:41 pm

Gyppo wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2019 2:47 pm
AJ,
You have no idea just how much I've delighted in telling my family and friends that a Frenchman whom I've never actually met has written a song inspired by one of my poems.

There seems to have a been a fair bit of cross-pollination of ideas and themes this year.  It's good to see.

Yet we all have our own very distinctive way of doing things.

Gyppo
Hey Gyppo

Glad you are enjoying tweaking as many "chords" as possible, knowing how much you would relish each moment.  The song is actually sorta nice.......... 

The cross-pollination you speak of is what I think the best possible result of something like this April Poetry Month Celebration - yes, good to see !!

We are all unique, all have something to add to the universal library.

Thanks for your comments and thoughts.  I am truly humbled....

I really am taken by your themes and writings.

Onward.......

Aj

P.S.  and to think a poem this Frenchman wrote actually inspired an Englishman to write a poem is equally "disturbing"  !!!!!!!!!!!  such fun all around!!!  
 
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Post by Colm Roe » Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:17 pm

30 ways to die.
#25

Brace yourself,
it's getting close, and
it's going to be a bumpy ride.

I'll blag and brag
but know it'll surprise me,
don't know the degree though.

The years have prepped familiarity, 
but it snakes
through my foundations,
eeks in the weaker passages
to dissolve my resolve.
 
If I die like a coward,
scream oaths and promises,
deny my nature.
I'll still be dead.

But I've serenaded him
with my words
I've given him life,
he owes me.

A clock ticks in my room
all my children play outside,
what more can I ask!


 
 

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Post by Deb » Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:42 pm

Please pardon the hit and run. Stop in to drop in today's work in progress. NRA is the Nationa Rifle Association, for anyone who doesn't know.

NRA 

Bulletproof your dwellings,
don Kevlar vests before the fray.
It's a story made for telling
and we can thank the NRA.

When I was in grade school, we had practice drills
for bombs and tornadoes, we’d huddle in the hallway.
Dropping bombs on children? The thought would give me chills
but things aren’t any better, thanks to the NRA.

California kids duck and cover under desks for earthquakes.
It’s the good old-fashioned way
to protect you from falling objects went the ground shakes.
But now there’s more to fear thanks to the NRA.

Officially, mass shootings consist of the death of four or more,
a strict guideline from the government, they say.
Look out for weirdos with big backpacks at the grocery store
or elect officials who aren’t puppets for the NRA.

Over half of the offenders suffer from poor mental health
and can purchase automatic rifles on any given day.
We can’t address this problem, it nips the heels of bureaucratic wealth.
It’s the cost of doing business with the NRA.


How dare we attack a man’s virility and his ability to protect
It’s written the Constitution and we want our guns to stay
If you piss off the wrong people you may become a hitman’s project.
So, you dare not think of screwing with the NRA.

They fight at every angle to avoid a background check
paranoid the government will take their toys away.
If they’ve nothing to hide, then what the heck?
Why don’t you ask the NRA?

I’ve shot rifles and bb’s; I know they can be fun.
Every family has its game hunters and surely that’s okay
but who eats meat shot with exploding bullets from a gun?
They must have special toothpicks in the NRA.


Lunatics seem to prefer bump fire and the AR15 assault rifle.
Bump stocks banned by Congress, not the capitalist way.
Only part of the solution, but that’s a start so it’s no trifle
until more Congressmen get money from the NRA.

Rapid firing automatic rifles, their progress only furthered 
ignoring devastated parents with their hearts out on display.
We hear the news of Five-year-old children murdered
but someone justifies it at the NRA.

Long range rifles have killed great leaders over the years.
A high-velocity rifle killed Dr. M.L. King on Bloody Sunday.
It’s a wonder we aren’t drowning in our tears.
Of course, Winchester and Remington support the NRA

Anyone can own or buy a gun in just about any state.
How many in their numbers belong to the KKK
and wield their guns with white supremacy and hate?
I doubt anyone is counting in the NRA.


They beat on their chests fearing for their manhood.
The bigger the gun the smaller the pecker is what some people say
but the more reasonable people fight for the greater good
except for those who hold tightly to their cocks, Glocks, and bump stock in the NRA.


~Deb

 

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Post by ajduclos » Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:35 am

Deb - NRA - what to say - you've totally covered it, pulled off all the veils, and that from the heart.
About as good a protest poem I've ever seen.  It needs to be published.
Aj

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Post by ajduclos » Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:39 am

Colm - #25 - Yes, I'm on board with those thoughts.

The years have prepped familiarity, 
but it snakes
through my foundations,
eeks in the weaker passages
to dissolve my resolve

Oh yes, indeed......

Aj 

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Post by Lecram06 » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:08 am

Triolet 25

"Sailing to Byzantium", a feat,
A journey recommended
By William Butler Keats.
"Sailing to Byzantium", a feat,
An invitation to reach calm, to take a seat,
Caress the "dying animal" unfastened.
"Sailing to Byzantium", a feat,
A journey recommended.

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Post by Vaughn Neeld » Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:08 am

ajduclos wrote:
Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:26 pm
Now, Vaughn, NOW !!!  I've been reading your work during this April mayhem, and it is superb - chapbook now !!!!
Aj

Aime, I am going to a workshop on Sunday afternoon in Salida on how to get a book together to offer it up to the palate of publishers who would rather chew a person up and spit them out than savor the flavor. Maybe it will get me motivated. Von

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