Tag: poetry
group name: mnlife
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December 01, 2009 01:11 AM EST --
Because December is a month of emotional excitement for many, the form that I present to you will be one that makes you sit and count on your fingers and say words out loud trying to find a simple, . . .
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October 25, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
My son lived in the Uptown area of Minneapolis a few years ago, before he moved to NY and a job with PBS. He inspired this poem, which I'm posting for Susan Budig (I greatly admire her work), who posted . . .
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December 01, 2009 01:07 AM EST --
I dig deeper each day
Because I want to say: my dream
Slips past fingers, I’d scream
But for nothing extreme. Scratch that.
My purse of hope is flat.
I . . .
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July 20, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
The robin's alarm and the crow's rude cackle are all to be sensed...
The world still sleeps, except for the birds of pre-dawn...
So complete is the darkness here, no laws exist, . . .
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February 26, 2009 12:13 PM EST --
Minnesota author Bill Holm has died :
Holm, who was also am English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, was 65. [...] Holm wrote at least 10 books of essays and poetry, including "Boxelder . . .
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October 24, 2009 10:53 PM EDT --
My dramatic monologue is too long to upload to Gather. I've put it on Youtube; you can watch it there if you'd like.
Corner of Juniper and Fourth
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February 25, 2009 03:02 PM EST --
This penny wedged between the window sill and pane
Has been painted over twice.
I can tell because the paint's chipped and I see
Two layers: pink then minty green.
No one has . . .
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July 07, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
See the sly boy's face...
Between the thicket of two pines...
Look up, see the sunshafts...
Busting through branches, through leaves and tangle...
Of maple fronting . . .
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July 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
He's quite certain that his parched throat, his squint means no disrespect to the sun.
Morning breaks and with comes the bravery of songbirds seeking food
It humbles him ... . . .
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September 21, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
fallen leaves of change
blown by gray winds of autumn
startled sunlight here
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April 14, 2009 01:40 AM EDT --
April is a month for counting. How many Easter eggs in my basket? How many more weeks of school? How many more minutes of daylight each day? For those in the USA, we . . .
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October 27, 2009 01:58 PM EDT --
I'm excited about an upcoming poetry presentation I'll be giving on November 9th. It's at the Women's Club of Minneapolis, in Minnesota. There will be dance, skits, music, and poetry. . . .
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May 12, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
a collaborative butterfly cinquain by Cindy Tebo and Jana B.
Harvests
delta
time where cotton
is king and wal-mart bags
blow like tumbleweeds down lonely
highways
to north . . .
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November 08, 2009 11:42 PM EST --
Athens became culturally deficit early friday. Gone Halifax is. Jakarta knows limits, maybe not? Osaka prefers quiet rest. Sudan . . .
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July 26, 2009 10:24 PM EDT --
I participated as a research rat in a poetry study. I went into the college (Macalester College in St. Paul), sat at a pre-programmed computer, read aloud poetry from the old style of rhyme and rhythm, . . .
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March 21, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
Many of James Wright's finest poems were written in Minnesota, and one of his best is "A Blessing." In it, he describes a moment when he stopped to commune with two horses in a field "just . . .
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August 25, 2006 09:51 PM EDT --
Approaching Hinckley, Minnesota
Each year, Minnesota loses seven to ten percent of its resorts. The number of Minnesota resorts has declined from 2,000 in 1970 to approximately 900 today. Much . . .
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April 14, 2009 03:25 PM EDT --
My Friends
People I like
We sing, we talk, we bike
Not by blood, but by love, we're bound
Blessings
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April 28, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
Since I'm not selling anything, no purchase necessary, I think I'll post this. And sorry about the too-big-picture, I'm not savvy with technology.
Hope you can . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:52 PM EST --
Act blasé.
Craft deftly.
Earn fabulous gifts however I justifyingly know.
Lasciviously mention names of people.
Quickly read salacious tales.
Utilize voluptous women.
X-tasy: . . .
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