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Terri Sweeney - Poetry Readings 2007

2007-07-08T23:47:20Z

Untitled The soul within me longs to be a part of you. It chafes at it's chains And stretches out It's bindings. Foolish child! It will not know That I have bound it Only To perceive it. As it cries out to me, I punish it - Reduce it to tears A...

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Carol Robbins Hull, 2007 Poetry Readings

2007-07-08T23:42:14Z

Miss White's Heart We learned to write fat red pencils, write ABC's in wobbly manuscript, read stories of Dick and Jane and Spot, count by tens, add, and subtract. Miss white also taught us to weave heart baskets guiding our little fingers ag...

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Anne Cope Wallace - Poetry Readings 2007

2007-07-08T23:17:34Z

The Clock Dreams on my Birthday Above the stove the clock calls eleven fifty. I add a.m. although the clock doesn't care if it's morning or evening, midnight or noon. In the back bedroom Mother sleeps, not caring either when morning becomes noo...

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georgiawill - Poetry Cafe - July 1, 2007

2007-07-07T21:19:48Z

Haiku Yearly Cycle Steel blue Winter dawn Freezed twigs in crystal grip, Far off smoke won't rise. Crocus bold erupts Robin stops and broods, that Spring as all things, must pass. Deep blue sea shimmers, Wind blown sail heels into foam, The...

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Phillip Hall - Poetry Readings 2006-2007

2007-07-07T21:03:56Z

The Nature of the Dog Loyalty, the vibrant nature of the casual dog. Know forth by the destitute and common mortality of the daily friend. Man's best friend resides in a dog for it grows by heritage like a small child flamed with a passion for...

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Amina Kilgore Hall - Poetry Reading 2006 - 2007

2007-06-15T22:02:11Z

The Joint Chiefs The joint chiefs are stirring, their blood, coarsing with hope and justice. They wake and recognize. The joint chiefs can see around corners. They are the warmed up droplets of water coarsing through the iceberg, picking up wa...

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Loretta Bacon - Poetry Readings 2006 -2007

2007-06-15T21:55:11Z

HAIKU A bird suspended overhead in midst of flight seemingly stops time. A child without love is a flower without soil It withers and dies. Born into this world with bald heads and round bellies, leaving the same way. I stood behin...

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Sue Scalf - Poetry Readings 2006 - 2007

2007-05-24T03:02:33Z

Voices The roundness of a river stone forms upon the river foam a small oh, and that is all it speaks. Above the marsh one low cloud follows a tidal path and makes no sound. A curling leaf loops down, touches the ground and settl...

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Dr.E.K. Daufin and Charlie Suhor - Poetry Readings 2006-2007

2007-05-23T02:28:20Z

E.K. Daufin Approval Addiction Addicted to approval, Looking for a hit, Your flattery soothes me, Your criticism - - the pits. Most of us got too little of it, As we were raised or grew up, Cut to pieces by the belittling beast, ...

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Kevin Shuey - Poetry Readings 2006-2007

2007-05-22T02:11:46Z

These Gifts To see some truth in a stranger's eyes I feel his mind, but I can't speak it. The green light from April leaves That soothes my thoughts, but cannot be translated The easy, slinking, wariness of the feral cat. The gyps...

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