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Cherry

Dust Digger

whatever culture loss is the same

Love is

This is a poem written by my son when he was ten. It has been published.

The Death of Love

He took a sword to love Smiled as he carved her like a Sunday roast Thin slices that were fed to the dogs of lust And then afterwards he felt hungry...

Stop

Arrest this love! I demand the immediate Cessation of feeling Wanting, needing Lock it up Throw the key Into the deepest drain I'm disinclined To...

It's so cold...

The freezing weather creates problems

Kaph

A colleague remarked humorously of an earlier memory in which the termagant Xanthippe -the wife of Socrates is making the oracle known to him through the oval murmurings, the art of the gentle coaxing in vexation, of bringing out midwifery. Immediately Anthus made it known that the oracle of the Pythian Priestess was insincere to the art of the dialectic as it diabolically reduced Socrates to an assumed vindication: ?Know thy self?.

the Golden years

In memory of May, who died christmas 2003

Howard Dean

The mysterious wife of Howard Dean, is this another ploy?

Dear Patience

if you could... you wood, if you know, blow...

Around the world

getting away from it all

What am I?

What am I? I am an old woman, reminiscing on my departed youth. I'm a tired housewife worrying where my husband is tonight. I'm a Rabbi, pondering...

Gheist

Perhaps an entry for this 'Ghosts' contest?
Cherry

A bit of fun

Ghosts Competition Entry (1022 words)

Winter Zhounds

The coldness of New England, the hard-workers and their realism, their faces lined with deep thoughts.

Colour poems

I hate this poem, but I almost feel an obligation to it, because it was the lucky one that got published. I still hate it.

Carol

Whale, beached out of the soothing rough of the waves, do you weep? For I grow under your thick skin, like a lily-pod. There is no time for you to be...

Our

Without rain, our garden seems to sag, the middle of an older bed. Innocence, a child with a purple ball thrown over the hedge, knocks at the back...

Boxed

My summer would fit Crushed up small in a box, Insignificant in its coffin, If it had blisters and chlorine, From swimming in my shoes One day, after...

Scents of Summer

I asked, quite simply, That I should have that chance. You were unexpected. Betrayal, almost, in your smile, And I remembered Those tangerine...

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