Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

that line

if there is a line between free speech & treason between change & revolution between assembly & rioting it is fine it is dark & it is drawn in blood the problem is it takes death to tell the difference

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the dark spots on the sun

sometimes sun blooms dark spots, cooling his burning by degrees tempering infinite chained burning for moments do we cool, lover, in this way? our first heat damping back shifting to the controlled burn of a lasting flame?

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left-hand guitar

this music’s about love that stays longer than your man ever would she cries blues in a beat felt from the soles up, strummed with calloused fingertips on strings; hunger voiced with cords & carried on breath because need this deep … Continue reading

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asthenosphere (quickening)

we need to pay attention. so much happens six miles beneath our houses fragile as eggs with thin shells balanced on a teetering shelf nothing is certain. even toads know where we stand is not solid amphibians taste the shudder of … Continue reading

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September Heights: Render

we can, with patience render out the possible from improbable *** Yay!  Tomorrow’s prompt looks easier.

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wind

Invisible hands tease hair with agile fingers breathe away summer

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trying my hand at shadorma

you whisper to me your yearning so lightly a feather voiced with a weight that staggers inside one small word     The Shadorma is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lines (sestet) with no set rhyme scheme. It … Continue reading

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