Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

pauses

el(lips)es yours/mine parenthetic punctuated kiss that trails and stretches want to … or maybe after all ! that curve into each other almost of spooning (( )) into the . sleep

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snapping rules like rubber bands

unfairly, the adverb carries responsibility for laxity in poetry as if every -ly lazily falls into a slot active language deserves but isn’t all language live and if I don’t use these tools properly writing a poem will seem like building … Continue reading

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Originally posted on Paula Acton:
(Written in response to Susan Daniels poem which you can read here Skank/Goddess (not a nice girl) I don’t normally write in response to other peoples posts but the image she created has stayed with…

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Originally posted on faceatthewindow:
You get powdered milk then coca cola through a rubber teat soon it’s cigarettes and stolen beers other girls hate you climbing into cars with their boys who won’t buy you teddy bears, cards with love…

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scales (this time, with saudade)

if I set this globe to scale as an orange then we are two dust motes on it– no, even less than dust perhaps atoms on opposing halves and sides of that orange and how could that orange allow awareness … Continue reading

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Small Stones for January

Hey, guys–check this out Here is mine for the day: there are no more new worlds to sail or fly to we must find newness here

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there should be proof for this (multiple perspectives)

there should be a proof for this an equation Eisenstein in scope where faith and chaos as variables cancel each other when encompassed/divided by the number of atoms in the universe and we are left with a constant underlying the calculations … Continue reading

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