Archive for online poems
Together Time
Posted in Image Poetry, One Stop Poetry with tags Blog, dustus, love poem, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, online poems, Poetry, poetry form, poetry online, Poetry Reading, Together Time, Troilet on March 8, 2011 by dustusMy love craves sweet together time
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Seaward Sent ( #oneshotwednesday poetry )
Posted in Image Poetry, One Stop Poetry with tags Blog, clau, dustus, heartbreak, One Stop Poetry, online poems, poems for, poet, Poetry, poetry online, Poetry Reading on February 15, 2011 by dustus
Eroding shoreline—noxious cloud
Bloody chum fed to sharks
After being asked out of love
Lampoons knife hooked hearts
Assailing claims this sodden course
Frail lists from sunk outpost
Unlike this boat, some ships won’t float
Seaward sent; blowhard boasts
What I believe remains naive
Low tide for trips not smart
Waiving emotion, capsized grief
No lighthouse guide through dark
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*Photography courtesy Creative Commons
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One Shot Poetry Wednesday
Participate: post a poem, share feedback and encouragement
German Poet Claudia Schoenfeld hosts this week!
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@ onestoppoetry.com
Garbage Dumps – (for #oneshotwednesday )
Posted in One Stop Poetry, Poetry with tags adam dustus, Blog, garbage dumps, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, online poems, poem, poet, poetry online, Poetry Reading on February 8, 2011 by dustusGarbage Dumps
When only for a second care
Realize you’re trashing life
Dispatching unacceptable
Won’t make me feel alright
Damp landing filled with fecund will
Truth in fiction taken
There’s something rotting through stank pulp
Burnt stakes may awaken
Congealing molds incubate colds
Scared crows peck for hours
Decaying matter breaks rank ground
Garbage dumps sprout flowers
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One Shot Wednesday!
Participate by posting a poem & sharing feedback.
Leslie Moon is the host this week.
Come visit our new home:
@ onestoppoetry.com
“Bermuda Urn”
Posted in Image Poetry, One Stop Poetry, Poetry Reading, Uncategorized with tags adam dustus, bermuda urn, Blog, cancer, death, grief, Kurt Vonnegut, loss, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, online poems, poem, poet, poetry online on January 25, 2011 by dustusWhen is life held in gold russet skies?
Vermilion glows, seagull glides…
Or cremation of muscle pulp
Mortar and pestled brain
Grains of sand trapped
Fevered oasis, metempsychosis
Cuticles and burnt hands
Without explanation as to how
We crawl from water, withstand
Nor why free radicals spread illness
Universal mitosis, for giving, then taking,
Our time…
Your body could not win that fight
Razed to die, its own undoing
Condensed via fire into a “Bermuda Urn”
Calling it that throughout your hurt
One lifetime more than a story…
Prior to sailing north of cancer
Her wit seldom lost then
Leaving me now without her laughter
Ex rays, cat scans, biopsies, skin grafts
Vomit, holding her hair back
Malignant ugly purplish bruising
Red bandanna covering bald head
Still meaning each word, every single thing
When I said that you were beautiful
Won’t forget those long drives
Venting for lest it drain in truth
Trips over The Ambassador Bridge
Both loving Vonnegut
Trying not to go broke dying
PT, OT, loss of limb
Watching her struggle on prosthetic leg
Her arm shook supported by cane
Painfully—self-awareness of living unable
Sadly, cursing fate
And all lifelong “friends”
Who out of convenience
Walked away
Before her fatal conclusion; there was a will
She planned a “Bermuda Urn” in pink ink
That made me squint at the torn spiral page
For herself spread, becoming over ocean
Immunity being without design here
Unlike a box of Wheaties, Shredded Wheat
“So it goes…” Incomplete
You were my champion
In the throes of cosmic jokes
Left in trade winds of connection
Charred vestiges of insanity
Love, I’ll always miss you
Wishing you would come back to me
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