Archive for poetry online
Wish Again
Posted in One Shoot, One Stop Poetry with tags Adam Romanowicz, blog networks, dustus, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, photo, photograph, photographer, picture prompt challenge, Poetry, poetry online on June 25, 2011 by dustus
I’m not sure if this is real
Had me tongue-raveled
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Can’t Wait
Posted in One Stop Poetry, Poetry Reading with tags Blog, can't wait, dustus, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry online, Poetry Reading on June 21, 2011 by dustusTongue bit, clamped
Could taste it bleed
Mixed with saliva
Stifling cries of, “Please
Baby, don’t leave!”
Enter time’s return rush
Knowing regressions
From cross words
Puzzlement, smell salts
Warped log cabin of make believe
Where cathedral ceilings brace—
Maple syrup drawn from intimacy
Guess I never expressed—
What she had once meant to me
Sh…
Hermit crab lurches
Like an old man with crooked legs
Hubble, hobble, watch ’em wobble
Through scopes of spray mist…
Over canvas beach
Pebbles smooth, tide swell
Scuttle into eternity
Sounds from perplexed hearts
Crests sharp—over barbs and bark
Trapper claw snaps down
Spits out entrails
As the earth spins side projections
Giving to new life…
Finding spirit on skewed point
Dissecting mind
Without reach
Emptiness cradles stars
In the wake of shedding duck trails
Shimmering waters, ululations glisten
Dovetails, and billowed sails
Shy eyes hid behind hair sway
Sky climb to a golden age
Those autumn harvest days
When life sighs, breath held
Chest tight, on deck over water main
We rage against dying light
Run out of what we mean
Pour one for me
Red wax drips lethargic
Myopic, uptight
Revealing myself
Wounds close as I write
“Can’t wait until love
Will finally feel right.”
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One Shot Wednesday (Week 51)
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It’s my turn to host!
A Life That Works
Posted in One Stop Poetry, Poetry, Poetry Reading with tags a life that works, Blog, dustus, life, One Stop Poetry, poem, poems for, poet, poetry about life, poetry online, Poetry Reading on June 7, 2011 by dustusI’d like to share a happy song
Figure out what does go wrong
Itching scalp from burning sun
Seldom let myself have fun…
Want it real?
Sushi raw?
Lacerations from a jaded saw?
I’d like to tell you how I feel
Man up from clown
Stand ground, appeal
Layers of an onion shed
Nightmare turns away pretend
The ceiling shows time’s twisted flow
Adjusting eyes tune street lamp glow
These walls are bare
As will, heartbeats
Jugular, nose
Breathe, repose
This is what a writer chose
As muffled echos ocean close
Interstate drone
Time alone
Everything I wrote and own
Spells drip catching studio skylight—
Wings melt into a candle vigil and
A life that works
Perceived self-worth
To walk this earth
Past pain, main, rebirth
Limbs coated with sweat
My pride, hair, and dirt
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One Shot Wednesday (Week 49)
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Host: this week the honor goes to
poet & friend, Mr. Brian Miller
When Machines Mend
Posted in One Shoot, Poetry Reading with tags art, Blog, dustus, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, photograph, poem, poet, poetry online, Rob Hanson, When Machines Mend on June 4, 2011 by dustus
photo by Rob Hanson
Forgetting, over hours
Details under interrogating fluoresence
When machines mend
This antique Elizabethport Singer
Will bind sturdy seams again
Holes in ripped jeans
An old weblos patch
Then I’ll pay the pub a visit
Talking over 2 buck drafts
Pouring to home; a smile basks
Planning new tapestries
The artist tips his frosty glass
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When Machines Mend reading…
The above poem was written for One Stop Poetry’s Sunday Picture Prompt Challenge. Rob Hanson took the fantastic HDR photo. Today he is interviewed over at One Stop Poetry.
Claustrophobic Rut
Posted in One Shoot, One Stop Poetry, Poetry Reading with tags Blog, dustus, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, photograph, picture prompt challenge, Poetry, poetry online, Poetry Reading, Scott Wyden on May 28, 2011 by dustus
Is it crazy to tell off the sky?
Shake your fist at the clouds moving by
Pin your yourself down for 1-2-3
Past vice built walls
Over mountain misting seas
There is no elevator to heaven
Maybe a sandwich break
Thought escalation
Thinking through bodily sensation
Left eye twitching
When most alone
By myself
Returning home
Lightening at sunset
A cigarette in spring rain
Dog tired and alive
Already I have changed
Fear falling free
The worst of it is me
Self-made peace
Self-respect beyond grief
Seeking a spacious garden
Destination reached
Not the channel alley
Asphalt valley
Where cover’s steam
Below drowning aqueducts
Sewer rats, healing cuts
Fresh air I breath
And dream
To leave
This claustrophobic rut
Hitting bricks
Working out my luck
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Care to hear me read Claustrophobic Rut?
The above poem was written for One Stop Poetry’s Sunday Picture Prompt Challenge. Scott Wyden took the amazing photo. Outstanding lines and composition. He is the interviewee today over at One Stop Poetry.
In Love Again
Posted in Poetry with tags #throwbackthrusday, Blog, dustus, in love again, love poem, love poetry, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, poetry online, Poetry Reading on May 3, 2011 by dustus
I’d give anything to laugh, my friend
Feel new life in love again
Pluck bluebells for your bouquet
Smell May flowers as we lay
Upon spread quilt, mid-afternoon
Wind song plays inspired tunes
Her hands caress away iced pain
Under cherry blossom rain
And as we cling like shaking leaves
Our journeys end with sharing peace
In love again, this breathing bliss
There is no time lost while we kiss
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*Photograph is courtesy of UK photographer Fee Easton. There will be a special One Stop Poetry Picture Prompt Challenge based on her photography on May 14th. Stay tuned.
Nominated for Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere
Posted in Blog, Poetry with tags 2011 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, dustus, nomination, poetry online on April 28, 2011 by dustus
I think everyone knows how much I love posting my poetry online. Well, I was nominated for the 2011 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. If you feel I deserve it, you can vote for me via the link below.
Thank you for your support!
Vote here!
Sounds Like Life
Posted in One Stop Poetry, Poetry Reading with tags Blog, Bookstains Poetry Challenge, dustus, My Favorite Things, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, poem, poet, poetry online, Sound of Music, Sounds Like Life on April 26, 2011 by dustusPoetry Challenge “Favorite (or least favorite) Things”
A Bookstains Challenge
This poetry challenge is based upon a poem (well a bit of tomfoolery) that Lynda for Bookstains/Echostains wrote ages ago and forgot about. But the idea for the challenge was inspired by Jesssica’s Japes wonderful poem “My Least Favorite things.”
“The challenge is simple – just write a poem to the tune/rhythm of the song from ‘The Sound of Music’ inspired by your favorite or least favorite things. To start you off, here’s the first bit of the Julie Andrews version. In case you don’t know how it goes – here it is on video.”
My Favorite Things Sounds Like Life
Imagine an author rejected by agents
Piles of manuscripts rot in the basement
Trying to capture what’s lost through no means
Sounds like life music through lines that he dreams
Expressing emotions through vectors and color
Writing too much ’cause he can’t find a lover
Many see Jesus as resurrecting
Sounds like life music through lines that he dreams
Breakdowns through trauma; forever seems fleeting
Bombardment of images won’t equal feeling
Being original is poetry
Sounds like life music through lines that he dreams
And when the avalanche comes down
As our carnival leaves town
We still search for a reason through time…
Exhaling sad sorrow
Don’t cry for tomorrow
Sing onto death
Sounds like life
(repeat ad nauseam)
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