Donner, Standardcrow & Annie, thank you for your visits, your comments. Very kind and much appreciated!
Annie, special thanks for the American Sentence suggestion. I am caught up and actually have a pseudo-poem for today!! Yay!
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Donner, Standardcrow & Annie, thank you for your visits, your comments. Very kind and much appreciated!
Annie, special thanks for the American Sentence suggestion. I am caught up and actually have a pseudo-poem for today!! Yay!
...our words... come from obsessions we must submit to....~~~~~Richard Hugo
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Moonstruck
There are days I’d rather kick a cat
than pet it.
I bare my teeth
and the dog scurries with a whimper
under the bed.
I’m a lunar eclipse,
a hormonal swing in a gravity well.
To the world, I’m dopamine,
size double-D,
the hey diddle diddle
of bovine gymnastics,
a caprice of enchantment
above plates and spoons.
But when earth and sun align,
loose sparks skitter across the sky.
Burning coals cool
to cigarette ash, the curtain falls
on reflected light
and catgut strings the fiddle.
...our words... come from obsessions we must submit to....~~~~~Richard Hugo
a duck's back of water
Got here from the cat-pome thread and I'm glad I did. I'm NOT writing about cats this year but this one made me think again. Nice work, Alex.Moonstruck
There are days I’d rather kick a cat
than pet it.
...
But when earth and sun align,
loose sparks skitter across the sky.
Burning coals cool
to cigarette ash, the curtain falls
on reflected light
and catgut strings the fiddle.
I am not as good as I think I am -- Scavella's mantra, Nov 2006
Fun and felicitous PFFA patron
Ooh, I love the barely-contained violence of this.
Sophomoric Sonneteer
Hi Alex,
Your doing some nice work this month. Love the the understated innuendo of your American Sentence.
This:
I’m a lunar eclipse,
a hormonal swing in a gravity well.
is just scary good.
enjoying,
Gene
baby wonton killer
Excellent cat poem, Alex. 'Specially love the ending. Heh. xox
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Because, if the poet isn’t careful, meaning has a way of too insistently shouldering its way in, so that we readers then have the meaning but miss the experience.
Christopher Ricks, Introduction to Austin Clarke’s Collected Poems
little green aliens
OMG I love Moonstruck. That struck a chord or several with me.
A Squarely, Squirrely Moderator
Thank you everyone. I am struggling like all get out this month. Sheesh.
Your kindness takes the sting out!
...our words... come from obsessions we must submit to....~~~~~Richard Hugo
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Daylight Savings
At 6AM, temperatures lingered
near freezing.
The sky lolled in its matte black
from the night before.
Wind snoozed where it had leaned
into the trees
and I stepped a bit softer
on my walk this morning
for fear of waking them.
...our words... come from obsessions we must submit to....~~~~~Richard Hugo
Fun and felicitous PFFA patron
Hi Alex,
we never seem to be on page one together, so I went looking for ya.
Moonstruck and Daylight Savings were both good reads.
The cool thing about NaPo is all the nice work you'll have for further tinkering with. And yes, this year seems tougher than last, don't know why.
I saw your pics at the Watering Hole. The funny thing is that in the first photo it looks like it could have been taken yesterday because there is nothing really to date it, not the hair or the clothes. It was fun to see.
Nice start here. Keep it loose, there's a lot more goodness to come!
Mike
Now Available They Can Keep The Cinder Block
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Oh thank you, Mike, for looking for me! And thank you for your kind encouragment. Much needed!Oh that is so wild! I hadn't noticed. That pix was taken on the 1st Earth Day in 1970. We had organized our Jr.Class to pick up trash along the highway to celebrate the event. Our shop sponsored a "Sustainable Ride" today & I fished that old photo out to illustrate 40 years of 'going green'. Never considered the 'time warp' aspects. Cool!!Originally Posted by Mike Lane
I'll try but I fear it's so loose it's lost..hehe
...our words... come from obsessions we must submit to....~~~~~Richard Hugo
Fun and felicitous PFFA patron
We're a third of the way through now, and I can hardly believe I hadn't stopped in here yet.
I'm working my way backward, and "Daylight Savings" and "Moonstruck" both seem like keepers.
A strong sense of language and image and meaning. The cat poem aspect of Moonstruck is also well noted.
Keep up the good work.
BrianIsAtYou
I think I think, therefore I might be.
totally a unicorn
Alex, I'm loving your wordplay here. There's some simply grin-inducing moments among the lovely ones.
To the world, I’m dopamine,
size double-D,
the hey diddle diddle
of bovine gymnastics,
a caprice of enchantment
above plates and spoons.
I hear ya, Daisy.
-s
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds. - Douglas Adams
but say it is my humour
Alexandrite
Just catching up on your thread. Daylight Savings in particular speaks to me - yeah, been there.
Thanks for the read. Regards / Dunc
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Brian, Salli, Dunc, many thanks dear friends for the kind comments and support. April is a twisty turn-ey thing for me this year. Not much wants to 'gel'. My sincere regards to you all!
...our words... come from obsessions we must submit to....~~~~~Richard Hugo
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