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  1. 04-01-2017, 08:01 PM #1
    Bench
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    Group W Bench

    God not this again

    1. Melania
    2. Haiku
    3. History Repeats
    4. Pause, Rewind
    5. (Untitled)
    6. Crossword
    7. Seshtina
    8. A sonnet
    9. Arrival
    10. Island
    11. The Prug
    12. Struggling to Find Form
    13. How to Get Her Phone Number
    14. Triolet
    15. The Prug (2)
    16. The Prug (3)
    17. The Prug
    18. The Prug Goes to Sea
    19. How to Flee (Pantoum)
    20. Haiku
    21. Haiku
    22. Palindrome
    23. The History of Writing Implements
    Last edited by Bench; 04-28-2017 at 02:58 PM. Reason: Prug links removed, go to 17
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  2. 04-01-2017, 08:09 PM #2
    Bench
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    1. Melania

    Shower me with promises of gold
    and I will let your piggy rubber face
    and Tic-Tac breath and wotsit-finger hold
    fuck me and the entire human race.

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  3. 04-01-2017, 08:45 PM #3
    Janelo
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    I adore this title.
    Even more, your first post.

    I'm pondering the word "hold" in line 3.

    But that GIF! Priceless. So to speak. More like terrifying.

    Happy NaPo!!

    Janelo
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  4. 04-02-2017, 02:18 AM #4
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    Ben

    That comes across as right from the heart. And the video's beyond rubies.

    A great kick-off.

    Regards / Dunc
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  5. 04-02-2017, 02:22 AM #5
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    Day one and so far I've read two, maybe three tiny-handed poems. I can taste the venom in this one most of all. Finger-fucked? So tiny he hopes nobody will notice..
    Resigned
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  6. 04-02-2017, 02:23 AM #6
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    Ben! You struck NaPo gold on Day 1. That GIF gives me chills every time. Great start. Here's to surviving!
    ~Laura
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  7. 04-02-2017, 12:30 PM #7
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    Mittens, 5th, Dunc, Janelo, Thanks! Hello! Raahhh!



    2. Haiku


    Wind tongues shutters’ hum
    Skin hungry fingers play notes
    Lipstick feathered kiss
    Last edited by Bench; 04-02-2017 at 01:48 PM.
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  8. 04-02-2017, 05:52 PM #8
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    History Repeats

    You goose-step through the truth towards the right
    and drip insipid jingoists online,
    forge your words in hatred: I will fight
    your hideous contagion of the light.
    Now fill your jerry-cans with gasoline
    and goose-step through the truth towards the right:
    whose letterbox will be ablaze tonight?
    What happens when those books you burn are mine?
    Forge your words in hatred. I will fight
    your blind colonisation of the night.
    Ignore the sun that rises every time
    and goose-step through the truth towards the right
    to denigrate Islamic faith despite
    your worshipping a backroom Nazi shrine.
    Forge your words in hatred. I will fight
    the spread of every glowing spark of spite:
    if you still yearn to spit and march then fine—
    you goose-step through the truth towards the right
    and forge your words in hatred. I will fight.


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  9. 04-02-2017, 07:03 PM #9
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    Ben - when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That's a most unnerving gif, and so was the first one. The poem goes right along with it. Very strong start.
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  10. 04-02-2017, 08:08 PM #10
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    Bench, I keep looking at Melania, such awfulness delivered with aplomb! The villanelle is the perfect foil to underline the theme, strong fascinating start to napo!
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  11. 04-02-2017, 09:54 PM #11
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    A political thread and a good one! At least "he who we dread to name" is providing good fodder. He's not good for much else. Particularly liked the villanelle.
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  12. 04-03-2017, 03:31 PM #12
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    No, absolutely do not go gentle.
    embrace the eyeball ethic
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  13. 04-03-2017, 03:44 PM #13
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    Hi Ben, great to see you charging in with all guns blazing!! That villanelle in particular is a pretty powerful statement, especially if you manage to smooth out a couple of forced rhymes. Great start! See you around.

    John
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  14. 04-04-2017, 09:47 AM #14
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    Haiku - Now that IS dense. I'm trying to imagine a lipstick feathered kiss, and it could several ways.

    History Repeats - I thought this was going to be a pantoum, but no. You generate an energy and directness built up on the repetitions, and I'm completely - ahm - in step with your politics.

    Good stuff.

    Regards / Dunc
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  15. 04-04-2017, 12:13 PM #15
    Emily Bronte
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    Bench great to see you here again.

    I'm envious of your Haiku.

    Have a great NaPo

    Mari.
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