Net Galley Challenge
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Attire at work
the paved path seems
barren without the
warm sage bushes
Work of orange crew
big black gloves
and gardening shears
A tall man stamps
the ground with his feet
and fiddles with a
half crowbar
With his formals
he could pass of
as an engineer of
the building he is
working by
With his light blue gloves
that stop at the wrists
he could be a researcher
in a lab working with
a fine pollination needle
The soil didnt seem stabbed
and there lay a bush that didnt
at the beginning of the week.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
When Mirror and Scissor pair
Cutting hair sure requires skill.
In response to a prose piece below
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Poetry
Dragon Blogger - “The Golden Tooth” - Random word poem about a fable of an old woman who grew a golden tooth.
Zorlone - “The Cross” - This is a poem I wrote way back in 1993 with some revisions. I was inspired to make this when lent started.
Himri - “Green grain” - About 'life' in a seed.
Prose / Life Stories
artist victoria o'neill - “Cuttiing Your Hair and Drawing on Yourself” - About self expression.
Fiction
H. Benjamin Petrie - “I Really Couldn't Say” - A short story about a guy going to visit a girl and waiting around with her brother for her to get home.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tear from the cheek of a repentant old sinner*
contortions of kids
with a calm face
and audio of a
rhythmic dragging up
the voice to make
it more effective
picking up the
oscillations
before they dampen
too much
with mute
Tears of Adults
beautiful
silent
Vestigial.
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*Iolanthe
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
How I came across a Choka poem
WOOF Contest – Top Picks
About Writing
Writing Nag - “No More Walks In the Woods” - How can taking a break help you in your writing life? And a poem becomes a lyric. Getting away from writing can actually inspire you.
True Story
Hopeful Spirit - “Affirmation of Faith” - A true story about a sign . . . of faith, belief, and hope.
Poetry
Himri - “Somewhere between a bud and a bloom” - About organic growth and its influence.
Jennifer M Scott - “Substantial Inhibition” - A Choka poem on getting older and keep on looking for better days.
Robert - “Icy Torrent” - A poem of questions.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
crystal cove park CA
A nice blue.
But the ones stuck on the rocks are, different sized closed shells, the big ones looking creepy.
Frequent Answerers
With the moldable sand that I scooped, with my hand, I made what could have been friums made from boiled rice, first dried in scoops under the sun and then fried for relish. With more scoops, a small well began to form. When the wave, had enough strength to reach me, it smoothed the scoops
and made it look like birds eye view of AZ.
language of few syllables
swamis beach encinitas CA
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Green grain*
Raw green sheaves
have juice at the top
like fibre optic tree.
But the ripe brown
ones have solid grains
very different from
the final polished color
we eat
A crushed coriander
seed has lost it all
the power to grow.
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*The writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing
Monday, March 9, 2009
Two writers
on a vacation
and be on the
hike you will miss.
You cannot overlay
another you
being who you are.
A pen with
many color refills
in it
writes in one at a time.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Overcooking
As you make it
so is intake.
When a new combination
of veggies works
its fun.
So is watching a recipe.
But even armed with
a recipe
its tough to match
the need for cooking
that grows like a mushroom.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Somewhere between a bud and a bloom
When a peanut grows
It sends out leaves
in groups of four
The leaves growout at an angle.
When I saw its white tap root
stick into the ground
preventing me from just
snapping it from
the pot of earth
I knew that it wasnt any peanut
that could have gone
into cooked rice flakes
and ended up nowhere.
It belonged to the earth
like a magnet.
Undiscouraged, the imp in me
split the seed in half
with skin still hanging to each half
kidneys connected to the system.
only the water goes in
to these kidneys.
and they grow by splitting.
An unlike fusion.