Tag: poetry please
member name: Corinna Parr
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October 07, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
Wind-swept,
My life has been
Stormy seas and leaf-dance,
Cast adrift on careless currents,
Random.
Two steps
Forward or back,
And sometimes side to side,
No path ahead, no safe harbor,
Life's wile. . . .
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October 17, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
I danced for him and won his heart;
He said it was the fire in my eyes, the wit in my laugh,
But when he held me against him, I knew he loved my beauty most.
It is a small thing, a sad thing, to be loved . . .
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November 16, 2007 11:05 PM EST --
Slowly, sweetheart, slowly.
It took years to wrap this gift.
Each separate layer, each application of tape
Considered for its color, its placement;
I didn't want the paper to pucker,
Or the pattern . . .
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December 15, 2007 11:01 AM EST --
It is cold, so cold,
White-wreathed trees bridge ground and sky,
All diamond and pearl.
Beneath my feet, frothing slush.
Catch red brick to hold the fall.
"Tanrenga looks like a tanka . . .
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November 06, 2007 08:49 PM EST --
It made the papers, you know.
Air Force Colonel struck low by lust,
And me, his accuser.
He told me he loved me,
Elf-skinny, hair in a bob, freckled,
Worthy of love, at seven.
I believed, as did . . .
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November 20, 2007 08:08 PM EST --
The textbook tells me that entropy is
Energy broken down in irretrievable heat.
Irretrievable seems a word ripe with regret.
Surely, for us, it's more complicated. And
Is it better to fight or . . .
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October 29, 2007 10:59 PM EDT --
Our name is justice
We are the kindly ones
. . .
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January 13, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
This is a repost of a collaboration between myself and the oh so talented James Ciriaco, done for the Poetry Please challenge. He has already published it to his namespace, and now I'm publishing . . .
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