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One Minute Poems
A little exercise to stretch your creative brain cells. Set your timer/watch/iPhone- whatever- to 60 seconds and type. When ever this thread pops up, jump on it. Don't think ahead of time- just let it go. But try to think poetically and aim for some kind of ending. But when the timer goes off, that's it, you're done! OK to…
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Hot Valley Writers - Looking for Submisisons
It's that time again. Our next issue will be out in the new year and we're open for submissions. Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. This issue is about pets. Or creatures. Anything about animals. Check us out at http://www.hotvalleywriters.com. Any questions, PM me. Thanks!
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Thirty Eight Minutes
Clipped that butterfly's wings now you're just the worm I always knew flipped that bird because he sings the fox has friends in the coop, you're through if the missile hits, we'll all have time to reminisce and flick our cigarettes at pantomimes off the coast of Hawaii, the rapture will come so get out your leis and tikis…
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Merry Christmas,Let it Reign
Lazy days and warm winter nights sitting by the fire Sweet emotion and the smell of pine make me feel so high Wishing you a merry Christmas with all the joy it brings And all the love I have inside. On dasher on dancer on prancer In the name of Jesus it’s Christmas and Santa is on his way. Can you hear the sleigh bells and…
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My Pearl Jam-inspired novel
As I mentioned in another thread in this forum, I've written a Pearl Jam-inspired novel. It's called State of Love & Trust, and it's a tragicomedy about love, trust, Detroit, dogs and Pearl Jam fans. After writing and rewriting this book between 2006-2010, I "trunked" it for a long time and worked on several other novels.…
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"Regret"
A nothing dreaming of something unknown. Everything wanted, bought from this material view. What is needed, missing;
something to feed the Muse and the Soul. Both have died; the cup overflowing, waving goodbye. Go back to the beginning, the story was formless, the wisdom never
spoken. Sadness and Emptiness going
through…
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can you feel it
November 23, 2013. 13:00 est. An ode to PJ. Realize in your instrument binaural brilliant light. spell-bound strings, lyrical seer in sight. Beat deep skin too the captive melodious heart. Waves of clay dance and sing; denizens in joyous part. Broken bone...t...casted in doubt. Jeff and Stone reanimated, rhythmic dual.…
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lilac sidewalk
so, this is how it starts the slow coup the you fading you know how it feels to sit quietly for hours on a comfortable couch in a well-lit room on yet another perfect afternoon you know what it means to be unseen for days when the phone never rings and no one cares you would wrap the golden silence in your arms and pull it…
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Did you make a wish?
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Drifting thought
Saturday morning a Fall morning, slight chill kittens sleeping beside me I drink coffee they need two chairs now they have grown at night, sometimes they curl up on my heart it warms and opens so close, so real with an open heart I realize that there’s still some residual resentment and distrust of distant and windy humans…
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A Lined Face
I sparked on scratch paper in pencil first, unmasked tentatively in temporary marks. When promoted to ink in confidence drawn I manifested presence determinedly pushed. I was a line sequentially mapping sight, smell and taste in biological order. My bowed itinerary through curvy landmarks swallowed pulp decisively until…
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Whole Truth
Women cup stasis years, but are summoned by moonlit mornings recommending deliverance. I consume sweets and dive under blankets. I cocoon within four walls thinning to paper. I taste fire. Dr. Blasey Ford speaks and I listen. My fingers stretch towards paper and pen. Her right hand up bolts fire against the sin of a man…
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I'd make an effort
I'd make an effort to feel fortunate if I had a friend someone true who sang songs that were meaningful to me and uplifting to my soul I'd make an effort to feel grateful (instead of feeling tired and jealous) if I had a determined friend, one who made an effort too
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Northeast Corner
His occupation found movement in captured time, and waved winding hands into ordered stillness, stilled moments, decades, the duration of life to death. The industrious photographer sprawled the pictures in disarray on a small table before he hung them on a wall. Four men framed by a familiar photographer. Four boxes…
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Godzilla Downtown
The invisibles walk with grocery bags down Main Street USA. They gossip about celebrities. The luggage fees added to plane tickets ruin their trips. The invisibles moderate hardships paled in comparison to portended ruin delayed on an outerspace ship that flew to earth. With Godzilla it sped. With fury down Main Street…
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Pastries and Baseball
Not a surprise that the pastries aren't out, and the moon-lit humidity makes all delayed to the point when I want to shout "Enough Summer Already!" "Heed this Call!" Tomorrow at the minor league baseball game I'll forget this man with pastry bins walking through the door and into my small sugar fantasy still unknown to…
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Global Warming
Global Warming I gave up So long ago I can’t say For sure I even tried I have no desire To help you To save you I no longer believe In our future A future Any future I want to be Short-sighted Like you I want to be Reckless Like you I want to burn Right through Our potential And like you I am ready Help me Find the fuse I…
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My gift to PJ
https://youtu.be/PaCBaDtt3yY If I were in Pearl Jam, this is the song I'd bring to the recording sessions. Please let me know what you think. It's my song called "Get Up!"
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It's time for bed
Hell or high-water, I’ve got to get up early The pain of too little sleep is a sharp hard, cold substitute for the joy of summer mornings and plenty of sleep I hope the day is bright tomorrow I hope I can hear the birds outside the cats can wake me up with their purring they can drape themselves around my neck they can…
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Raw Nerve
Supersonic ears, radioactive tears Navigating through all their negatives, can't control the years. Did you hear that pin drop? Did you FEEL that rain stop? Was it all in your head, those words that they said? Or are the words that you find really words in their mind? Telepathic radiation taking over all our nation.…