Tag: poetry
group name: soc-conciousness
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February 26, 2006 11:15 PM EST --
For Angela Zack
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
. . . more
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February 08, 2007 01:35 AM EST --
For Nathan Shauer, Gather’s quiet Dantean guide to what we’ve built and left behind.
My inspiration for this story poem came from an article by Jeff Kleiser entitled Synthespianism, which . . . more
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April 23, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
He ambled about, almost peripatetic
Aimless to me , to him, rather prophetic.
He had walked these same miles for days upon end
Sign in hand, "End is Near" , his message did rend
Ranting . . . more
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April 11, 2006 06:42 AM EDT --
For Edward Nudelman, whose bedrock faith is a living choice
I have often asked myself, 'What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it? Jared Diamond, in his . . . more
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September 14, 2007 09:13 PM EDT --
Singularity 101:
Odysseus’ Return / Lucifer’s Adieu
Goodbye, I say, to high ideals,
to lofty spirit tones.
Too-long-denied-within-me pains
would bring my aching . . . more
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February 18, 2006 07:21 PM EST --
for dr mark chloe kram, east coast dog-nostician of da karl r
my rap blodablog
(dat's a rap rant, dog
blows away any blog)
goes all ho dee hi hog
like in sam's tooth of crime
dumb . . . more
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February 21, 2006 07:31 AM EST --
for C. Brian Maddox
The Caribbean palm just looked dead leaning against the squat green house.
The shadow it cast overwhelmed a crabgrass lawn thick with old newspapers.
I looked for the FOR RENT or . . . more
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April 17, 2006 04:45 PM EDT --
Carefully tend the garden,
protect her from the weather.
She's only out of season,
not gone away forever.
She amazed us with her beauty,
bloomed in vivid colors,
graced us the summer long,
standing . . . more
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May 01, 2006 09:00 AM EDT --
for Angela Claire and Andalucia Dotson
may·day [máy dày] noun. distress call: the internationally recognized communications distress call.
My friend draws bright discs in . . . more
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April 07, 2006 11:44 AM EDT --
for Isabel Cara Martin, with inspiration from Robert Browning
We are not a conquered people. We are not, and have never been a conquered people....We are however, today, a subjugated people. And this . . . more
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July 07, 2007 08:09 PM EDT --
For Birdie Jaworksi, talented writer, poet and blogger, whose vision of the Internet as a catalyst for change has inspired my inner heart; and for the Iraqi people. Every day fifty or more people are being . . . more
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August 11, 2007 10:55 AM EDT --
For Kathryn Esplin-Oleski, versatile journalist, fiction writer, and poet, who I am lucky to count as one of my virtual friends on Gather. The documentary on global warming featuring Vice . . . more
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September 10, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
CONSECRATION OF THE HOUSE
For my homeland: 9/11/2007
We all have set up walls, to give our selves
a home, built of what seems most strong,
trued to . . . more
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September 22, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
Following is a copy of an e-mail sent to feedback@Gather.com:
September 22, 2007
Dear Gather,
I just found out that Gather is threatening to remove or somehow censure John O. for writing . . . more
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April 29, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
Free
Debt paid to society
Free
Mama's home cooking
Free
Lovin' my woman
Free
Do something with my life
Free
Can't work here with a record
Free
No Grant for my education
Free
Home . . . more
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March 14, 2006 07:53 AM EST --
for the millions of lonely Oedipus Rexes out there still suffering, either all wet or dried up.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud
Those who do not recover are people . . . more
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April 21, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
A past candidate named Kerry
Wife makes ketchup, but thats ancillary
He should run again
He even has twins
More republican years, now thats scary
more
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October 11, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
For Barry Crooks, friend, fellow playwright and poet, and searcher for the reality ¨in between.¨
I
The doll world surely exists, just as does any cherished . . . more
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February 28, 2007 02:13 PM EST --
For my youngest brother Patrick Walter, brilliant and versatile actor and writer, now living with his beautiful wife Monika and baby Yrja in Norway's northernmost Arctic Circle, who probably has . . . more
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May 21, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
He stands on the corner,
holding up a sign;
"I will work for food,"
is the only design;
Busy people stop,
but look the other way;
"He is just a panhandler,
it's probably . . . more
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