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Hello my new friend,
I'm excited to learn that my poems are going to be published in an anthology that will be ready in November in time for Christmas. It's being compiled over at AllPoetry. Marie Marshal will be in it also.
I have a "Neruda-style"…
I'm having my website done by a student. I suppose, though, I'm going to get what I pay for since he isn't charging much. I figure how many bells and whistles do I need to promote a remodeling business? Not many. (that's not "modeling" Mary, I said…
1 April is National Poetry Month in the USA, are you taking part in the challenge? I continue to write poetry but I must say I'm not much of a joiner, so no I guess.
2 What was the last thing you broke by accident? My Television remote, although it…
Lesley, since I am a poet I'll write when my muse is good and ready and that usually does not follow a schedule. I will say that some of my most prolific moments have been in the mornings, the prime inspiration being just in that twilight moment as…
Yes, I know what you mean. The times when he blew over the reed so that it barely vibrated, if at all, continuing the vibrato to the end of the phrase with nothing but the sound of air - something difficult to describe over a blog. lol
I love Coltrane's music. It reminds me of when I played trumpet. There were others that played more forcefully than I and could hit the higher notes more often. But my close group of fans, (including my own mother) would say that I had a better tone…
State of Fear
Mairi,
[Paul/paulcreates here from AP :). ]
You've managed to balance yourself on the knife edge of controversy here - quite a feat and I commend you. You've made several points that have resonated with me. One is this idea so prevalent in highly co…
Jean,
I've read "The Shack" love it! It is controversial in some circles only to those more dogmatic in the Christian faith. Think modern day Pilgrim's progress as a rough analogy.
Paul
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Here is one of my latest poems written to a contest promt, that of emulating the style of Pablo Naruda:
She Flows Again to Me
Suddenly
you are a bright awakening -
the Sahel in monsoon
without clouds.
I am not desolate
when your surge
ripples the lowlands
with leaping slurry.
You gladden
my sand banks
with curl of brow;
spark a jubilee among the swales.
The scent of slake sends
your naked legs
to me as sparked gazelles.
Life is afoot. Look.
The ground rumbles, love,
with rumors
of wet reunion.
Because my land
waves dark with dappled delight,
the acacia sings,
naps and widens.
Your spirited fingers slow to seep as
supple alluvial fans,
saturate the root.
Am I in you? Are you in me?
I see every feather of wing,
every heady contour.
I see it now.
There is not one artery
now
that does not pulse
with your wine.
You shape ‘we’.
Every sharpened leaf
and the swollen breast
of you, yes,
you love,
one baptism,
one salvation.
She Flows Again to Me
Suddenly
you are a bright awakening -
the Sahel in monsoon
without clouds.
I am not desolate
when your surge
ripples the lowlands
with leaping slurry.
You gladden
my sand banks
with curl of brow;
spark a jubilee among the swales.
The scent of slake sends
your naked legs
to me as sparked gazelles.
Life is afoot. Look.
The ground rumbles, love,
with rumors
of wet reunion.
Because my land
waves dark with dappled delight,
the acacia sings,
naps and widens.
Your spirited fingers slow to seep as
supple alluvial fans,
saturate the root.
Am I in you? Are you in me?
I see every feather of wing,
every heady contour.
I see it now.
There is not one artery
now
that does not pulse
with your wine.
You shape ‘we’.
Every sharpened leaf
and the swollen breast
of you, yes,
you love,
one baptism,
one salvation.
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