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Writing poetry
Is much like going fishing
Cast a line to see.
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Slipping into sleep,
Dreams are a one-woman show,
I act while I watch.
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Write a poem of morn,
Birds singing the words as I
Transcribe them with joy.
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Outward
From the Core
Of the spirit-egg,
Silver strings of light
Emanate.
An explosion of tensile
Tendril threads
Burst forth
From the center..
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Arguments for rhyming
May be valid and correct,
But in my mind the need to rhyme
Is a pain right in my - neck..
No, wait, I did not mean to be
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If Jonathan Swift were here today,
What would he say?
Well,
Swift would look at our crowded school rooms
With students so deprived,
And propose m..
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I dream,
Wrapped in a red and black plaid cocoon,
Lulled by soft rain pattering on an old tin roof.
Above me, bare beams of weathered pine
Form a..
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Harlequin.
Comedy. Tragedy.
C’est la vie.
Desiccated,
Overrated.
Don’t look
Through me.
Don't cry
To me.
I cant
Keep up
The da..
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Well,
I didn’t know
You felt like that.
But If you do,
Then you can
Certainly...
Put it in your hat
And wear it.
Put it in your pipe
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I don’t know you, but I hear you
Thinking.
I feel you
Writing,
I envision you
Dreaming.
I listen to
The poems,
The stories,
The though..
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