Tag: poetrycontest
member name: Arlene H.
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July 19, 2007 10:11 AM EDT --
Pine branch spearing rain-damp earth,
I dig mud puddles for lagoons
that tricky kings and queens spangle like jewels
cavorting along riverbanks,
lickety-split walnut shells versus leafy canoes,
autumn-crisp . . .
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August 17, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
My poem “The Lagoon” won the Gather.com Express Yourself poetry contest, but runner-up Karen W.'s poem “B O A R D W A L K – Santa Cruz” and the honorable mentions -- Superior . . .
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July 19, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
The week the great orator Barbara Jordan dies,
the universe brightens in apparent magnitudes of eloquence:
the Hubble telescope sights 40-billion more galaxies,
scholars agree a 1612 elegy for a murdered . . .
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July 19, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
We never talk about the war you fought.
I catch you in your sleep narrating dreams
where who knows what is happening, with screams
you scream in dread unconscious earnest, fraught
with who knows what pain, . . .
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July 19, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Outside dark-edged snow
descends on girls
who toe the streets,
estranged and gathering.
Caves glitter their names,
spraypaint in thin light.
The frail beams of my days
dip and rise and leave me low.
Outside . . .
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July 19, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
Clarence the janitor sits in the lobby
listening to me type like it's music he's hearing
in this old domed building eleven years his life.
He lives rent-free in this East Side palace.
They couldn't . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Spirits high, battery charged, I can fly.
Stroked greenly awake inside Central Park,
I scoot on newly mown grass, breezing by
Happy children and dogs that do not bark.
West to East at 79th . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
Black was the color of my true love’s heart,
Cast into the wilderness, torn apart.
Feral teeth gnawed arteries asunder.
Black was the sky, clouds crashing with thunder.
“Rapunzel. . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:45 AM EDT --
It isn't just bells ringing, it's a bell
that, borne away from time and space, still rang,
was bound to ring for love of what it sang.
So pure the song poured down so dark a hell,
the . . .
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July 19, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
Once there was an elevator
that turned into a tergiversator.
When it was time to bypass nine,
on its way down, after its climb,
it changed its mind, opened its doors,
and stopped at that uncalled-for . . .
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July 19, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Almost twoThe moon's silvering the skyAnd I can't sleepWaiting for the baby's cryI had a dreamYou stole all the blanketsLeft me freezingLeft me franticWhat a way to say goodbye Almost . . .
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