Tag: poetry
member name: Gerry Wass
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December 11, 2007 03:13 PM EST --
When teaching students of Spanish
To write with poetry
You'd think I'd poured pure hot latex
Over their naked brains
As soon as I'd announced
The . . . more
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November 02, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
I've been sitting on this for awhile-note the dead metaphor there. It's something I dashed off one day while pondering the collaboration on constructive criticism that Amy George . . . more
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August 30, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
Sí, la marea me ha regresado,
¿Sabes tú por qué?
Porque quería, y yo la quería
Y un día así fue
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September 03, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
Around the room, my life in shapes
Could I ever be more than all my things,
Could I ever feel the liquid energy
Of a life without my own debris?
Stuck on questions . . . more
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October 26, 2007 09:44 AM EDT --
Many thanks for John Beck for the inspiration. It's a puzzle, but those who know my predilection will understand.
Predilection
I work for . . . more
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April 17, 2008 10:51 PM EDT --
On the occasion of our anniversary, a tribute to my beloved wife Neal Ann
She Buys Me Tools
I catch myself boasting inside
About my prowess
When the . . . more
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February 11, 2007 08:47 PM EST --
This may be ridiculously ambitious for someone trying to find their way back into poetry after a long, long hiatus, but I wanted to see if I could do something challenging. I wanted to see if I could . . . more
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October 23, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
This is what happens when you criticize me-everything spins and expands and deepens. The helpful, honest critiques I received on the first version of this made all the difference to . . . more
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April 04, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
Metaphores. You can find the word on the back of any moving van in Greece, where it carries its original meaning, to carry across. The Latin equivalent was transfer, and . . . more
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April 08, 2007 01:55 AM EDT --
For Robert Lunatic Fringe and John Beck with my thanks for the inspiration.
The process of flow applies to all parts of our existence and these words we write together here will pass from . . . more
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August 14, 2007 03:09 AM EDT --
She goes to the mirror,
Practicing now
She sees what she wants
And she calls to me
Her voice is the high note
Of summer energy
She sees her aura
When she moves reflected mystery
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September 21, 2007 09:13 AM EDT --
These dreams I dream of dreaming
Where the bobble-heads of state
Departments of Mediocre Education
Suddenly all awake
At once to realize just what they
All have dreamed
And rush . . . more
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August 25, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
It began with a simple modern concern
Would the cell phone pull, in the mountain shade?
Would be stay connected at every turn?
Another reason to worry over signal fade
Something made me shiver . . . more
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October 14, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
From Navarre, Florida, I feel a restless urgency to publish this while I am still near the great Gulf of Mexico. It has been a difficult birth this time, and I earnestly welcome your critical . . . more
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January 21, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
Giving thoughtful, constructive criticism has got to be one of the hardest, scariest pieces of the communication puzzle, at least in the American cultural milieu.
If and when we ever do . . . more
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