Tag: poetry
group name: nothingness
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September 07, 2008 03:05 PM EDT --
Portable crappers, and phat gangsta rappers
Overdressed lawyers, who think that they're dapper
Blonde second wives who are festooned with bling-
These are a few of my least . . .
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July 15, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
This is a form called byr a thoddaid (for more info go to The Poet's Garret http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/celtic2.html#awlbyr ) and was written for a one word poetry challenge.
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July 08, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
TOO HOT
ripples raging heat
once again cricket song stops
crisp flesh cannot sing
Michelle Wooten
7-8-08
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October 21, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
MAYNARD, Mass. It's Tuesday night at the Sitting Duck Pub, a biker bar in this Massachusetts town of 10,000. A reporter asks Darlene Rivers, a thirty-something woman in a tube top, whether . . .
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July 18, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
DRIVE
"I have no drive," he said to me.
Oh no! Oh no!! That cannot be.
I'm on my knees, oh can't you see,
"No drive? You must be wrong!" I plea.
"I . . .
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July 15, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
AN ANGEL'S KISS
She is gone
for now
the baby that I held
so tight
has grown angel wings
and has gone.
I wish I could
see them
unfurled, flowing, glowing . . .
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July 19, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
There are two types of people--those who "get" poetry, and those who don't.
My wife is honest, nay proud that she is one of the first type.
I, on the other hand, was once forced by . . .
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July 28, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
FAIRFAX, California. Kay Ryan, the newly-annointed poet laureate of the United States, vowed today to use the enormous powers of her office to strike back at the "snobs" who kept her out . . .
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August 12, 2008 08:44 AM EDT --
Sometimes as I sit at my desk at night, my hands pressed to my temples, trying to come up with a post that will be rejected by McSweeney's Internet Tendencies and earn me valuable Gather Points, I . . .
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October 27, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
MINNEAPOLIS. Poppin' Fresh, the smiling doughboy who appeared in over 600 commercials for The Pillsbury Company, was found dead in his apartment last night, an apparent suicide at the age of . . .
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November 12, 2008 09:37 PM EST --
News item: A Boston-area radio station began playing Christmas music on Veteran's Day this year, the earliest date ever.
Holiday people, being too cheerful.
I'd like to give one . . .
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October 06, 2007 08:17 PM EDT --
Scientists have created frogs whose internal organs can be viewed through clear skin. . . .
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November 25, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
There is an axiom, often attributed to Henry Kissinger but actually the discovery of political scientist Charles Sayre, that goes as follows: "In any dispute, the intensity of . . .
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September 18, 2008 09:23 AM EDT --
Where are the goofy hairdos of the past--
the ones my mom gave to my sisters, I ask?
They'd bring home a box of Lilt Home Permanent
To propel the girls' locks to the tonsorial . . .
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September 19, 2008 09:49 PM EDT --
I want a woman like Simone Weil--
built Renaults, and did it with style.
Hold it-I know what you're going to say.
It's not pronounced "while", it rhymes with "oy . . .
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September 15, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
You looked, as you stood before the canned soups,
As if your goldfish had just died.
Exasperated at the end of a working day,
Preparing to make dinner for one,
Wondering whether . . .
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November 19, 2008 08:36 PM EST --
If you were hit, dear, by a truck,
And I were left without you-
I wonder then who I would, er,
Sorry-let me start over.
I wonder up with whom I'd end
Among our unwed female friends. . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:18 PM EDT --
Darling, forgive me if I seem a dunth
But why must your period come oneth a month?
It strikes me that we'd avoid many a tear
If it was like Christmas and came once a year.
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August 17, 2008 10:31 PM EDT --
AMARILLO , T exas . Joe Don Mergen has just two weeks of freedom left before he begins the school year as a sophomore at Darrell Royal High School here, but he says he's looking . . .
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September 27, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
Upon the Poet's Learning That His Cats Had Chased Off a Pack of Coyotes
You wish for assistance?
No, my cousin Okie.
If we die, it is our master's loss,
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