Tag: poetry
group name: gatherbest
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February 14, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
for Inmaculada Cara Martin, beloved wife, forever my valentine. With special use of the public domain lyrics from Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart's immortal song, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, now a jazz . . . more
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September 17, 2006 02:22 PM EDT --
for Jenn B., my "jennie james," brilliant young writer and ex-Gatherer who I've worried about for four months since she left us, but now have learned happily is full of more life than ever! . . . more
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October 23, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
for Ed Nudelman, Gather´s most prolific poet troubador and my dear friend in the emptiness. This poem is as much about weathering brickbats in the real world as in the virtual. . . . more
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July 03, 2007 08:40 AM EDT --
For my philosopher friend Boris G., who befriended me when I couldn´t befriend myself.
"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.¨Brendan Behan.
Quiddito, . . . more
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December 04, 2006 01:40 PM EST --
for Douglas Gilbert, sensitive teacher, soulful poet, wise children's storyteller, who has taught me new ways to express brotherly love in the emptiness.
Note: I wrote the first draft of this poem . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:25 PM EST --
The wind brushes the lace curtain against the side of my face as I peer out my window. The silence is almost eerie, the night captured in a snapshot of the moon to be hidden in a photograph album . . . more
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March 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
for Ludolf Grolle De Rochefort, pre-Simulationist painter, poet and patterner of invisible textures.
you don't ever get straight
though you try hard
and at times it feels just right
in . . . more
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July 07, 2007 08:09 PM EDT --
For Birdie Jaworksi, talented writer, poet and blogger, whose vision of the Internet as a catalyst for change has inspired my inner heart; and for the Iraqi people. Every day fifty or more people are being . . . more
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August 11, 2007 10:55 AM EDT --
For Kathryn Esplin-Oleski, versatile journalist, fiction writer, and poet, who I am lucky to count as one of my virtual friends on Gather. The documentary on global warming featuring Vice . . . more
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September 10, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
CONSECRATION OF THE HOUSE
For my homeland: 9/11/2007
We all have set up walls, to give our selves
a home, built of what seems most strong,
trued to . . . more
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March 31, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
For Padre Flavio Zavala, my first mentor, who taught me a little Spanish, a lot of Latin, how to play chess, and what I needed to know about finding God in the small things.
Plaza . . . more
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July 22, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
For all contemporary artists who get mired in the latest critical theories and lose hope. This one especially goes out to my pre Sim homegirls Amy George and Jill Pazerackas of . . . more
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June 06, 2008 05:36 PM EDT --
Gather Essentials: Writing
Having spent some time perusing today's offerings I present these fine articles for your review.
Daddy, words cannot say what these photos convey . . . more
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April 24, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
beneath the crinkled skin
beneath the cavernous cage
a heart fills and flows
meanders with an age
the letter never sent
"sorry" never spoken
hands could not reach
promises told then broken . . . more
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February 28, 2007 02:13 PM EST --
For my youngest brother Patrick Walter, brilliant and versatile actor and writer, now living with his beautiful wife Monika and baby Yrja in Norway's northernmost Arctic Circle, who probably has . . . more
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August 01, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
for my wife Inmaculada Cara Martin
Granada breathes out its burnt roses at dusk.
I think about the child I don´t have,
the children we won´t raise,
since my . . . more
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August 07, 2007 01:43 PM EDT --
For Nathan Schauer, poet, writer, teacher and friend
I´ll not speak of the thing, though it´s
Hurled between us like the sun's bright disc.
I´ll live as if it can´t . . . more
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April 01, 2006 03:25 AM EST --
You see him
Alone
Looking down on the sidewalk
Scuffing his feet
Pacing
Back and forth
He looks up
His cloudless eyes
Looking for a friendly face
. . . more
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July 12, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Today's Writing Essential explores darkness, fear, things that go bump in the night. Gather's writers have posted some incredible stories and poems of their dances with the devilish. I'm enjoying . . . more
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December 14, 2007 03:56 AM EST --
For Angela Claire Dotson. The first part of this poem was originally titled On The Other Side Of The Sierras. It appeared on Gather on March 19, 2006. I have since added a new free verse section to . . . more
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