Tag: poem
member name: Peter Joseph Swanson
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August 24, 2009 04:31 PM EDT --
ARTHURIAN LEGENDS
Merlin got Arthur high on a toadstool
Arthur flapped his druid words
and thought it was so vital.
Out of time in a war . . .
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January 19, 2009 05:21 PM EST --
EAT
we all eat pop tarts and nauseate
we all drink joe and reinvigorate
but what do we eat after we die
do we think it over on our last cry
we eat the satin . . .
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June 02, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
Tea on the tombstone
Crumbs in your hair
The blanket crushes chopped down grass
Scones are piled with care
You don’t drink
You don’t eat
You just watch and smile
Until I put you
Back . . .
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March 06, 2008 07:36 PM EST --
MONKEY CHESS
Monkey chess at the witch's house
we sit and sip and stare
The tea is hot, the game unique
and we try to wait out our player
The wasp moves . . .
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June 30, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
PAINTED POEM PAINTING SINKING
A painting is not a poem and a poem is not a painting, sir,
but paint a poem, or, better yet, poem a painting and you
might find you're . . .
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July 08, 2009 05:51 PM EDT --
ELEGY FOR MEMORY
in 1978
the super-8 movie was bought at Kmart
it clanked through in 3 minutes and then was done
that seems brief, but, at the time it . . .
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July 19, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
SONIC BOOM SONNET
we didn't know what made it, but knew it hit us
we'd yelp, then race from our desks to the window
peering into the sky, we didn't even see a crow . . .
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July 28, 2009 02:44 PM EDT --
I love the clouds of July
They make me wish I could fly
They are so up there and I’m not
I’m on heavy soil where things rot
If I sink, I can smell some . . .
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September 09, 2009 07:52 PM EDT --
DRINKING IN THE GARDEN
she's been drinking in the garden
yellow chinese hat bobs and wobbles
on a drunk she loves every bud and insect
picking peas and string . . .
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September 13, 2009 09:25 AM EDT --
MOTHERGOOSE JUNKIE
jack and jill
went up the hill
to hide from the
video slaughter
they took a green pill
to find a quick thrill . . .
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October 04, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
END OF THE WORLD
It's the end of the world, all of it
that's the way it goes
and I don't mean war
broken ice
atomic fits
or a volcano that . . .
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October 05, 2009 03:44 PM EDT --
THE FROG POND IN OCTOBER
The mother told her son, I know you think it’s fun
to go to the frog pond without me, but now that
it’s so October that I must remain . . .
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May 31, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
AD 1000
it is all scheduled to end
tunics, chain mail, big horses
how can the world get anymore
modern or cruel
the shroud of Turin appears for tourists
Jerusalem is dust then blood
but the next . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
MAY IS CROWDED WITH CATS
The swallows see them emerging from under hay bales.
A dozen kittens look so cute you could weep at them.
But there are too many barn cats for the mice who are hiding.
Kittens . . .
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July 07, 2009 12:56 PM EDT --
DADA BARGES AND BRIDGES
The black steel barge is burning in the dry white field. We are disappointed that the war didn't answer all our questions, and we had a lot . . .
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October 01, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
OCTOBER IS CROWDED WITH CATS
October is crowded with cats
They eat grass after they’ve been poisoned with summer
Under dry leaves the last of it grows green . . .
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November 08, 2009 10:20 AM EST --
NOVEMBER IS CROWDED WITH CATS
November is crowded with cats
They sit in places and smell winter’s preamble
Under overhanging things the green is gone
A . . .
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July 15, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
love rots
if you don't daily
clean it
like dirty teeth
love rots
and when you feel
the pain from
something so dense
it's too late
it's bad breath
and decay
crept . . .
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August 14, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
SODOM POEM ONE: the memory
This last night in Sodom
I sat barefooted at the well
in a new four-color robe
It was one of those places to be
or whatever, hang out
I love to gossip . . .
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September 03, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
labor union:
collective lawyer
to fight
a collection
of lawyers
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