A world of separation
Between the world and me
Walls of brick dividing
Dream home and reality
Is summertime the only time
To venture on outside?
Or are adventures also found
In winter’s wonders wide?
Chilly Challenge
30 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Amelia Anthony, Lewis Carroll, Poetry, Through the Looking Glass
One Single Couplet
29 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Double Meaning, Nerdy, Poetry Tags: Claire Anthony, Poetry
2+2+2+2+2+2+1
For the odd one out this math equation isn’t any fun
Queen of Spades and All Her Hearts
28 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in Poetry Tags: Claire Anthony, Poetry
You said I’d never capture it,
Awoke the hunter in me;
One fatal shot with mind’s eye–
Perform artistic taxidermy
The Key to His Heart is Rusty
14 Dec 2011 10 Comments
He watched the cremation through glassy eyes
Scratched out words now erased entirely
Curds and whey down his shoulders
Pray out loud as the ashes drop
Cloud of verbs dissected
Herbs collected
Rejected
Dead
There’s a reason the door was shut
12 Dec 2011 4 Comments
in Poetry Tags: Amelia Anthony, Poetry
I will not do your homework, my dear
I have enough of my own
Yes, I know your life is so painful
But I’d like to be alone.
Let the Games End
11 Dec 2011 4 Comments
Welcome
to the game we call politics—
no don’t take a seat. It’s
standing room only, now
go mill about.
Here
come the players; they’re bringing
the heat.
Benchwarmers all, so you’d better watch
out!
No teams,
rest assured it’s an individual sport.
(Though knowing glances are exchanged
and hands are hidden
beneath the table.)
Stakes are high, tempers flare in this court.
Now
comes the point where
they all try to label
those seated around them with
syrupy slander.
Scattered about
are the
sparse
few bona fide. They’re
covered in labels—just take one gander,
while
overlooked in the corner
crooks sit
genocide by side.
What are you guys talking about?
10 Dec 2011 16 Comments
in Haiku/Senryu/17 Syllables, Poetry, Word Prompt Tags: covert, Jennifer, Poetry
Covert dialogue
Secrets secrets are no fun
Unless shared with me
Maoage is What Brings Us Together Today
09 Dec 2011 7 Comments
in Non-English, Poetry, Something Borrowed, Something New Tags: Mao Zedong, Personalities in the Commune, Poetry, The Princess Bride, Zhang Zhimin
Let’s attack here!
Drive away the mountain gods,
Break down the stone walls sheer
To bring out coal in wads.
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The Boy Who Loved Too
08 Dec 2011 4 Comments
in Poetry Tags: Amelia Anthony, Luke Link, Poetry
She was so pretty—pretty to behold;
—-Larkspur held by wind, or sloe-eyed doe:
She was so pretty! Not a hint of cold,
—-Idée fixe for many a modern Moe;
She was so pretty in tangible ways,
—-As well as those perceived, not felt.
She was so pretty—setting hearts ablaze:
—-Wildfires spreading ‘cross the morion veldt.
Napalms for the Poor
06 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in Haiku/Senryu/17 Syllables, Poetry Tags: Poetry, Tonya Dentry
If I got good rest
then the rest of my good time
wouldn’t be rest time.
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