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Author :: Dennis Siluk  |
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| Article Title :: Pigeons at La Favorita Cafe (A Poem) |
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| Faintly, a scene of effects unfolds, awakens the eyesAnd is soon forgotten, as it dies: the pigeons pranceAround parked cars, by the Café Favorita’s tablesin Lima, Peru!Then they take off in flight, some remain, and prance under cars,Out of sight: as they move in and out (the café is boardingthe street in Miraflores).They prance, prance: pecking at crumbs on the ground,Slowly winged, unhastening (as zooming cars pass by).I watch these pigeons melt into the scenenobody really notices them, but me…!#1307 Written at the La Favorita Café, in Lima, Peru 4/8/06, while (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Dennis Siluk |
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| Article Title :: Branches [*A Poem] |
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| There is something that bothers my neighbor
That irritates her, makes her skin: jump, crewel
That creates a humming stammer in her voice
And even makes gaps, silent ones as she talks
To my wife, about the heap across the street.
Her kind of row is another thing indeed
Where she doesn’t let one idea, spin
Not even one iota of that fall
Lest she lose her focus once and for all.
We are talking about last week’s branches,
And what’s hiding under that heap I see.
To please my neighbor, the branches I mean,
I’d have to get rid of the pile of rubbish
The one, everyone tosses garbage underneath
That lays so crude a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Dennis Siluk |
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| Article Title :: The Man Seed [A Poem on Man's Nature] |
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| The Man SeedThe penis
Throws its peapod, to the sun
Emancipates itself from the hierarchy with nowhere to go.His environment is the present offer with no outline,
His roads bunched to a tie,
The tie himself,He rises with the man to achieve—
Body needs,
Body cravingsInnocent as a newborn’s yell.
Beastlike, he twirls, reflects,
Devoted to his likeness,Through nothing but substance—
Flavored, color white!
In his caveHis interment,
And his mound and this
He dies with lustrous carcasses.#1315 4/2006 This contemporary poem, breath-taking I find it, written this morning in my husb (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Juanita Watson |
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| Article Title :: Interview with Judith Dupree, Author of Poetry Collection "Living with What Remains" |
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| Judith Dupree is with us today chatting about her recently published book of poetry that focuses in an unusually prescient way upon the losses we face in our complex society. Welcome to Reader Views.Juanita: Judith, you have written a lovely book of poetry. What inspired you to write “living with what remains”?Judith: Well, I’d offer a pot full of reasons, but the over-riding one is decidedly my mix of hope and despair: an anticipation that buoys me constantly – but, always eating at it, my grief over the unraveling of our world.And, as a citizen of the “first of the first-world” peoples, my nibbling sense of shame. So many
factors im (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Juanita Watson |
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| Article Title :: Interview with Angel Logan, Author of "Wings of an Angel: Poetry Collection" |
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| Reader Views would like to welcome published author, Angel Logan, who has just released her new book, “Wings of an Angel: Poetry Collection.”Juanita: Thank you for talking with us today Angel. Please give us a little insight into the theme of “Wings of an Angel.”Angel: Thanks Juanita, it’s a pleasure speaking with you. “Wings of an Angel” means so many things to me. It is my first published book and my introduction into the literary world. It represents hope – not only for myself, but also for the reader and for aspiring writers. I want my words to touch my readers on a level that enables them to relate to their
own personal experiences. I wan (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Paul Davis |
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| Article Title :: Easter Resurrection Poem |
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| Many cry and wonder why
And seek further insight
From big Daddy in the sky
Not knowing what’s going on
Having nobody upon whom to hold on
When the church service is over
And all have come and gone.Once the offering has been given
All hands shaken
Smiles exchanged
A remembrance of a few names
Dreams unfulfilled continue to turn within
Waiting incessantly for Christ within
The hope of glory to arise
To burst the bonds
Remove the guise
Fulfill His Word
And all surprise.
This futile life
How can it be
That Christ above
Would lower Himself
To die for me!
Amazing love
Bey (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Paul Davis |
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| Article Title :: Perception - Your Reality |
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| Perception is a compilation
Of your past history
Through which you see
Erroneously or correctly
Your present reality
Perception affects your identity
Positively or negatively
Based on what you think
People believe you to be
Perception leads to projection
The good, bad, and ugly
As that which is within
Comes forth in expression
Whether it be embracing love
Or walls of rejection
Before you can proceed
Your inner self first must precede
To frame its image
And settle within
To be transparent and befriend
Or be reclusive and center in
To unconditionally accept humanity
Or prejudge and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Paul Davis |
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| Article Title :: Kissing and Cleaving |
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| My darling and princess
You mean the world to me!
Through you I feel
Hear, sense and see
As strange and sudden
As it may be
I’m irrefutably gripped inwardly.
Captivated in countless ways
Enraptured night and day
Enamored all the way
Whether I’m speechless
Or eloquently overflowing
With much to sayYour smile to me
Lights the way
Your touch
Impossible from which
To walk away
Your words
Passionately impregnating
By what you say
Your dreams
Inspiring hope
For each new dayYour kisses melt my world
With you I’m never bored
You move me Godward
Influenc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Holly Bliss |
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| Article Title :: Similes, Metaphors and Poetry Threads, Oh My! |
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| Most of us learned that similes were comparisons using the words “like” or “as” by second or third grade, so that’s all we’ll say on that section of our imagery toolbox.Unless you’ve studied poetry or writing further, you may not be as familiar with the metaphor or poetry thread (aka extended metaphor).MetaphorIn life, as in baseball, we must leave the dugout of complacency, step up to the home plate of opportunity, adjust the protective groin cup of caution and swing the bat of hope at the curve ball of fate, hoping that we can hit a line drive of success past the shortstop of misfortune, then sprint down the base path of chance, knowing that (read full article) |
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| Category :: Poetry Articles |
Author :: Jake Rose |
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| Article Title :: Bringing Creativity to Poetry |
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| There are many factors that create poetry. There are many factors that create all types of writing. With a poem, not only do you have to focus on meaning and style of writing, you also have to deal with size and form. Some people choose to use already made and famous forms, such as a sonnet, while others prefer free styling it. Either way, there are plenty of creative ways to make the poem stand out even more.This is all about adding something more visual to the poem, not about actually altering the writing. Though it may seem unimportant to some, bringing the poem out of just being a piece of writing and more into a visual art can really capture the feeling and expression in the p (read full article) |
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