Tag: poetry
group name: womenwise
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August 29, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I walked in
lacking expectation.
But there you were,
finally,
looking in my direction.
I needed to see into
your clouded window,
recognize who sits
on your dusty throne.
When our eyes met,
a . . .
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March 26, 2007 02:47 PM EDT --
I press the memory of you
against my creased brow,
leaving a shadow stain
that will not fade.
I spread the essence of you
across my skin
recalling simplicity
of desire and flight.
. . .
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April 25, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
Someday it will all come out
today is not the day
someday
that which I will not speak
of he whom I loved more than anyone
and he who loved me more than anyone
stole
that which I will not say
bathroom
a . . .
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . .
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September 09, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
The wisteria is a deep purple
jolting a memory
of a deep purple deception
the lover who did not love
the deep purple flowers
given to exact . . .
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August 01, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
they removed a chunk
stole it from a mysterious place
pink and hidden
and dropped it into a sterile plastic jar
left it on the counter
for me to contemplate.
it looked at me
waiting . . .
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March 19, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
Thick vellum slices me
with its lovely calligraphic
curved smile, announcing in
self-important blue letters
that you and she have wed,
so casually you wed
"on Friday, the twenty-ninth of . . .
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June 21, 2006 09:07 PM EDT --
The Photographer's Daybook
In the halloed prism of his camera,
girls lie flat, slim conjunctions,
limbs unpulsed, left luminous--
rush-dry. He develops
wanton . . .
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September 18, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
note: this is a pure, unadulterated ramble. by no means a finished poem, but more of an expectoration of words that were choking me, thoughts that needed release. shit, i couldn't even think of . . .
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March 23, 2006 09:20 PM EST --
The knowledge I found in your eyes old woman
stripped me of my mortal flesh
laying me bare to the heavy winds
scented with the blood of my ancestors
who were lost in the madness of generations
I cried . . .
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April 10, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
I asked the dawn: "Where is the dewdrop that wet my lips last night and was suddenly gone before the sunrise?"
The dawn smiled: 'It's in the lightness of breezes and fragrance of flowers." . . .
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August 22, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
When life is your muse
You are inspired every day
When life is an odyssey
You learn everyday
You pen down your fears
On a gloomy day
And paint a lovely picture
Spreading colors . . .
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July 27, 2006 01:22 AM EDT --
I started on a journey that lasted many years;
I spent a lot of money and shed a lot of tears.
Three weeks of every month, I really felt quite well
But the week before my period, my life became pure hell! . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
ABC's of Sue
A... is for Andrew, my beloved twenty-something son.
B... is for Bellevue, home . . .
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June 06, 2006 08:17 PM EDT --
Grasping for straws and searching for treasure,
Leaping to the moon.
Looking for silver linings and wishing on a star,
My heart keeps coming back to you.
Turning over a new leaf, starting a . . .
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April 12, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
How much longer
can we endure these
silences? They cut
like a knife right into
the heart of us.
I'm tired of the polite
hello when you walk
in the door. That kind
of hello . . .
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June 18, 2007 06:27 AM EDT --
Wings of life
Fluttering her wings
Amidst the sweet scent
Giving flowers competition
You are stagnant
But I can fly
And spread my colors
in the sky
Just out of bud says . . .
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August 06, 2006 02:28 PM EDT --
You're beautiful, pure light
You're luminous, so strong
Inside and out
You carry me
Endlessly
You're tall
And dark
And yet the brightest soul I've seen
Your smile
Could . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:28 AM EST --
My 2008 Writing Resolutions
Welcome Lists, Lists, and More Lists members and anyone who should happen across this list.
Kimberly Ripley challenged writers to come up with a . . .
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July 25, 2006 05:53 PM EDT --
If it's beauty that we're after
It's in the love and laughter
Of playing children
Flowers, pets
In hugs and smiles
The sun that sets
All free and widespread
Heaven bound
In parks and . . .
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Women Wise
Location: Weymouth, MA
Created: Mar 02, 2006
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