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My Muse Keeps Ancient Hours

My Muse keeps 
ancient hours...
candlelight flowers,
blooms of the deep night
for the black-bean
poet; rise ye caffeine
warriors—with quill 
thy sword in hand--
slay thy enemies
those metaphors
cajoled for bland;
with defiant zeal 
upright thy stand--
(never kneel, thus
bowing to tradition.
Great bards of old
never wrote for sold
at Literary-stakes
burned
for sedition)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 2/28/2018 11:25:00 PM
Strine-alike Joe! Great theme! ..Love to brew java middle of nite and wonder at city silence...easier now retired! saw first birds come out today, got to 40 degrees! Always wonder how the heck they survive, sheesh, musta had 2mos. this winter below zero....finding myself endlessly staring at pages of dozens of seed catalogs!
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Joe Dimino
Date: 3/9/2018 5:16:00 AM
Hi James; glad the chill is leaving. I lived in upstate New York for awhile. With wind-chill, one morning 37 below. Not nice. But survived, and now live in Phoenix. 122 one day. Not nice. Though at my age, blessed to be alive and healthy anywhere:) Have a great day my friend!
Date: 2/28/2018 5:58:00 AM
Love the journey Joe, your pen is certainly mightier than the sword.
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Date: 2/26/2018 9:54:00 AM
I love this, the descriptions of different poem themes and techniques, you expressed this poetically...
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Joe Dimino
Date: 2/27/2018 5:05:00 AM
Thank you, Si; I'm very pleased for your thumbs-up on this one. It was fun to write. Have a great day my friend!

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