Best 1973 Poems

OH    NAKED MAN    IN HARMONIA
TELL ME    WHAT IS LOVE

Love is when a sensitive child
Happens on a flowering hillside    and
Cries out with joy

In the blazing eyes of a cat
The eyes only
Be it live
Or photograph

Love’s...

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Several years of my childhood I spent with my aunt and uncle
who lived in an old rectory in Northern Norway
It was a hard time, much work, little food never time for play or entertainment
My aunt and uncle were strict, we had to work for food

When...

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Evening found me sitting in the kitchen, feeling down,
my parents and my elder brothers all out on the town.,
leaving me to babysit, a dull end to the year,
too old for early bedtime, legally too young for beer.
Ken McKellar on TV with Moira Anderson,
too much for...

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so much pain
Lord why did you have to take Dwayne

I dont mean to question your judgement
but I just miss my cousin

in hindsight I can see that we was living wrong
but I dont think the cure was two bullets in his lungs

at the funeral while they...

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 Poet Heart, 1973

In the bittersweet, luscious years of youth,
the poet heart sought the quintessence of truth.

Life was arcane, confused and ambivalent,
sometimes exciting, sometimes quiescent.

I used my passion for meditation,
and my wild days faced immolation.

I moved from the grand and flamboyant,
to seek out the real...

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Waiting, 
For someone that's never there
Looking
Thru imaginary air
Hoping
But nobody really cares
Talking 
To friends who never dared 
To pay your fare.
.
Dreaming
But your dreams have seemed to morph into nightmares
.
Little man, how big are your dreams?
Big man, your so much smaller than you think.
The eleventh hour is...

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3 long years ago;
I first entered these, marble walls;
Now with glory and honor pride;
Invested in me we go down in history;

Alum, alum, alumni;
Who am I, whose am I to decide;
I now cry cause the future in my eyes;
What does the world have in store…
For the...

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Anti-Poem – “Prom Night At LAX 1973”

(Poet’s Instruction: Before reading this anti-poem, kindly go to YouTube and play Muzak: “Stimulus Progression.” Music can also be heard at my Facebook page under Stark Hunter. If possible, kindly play it in the background as you read.)


nine flags...

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The Date ,before that fateful day
- 3rd Month, 13th Day ,1973 –
so long ago, 30 years .

Time, in its passing, has eroded life into grains of sand.
From its former, mountainous self, soon upon this land,
in a short while, those grains will become dust in the...

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Fifty years ago today
     an attack was well underway
     On Yom Kippur, October 6
       Israel was in a fix

     Egypt had invaded the Sinai
   ...

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January 27, 1973

I was sitting in the barracks
yelling and screaming echoed through the halls
sirens blaring, horns blowing, fireworks popping;
the war was over
...

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A Quartet Of Short Poems From 1973

(1.)
 A Newer Vision, Of Paradise Lost

I went blindly into the haze
Left the purple gloom behind
If human life be but a maze
What does love do for mankind?
R.J. Lindley, 1973


(2.)
A Clear Vision, Of Death's Positive Hand 
 
Altars of purple...

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Dawn, Angie, Glori and Dale —
model citizens led the way
to their stage, all the rage
for seconds in time.

cool of Dawn Dolls —
icons of the seventies,
for teeny-tiny bills
a girl could own a million.

smaller in stature,
much harder to detail,
the manufacturers tire
of the dwarf-sized dolls.

these Topper Toys
with copper...

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Time Warp to 1973

Beam me back: nineteen, seventy-three.
I sleeping alone, too dark to see.
Something suddenly awakened me.
There, at the foot of my bed, stood three.

Side by side glowing figures stayed still.
Who were those spirits that caused my chill? 
Together, silent, against my will
Sightings like this...

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*Image of Novem by IMDb.

Novem: Affects IX in 1973

Nine college students record music
at some sheltered hideaway place.
They're killed in a van mishap,
on the way back to school.
Yond thirty-one years,
their songs recalled.
Sometimes fame
comes too
late.

2022 November 10
*3rd Place*
A November Nonet
~~Andrea Dietrich: Judged 2022 November 21

*HMS...

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