My Not Fine Watch Gives My Time
...My watch is moron red with steel plates.
Joined with chains,
where the combination looks insane.
Its expensive, a watch from Boland.
I haven`t seen it and wish it not to be in trend.
I am not fi...
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Categories:
boland, time, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Methodical Excellent Greeter
...M-ethodical
E-xcellent
G-reeter
H-as
A-pplied
N-otable
F-orm
E-mploying
N-ame
W-ith
I-mpressive
C-omposer's
K-nown
B-rilliance
O-nce
L-itterateur
A-dvances
N-ice
D-esign
Topi...
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Categories:
boland, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic
Final Class At Faraday
...There’s a bluestone building near the Calder, east of Castlemaine,
One hundred yards back off the highway, beyond a tree filled lane.
For one hundred years this building stood alone at Faraday
se...
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Categories:
boland, fear, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
Anorexic: a Glose
..."How she meshed my head
in the half-truths
of her fevers
till I renounced
milk and honey
and the taste of lunch.”
- ‘Anorexic’, Eavan Boland
The pervasive pain of hunger
fastens my mi...
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Categories:
boland, angst, body, depression, emotions,
Form: Ghazal
Body: a Glose
...“Consider the kind of body that enters blueness,
made out of dead-end myth and mischievous
whispers of an old, borderless
existence where the body’s meaning is both more and less.”
- Eavan Bolan...
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Categories:
boland, absence, body, depression, identity,
Form: Ghazal
Conversation With Crack
...Crack on my corner but its grown overseas
Grown in South America and made from cocca leaves
From overseas to the corner from the corner to my house
momma using daddy using when will he get out?
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Categories:
boland, social, urban, house, house,
Form: Narrative