Woman Books Poems

The power of words


You gaze into the mirror,
 the words written on a page 
and the many others 
your eyes upon have lain. 
You see...

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It was 1984 Christmas eve the arson 
murder took place this resulted in the 
fbi informing me my life was in grave 
danger ciro Gargano...

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The profound feeling-
giddy with the triumph of its reach,
that everything and nothing is wrong. 

I dream I'm waking
in my American bed 
from another time. But...

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Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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I placed my head between my knees to have a good look at the trees beneath me; I held it there for some time and...

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It started with a blank canvas,
the world I should make but I am anxious.
Making fields of pretty flowers,
to the deep blue seas takes many hours.
Mountains...

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There’s never any sex in nice books,
No writhings until break of the dawn,
There’s  never any sex in nice books
They leave that for works of...

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People gathering in the street
Heading for their own defeat
Fist raised high in the air
Screaming of a life so unfair
I don't care
Join us or die
Their war...

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Livorno

The communist uprising in Livorno was a serious menace to Italy because that army sent tanks, not big tanks but big enough in narrow streets
At...

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Blind in the all-consuming mist without a trace of light 
Blind in the oven’s black smoke that makes all songs to Jesus seem hushed 
A...

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Anyone who’s ever worked in a bookstore knows we would be kidding ourselves
if we thought the only stories in the store were housed in the...

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It takes a lot of tricks to write a good poem
It's not easy to understand the theorem
The magic, the divine essence of being a Poet
These...

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Sheila loved reading about forensics and dinosaurs that once flew
She adored non-fiction, biographies, mysteries, UFO stories too
What kind of a mother will she be? Asked...

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The lady doesn't dance anymore

I met a woman at an AA meeting, She had, when in the depth of her addiction, to money, slept with...

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Salacia

Where two mountains almost meet, there is a canyon 
Of boulders and unfriendly nature, such as thorny bushes
And self-hating trees and among thistles, snakes roam...

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