Storybook Tale
...I had never lead a good life
Grief and despair always followed me and eloped me in its tightening embrace
Surrounded in a storybook world, i was bound for the optimal role
The role to which my mot...
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Categories:
kizer, america, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
In Memory of Tesslynn O'Cull
...Tesslynn O’Cull was only 3-years-old,
when they found her body in a grave near Sweet Home.
It was the worst case of child abuse they’d ever seen
thanks to Jesse Compton and methamphetamine.
Thi...
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Categories:
kizer, abuse, child abuse, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Alpha Dreams
..."Write your dreams," Carolyn Kizer told us
in a long-ago poetry workshop in Paris. I would
like to, Yes, follow that instruction, but on wee-
hour trips (no pun intended), to the 'salle de bain'
I...
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Categories:
kizer, dream,
Form: Free verse
Moving Poem
..."Write your dreams," said Carolyn Kizer,
(She, the wiser of our workshop fools.)
New rules for us, so I rise from bed,
still cordoned in sleep to record this one
of many in which you star, now far ...
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Categories:
kizer, husband, me, universe,
Form: Ballad
Where the Dreams Go
...Write your dreams, advised
Carolyn Kizer, but none the wiser,
she did not imagine these nightly
screenplays the mind designs
with no director, no choreographer,
no paid performers. They come
at...
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Categories:
kizer, introspection,
Form: Ballad