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Kizer Poems - Poems about Kizer


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




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