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Premium Member In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound
In It,  I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound


I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" 
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's,  "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...

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Categories: salinger, art, imagination, inspiration, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme



I Wanna Fall In Love
I wanna  fall in love

Once, I was seeking the Hemingway life. Running toward war and away from love and life. Somehow I found the J.D Salinger silence. Once, bold and foolish man. Now he...

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Categories: salinger, absence, conflict, depression, longing, love, sea,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Prettiest Gal In Town
The prettiest gal in town




She wore her Summer dresses year around. She loved the Monterey weather and she always carry a smile to share with me.  She shared her kind words and she would...

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Categories: salinger, beach, beautiful, best friend, devotion, love, romantic
Form: Prose Poetry
Giving Little Getting To Much Help
E'er since slip of a lad
little boy painfully shy
think Holden Caulfield
Catcher in the Rye,
(a teen cult classic penned by

Jerome David Salinger),
now resuming poem
about me, no why
ne'er beseeched, implored,
or pleaded to our Unitarian father
art thou in...

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Categories: salinger, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Fall, the Falling Leaves
Fall, the falling leaves


Once I ran away from sadness/heartbreak and I sought escape.
The running man can't run no-more.

Once fearless man learn, love was vengeance,
love would leave you bare and teach you to weep.

Now I see...

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Categories: salinger, betrayal, dream, seasons,
Form: Prose Poetry



Looking For My Agnes
Looking for my Agnes


Hemingway wrote of his Agnes. A love, who saved him and left him. Hemingway learn. Love in war, just gifts of the survivors. We must go home. Took J. D Salinger a...

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Categories: salinger, longing, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
John Coyote Quotes
My grandfather told me. What we didn't do. Haunt our life and dreams........


A happy life is making time for morning coffee talk, long walks on a quiet beach, dancing with someone you love often and...

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Categories: salinger, allusion, anger, blessing, corruption, inspiration, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Steely-Eyed Bunny Wabbits
steely-eyed bunny wabbits

she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she is traipsing round the backstreets at a quarter to three
with...

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© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salinger, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Zazen
1. God is full, full of rain,
    and dry, dry as light.

2. The clock-man winds his clock
    spending many an hour.
    The clock, however, winds itself;
...

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Categories: salinger, god, inspiration, nonsense, spiritual, symbolism, truth, visionary,
Form: Epigram
Zen Buddhist Bird
A Buddhist bird flies 
Under the eyes 
Of winter’s sun 
As I watch his flight 
Across a lonely wintry sky 
Gazing up 
At his long, long flight south 

He diverts himself 
From the chilly northern...

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© Cj Krieger  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salinger, funny, philosophy, sound, bird, bird, sound, sun,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs