Netting Poems

My Process

...My process is like dots. 
Not stars, just nothing dots. 
Rearranging. 
Tangled netting and dragonfly parts. 
Whatever I can grab and throw in the shopping cart. 
That sinks through the tile. 
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Categories: netting, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

A Glimpse

...We see our kids or grandkids
In our home’s familiar setting
Or at gatherings of kith and kin
Within that safety netting.

Yet when somehow there’s a glimpse 
Beyond where we’re supposed to go,
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Categories: netting, appreciation, growing up,
Form: Rhyme


AKA

...Bare bear Bayer
A naked big pharma omnivore
Covered in hair

Soul sole Seoul
The bottom of a Korean spirit’s foot
Out for a stroll

Right write rite
A well-prepared nuptial sermon
Gripping ...
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Categories: netting, funny, humor, word play,
Form: Free verse

Mantis on the Screen Door

...O Praying Matis,
what prayers do you post
through this wire netting?

Are you basking in the sun
or are you on the run
and hiding from the woodpecker
and the kingfisher
who snack upon green b...
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Categories: netting, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA CONCENTRIC ODE TO APATHY

...Urgent is the will,
The self is as still as the night;
Apathy controlling;
Urgency calling, 
The will remains imprisoned;
And apathy, keyless;
Urgency calling,
Apathy, shedding useless tears;
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Categories: netting, allegory,
Form: Ode


Frozen side of the sun

...The sun having a frozen side~
  a wish like a snowball in hell,
or netting the wind while oceans b o i l
  in  f i r e. 
The rage of its heat needs curtailing.

  I'm melting...
like chocolate...
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Categories: netting, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Rivers Jumps Our Banks

...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking -
the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines
and telephone wires twist
netting loosening foundations.

Where we once believed roots gripp...
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Categories: netting, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFirst Calling Of Nature

...Write Eleven Beautiful Lines Poetry Contest
Constance La France

"A rush of excitement fills the air as their maiden voyage comes to a climax."
By author

Up in the sky, baby seagulls leave the...
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Categories: netting, journey, nature, word play,
Form: Free verse

Many British thermal units later

...Many British thermal units* later

Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer, 
(a married heterosexual doofus, – 
whose alter egos 
named and highlighted courtesy 
Gallant and Goofus) attones
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Categories: netting, 12th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLong Thin Blade of Weariness

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Long Thin Blade of Weariness...
gloom of daze parries the long thin blade of weariness
metaphors adjust frequency matched patterns of
interwoven connectivity through mirrored meaning...
samenes...
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Categories: netting, dark, deep, emotions, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Outside Dunny

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In the fifties
it was the suburban icon
that survived the start 
of the renovation phase
and still graced the backyards 
of most houses in the neighborhood,
the ubiquitous Australian 
outs...
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Categories: netting, childhood, dad, fear, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDECONSTRUCTING MAJOR LEAGE BASEBALL

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DECONSTRUCTING  Major League Baseball 

When will MLB fans acknowledge  
and question the REAL Cheating 
taking  place right under their noses.

The Pitch Clock
The Pitch Count
THE CLOSER...
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Categories: netting, abuse, america, baseball, future,
Form: Free verse

Summer Friday Evening

...A row of jazzy underwear
Wafts gently in the breeze
Pegged to the clothes line
Strung between two trees.
A garden brolly provides
Shade from the evening sun,
Chickens scratch the earth
In thei...
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Categories: netting, garden, nostalgia, summer, together,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNetting some zero's

...Everyday hero's going to capture some zero's up in the
Mountains where theres lakes streams and fountains
Where a war never comes, yet they oft beat on its drum
Where theres wealth health and a bl...
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Categories: netting, assonance, feelings, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 2

...Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

CHIYO-NI POEMS ABOUT WOMEN AND DESIRE

How alarmin...
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Categories: netting, desire, flower, mother son,
Form: Haiku

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