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Premium Member POEM NO 10,000 a retrospective
My First poem posted here May 2007 was  an enigmatic Lanterne Viduage Tall nettles- the dutch hoe rusting in the shed. My First ekphrasis (poem no 2 here ) BELLA Bella He opened the window- in streamed his first love with flowers, dressed in white- she haunted his art. An Ekphrasis in lanterne  sequence on Marc Chagall MY FIRST POEM I EVER WROTE poem no 3 here. a favoured form  AN ALLITERATION Connections Confront,clash,collide COMBAT ! Cold shoulder,chill,cool CUT-OFF ! Cry,crave,collect CALL-ON ! Constant,compassion,consider CHARITY ! Confer,commune,converse COMMUNICATE ! Convene,concert,consensus CONCORD ! COVENANT ! CHRIST ! CHURCH ! MY FIRST IMAGIST POEM -REFLECTIONS Reflections Deep into the pool A blue moon,ephemeral, Below white-coated peaks, Bleak and surreal, The transient image too soon Dissolves,and ripples into space, As water though my grasp. MY FIRST CINQUAIN (after Adelaide Crapsey) Long days Of August sun Where nature blinks and shrinks The dying grass,yellowed in sleep- Held fast MY FIRST HIKU On the wind,a bell Muffled from across the square Raindrops fill the air why hiku ? HAIKU means the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese' whereas HIKU is the English language version(including translations)with similar economy of words without "telling all" thereby to ' show ' (conforming to the key to true imagist poetry),&to avoid 'as'&'to' & the use of past tense verbs (often without verbs,adverbs,adjectives )A verse freed from syllabic...

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Categories: retrospective, celebration, poetry,
Form: Bio
Lies
Oiled and preened Plucked and tucked Everything as it should, no As they see it should be Plied with cloths of gold Piled high with gems and stones Their shroud of protection being more like a weight of confinement. Taking all your strength to place a single foot in front of the other. None left to flee None left to even turn away. As they...

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Categories: retrospective, analogy, corruption, fear, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Month of Revelations
That people are great, but sadly they tend to be those under three and over thirty. That everyone projects (their own hopes and fears), but almost everyone is unaware they’re doing it. That the generation gap is wider than ever, and that youth in America have lost all respect for their elders. The reason for this is the steady eroding...

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Categories: retrospective, introspection, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member R Is For Retrospective
R is for RETROSPECTIVE A poem is never merely still born, it has its creator's eyes,ears and nose Yet,unique it lives  a life of its own independent,well able to stand alone On others it can,influence,affect energise,direct or initiate A response,unforseen and immediate or lie dormant,yet not dead,but waiting Watered by another's mutual bond resurrected,to live again,again I recite and read aloud, wander, lonely as a cloud, then emulate...

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Categories: retrospective, life, poetry,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Retrospective a Freed Verse
RETROSpPECTIVES unfinished &separating now returning to the allure of  an  invigorating sunburst of colour in  memories surfacing becomin  complicit   involved & questioning dominated by & inspired by  a setting so incarnates s by something haunting &engaging so very different &in  lovable  images depicting  as if suggesting a vulnerable shyness doubting yet  embracing tradition  remaking  on different terms...

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Categories: retrospective, poetry,
Form: Free verse



An Impossible Dream
I used to see an abomination, but now that I have turned into a man it seems impossible to me, how this has come to be. How can the two worlds I lived in, turn into a single one? I feel like I have left my old home, aspirations to make it to the city have come true. I am...

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Categories: retrospective, dark, freedom, gothic, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Constant Impossible Retrospective Fridge
Constant Impossible Retrospective Fridge Constant impossible retrospective On national margarita day Empty booze bottles Lie in front of me fridge poem...

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Categories: retrospective, angst, anxiety, dark, extended
Form: Free verse
Introspective Retrospective
The world is full of so much angst, insecurity, doubt and pain. I want to scream and shout it out, there are dragons here to be slain. In introspective, crushing worlds, walls are built and barriers wrought, monoliths of the troubled mind where battles real and imagined are fought. And who are we to say it's not so,...

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Categories: retrospective, anxiety, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Retrospective
bemusement mismatched in a backward glance the worst if times demystified in transition s focal point magnified in spritual images perceptions of sincerity of ...

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Categories: retrospective, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Retrospective Phases
needful.. seeking quiet: to wind down, pass through fatigue- to forget phobias ...

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Categories: retrospective, depression, life,
Form: Verse
My Earliest Retrospective Yule Tide Memories Circa Mid 1960s Act One
upon contemplating how to access a lapsed half century woolworth didst weigh more'n five and dime afore i hove up existential ante bell and clapper journeys truncated, predicated, conjugated on abundant buoyant chant eyelids gently shuttered while seated ...

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Categories: retrospective, boy, family, growing up,
Form: Bio
My Earliest Retrospective Yule Tide Memories Circa Mid 1960s Act Two
golden raiment trickling threnody ream hinged present with distant past, that temporarily static surreal moment in time stream the best part of existence, thence I became alive from dormant state, an anachronistic meme now, asper the following afore alluded ditty hie now aim harmoniously exultant exuding...

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Categories: retrospective, adventure, age, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Bio
Yesterday a Retrospective
Yesterday it seemed so easy then Making love and having fun without end Life was lived in the sun With nothing sad to focus on They say that life is what happens when your busy Going along at a pace that’s dizzy Now time has passed and I look back on it all Time to sit back while I contemplate the...

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Categories: retrospective, life,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Winter '47 a Retrospective
a re-post inspired by Janice's contest WINTER '47 Jumpers, darned with wool Trousers, patched for school; Shoes scuffed,left unlaced Teeth framed in metal brace; Dripping noses and chilblains, Scarfs and finger mitts Ears muffled against the chill Free milk solid on the sill....

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Categories: retrospective, weather, winter,
Form: Bio
Retrospective Cliche
The pride of life is not humbling grace ...

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Categories: retrospective, christian, growth, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse

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