The Machine
...
Beyond a big, yellow
‘DETOUR’ sign,
an enormous machine
with flashing amber lights
and frightening teeth
is grinding asphalt down,
moving slowly along the street
leaving a grooved wake
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Categories:
william carlos williams, night, power, sleep, sound,
Form: Free verse
Cape Mendocino
...Cape Mendocino
The westernmost tip of California
hard to reach
except by Google earth
the usual method of exploration
these days.
The Point Arena Library
where I hung my words upon
the P...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, allusion, animal, care, community,
Form: Free verse
When My Ink Stops Bleeding
...when my ink
stops
bleeding on paper
I
grab my brushes
and
scatter paints on
canvas
21 February 2022
Notes: Experimenting on a 1 sentence free verse poem with 3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1 p...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, art, inspiration, writing,
Form: Free verse
Baaad Poets
...Juss two “Angelheaded hipsters”
Dancin’ jazz riffs in da ring,
Teachin’ Liston, teachin’ Rexroth,
Teachin’ Dylan how to sing.
Dey be baaad poets.
Used to make da critics howl,
Den pick da...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, allegory, language, poets,
Form: Lyric
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from Ame...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, america, creation, culture, film,
Form: Free verse
Toothsome
...after William Carlos Williams
My husband and daughter sleep
blind to the bleach
of street lamps
and every wellspring headlight sluicing
the dark
Pre-dawn but this cavity
chants ...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Stealing From William Carlos Williams
...so much depends
upon
a book unread
the cracks
of its binding
its word
its phrasing
so much depends
upon
theming of phrases
the meaning
of words
take care, take care...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, analogy,
Form: Free verse
I Want To Write a Great Poem
...i want to write a great poem
i want to illustrate despair
i want to illustrate terror
i want to illustrate regret
i want to illustrate remorse
i want to illustrate rage
i wan to illustrate ecst...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, childhood, fear, inspirational, political,
Form: Free verse
So Cold and So Sweet
...-William Carlos Williams
For you
I hold out-
a figment of thought,
like a twig holds out juice
from the fig tree,
from branches, trunks
and roots,
from the ground
and people draped
a...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, allegory, art, love, on
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To William Carlos Williams
...I ate the rest of the ice cream drumsticks
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t resist
So cold, it melted in my mouth
I played on your computer today
I know you told me not too,
But it was so much fun, s...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, sorry
Form: Free verse
An Imagist Quatrain
...MARRIAGE
so unique,this man
and this woman-
different sides
of the same coin
inspired by William Carlos Williams poem of same title...
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Categories:
william carlos williams, art, faith, family
Form: Imagism