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FreeVerse {7}

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This week I’m just throwing together some short poems that I was liking this week

If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to [Keep reading...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: FreeVerse, Reading Memes | One comment

FreeVerse {5}

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After posting a Bukowski inspired tattoo last week, I read some more of his poems. This one caught my attention.

Be Kind – Charles Bukowski

we are always asked
to understand the other person’s
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.

one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.

but age is the total of
our doing.
they [Keep reading...]

January 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: FreeVerse | 10 comments

FreeVerse {4}

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This has been one of my favorite poems for as long as I can remember

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it [Keep reading...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: FreeVerse | One comment

FreeVerse {3}

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Woops! Almost missed this week’s FreeVerse! After watching MTV’s concert this past weekend called Ulalume, I reread the poem by the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. It’s a little longer than my normal posts…

“Ulalume” by Edgar Allan Poe

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves [Keep reading...]

November 4th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: FreeVerse, Reading Memes | 4 comments

FreeVerse {2}

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.Let us leave this place where the smoke blows [Keep reading...]

October 28th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: FreeVerse, Reading Memes | 6 comments
 
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