Tag: poetry
member name: Mike Ellwood
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March 19, 2008 08:06 AM EDT --
Act of Faith
Minds accumulate their own stores of belief
Harvesting words
To squeeze dry in the press
Crushing
The kernel of hypothesis
To dress the salad of . . .
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February 01, 2008 07:33 AM EST --
Hopper Visits a Diner
Her hands for warmth enfold the coffee cup.
Remembering her pale translucent skin,
The veins that bear the cool blue blood . . .
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August 30, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
Cotinus Interruptus
Obsession grew. It gripped my mind until
This helpless agent was compelled to act.
I took my saw. Her limbs, her graceful limbs
Were spread, . . .
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December 14, 2009 03:21 PM EST --
The Lioness
We flock and try to catch another’s eye
But eyes are everywhere and never dwell
For long enough to break the edgy spell
That ties our herd. . . .
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February 09, 2008 03:21 AM EST --
Trawling
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The sun has set, and, now the tide has turned,
The fleet of trawlers sails out from the port;
While from the beach the tourists have adjourned
For lobster . . .
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April 25, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
The Scaffold
Superficial? The fragile scaffolding
Leant lightly on the tower's rising flanks -
A web of tubing, spigots, wooden planks,
Cross-braces, . . .
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May 16, 2008 04:39 AM EDT --
The Third Hole
Plink! (like hammer tapping a bottle of coke)
The sweet-spot of the titanium wood
Propels the ball further than you thought it could.
You strike . . .
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January 07, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
Purgatory
The ocean of guilt, deep and turbulent . . .
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January 26, 2008 04:11 AM EST --
Hell
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While mourners stand and weep upon the Earth
Before Almighty God your soul is weighed.
His agents have been watching since your birth
And judgement . . .
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January 27, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
In the Supermarket
Is he a footman or a charioteer?
A few yards down the aisle his busy wife
Selects the treats and staples for their life,
The trolley . . .
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March 12, 2008 05:42 AM EDT --
My Violin
Our rosin powders mingle in the case,
Where, fallen from the belly and the bow,
Each particle trapped in the velvet space
Becomes our common . . .
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May 21, 2008 03:55 AM EDT --
A few years ago I visited Omaha Beach and the immaculately maintained American cemetry at Coleville-sur-Mer. It was a deeply moving experience, prompting these thoughts:
Meditation . . .
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June 11, 2008 05:35 PM EDT --
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June 25, 2008 05:55 AM EDT --
June 22 nd 2008
The dawn comes swooping, smearing shades of grey
On grey and deeper grey. The ill-formed clouds
Take fright . . .
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July 10, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
St Brigid did not apply for the role of Patron Saint of Poetry and when she was asked to judge the Celestial Festival of Poetry competition her comments proved to be controversial and caused . . .
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August 18, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
A sonnet for my students.......
The World is Waiting
The world is waiting, but not just for you.
That audience is never satisfied,
Grasping voraciously for something . . .
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September 13, 2008 05:00 AM EDT --
The Sunless Sea
The murmur of the sunless sea
With its dark swell and lambent foam
Is forming words enticingly
That conjure and describe for me
A stately . . .
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October 23, 2008 03:51 AM EDT --
Eagle
As when the tuning fork and string vibrate
As one, or eyes meet when first lovers realise
They are in love and cry in shared surprise,
Behold a harmony . . .
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November 27, 2008 05:13 AM EST --
Self-Portrait
I meet the mirrored man's appraising gaze
And focus on the pupils. In return
They peer as if attempting to discern
The nature of . . .
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July 25, 2009 04:09 AM EDT --
The Bird-Watcher
The wild and unselfconscious birds take feed
From hanging trays. The sparrows reject more
Than they will ever eat or take to store.
I watch them choose . . .
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