Tag: poetry
member name: Mike Ellwood
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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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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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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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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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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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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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April 10, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
Daphne and Apollo
Pricked by Cupid's arrow? Oh, Apollo,
You were obsessed. A monomaniac,
Beyond your own control. Some of us know
How your sickness operates with its lack . . .
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May 02, 2008 03:58 AM EDT --
Quicksand at Night
The sand is inanimate. It has no soul.
Its speckles of silica and shell swirl
In the gritty Moon-drawn tide,
Rise and fall without pity
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July 02, 2008 04:10 AM EDT --
The Old Man and the Tree
The day Jack Brand was born the topsoil moved
Aside, displaced by gentle force, nature's
Relentless strength when roots split free and . . .
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July 16, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
Petrification
Before the cock crows
My heart hardens. Crystalline.
Blue veins in marble.
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Metamorphosis,
As thrice I deny your love.
I am become rock. . . .
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July 23, 2008 04:58 AM EDT --
A Vacant Chamber
He did not tell her the truth.
He let her think the seashell's whisper . . .
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August 04, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
Family Business
Gulls'eyes watch as the brothers prepare to ship their last order.
Heads, spines and guts for offal, they slit, slit and slit the flesh and . . .
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