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Not To Offend: Shadorma
NOT TO OFFEND
A writer
Learns over the years
When someone
Says it’s “deep”
It’s “incomprehensible”
(They’re being polite)
The Miracle Of Birth: Shadorma
THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH
If I may
I beg to announce
A healthy
Shadorma
No congratulations please
Simply played midwife
Unfathomable Muse: Four By Six/Acrostic
UNFATHOMABLE MUSE
Delicate dancing sylph
Elegant fairy queen
Everlasting fount of
Poem after poem
On The Job (Fuck Me): Shadorma
ON THE JOB (FUCK ME)
Poet’s job
To spark and nurture
Both free thought
And open
Emotion, even open
Doors to other realms
Poets Out Loud: Four By Six
POETS OUT LOUD
Let’s share our poetry
For without that I fear
It might quickly descend
Into onanism
Unfinished Love Poem
UNFINISHED LOVE POEM
Lay it aside for a while
Maybe days or weeks
Sometimes even years
Till all falls into place
A significant poem will
Always find its moment
And in that moment
Their writer will also
Find a completeness
Those not significant
Reveal themselves as such
And are easily thrown away
Poet As In A Mirror: Tanka
POET AS IN A MIRROR
Inspire me please
Saying the unexpected
Revealing your deeps
Encouraged by your courage
To write something worth reading
Poet’s Morning
POET’S MORNING
Sipping early tea
Savouring another’s words
Fresh inspiration
Old farmer ploughs his meadow
Rich tang of freshly turned soil
Another Another
ANOTHER ANOTHER
Reaching out for …
… no response
Left in limbo
Hung out to dry
Fed on assumptions
Clutching at straws
Mighty thin gruel
Sans nourishment
The best? … Insufficient
While not at all sure of
Understanding the rules
(A longstanding habit)
A kindly silver lining
When the smoke clears
When the pain has dulled
A poem lurking in there
Marching Or Hobbling?
MARCHING OR HOBBLING?
Time’s mysterious mysteries
Reveal themselves slowly
And only a bit at a time
Just as shy teen maidens
Poesy, its heralds likewise
Sweet William and daffodils
Shook Shakespeare awake
Romantics now called the shots!
This town today, Cockermouth
Resonates with connections
Largely leapfrogging steam
Safely retaining its fertility
Presently social mediates creation
Advising: seek Like or Comment
Masked insidious cattle prods
Torchbearers disdain and bleed
No past nor future not imaginary
Writer, reader, listener one breath
Caught riding the crest of the wave
In hopes of grasping immanence