Tag: poetry
member name: J. Johannes
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November 01, 2006 03:41 PM EST --
Back when, the air fell frigid
and I only had my splintered mind
exhaling circles of vague smoke,
forecasting for a time, the words,
but never allowing them to be heard.
Brisk yet plain for . . .
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August 24, 2006 03:32 PM EDT --
By time you read this, she'll be someone
not in your presence - flesh again
You'll reach out for raindrops
and find her hair.
Shadows behind you will
assume her there.
You'll forgive . . .
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August 30, 2006 02:16 PM EDT --
Some foreign breeze
you seek will capture
courage.
The question mark above you
Mocks your fears
But you have will
To make . . .
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December 27, 2008 02:29 PM EST --
There she hangs ...
Here I sit, an imprint on a page
a map … an eye line to
a place your finger fell randomly.
The trouble is, there is no right of way
No gesture that will . . .
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July 27, 2006 11:37 AM EDT --
To Logan, my neice
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Last week, over tears, he took his final step
Forward, then back, wobbly and uncertain
Before days of bed, then inevitable . . .
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May 17, 2006 02:21 PM EDT --
This poem is inspired by my recent trip to ground zero where the former World Trade Center towers stood. The citizens who pass the site every day have become desensitized, but as a visitor I felt it all . . .
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January 20, 2006 11:05 PM EST --
When I take this season to consider us
I breathe in your wind, and by this crisp hand of Fall
you begin again, and again.
Through my back window, the trees awaken barren
as they will, and . . .
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February 13, 2006 12:02 PM EST --
When I write you down, it's fragmented
like time
and there . . .
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August 09, 2006 08:05 AM EDT --
I choked up seven letters
Until they burned like vomit
g. o. o. d. b. y. e.
loosened up the
memories in time, I erased and then threw
back while your hands were bound,
imprisoned by your ego.
Blind, . . .
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April 05, 2006 01:25 PM EDT --
Believe me, I wish there was more here for you.
Or more about you that corresponded with me
but when I think about our time spent together I only consider one thing.
Courage.
Mine. Not yours.
That I always . . .
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August 28, 2006 01:16 PM EDT --
I wasn't proud of myself, being such a dedicated Ani DiFranco fan, to learn of the announcement that she was pregnant -- a little more than a month after she disclosed it to the public. This . . .
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March 08, 2006 09:23 AM EST --
There she was, me, doled out
vulnerable child, a worthy palate
For you to scribble and scratch on
Then I go.
And you did etch me, for whose promise?
What enrichment did you seek, when
you . . .
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March 09, 2006 12:48 PM EST --
I remember you, majestic
Perched up in my mind, sublime
But you surrendered your allegiance
And comfortably flatlined.
But, oh, when you were heightened,
I'd die to seek your hand!
Before . . .
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April 04, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
Coral dress, not the bride,
but blinded by white,
The taste of my wine,
saturates me like
time passed by.
Hazy children zip along,
whirling dance floor, the lights!
I do dance!
I do sway! . . .
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January 24, 2006 01:07 AM EST --
the line breaks, then, a breath I can't understand
my mind recreates 1999, you sang me when, like
cracked concrete, loose gravel, the slurred tongue of
Sin. I led your gritty hand.
Youth's . . .
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January 20, 2006 11:26 PM EST --
This here, in my hand, is sacrifice
the copper flavor of risk, the aftertaste of our selfish medicine,
coursing through the choke of the moment
this moment, this time . . .
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