poem

IMPROVISE

Author's Notes/Comments: 

JUST THINKING OF THAT SHAKESPEARE SAYING ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE...I ALWAYS PREFERRED IMPROV TO SCRIPTED STUFF...IT FEELS MORE REAL...I HAVE A RECURRING ACTORS NIGHTMARE WHERE I AM IN A PLAY AND HAVE NO IDEA WHO I AM OR WHAT MY LINES ARE AND THERE IS NO SCRIPT IN SIGHT...TOTALLY BLANK...NO IDEA WHAT IS IS ABOUT OR ANYTHING AT ALL...SO LIKE IF THERE IS NO SCRIPT NO STRESS YOU KNOW...I SUPPOSE ALL THE WORLD MAYBE A STAGE AND WE ALL IMPROVISE...MAKE IT UP AS WE GO ALONG...

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IT'S ALL UP TO YOU

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I WAS WATCHING RISE OF THE GUARDIANS WHERE BELIEVING IN MAGICAL THINGS IS ALL IT TAKES TO MAKE THEM REAL...

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MURPHY'S LAW

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I WAS WATCHING FORCES OF NATURE ON AMAZON PRIME CUZ IT IS LEAVING SOON AND IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT MURPHY'S LAW...LUCKILY IT HASN'T HAPPENED IN AWHILE BUT I HAVE EXPERIENCED IT AND I NOTICED ANYTIME I WOULD SAY WHAT ELSE COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG SOMETHING ELSE DID SO THE ONLY WAY TO BREAK THE CHAIN SEEMED TO BE TO STOP SAYING THAT...LIVE AND LEARN...ANYWAY LOTS OF TRUTH IN THIS ONE...YOU MAY FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE IF YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IT YOURSELF BUT IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED IT YOU KNOW FOR SURE IT IS VERY REAL BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DENY WHAT IS HAPPENING WHILE IT IS HAPPENING...IT BOGGLES THE MIND...

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DON'T ASK WHY

Author's Notes/Comments: 

GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD

ASK WHY NOT INSTEAD

WAS KIND OF A P.S. OR AFTERTHOUGHT BUT DECIDED TO LEAVE IT AS A SURPRISE ENDING...SURPRISE!

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NOT EXACT

Author's Notes/Comments: 

JUST PLAYING WITH WORDS

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thumping thought

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backburner results
Author's Notes/Comments: 

How a rhyme affects both poet and reader. An imagining.

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DAYDREAM

Author's Notes/Comments: 

FOUND THIS ALLPOETRY PROMPT ON FACEBOOK...Today we challenge you to write a poem about daydreaming!

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to breathe again

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Prior work

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people are our real legacy;
one day sure, entire poems
shall have been forgotten,


while remains a phrase or
a feeling drawn from wells
deeper than memory can


reach, or device can retrieve
much like thread-diving as
we scamper for posts buried


by traffic and flood posters…
follow, subscribe, or friend
buttons can only do so much


so we hang on to what we
have and hold dear, today
saving each precious moment


if bookmarked sentiments
are promises, all will be well
as we’ll boldly breathe again

 

 

 







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Author's Notes/Comments: 

With all the internet surfers and all the data swirling around the worldwide web, even the empowered voices of everyman-person can be washed like sea scum on the shores of the shores of social media.

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SOLITUDE

Author's Notes/Comments: 

JUST SAW A POETRY PROMPT FROM ALL POETRY ON FACEBOOK AND COULDNT RESIST...I MISS ALL THOSE POETRY PROMPTS FOR NATIONAL POETRY MONTH...IT CAN BE HABIT FORMING...BEWARE...THE PROMPT WAS JUST TO WRITE A POEM ABOUT SOLITUDE...THIS IS WHAT CAME TO ME...

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