tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70843975164705975392024-03-13T12:48:27.730-07:00The Yummy BoneA magical collection of poems crafted to curl lips into smiles & make your heart beat to an unheard drum. I believe in the healing magic of words. Poetry excites me because of how the imagination creates rich and personal stories from a bare landscape of words. My wish is to write poems that are accessible, yet cerebral. That make you think, smile and feel.
Come let's beat the drum @YummieBoneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-73833283658084769872014-05-06T13:15:00.003-07:002014-05-06T13:15:42.364-07:00Networking For Wallflowers ‹ NU People Magazine<a href="http://nupeoplemagazine.com/networking-for-wallflowers/#.U2lC3Dms058.blogger">Networking For Wallflowers ‹ NU People Magazine</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-5489336981480421122014-05-06T13:15:00.001-07:002014-05-06T13:15:41.729-07:00Networking For Wallflowers ‹ NU People Magazine<a href="http://nupeoplemagazine.com/networking-for-wallflowers/#.U2lC3Dms058.blogger">Networking For Wallflowers ‹ NU People Magazine</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-69612218750965211352013-12-23T05:36:00.000-08:002013-12-23T05:39:15.024-08:00Fire of Life<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm so happy to announce that a poet friend has published his anthology, a celebration of work from writers around the world. Some of us are known to each other and others are strangers but for their shared love of the poetic word. It was a brave and ambitious project and I'm thrilled to say that two of my poems are featured. One is the first poem in the anthology...! "The Poet Cad" To say "Thank you " to Frank Watson, whose idea this collection was, only hints at the excitement I feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"From America to Nigeria, Germany to Malaysia, and all around the world. One voice in the dark joins another, then another. Soon there is a chorus of voices and the night comes alive. No two voices are the same and each adds depth to the song. Soon it spreads and people in the next town are singing, then in the next country, and then in all the continents of the world. Different languages where the words don’t sound the same, but the heart unites as one. The song is not just the one you hear, but the one that plays “connect the dots” along the veins in your arm—as you inhale and—join in. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-5303898054108278202013-01-24T07:05:00.000-08:002013-08-15T03:46:32.597-07:00Signs Unseen<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a study in synchronicity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where your thoughts read mine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my feelings mirror yours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">jumping across space and time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">loving acts, sublime</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no thought of what, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">could or might</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of new year’s light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">melt the snow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of a year grown old</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into pools </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of brand new hope</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making money </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">makes you rich</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but does not give you peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in time my friend, you must let go </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to feel your SELF release</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more you earn, the more you spend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is no contrary notion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the act of earning just gears you up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for more, and intense spending</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Review your life, take stock,stop now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to feel where you are going</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">while bricks and banks are piling up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweet beauty is past you flowing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The international language spake today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it seems is simply money, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but love, compassion honesty </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">take charge in their abundance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no scarcity in these things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they're free, just deep within us.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-54247709162083826272012-11-09T14:09:00.001-08:002012-11-15T16:21:25.944-08:00Elephant Highway<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unbalanced carts spilled sun ripe fruit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the dust strewn road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">splitting colours, splashing seed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to meet the market dawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spindly children tried to run<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">alongside heavy traps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some were strong and long of limb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and barely caught their breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bicycles too, took their own road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and weaved their wheels about<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the death they cheated,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">although in jest, made<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">villagers shout out loud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The noise grew low<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for something strong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had taken up this path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a silver grey bull elephant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was on this very route!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without a sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the track was cleared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of children, wheels and fruit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whilst 'mister majestic' walked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~ in no par-tic-u-lar hurry ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without a backward glance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy Rigg 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This poem was inspired by the artwork of Borg de Nobel, browse her wonderous artwork here: <span style="color: #a19090;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">http://borgeous.wordpress.com </span></span>courtesy of the ever innovative dVerse Poets crew: <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">http://dversepoets.com/</a></i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-56153390312840453242012-10-25T13:11:00.002-07:002012-10-27T02:02:50.026-07:00Showgirl<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She watched them falling through the bus window,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in slow motion like dandelions from a giant upended field<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">crimson
leaves curled and fell, swaying side to side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forming
a variegated rouge brown carpet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
mother and child on the park bench, people on the bus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">delicate
pensioners, everyone stilled in rapt appreciation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
her rainbow shower, aware this magnificent show </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was for a limited time only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wordlessly,
relentlessly, with a glamourous last russet hurrah <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she
tidied away for a more barren and sinister act to follow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her
generosity and voluptuousness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">casting lingering relaxed and happy shadows </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As she finally revealed herself naked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">everyone’s
thought was the same:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"she
never fails to put on a show</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yet
each one thrills as if for the first time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy R 2012</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-65523532031004940552012-10-19T14:37:00.004-07:002012-12-24T15:04:21.384-08:00A turning circle<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> i</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shiny men lined up</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">jostling for her attention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she knocked them all down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ii</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">together they'd walked life's path </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">humming a familiar tune <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">laughing, loving,living <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gone too soon<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> iii</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inching and ebbing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her beating heart lost power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leaving golden sparks.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-10016532860559412162012-10-08T13:09:00.003-07:002012-10-30T15:20:59.125-07:00Fossil<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We
could be fossils, you and I</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pressed
flat after centuries </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of lying </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inert
in the rock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Curious that the tiny hermit crab</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
roman centurion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the colossal dinosaur <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would
share the same fate:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be peered at, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fondled </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by some scholarly archaeologist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consider
the sweet relief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
our fossilised friends:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hermit crab - free from food chain dramas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">soldier - shielded from the blistering rays of midday sun</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dinosaur - not anxious about anything big<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like
being wiped off the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roll
up, roll up for fossil school!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
snapshot of life, in death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy R 2012</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-91391023475431321332012-09-28T12:33:00.002-07:002012-11-27T15:32:02.099-08:00Mourning Song<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
one so alive</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it
is hard to believe, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you are gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like
the melody of a much-loved song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your
refrain lives on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suspended
in the twilight 'tween light and death</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">straddling
in vain ‘twix dark and life</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">straining
to be understood but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">simply
wanting to be somewhere else, entirely...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since
you’ve gone, the days have stretched<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into wafered sheets of gold leaf; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">memories of you hold a shining sting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oh came back - please!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I promise to bind you in the loving threads<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of whispered eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy Rigg 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Looking at the date, I wrote this one before mum passed away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Much of our knowledge or 'knowing' is buried deep in our subconscious minds; poetry is one of the ways I access this hidden part of me. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-70769220534238389612012-09-19T09:12:00.000-07:002012-10-08T13:26:29.735-07:00Fallen Leaves<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Autumn
breeze plucks leaves from trees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that
touch the ground so gently <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leaving
branches pining, asking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">why
have the leaves ceased to sway?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kindly
soil so richly deep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">envelopes
falling leaves to sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">waltzered
slowly round and round <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before
they touch the waiting ground <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Children
kicking crinkly leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beneath
benevolent aged trees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">while winter's gentle setting sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breathes heat of autumn peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope you rest in perfect peace and your family find the strength </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to let peace into their hearts to fill the void where you used to stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For Martin, RIP.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-69905567855587981352012-09-15T14:05:00.000-07:002012-09-15T14:05:36.863-07:00Swanly<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Silently floating with oceanic calm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watchful, vigilant, poised yet stern</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inscrutable eyes flashing violent charm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gliding along the sun flushed lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy R 2012</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-77053576920301822962012-09-15T02:33:00.001-07:002012-09-18T14:05:49.986-07:00Lovelace<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eternal.
One hundred and two years ago </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you were born </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when
I was still stardust </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we loved each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we
didn’t need to be alive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for
our love to ignite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before
you found room in my womb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved you </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eternal
stranger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you
are a new light in my love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">agonisingly
familiar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">although
we have </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">only just met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
strands of love </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that join </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all
of us </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to each other </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">through </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">generations
of unknowing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unfathomably
exciting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unimaginably
frustrating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Connections
with others </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you
have known </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before
you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">knew
yourself, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">illuminate life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">casting delicate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stitches ~of ~</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">love </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eternal. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-51132876161758031072012-09-04T13:27:00.004-07:002012-09-19T13:15:21.502-07:00Prayer for Humanity<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the news is becoming more violent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the truth is becoming more silent </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">do it now, or do it never</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we really need to join together </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the way of the future </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy R 2012</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-31302969203913721282012-08-30T14:08:00.001-07:002012-09-04T13:28:32.590-07:00Tritina for Clara<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clara
liked to slip on her pyjamas of the palest pink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after
a long day in court. She craved the sleep <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that
called her, from the four-poster bed, beckoning soft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Refreshed
from her sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she
breakfasted on grapefruit, not ruby red, but pink <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
brushed her hair until it was soft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dusting
powder onto rosy cheeks so pink<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pouting
in the mirror as Chanel lipstick caressed lips so soft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she
winked at her reflection, glad she’d had a good night’s sleep.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She drove off, all sweet, sleepy pinkness, in her black Mercedes SL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Suzy R 2012</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
More props to the dVerse team <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2012/08/30/form-for-all-on-tritinas/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #b91313; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://dversepoets.com/2012/08/30/form-for-all-on-tritinas/</a> for setting such interesting poetic tasks. This poem is a tribute to the glorious poet Marie Ponsot.</span></i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-12090250802407566092012-08-25T15:54:00.005-07:002012-11-15T16:22:30.167-08:00Elephant Highway<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unbalanced
carts spilled sun ripe fruit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on
the dust strewn road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">splitting
colours, splashing seed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
meet the market dawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spindly
children tried to run <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">alongside
heavy traps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some
were strong and long of limb <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
barely caught their breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bicycles
too, took their own road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
weaved their wheels about<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
death they cheated,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">although
in jest, made<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">villagers
shout out loud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
noise grew low <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for
something strong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had
taken up this path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a
silver grey bull elephant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was
on this very route!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without
a sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
track was cleared <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
children, wheels and fruit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whilst 'mister majestic' walked <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~
in no par-tic-u-lar hurry ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without
a backward glance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright Suzy R 2012</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This poem was inspired by the artwork of Borg de Nobel, browse her wonderous artwork here: <span style="color: #a19090;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">http://borgeous.wordpress.com </span></span>courtesy of the ever innovative dVerse Poets crew: <a href="http://dversepoets.com/">http://dversepoets.com/</a></i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-6435342281358858022012-08-25T14:34:00.000-07:002012-09-16T15:44:59.659-07:00Be gentle with me<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lovingly
massaging unscented oil into baby’s velvet skin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kneading,
ironing out soft wrinkles <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She
felt dream-like, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as if she were caressing herself-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hypnotised
with love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">paralysed
with fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this
angelic babe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweating
slightly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heavy
limbed was <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">totally
dependent on her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An
hour had passed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweet
baby scent perfumed the air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her
tears mingled with oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she
had no idea who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gave
who more <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
corset hugged her baby-bump <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She
was almost hour-glass again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
uniform black pinstripe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">white
shirt, red gloss,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hair
or nails ~ but not both<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lent
her insane confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An
hour had passed, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
meeting </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the airless room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had over run.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through
polished glass <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she spotted a group of mothers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">casual,
laughing, free;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her
breasts tingled with milk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for
her baby<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at
home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Copyright Suzy R 2012</i></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The debate rolls on about working mothers, or stay at home mothers: what's best for baby, what's best for mum or indeed the whole family. My view is it's rarely that cut and dried; the reasons to work or not are purely personal and are influenced by an alarming array of factors.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So, this poem is really saying there is pain, depression, guilt on both sides of the fence. Sometimes, what feels like the absolute best decision today, can feel like an anchor round your neck, the next. Women, be kind to each other ~ being a mother is at once the most challenging yet rewarding blessings known to 'man'!</i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-69629649093413880702012-08-08T14:44:00.000-07:002012-09-30T15:19:29.900-07:00OLYMPIA<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> i</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In stadium est laudum ~</i> the goal is to praise</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to be lifted up above competitors' heads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the roar and swell of human approval as</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the endurance of my personal pain is a torch half-lit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without the fire of admiration, to strike it into full flame</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there is no merit in weightless feet pounding the earth at breathless speed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unless the eyes of a million cities are gazing on them in wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i> ii</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no 'i' in team, is a laughable phrase as clearly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the team would be nothing without me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I carry them, us, our country, the world, ME!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh sweet victory, let this be my, I mean our, moment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of crowning glory!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>iii</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm watching, straining as far as my eyes can see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">surely those dots on the screen can't be real?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what's real is the man next to me, well his stink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">does he need to be inebriated to enjoy this spectacle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>iv</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's pointless standing apart during this once in a lifetime opportunity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I'll merge with the crowd I'm crushed with, like family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and cheer for my team, my country, my heroes ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In stadium est laudum</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>This poem was also published in the June issue of What the Dickens Magazine. And what a fabulous read it is too! Well done Editor.</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-68768134997533819672012-07-25T14:20:00.003-07:002012-08-08T14:46:51.613-07:00Step into Spring<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throw off the blankets of winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slip
off your overcoat’s gloom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wipe
off the makeup of hope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take
down the baubles in the room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Push
away the pastries and cakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on lemons instead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your legs, expand your lungs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let
the breeze lighten your head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fling
open the shutters of your mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remove
the dirty drapes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throw
away moth-chewed jumpers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Create
some new space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">De-clutter
your heavy wardrobe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make
love to your fragrant wife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walk
barefoot on warm pavements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Re-introduce
yourself to life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-4044350519094216262012-07-10T14:42:00.000-07:002012-09-18T12:32:26.314-07:00Big Hosen<br />
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the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">plentiverse
of ideas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shaking
thought into truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">carefully
unfolding the doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
humanity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leaving
black planets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">alone
to ponder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their
own magnificence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and <o:p></o:p>splendor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brave
but misunderstood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
great undoing of the doing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shadows
cast by ego,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">self-aggrandisement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">truth
is victory!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rang
the Universe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of soup erupting from <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
pit of nothingness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">revealing
the secret<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that never was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">since
time began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>All verses copyright Suzy R 2012</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-55798060390463970122012-06-13T12:44:00.003-07:002012-06-13T14:11:18.712-07:00A Toast<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some have meat and have no teeth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some have teeth but have no meat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we have teeth and we have meat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So let us all sit down and eat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Accompanied by uproarious laughter, always)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>My grandfather taught me this little rhyme, in his thick Jamaican accent with perfect diction, oh how we laughed.</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084397516470597539.post-28921351800464108892012-06-10T07:49:00.002-07:002012-07-13T13:55:06.101-07:00GRIEF<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>G</b>nawing at your heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>R</b>olling down your cheeks
are tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I</b>mpossible to imagine
the pain that is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>E</b>ating you up inside
until the intensity of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>F</b>eelings fade ~ but the
memory of you never will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For all of us, at some time, have loved and lost...the love is eternal.</span></div>
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