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 Jul 9
Thomas W Case
Of all the literary
devices, my favorite
one is living.
There's no substitute.

As poets, we pull back the
curtain to our view of life.
You can shape your craft as
you go.
Metaphors will come all
over the page.
Your imagery will become
pencil-sharp and vivid.
Be patient.

If you don't have to
write, it will be easier if
you choose not to.
There are more enjoyable
activities:
***
Eating a lobster at dawn
Fishing
Swimming
Playing with your dog
or cat
*******
traveling.
Even getting your teeth
pulled can be less frustrating.

But if you must write,
you will.
Try not to ***** when
you are sick to your
stomach.

Paint a picture with
words.
Frame it with phrases.
Shine a light into the
vast darkness of mankind's
soul.
Be the light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz70MOS_JX8
Here is a link to my you tube channel where I read from my recently published book, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, It's Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump to the Madhouse, and Sleep Always Calls, they are all available on Amazon.
 Jun 30
Nat Lipstadt
I asked a woman to change her curls to forever straight,
and offered $50,000

(a sum on my mind that day after a
particularly rough day trading),
incentive
to maintain said style in
eternal perpetuity

she has accomodated me now for over a decade+, but
every every, every now
and every then, She pulls me
closer than close,
whispers 50K~ok!,
and hits me with a
hockey checking
an enforcer's hip swaying
pow,
that be
her physio~verbal
hockey stick reminder,
that poets must always pay their debts,
and even
forever, eternal and perpetuity
are included!
&
have no legal  limitations
or
poetic exemptions


nor,
credit,
for time
served

🥴
true story
 Jun 26
Lynn Stillman
Your voice, haunting
A dark forest in the night,
rooted in legend.
 Jun 23
Maddy
Used to know you
I don't now
Not sure that I want too
Negative to the max
If its Depression
Talk to a professional
I take my leave temporarily
Don't want to walk in tbe path you folllow now
Your used to bes got up and left
Doom and gloom
No Thanks
 Jun 23
Rhiannon Clayton
I saw the fire in your eyes, and I was not afraid.
We are all burning souls; we may as well burn with one another.

Rhia Clay
 Jun 17
Jimmy silker
If you try any preversions in there
I'll blow your head off
Said Colonel Bat Gauno
You try anything funny
I'll shoot you right through the glass
Said Jack Walsh
Colin Farrell
Blasted that Belgian lad
In the eyes
At close range with a blank
Some people
Underestimate
What guns can get up to
In the movies.
 Jun 15
Lee Holloway
Would you be my shoebox
a sturdy contraption, pleasingly
geometrical and versatile
able to cradle our heavy hearts
and hide all kinds of secrets

I could be your carpet
you can walk all over me
as I protect you from the cold
the unvarnished truth and its splinters

Or I could be your socks and shoes
you can walk around in me all
day all snug and warm at least
until they need replacing
around this time next year
 Jun 14
Frances Raeburn
when there was
no more you
wasn’t quite sure
what to do
so just made a big deal
out of missing you
 Jun 13
Nigdaw
he held the knife
blade bright as the sun
with an edge
as dark as night
it's anger swallowing light

cold as a dead man's finger

meeting flesh to the bone
again and again
until rivers ran
where none should flow
his victim cold

as a dead man's finger

the scene set
for the guys from forensics
to take their pictures
make measurements
of blood spatter
then pack up the mess

cold as a dead man's finger

to the victor the spoils
mobile phone and some cash
living to make future chaos
he lies on his bed
staring at a blank ceiling
no feeling

cold as a dead man's finger
 Jun 13
Ken Pepiton
Bottom line mind

Drip

Drip

Plop. Liquifacts

to think sleep fallingly
as annoying as
insomnia,
without
inspiration, then

You know, lowest realm,
fundus mundus real as ever.

Your most certain puddle
of all we knew, splashed
into and rippling

base line condensation, drips
seeping

desleeping po et
al ment potentcy
dropping,
ponding, deep below,

still, blackest black
to look into
using your
own curious wish
to follow
preinvested
mental funds first bet
on tomorrow being
worth rising
to find plain truth
as simple as pi and phi
in basic spirit satisfaction
-never failing perfectly

round and round and up to down

vision apparently evaluable
listened to as we spin

weighed
worth thinking through
wrong ways down

discerning bits useful

valuated trues exchanging
good guesses graces
for missed chances
to catch time lines
confluencing right

at terminal velocity, feeling still
as slowly as ifery falling

drips forming

meandering streamlets

infilling
curiousness wise
cerebral-itiosity's thought sea
of accumulated blessings and cursings

needed most assuredly to get through tonight.
Part parcel tongue translation leading me along memories that coincide with Palo Alto, History of California, Capitalism and the World we write inside
 Jun 12
Jimmy silker
There's a palm tree
Outside my kitchen window
It outest extremities
Don't quite touch the glass
Of the thing we could gladly
Talk between us
And feel the feel
Of the connection at last.
 Jun 12
Kyla
merrily through this world we go
purging in every toilet bowl
lol
 Jun 5
Little Bear
Penny and Charlie
have been my constant companions,
sleeping snuggled up
at my feet,
behind my back,
above my head
on my laptop
in fact
anywhere that is
warm
and quiet

Two very robust flies came in,
then promptly
went out
the window

but only after they
had buzzed
around
and around
and around
and around
and around
...
They didn't seem to know
where they were
or
what they were doing

Breakfast, lunch and tea
has been delivered,
religiously,
with a flourish
and a flower
from the garden


Toast and jam,
cheese sandwiches
shepherd's pie,
copious cups of coffee
along with
the odd fairy cake

which i must say
was greatly received


Tablets have been administered,
quite adeptly I would say,
in a professional manner,
with a glass of water,
freshly poured
from the bathroom tap.

It's the thought that counts


There seem to be
only two cobwebs
in here.

One that is tucked into the corner,
the other,
just under the bookcase.
The one just under the bookcase moves with the breeze.
I wonder where it's spider is?

I must remember to wash the windows,
and mow the lawn
and sort that pile of books out
to go back to the library.

I wonder what has happened in the world outside today?
I can hear someone
mowing their lawn.


I can see blue sky and white clouds.
It looks like a lovely day outside.

When I'm better
I'll do the washing,
and hang it out
in the breeze.


I might try and move,
to see if it still hurts..

These covers are so warm

I think it must be an easy life
being a cat.
If there is another life
beyond this,
I'd want to be a cat.

Yes... it hurts to move
Maybe I will just have a nap,
and pretend i'm a cat.
After all
it's only 1:30
in the afternoon.

Plenty of time
to have another nap
and rest
in my bed
🛌
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