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 Apr 2013 Dave
Elizabeth Squires
the meteorologists predictions have been off key
their weather forecasts are proving to be faulty
yesterday they said rain would come in the eve
but none came to wet the back landing eaves

the direction of the wind they got wrong last week
it blew in from the south and was rather bleak
they need to check their wind vanes regularly
for a wind from that direction is so chilly

they've got modern technology at their finger tips
so you'd think with forward forecasts they'd make no slips
but alas meteorologists seem not to care
whether the weather is inclement or fair

instead of relying on their dodgy forecasts
one ducks outside to observe clouds and wind blasts  
a more accurate picture can be seen
by one watching the unfolding weather scene

they've predicted sunny skies for this afternoon
with much anticipation we'll look for its boon
we'll be well astounded if that be the case
so often the meteorologists get the weather misplaced
 Mar 2013 Dave
Rachel Elizabeth
Perhaps the multitude of crows atop the trees were mourning all that could have been, that night we stayed out listening to them caw.  I followed you back inside, leaving behind my cigarette, a thousand words unspoken, and feelings I’ll never wish to revisit.
 Mar 2013 Dave
Patricia Drake
My world is folded
My mind is bent
Manipulated by
And itself
manipulating language
To counter the real
The brutal
With fragile structures

Language
A simple
Immaculate beauty
Though filthy at times
It can be turned
And flexed
with verbs and adverbs
Mistakes can be erased

Folded and written
My mind
This world
Where we meet
Is beauty
Imagined and executed
It is my escape
Growing up
in an American house
in the nineteen fifties,
sixties and seventies,
the cheese of choice
was Velveeta,
the processed cheese-type food,
and we cut it
with a cheese slicer,
which was a thing
with a handle
and a wire
and a roller,
and my mother
would make us
grilled cheese sandwiches,
which she called
cheese toastwiches,
and the molten goo
would spill out
unto the plate
as we were eating one,
and this traditional cheese
seemed to start
in the days
of the little red metal pedal car
and end in the days
of being drunk and high
at two in the morning
watching Eddie Constantine movies,
and so the cheese
has changed
and it is now
mozzarella.
 Nov 2012 Dave
Sydney Victoria
The Strawberry Sun,
A Perfect Disc In The Early Morning Sky,
The Last Butterfly Mureder The Dusk Before,
As Winter Claws Ripped Through The Fall Barrier,
The Moon's Face Cooled And Drifted Off,
And The Clouds Cupped The Sky In Soft Palms,
Promising November's Grey Hue,
For The Next Day,
As I Run Frost Leaves Proof Of My Path,
The Sun Now Orange,
Green Eyes Slowly Change,
Now As Yellow As The Sun Itself,
Teeth Scrape Against One Another,
As The Conifers Hold Me In Arms Made From,
The Scent Of Pine,
Stripping Skin,
The Purplish Sky Now Grey,
In Novemeber's Hue,
Now I Plead,
My Last Words,
Please Don't Wake Me Up.....
 Nov 2012 Dave
Vivian
Drown
 Nov 2012 Dave
Vivian
I woke up this morning
with a forgotten last night

I approached the trumpets
with tears in my eyes

And he comforted me
and apologized

But I still don't remember
a thing about last night

you know, it kind of feels like I'd been swimming for a long time, choking on water and flailing for hours, exhausted, and then I finally reached safety, and now I'm just breathing. that's what it feels like.

I seriously don't know
and I don't want to
 Nov 2012 Dave
George C
Dimension
 Nov 2012 Dave
George C
Is it true, that only I can see from this perspective?
Is anyone out there, with enough commonality to see the dimension I see?
Is there any existence, congruent to mine?

It's fearful to think about,
I'm alone in my dimension

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