Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Present...
Author's: Note: The theme for today was "a gift your received". Poem 5 of 100. My first ever school based aide- the person I would in later life call a PCA- invited mom and me to come to a Christmas era celebration with her husband and trio of daughters. I w-sat six year old behind parked between...
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30 Day poem, Day 4
Ubtiled Thanks to Th e Real Tomb Hunters: Snakes, Curses, and Booby Traps on the History Channel for inspiring this poem and providing the quote at the end of it) Collectors ogle tomb based treasures long buried and unearthed for science's sake, Improvised individuals sometimes sell off ancestors'...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Red, Random, and Nom-Rhyming
A uthour's Note; The theme for today was red, Ninety-six to go! Mama digs deep into ground; I watch and hope you don't perish Roll Tide! Potato Color of hair contributed to modern genome by Neanderthals, according to National Geographic Purchased to get back into her graces Hue ranging from moderate...
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A Poem Lost
Author's Note: My third 30 day poem Something Anthony Bourdain says catches ear as poetic. I rewind, even though show plays live, capacity granted by one more bit of modern technology that inhabits house. I'm eager to catch line entirely and transcribe it, correct, into computer screen. Replay...
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Grandma...
Author's Note: This is my 3rd 100 poems in 100 days entry, I hope you like it. Grandma My maternal grandmother is the last one standing- two grandfathers and another grandmother have gone too the great light before her She is st strong enough to play bingo several nights a week, clean this house for...
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Portrait of a Housekeeper
Author's Note: This is my 2nd 30 day poem. So far still sane My grandma is just another old woman or so I thought until I interviewed her for a poem about grandparents to fulfill another challenge's challenge. She shares tales of cleaning houses since she 14, there were no child labor laws back...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
In the News...
Author's Note: This is my first poem in the 30 poems in 30 days fund raiser for the Center for New Americans (thanks to the 48 Hours: Hard Evidence espisode, Love and Death in Alaska ) I didn't suspect certain strippers earned star status adorned as if on The Hollywood Walk of Fame; but, apparently,...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Escape, Part II
I don't know the sound I made as I was breathed, pushed, and bled into the wondrous, wide world nine month layover inside someone else's vagina. completed. I arrived to much fanfare according to family lore: policemen, firemen, truckers descending on local Mobil to make sure the soul who was...
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Conformitivity Trio
Author's note: I found my notebook with this poem in it today. A couple of months ago I went to a poetry writing workshop. We had to create poems that somehow embodied the word form. I’ve never been much of a form poetry girl so I just had fun with the idea. I invented a word called conformitivity...
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Friday, August 7, 2009
She Wanted a Rewrite...
(an ex-girlfriend poem, inspired by the TV show Hung, of all things, where they used this sentence. It's a language poetry thing or langpo for short) female, femme, gifted with double X chromosome desired, needed, longed, yearned singular article before consonant beginning word do over, retry,...
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