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The dream unfolds like escalator steps,
each a mobile platform until they collapse,
one into the other,
disappearing at the knife edge.
Landings seem to approach,
the idea of stability tantalizing,
yet again,
the steel stairway dematerializes.
Forcing against the tide,
steps taken...
This is nice. I hope that everyone who really hates a cheery disposition and positive outlook will leave it alone, but this place is filled with Yakasses!
This is nice. I hope that everyone who really hates a cheery disposition and positive outlook will leave it alone, but this place is filled with Yakasses!
be in your book? Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Make Bright The Arrows
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Make bright the arrows
Gather the shields:
Conquest narrows
The peaceful fields.
Stock well the quiver
With arrows bright:
The bowman feared
Need never fight.
Make bright the arrows,
O...
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If
by E.E. Cummings
If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,-
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven, and now was hence,
And past was present...
Is "Open Form" now the recognized term for what we used to call "Free Verse"?
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STUDIFIED JONES
by TD Euwaite
To have a full set of teeth again,
like back when I could
bite a #2 Ticonderoga in half,
Unspent paper was the wasted,
loose leaf, ream sized binders full,
Chewed to pulp for...
Is your bio you, or somebody you want to be?
I could not open the link. I have not read either book. I have read the Federalist Papers and the Communist Manifesto.
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FINAL PLACE SANS RESTING
I’ve been set free
from the sorrow and pain,
from the shackles and chains,
in the ground I’ve been laid,
I’ve no more fight
for ropes and restraints,
for the frowns and complaints,
or the guilty mistakes
I’ve no more rhyme
in words that atone,
it’s here I roam...
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DR LOCTOR FEARS THAT THE MACHINE
MAY BE TOO FRIENDLY
Bring my eye closer to the sightglass.
Let me peer into the machineworks so I may see
that the lubricants are effective.
Bring my ear next to the casing.
Let me listen to the pulsing rhythm so I may hear
that the wheels are in balance...