Hi deborah,
Welcome aboard.
I don't care for or do sonnets, so nothing for me on that, but I enjoyed
your prologue (?). I know the scene well - pre-reading your own poems while
the person behind the mike is doing theirs - no-one seeming to really
listen.
Don't forget the boozy buggers down the back drinking Guiness and beer and
having a conversation loudly while you read.
Cheers,
Frank
Want poetry? Try my Tales of Faust web page at http://tales-of-faust.com/ .
Enjoy.
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> Everyone says, hello.
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> She fumbles through papers, trips on the leg of her folding chair, noise
> echoes thunderously, suddenly stops - followed by an exaggerated silence.
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> She takes the podium and begins a short, yet boring account of her poem.
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> One poet is asleep, in the front row, one is glaring, as if her clumsiness
> was a direct and personal insult. Another poet is smiling; reading his own
> poetry, others are coughing, scuffing their feet, rattling papers and
> laughing nervously, however, silently.
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> Note:
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> I like sonnets, though I do need to write this form as well as my
> haiku for many more years, before I'll be satisfied with my work.
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> - Deborah
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> Would Dreams Realize
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> I brush confusion from my eyes to see,
> Sweeping day's harsh sights, I've not respected;
> This mundane weariness - to dream of thee,
> In moonlit darkness, sights redirected.
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> My shadow dream of shadows, soft to sight,
> How your shadow forms a heavenly glow
> That distill the day with radient light,
> When to dreaming eyes, see your shadow so!
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> And how blessed my eyes, in your presence made
> Would dreams realize thee in each living way,
> As in the deep of night, our shadow's shade
> Entwined a dream to sightless eyes and stay.
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> Dark, shadowless and long; days without thee
> And nights reversed to light, in dreams set free.
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> Deborah Russell, 2003
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