Congratulations Tad, le Musée d'Oasis, la la!
On Jan 15, 2008 11:46 AM, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Joe...excellent.
>
> P is for the promises it never keeps,
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> O is for the ode, no longer hip,
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> E is for ekphrasis, in the Musee d'Oasis,
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> T says that it's been a long strange trip,
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> R is for the readers that it doesn't have,
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> Y? Because we don't like you, you see,
>
> Put them all together, they spell CHAOS
>
> That's a word that means The World to me.
>
>
>
> Joseph Duemer wrote:
> > Poetry sucks on a dime when it's thirsty.
> > Poetry always lies to the cops.
> > Poetry makes you believe in its kiss.
> > Poetry has to go outside for a smoke.
> > Poetry knows the president is lying, but
> > Poetry loves smoke and mirrors so
> > Poetry doesn't care, admiring an audacity
> > Poetry can only aspire to emulate.
> > Poetry give you gasoline when you ask
> > Poetry for water, so the old blues says.
> > Poetry is an empty bed, a pair of old shoes.
> > Poetry just loves you to death.
> > Poetry spits in your beer & laughs, but
> > Poetry only really cares about the truth.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2008 6:23 PM, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Sonnet: Poetry
> >>
> >> Poetry seduces the truth with lies.
> >> Poetry tastes like silvery moonlight wine.
> >> Poetry's losses give you extra tries.
> >> Poetry's the ultimate pickup line.
> >> Poetry colorizes your old life.
> >> Poetry plays eternity for a sucker.
> >> Poetry explains where you were to your wife.
> >> Poetry's a jive-ass motherfucker.
> >> Poetry laughs while you're out there mowing the lawn.
> >> Poetry tosses a ruby into your grave.
> >> Poetry's what's left when the poet's gone.
> >> Poetry makes it easier to be brave.
> >> Poetry molds roses out of breath.
> >> Poetry is an argument with death.
> >>
> >> --
> >> ===================================
> >>
> >> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
> >>
> >> ===================================
> >>
> >>
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> >
>
> --
> Tad Richards
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>
> The moral is this: in American verse,
> The better you are, the pay is worse.
> --Corey Ford
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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