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post Nov 16 04, 01:09
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Hi Cleo!

You make snow sound so delicious! Snowflake.gif  :snowflake:  :snowflake:

Makes me want to run to the kitchen! Jester.gif

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post Nov 16 04, 06:19
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Hi Cleo!

You make snow sound so delicious! Snowflake.gif  Snowflake.gif  Snowflake.gif

Makes me want to run to the kitchen! Jester.gif

Cathy lovie.gif  cloud9.gif  lovie.gif

Tee hee!

Thanks Cathy! I was trying to write about hot cocoa but I will probably write another - it's more like snow methinks.  :snowflake:

Yum yum!
~Cleo  :ornament:


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Two yummie ones, Cleo!

common grounds

coffee
freshly brewing
streams anticipation
down at Daniel’s Bagel Parlor
where the clients steep in stimulation
on each other and their palates
Thursday mornings early
complementing
coffee


© Daniel J Ricketts 07 Jan 2004


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post Feb 16 05, 08:20
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May we
admire your tower?
. . . one eyeful, so we hear . . .
and could we see your graceful arch?
O might we peek in through the louvers where
we’d blush to view plush nakedness
that friends have said is art?
Greets gay Paris:
Mais oui!


© MLee Dickens’ son 16 Feb 2005


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post Apr 26 05, 09:31
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an assignment for a local poetry group for next week, to write a poem using the word "secure":
Secure

seek your
poetic voice
in everything you write
until it seeps out from the page
to whisper softly… shout across the room
in tone that’s unmistakably
no other’s voice but yours
to make your mark
secure


© MLee Dickens’son 26 April 2005


... and another that just occurred to me while talking with an associate at work:

ComPlain

Complain
but wait a while
until it settles down
so you can think the matter through
and figure out a way to make things right
apart from bitterness that could
come blurting out too soon;
with calm, words can
come plain


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post May 4 05, 10:47
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RICTAM’TER


response

in graphic verse

creating diamond shape

to focus reader on one thought

about whatever’s in the poet’s mind

meticulously shaped and phrased


‘til writer’s satisfied

each word is his

response



© Daniel J Ricketts 04 May 2005


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post May 9 05, 16:41
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HazMatters


Will you

need a placard

saying you’re Explosive ?

that you’re a Hazardous Dump Site ?

Are you prepared to contain your discharges;

get rid of bitterness, anger;

treat all with dignity;

keep a Light on?

Will you?



© Daniel J Ricketts 09 May 2005


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post Aug 13 05, 11:40
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Giving


Giving

of yourself is

a courtesy that when

nurtured properly flourishes

in kind, spreading our wills, desires, hopes

amongst the masses intent on

capturing the delights

that is shared by

giving.







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post Jan 21 06, 21:12
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Wow... a lot of time has past since you posted this one, Lori...

I guess there isn't much interest in rictameters here, huh?  I simply overlooked it.  Yours in excellent in every way!


Here's one of my recent spate with which I'm reasonably happy:


Slight Revision:

revenge

anticipates

an evening of odd

and even paradoxical

events to find a satisfying end

to all the fire that burns inside

but when the smoke is gone

ash leaves its own

revenge



© MLee Dickens’son 21 Jan 2005


Original L4:  'or even contradictory'






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post Jan 27 06, 08:15
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caught up

on wings of words

too sore on feathered wheeze

I rise above my chair, then perch

on Microsoftly down to peer about

perhaps to sharpen taloned fowl

who scratch about below

while we get all

caught up



© MLee Dickens’son 25 Jan 2006



what’d

I think about

on waking up today?

did I remember that His grace

is new each morning even ere the sun

comes shining through the clouds — or not?

will wonder fill my day?

I need my edge

whetted



© MLee Dickens’son 27 Jan 2006


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wood wee


would we

call specialist


meaty urologist

after workouts at a health spa?

and would friend be meteorologist


whether or not he’d known whether

we’d have snowy weather today?

we’d not call fat scientist


meatier-ologist

would we?



MLee Dickens’son 09 Dec 2005


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post Feb 23 07, 11:48
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critique critic


critique

slowly arrives

or maybe not at all;

I stumble over feedback need.

I think... I think... awry about myself

or maybe I'm just insecure,

but weight excruciates.

Am I my worst

critic?



© MLee Dickens'son 22 Feb 2007


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post Feb 25 07, 12:12
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Excellent poem Daniel. I imagine we all feel insecure wiht the critique process and am almost always a tad impatient...

Here's two I just wrote for this weekend's flash stimulus:

Heaven's Caress


Caress
this day and learn
my love for you has grown
beyond measure; you light my nights,
soothe my days and reaffirm commitment.
Without you by my side, surely
I’d not be this person
who yearns for your
caress


Heaven
sent you to me
on this beautiful day
when one kiss sealed our fate’s caress;
Love’s coupled desire of absolute peace.
Your smile assures me “Life is good”.
You understand my needs;
our wedded bliss -
Heaven


© Copyright Lorraine M Kanter
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Beautiful expression, Lori, in each of these... and of course I like the fact that you've linked both words in your title. charliebrown.gif Your corporate piece reminds me of the fact that...

Marriage
is more than words
sealed with a ring and kiss
solemnized, witnessed by good friends
who celebrate with tossed rice and dancing;
it's an hour-by-hour commitment
for hand to share with heart
while both flesh out
marriage


© MLee Dickens'son 26 Feb 2007


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post Feb 26 07, 09:37
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Thanks Daniel.

Your response is stunning as well! YOu should check out the Acropolis forum today as this was the flash challenge....

Cheers
~Cleo lovie.gif


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post Feb 26 07, 10:07
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Thanks, Lori... I haven't been there for ages. I was a little late, but I posted it anyhow:

flowers
cannot express
the smoke and fire I sense
when heaven brings your face and hands
to share another moment with this man
but my desire to stroke your hair
caress your loving smile
grows as your kiss
flowers


© MLee Dickens'son 26 Feb 2007


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sometimes
we have to try
a form we haven't used
for so long we can't remember
even how to form the blessed thing;
but here we are trying again
to write a piece that makes
memorable
some times


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Even
numbered lines are
what the doctor ordered
whenever I’m feeling at odds
and am needing a new form to explore.
I believe this one fits the bill
as a mind exercise
I could spend an
eve in.


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number
all your fingers
and you'll see they add up
to ten -- if you rename your thumbs
but since those digits are retractable
it really is not such a stretch
and the fingers won't mind
if they're not made
number


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playing
this kind of game
can become addictive
as well as limber up the mind
but unlike other narrative formats
the only thing required here is counting
while you are typing up your thoughts,
pecking your keyboard while
some fingers are
playing


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