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 Nov 7 12, 15:15
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 All dust an cobwebs everywhere it's enough to make brave men despair with echoes contrary of critters quite scary;  for creepers and crawlers - BEWARE 
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Nov 13 12, 11:22
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#782
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 Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
For all scrapers and scrawlers, BEWARE
when you enter our poetic lair, be it prose or free verse; we'll critique... kind but terse all the thoughts you are wanting to share. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner       |
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Nov 15 12, 02:21
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 Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 3,446 Joined: 16-October 06 From: UK Member No.: 298 Real Name: Alan McAlpine Douglas Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori/Eisa/loads of old friends |
LAMENT
all those thoughts you are wanting to share are futile, when there's nobody there that happens when muse has blown a main fuse it's a fact that the cupboard is bare Alan ······· ······· |
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Nov 16 12, 10:23
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
That "the cupboard is bare's" not a fact
it is merely attendance we've lacked. You and I have dropped in, Dan and Wally have been coming by. Our suitcases aren't packed. YET!!! ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Nov 22 12, 12:51
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 Ornate Oracle Posts: 20,002 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
If you've packed a suitcase, empty it
'cause we're mixin' here -- Yankee an' Brit with an Aussie or two a South African too and some others with honor and spit! ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Nov 24 12, 01:20
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#786
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Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 783 Joined: 24-July 07 From: South Africa Member No.: 457 Real Name: Walter Schwim Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Mistral |
If honour and grit are the key,
there's a Brit or a Boer or Yankee sure to mix up a rhyme sub-verse or sublime a hotch-potch of smiles you'll agree. ······· ······· |
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Nov 24 12, 01:22
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Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 783 Joined: 24-July 07 From: South Africa Member No.: 457 Real Name: Walter Schwim Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Mistral |
Yes, poets are globally spread;
some living and some nearly dead. I get the impression in times of recession that poems don't purchase our bread. ······· ······· |
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Nov 24 12, 02:42
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Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 783 Joined: 24-July 07 From: South Africa Member No.: 457 Real Name: Walter Schwim Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Mistral |
Poems don’t buy the bread that is true
a fact that the ancients well knew so pen them for pleasure in moments of leisure though moments of leisure be few. ······· ······· |
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Nov 26 12, 16:38
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
If those moments that leisurely flew
added up to a minute or two, one with humor could pen limericks for a grin and continue this thread of word stew. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Dec 1 12, 09:03
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 20,002 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
Please continue this thread; your words too
will be welcome... and we will greet you with a morsel of wit which somehow you'll fit in a follow-up, spicing the stew. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Dec 3 12, 08:26
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Spicing stew with a follow-up word
might be what some consider absurd but we, of lim'rick ilk, think it's just mother's milk; keeping brains from becoming gray curd. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Dec 3 12, 12:04
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 20,002 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
And for brains in which it has occurred
already, at least it is stirred to keep it from rot; we flavor the pot of mots... and our death is deferred. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Dec 3 12, 13:37
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Though our death is deferred with a mot
which we feel is quiet bon, maybe not everyone will agree with our brief levity but we'll smile as we lie in our plot. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Dec 4 12, 03:46
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Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 783 Joined: 24-July 07 From: South Africa Member No.: 457 Real Name: Walter Schwim Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Mistral |
OoooH! thats ghastly!
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Dec 4 12, 05:34
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Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 3,446 Joined: 16-October 06 From: UK Member No.: 298 Real Name: Alan McAlpine Douglas Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori/Eisa/loads of old friends |
We will smile as we grub in our plot
though we do know we care not one jot for the ramblings of fools as we put down our tools and off home - for our tea - we will trot. Alan ······· ······· |
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Dec 4 12, 15:46
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Trotting home for our afternoon tea,
we stop by the scone shop. Two or three tasty bisquits will quell grumblings which now dwell in my stomach. It growls peckishly. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Dec 7 12, 15:30
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 20,002 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
If your stomach is peckish perhaps
those chickens and doves are your chaps while walking the yard. I'd find it quite hard to bend down and peck... else I'd lapse! ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Dec 8 12, 01:23
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Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 783 Joined: 24-July 07 From: South Africa Member No.: 457 Real Name: Walter Schwim Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Mistral |
Picking cold chicken perhaps
cold turkey and other nice scraps as I laze in the shade of my summer brocade with a glass of crushed ice and good schnapps ······· ······· |
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Dec 9 12, 17:29
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 20,002 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
South African springtime is nice
while we're drinking eggnog with spice as Christmas draws near an' snow-shov'lin' gear is readied... and salt bags for ice. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Dec 10 12, 12:08
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,727 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
He's red-eyed and assaults bags of rice
for the fields are all covered with ice where he once went to eat now he has to compete with a cat who is not very nice ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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