All These Rooms

If you want the hallowed whomper stick (TM), you must win the following challenge. And since you are naughty, asymmetrical little (all these) room-mates, I challenge you to write a somehow-symmetrical poem. The symmetry can be something like lines of equal length, number of letters, number of words, etc. Or pick some other type of […]

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watching the faces
in the mirror above the bar
red cheeks underlining shallow eyes
magenta lipstick trying to hide
wrinkled lips
I think up metaphors
to quantify their sadness:
miles of birdless telephone poles
beneath an absent sky,
five unreturned phone calls,
or maybe it’s just one brother
with dreams of scarred elbows.
I don’t know.
but I think that
sadness cannot be quantified. it just pours
out of you […]

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When the whole crowd is circulating such that soon everyone is covered in blood, and I call for him
Fearful Frank! Fearful Frank!
No one turns for me.

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Without it becoming complete crap? Or just something kind of absurd, surreal? Seriously, I’m trying to start a poem for the Dorothy poetry prize, because why not, but I keep writing crap.
You guys have any favorite “happy” poems that I could read for guidance?

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YOU CAN LIVE
7.1.06
Waiting for the sunrise
I walk down to the Hawthorne
bridge. I’ve decided. Today,
I’ll be the brother
who has died
and you can be the one
who fills his pockets
with rocks. You can throw
them at the parked cars
as you pass the open mouthed
mansions in Ladd’s addition
as their windows dart
and twitch with that last
burst of dreaming that comes
just before […]

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From:  crwropps@aol.com   aejos
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Song

A sudden lack of desire
strips the night from the waist up -

Bare-breasted night,
Lime-leaf Night,

Night of a thousand catfish
feeding on the surface

of a city pond in spate -
the sky’s discarnate twin

disturbed by their blind hunger.
This is the night

mother would sing of
from the bottom of the well,

the one that […]

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Call for submissions: diode poetry journal
http://diodepoetry.com
diode poetry journal is an online poetry journal that is looking for
electropositive poetry for its one year anniversary issue which will appear in
August, 2008.
What is electropositive poetry? It’s poetry that excites and energizes. It’s
poetry that uses language that crackles and sparks. We’re looking for poetry
from all points on the arc, […]

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A Call for Submissions for CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
http://www.siuc.edu/~crborchd/special.pdf
http://www.siuc.edu/~crborchd
–THE SUBMISSION PERIOD BEGINS AUGUST 1, 2008. PLEASE DO NOT MAIL YOUR SUBMISSION BEFORE AUGUST. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS OCTOBER 31, 2008. THIS IS A POSTMARK DEADLINE, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO EXPRESS MAIL, OVERNIGHT, OR FAX ANY SUBMISSION. CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW DOES NOT CONSIDER ELECTRONIC […]

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Colorado Art Ranch and Art Works for the Heart of the Rockies will host 5 visual and literary artists near Salida Colorado. The residency Begins September 28, 2008 and ends October 30, 2008. Deadline for applications is August 1, 2008. For more information:
http://www.coloradoartranch.org/nextresidency.htm

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