Poetry Is

Posted by Mark on August 13, 2010 in Poetry
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Poetry sim­ply is. It is like try­ing to explain a breeze, the mechan­ics get in the way of it.  To try to give word to the beauty of a par­tic­u­lar phrase or group­ing of words is to make that very beauty some­how less. How do you explain the attrac­tion, the mag­netic power of the Mona Lisa?  People […]

Big Tent Poetry (7/30/10) — The Lizard King

Posted by Mark on July 29, 2010 in Big Tent Poetry, Drafts, Poetry
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The idea this week is to write a poem about an icon, hero or per­son­al­ity and what might be dif­fer­ent. Jim Mor­ri­son is dead.  I won­dered what he might be about were that not the case. I leave it to you to deter­mine how suc­cess­ful I was with this weeks prompt or not.  In the meantime, […]

3WW CXCIX — Free Write (No Relation to Willie)

Posted by Mark on July 28, 2010 in Drafts, Fiction, Three Word Wednesday
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3WW rolls around yet again, like weekly clock­work and I took one look at the words and real­ized that they didn’t fit into poetic thoughts I be think­ing, so I elected to Free Write instead.  I had no idea where this was going to go once I started and was pretty sur­prised with what I […]

3WW CXCVIII — Tender Mercy #26

Posted by Mark on July 21, 2010 in Drafts, Poetry, Three Word Wednesday
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Slog­ging along, another in the Ten­der Mercy series of poems that hang together only because I believe they do… This one is inspired in part by 3WW and you can play too by vis­it­ing the site! Ten­der Mercy #26 Over­ture to aSixty Sec­ond Inter­val, Con­tem­pla­tion mounts,A Spring col­lec­tion Flut­ters in theDis­in­ter­ested breeze. An iso­lated vic­timLive at the Marquee, […]

3WW CXCVI — Damn Cardinals

Posted by Mark on July 7, 2010 in Drafts, Three Word Wednesday, Uncategorized
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No poetry this week, nor fic­tion, just a rant about Baseball…sorry in advance for the bla­tant sports theme.…but this is what was on my mind this morn­ing and the 3WW words were per­fect.… ——- I have this deeply acrid taste in my psy­che this morn­ing.  The MLB team I fol­low, the St. Louis Car­di­nals, turned […]

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