Tag: poems
member name: Linda Douglas
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June 06, 2006 08:17 PM EDT --
Grasping for straws and searching for treasure,
Leaping to the moon.
Looking for silver linings and wishing on a star,
My heart keeps coming back to you.
Turning over a new leaf, starting a . . .
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June 07, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
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Seven days of rainfall
Gray skies, wind, mud, lack of sun
Turns my brain to mush.
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Green leaves cry raindrops,
Birds huddle, hiding in trees.
Cat wistfully watching.
III . . .
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July 05, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
There is a loneliness that comes with a new attraction,
a reminder of closeness, kind words, intimate secrets,
of loves come and gone and mourned in the dark
spaces of nights spent . . .
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May 25, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
Lilacs' purple blooms,
Pollen carried on soft wind,
Spring's sweet scent. Ah-choo!
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May 25, 2006 07:45 PM EDT --
Slowly, graceful wings
Softly touch the still water.
Peace on quiet lake.
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June 08, 2006 08:46 AM EDT --
Where do skinny women put their children?
I mean, how do you carry a child when you have
no hips on which to rest his sweet bum?
How . . .
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . .
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May 13, 2006 01:23 PM EDT --
The Poet Takes a Break
Don't expect any great words of longing out of me today
or prose that sings of the wonders of the world and its bounty.
My muse is shrouded in the mist like . . .
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June 03, 2006 01:13 PM EDT --
Splash and drip.
The rain falling again
on soaked grass,
filling creeks and rivers
lakes rising, roads wet.
Morning errands done
with raincoat and 'brella.
House chores done . . .
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June 06, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
A life lived alone
Becomes a shelter from hurt
My own dark tower.
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June 17, 2006 07:52 AM EDT --
I had to gather my thoughts in this morning.
They had run rampant during the night.
Like catnip and mint they had
taken on lives of their own.
Weeds of doubt and old resentments . . .
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July 26, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
I just spent my lunch hour reading a beautiful book of poetry. Without by Donald Hall is a heart wrenching and exquisite book that tells the story of Donald's grief at the loss of his wife, Jane . . .
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February 19, 2006 09:42 PM EST --
I awoke to voices in my head urging
me to let my fingernails loosen
their fragile hold
on the edge of the
cliff from which I had been hanging
and allow myself
to fall fully into the abyss of grief . . .
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April 30, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
Sunday Drive
Heart racing
I slow down to look over the pond.
Blue water reflecting white clouds,
reeds blowing in wind,
sandhill crane moving silently,
step by step through tall grass. . . .
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April 07, 2006 10:07 AM EDT --
Horses
on open plain
galloping to red sky
wild manes dance in wind, hooves thunder.
Freedom.
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April 10, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
Red pain
between sore eyes.
Lights flashing, nausea.
Looking for dark, cool place to hide.
Need rest.
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March 26, 2006 08:19 PM EST --
I'm dreaming of berries, lots of berries.
Bright red strawberries with white freckles,
my back sore from the picking.
Blueberries saved from greedy birds and
gently folded into pancakes and muffins. . . .
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May 03, 2006 04:59 PM EDT --
Rising up like a dragon from its cave
I fly over mountains,
hands moving like wings across my chest,
gathering clouds in my palms to release to the wind.
Softly landing on ground the dragon is freed. . . .
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March 26, 2006 09:54 AM EST --
Soft Morning
Morning comes slowly on a Sunday.
Eyes open to the sound of cats chattering in windows,
calling to birds singing in a pine tree.
Bands of light creep across floorboards and between curtains, . . .
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March 11, 2006 08:04 AM EST --
I sit here alone at my desk
keeping in touch
with people near in my
heart and far by miles,
cat chattering at birds
through window,
remembering Saturday
mornings waking
to hear parents
at the . . .
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