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r e c i p e   truth is a mystery it never meant to be. there is a book that no one has read. (yet fingers find pockets every day)     so many voices outline chance. what came first might surprise you most. (darkness makes clutter come to peace)     wisdom lays [...]

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Attractiveness

Attractiveness What’s that feeling nibbling toes? Let’s call it gravity. A like attraction of like? An affinity that matters? There is no opposite visible. Nothing implies what isn’t. Yet does creation fill? Ask a bowl what it thinks of space. Does matter imagine breath? Does emptiness cling? A like attraction of like. An affinity that [...]

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Barefoot

The leaking off-shore oil well along the Gulf Coast of this country is in the news now every day. Just “another disaster” to entertain till what comes next? It may play out in public that way, however the implications for how we relate to ourselves in life will persist and spread, like the oil is [...]

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Curved space (napowrimo #08)

read write poem   napowrimo #08 prompt by Jill Crammond Wickham unusual love connections Valentine’s Day is long past, says RWP member Jill Crammond Wickham, but we poets must keep up our reputation as the world’s foremost experts on writing about love! Today, think of your current love, your current obsession or the one who got away. [...]

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A promise kept

read write prompt #115, what do you believe by Carolee Sherwood What do you believe? Make a list. Elaborate. Then what don’t you believe. Ditto. Stir, and see what poem comes. Read the RWP prompt for full descriptive details. Read other participants responses to this prompt. A promise kept I believe in no-edges. I believe [...]

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