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gone fishing…
26 March 2014
seashells
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Seikou Yamaoka
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wet brushes
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9 January 2014
beside the road near Mt. Shasta
3 January 2014
2014 0102 reasons
16 December 2013
Red Wolf emerges from the woods
9 December 2013
Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
1 November 2013
how do we let you know
1 November 2013
let the oceans be milk
19 October 2013
eating this
18 October 2013
My Trees have Grown Hair: The Poetry of Autism
16 October 2013
found in a museum attic somewhere I don’t know
5 October 2013
mule
30 September 2013
transparency, a conversation
20 September 2013
the rabbit and the moon
15 September 2013
too small to be a door
14 September 2013
red skirt
27 June 2013
adam’s apple
27 June 2013
not winter not snow
14 June 2013
untitled love poem number two
28 April 2013
isaac
15 April 2013
morning poem
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gone fishing…
seashells
looking at poem
Seikou Yamaoka
wet brushes
a storm about four in the morning
beside the road near Mt. Shasta
2014 0102 reasons
Red Wolf emerges from the woods
Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
how do we let you know
let the oceans be milk
eating this
My Trees have Grown Hair: The Poetry of Autism
found in a museum attic somewhere I don’t know
mule
transparency, a conversation
the rabbit and the moon
too small to be a door
red skirt
adam’s apple
not winter not snow
untitled love poem number two
isaac
morning poem
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getting here from there
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solo anagram
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Tell me what this poem is saying to you
When birds leave first
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Twelve words not to do without
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a paper dragon landed on the windowsill
paintingher
Learning to paint in France
Natural observations, pt.1, notes
Letter to the Commander at dusk
what’s the nature inside the nature of one wolf?
sixteen thoughts going on six
hand me downs
(a drafty poem) About feet
where landscape does
do chickens dream of us?
gravity
make your own poem, day one
Twelve words are
the boy who gave me writing
far and white
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what language did
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here
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dead reckoning
I am not the words
seven impossibilities
letter to William Stafford
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untitled dream number one
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grounding
lefty-handy, it’s really true
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Sister
left hand draft
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defining real
Robert
coyote way (love poem number two)
A Statement in Remembering
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One Ferryboat to see
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Someone is expecting me
girl, bed and bear
things to be left unpacked
writing blind
being
calculus
untitled love poem, number one
shoes
Abacus (answers are implicit you see)
writer’s shoes
I don’t do Cinquains, not me!
how
the boy who only spoke poems
mirror mirror on the wall
Better out than in
round eyes like windows are
apples and bears
barely how
big yellow bus
26 bones
Remember this
don’t call me poet
this is how
Train goes by
Writer’s meditation
the gentle art of making fire
was it you?
Arranging the marriage furniture
Avila
Poems on purpose
whistle means
rabbit words
About the dead man and his son
If I were a bee
gone fishing
Nile song
Hieroglyphs
river walking
how far down does the water go?
fire and bright
the everything poem
far sighted
the pursuit of happiness
possibly this
shaggy dog socks
don’t swim, so
zoology
random loaves cooling from the oven
Yes Virginia
Pony tales
Read this poem aloud
Questions of a sleeping bed
ferryboat crossing
Do poems burn?
Gone sour
What mother doesn’t say
letter from a painting on your wall
Evening mail
Cheshire bemused
Dear Dad, this letter begins
Eskimo snows
Poems on the verge of being writ
Exception to the rule
Two thirds
Circling Mount Kailash, ii.
Circling Mount Kailash, i.
Ten million fireflies
Thimble and needle
artist please talk with me
Every War Has Two Losers
No sonnet like this
Reasons to live
red wolf
No poet here
Three meals long
Which child first?
Half-shells, number one
Cat, ten minutes of one life
Dust
Winter lion
Attractiveness
At the end of light
Pebbles meditate
Language becomes
Soft landing
Cocoon
Bindings
The invisible human like a bomb
Weedings
Red thread
The high room
Horse-sense
Twelve step plan bunched into one
Doors
Barefoot
Ella’s song
in the beginning there was the word
Dragon’s tale
@April turns to May
what hearing will
my left foot hurts
masked dramatica
plum cipher
saying goodbye (napowrimo #30)
Robots work to stop leak (napowrimo #29)
when moons collide (napowrimo #28)
napowrimo what? (napowrimo #27)
box (napowrimo #26)
Metered step (napowrimo #25)
Periodic Table (napowrimo #24)
Rag doll (napowrimo #23)
weather report (napowrimo #22)
Prodigal child (napowrimo #21)
Peter (napowrimo #20)
cowboy in blue (napowrimo #19)
res cue! (napowrimo #18)
sacred bloody thumbs (napowrimo #17)
Unpacked (napowrimo #16)
Suddenly honey (napowrimo #15)
Double helix (napowrimo #14)
Poem Starting with a Line from Norman Dubie (napowrimo #13)
monsters under the bed (napowrimon #12)
Mother undone (napowrimo #11)
I remember you (napowrimo #10)
Open this box (napowrimo #09)
Watershed (napowrimo)
Curved space (napowrimo #08)
Like a brick (napowrimo #07)
Goldy Bear (napowrimo #06)
Christopher’s pen (napowrimo #05)
Gardens and knees (napowrimo#04)
Maybe fear (napowrimo #03)
Road to Wigan Pier (napowrimo #02)
Graceland (napowrimo#01)
@Read Write Poem closing down
30 poems in 30 minutes!
Untitled
Some hints toward happiness
Miles to go before I sleep
Sunday, Montano de Oro
Magic for beginners
sleeping like a fox in mississippi
A promise kept
Listening
A rake and leaves
mariquitas gusta comer
Sweet treats
Dowsing
If there wasn’t a name for god
Writing you
fall in love with a poet, RWP Cento poem group
Drinking from the jar, Cento poem #1
Shortcut home, Cento poem #2
Saving mother, poem #3 (Cento group)
She said, He, poem #4 (Cento group)
Sister unkept, poem #5 (Cento group)
Cowboys and horses
Poem tales
True nature
Chair redux
Tempest words
Four feet tall (group)
Four feet tall
Flower is a word
Inside inside
Winter’s wain
I wish I was William Stafford
When desire lands
Lilac choir
Charles, with a period at the end
Caveman poetry
If you didn’t have thumbs
Starting Over, RWP Mini-Challenge
About some light
Like rain
What light becomes
Nothing much
Making dirt
Interview with a poet
What a window does
Finding freedom brothers
I am here
Why are you a poet?
When you love me like rain
Season’s greetings
Winter pebbles
Dance hall dimes
Simple fruit
Sleight of hand
Through this doubt
Weeds they do
Home again, home again…
Pocket guide
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May I get that door for you?
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Sister lost
Morning cup
Dunne Avenue incomplete
Lost boys
Painted ground
Gastroliths, Random Conversations
Letter home
Prairie half hitch
For my teacher, Dave
reflecting pool, illuminate
Darkly humorous
Fisher boy
My feet touching tide
Seaside
Flying cloud
RWP Mini-Challenge, The Body
Faucet
You’ll never read this
Hide and seek
Brother, brother
Winter tales
Poems are a piece of cake!
Flood water
You asked
Sea-salt sand
Postcards home from sky and sea
In a New York Minute
Plum trees
In plain view
She wears one mask
Storm
Second shade
Maybe John
Five days
Grandmother’s thumbs
How to be lost, part 1
More like a sketch
The Fisherman’s Wife
Moonrise
Sibling lines
@Spice Monkey Cafe and Restaurant
How to write a poem
Watersongs
Kathleen, in memory
San Carlos Creek
Windfall
Mothen wing
Waterfall
Uvas canyon fire
Found beneath my chair
Prayers falling
One Kiss
The dreams that grass dreams
Just a book
Slender blue ribbons
Bear in the river
September’s first poem
Burnished
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About: neil reid
Posts by neil reid:
28 June 2016 gone fishing…
26 March 2014 seashells
7 February 2014 looking at poem
31 January 2014 Seikou Yamaoka
17 January 2014 wet brushes
17 January 2014 a storm about four in the morning
9 January 2014 beside the road near Mt. Shasta
3 January 2014 2014 0102 reasons
16 December 2013 Red Wolf emerges from the woods
9 December 2013 Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
1 November 2013 how do we let you know
1 November 2013 let the oceans be milk
19 October 2013 eating this
18 October 2013 My Trees have Grown Hair: The Poetry of Autism
16 October 2013 found in a museum attic somewhere I don’t know
5 October 2013 mule
30 September 2013 transparency, a conversation
20 September 2013 the rabbit and the moon
15 September 2013 too small to be a door
14 September 2013 red skirt
27 June 2013 adam’s apple
27 June 2013 not winter not snow
14 June 2013 untitled love poem number two
28 April 2013 isaac
15 April 2013 morning poem
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