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  Devotion to Death
« on: March 09, 2007, 03:28:14 PM » by joseph lofgren
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 03:33:46 PM » by joseph lofgren
This is a journalese "devoted to death"...post your poems, prose, thoughts on death. Why not? Breaking the conventions of a funeral procession can be kind of funny. In a sick twisted way, of course.
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2007, 09:00:51 PM » by Dax
*


Who


in the ghetto
shadows sleep
— as we must

Us!

near and dear
cut down, by
shovels of dĭ-vō'shen
and hands

— on carts!



DR



Thank you, Joseph.
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2007, 10:27:21 PM » by EB
New Jersey’s March

Remember when we used to go
to the edge of the lake
to let our feet sink in the thick
dull brown mud?

Or how bout the time we
rode those motorcycles through
your Daddy’s evergreen farm?


How bout the time we dyed
my hair blue and my
mother threaten to beat both of us?


Cause lately, all I can remember
is the accident,
how you seemed so
small, crumpled up
in that front seat,
how slow the snow seemed
to fall on the quickly pooling
blood.
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2007, 11:11:31 AM » by Nora D
so, I went searching for a bit of death, seems I've written more than one, but here's -
the one that plagues me . . .to abstract, or plain, or something - ..


I possess a piece of paper,
ordinary, college ruled.
Worn slick by my own hand,
folded and opened,
and folded again.

The words of another
trail  down the page,
a simple piece of paper
leaving me breathless,
fighting for air.

There is no religion
in a work
such as this.
No hope, no shrine,
no terms of endearment.

Where faith has been blinded
and pain is the ravine of soul.

This I have seen, have read,
and consumed.-
Without the need
for edits.

Where Death
became-

“his father.”


*just my two cents and if someone will loan me four, I'll soon have a nickle...
more than cliche in the breathing and air.






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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2007, 07:23:52 PM » by Dax
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Rubbishing the Defensless to Death


Absurd isn't it— a thought that snores in words that steam— that this fundamental element of sago and samp, should be the kudos of so much literature. I put the kettle on and took a snort— Nonsense, I thought.

Then gave thanks, for nothing.

I like the idea, too, of Easter, simply because the notion of post-mortem depression— so full of fossil sentiments in artificial rock— is a sure sign of faith.

The dead. The dead celeb.

Jesus, holed in one— rose, beneath a head of thorns. Unmoved.

Becoming— to Blackpool theatres, soon. Desiccated by MelGinto.



DR
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2007, 02:11:27 PM » by joseph lofgren
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2007, 02:26:34 PM » by Dax
Joe—

    loved the skip in the mouth of this, splendid. Thank you.

Dax
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2007, 02:34:22 PM » by joseph lofgren
Thanks Dax, came from a deliberate practice in stream of conscience composition. I knew it was perfect for our poetic conversation about the abstract.
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2007, 12:24:03 AM » by Desiree Wright
I don't know.
Nobody knows.
I cried and went asleep.
Between was life.
I remember everthing
that touched my mouth.
The inlet of sense.
The outlet of final breath.
Seal it when I am cold.
But not with wax.
Wax is for bees.

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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2008, 06:14:24 AM » by Dax
Broken Promise
& A Dog Called Psyche


I get the feeling of being stuck on the forecourt of the Hotfoot & Hound watching apples rot when we could be out back with whippets — or elated, that William Stafford was to give an Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: The Good Life Being Dead.

I got the feeling
on the forecourt
— of being stuck


— DR
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2008, 06:39:40 AM » by milner place
ab
stract
de
struct

tutti
c'est
merde
en la barrameda
n'est not?

noose
sommes
los hijos
de la
moo
erte
real
ly

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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2008, 09:44:25 AM » by Dax

Si, si pito— Guillermo

pero como el amor

algunas poetas y gente siniestra

están ciegos!

Bueno, amigo


— DR (el ojo doliente)


Or: 


La Muerte of a Gringo Construction Worker


Yes, yes, whistle (code for rhetorical blow-job) Milner

but like love (the diversion)

some poets and sinister people (silence  :-\ self-reflection)

are blind (Gitanos, notwithstanding)

Take pleasure, my friend



— DR  (half-soaked literary critic)



(PS I wondered whether to put "part-time literary critic" but found the prospect of humidity a little less misleading)
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2008, 10:11:30 AM » by milner place
and amor is an anagram of roam  ::) :) :'(

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- Antonio Machado

Latest book 'naked invitation' $15 or £10, p&p inc milnerplace@msn.com

  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2008, 10:17:35 AM » by Dax

Words knock me out—  Guillermo. The fun we have with them ( I mean, you mean etc.) little wonder folks take to drink to get things out.

Amigo, bueno
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2008, 12:07:57 PM » by milner place
and words makes sword

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'Caminante, no hay camino,
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- Antonio Machado

Latest book 'naked invitation' $15 or £10, p&p inc milnerplace@msn.com

  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2008, 10:54:19 PM » by Scott Douglas
Ode to a Heart attack

somewhere between nine one one
and another day,
the list appeared.

Son,
wife,
music.

gazing into the black,
dark brightened my life.
 
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  Re: Devotion to Death
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2011, 03:48:50 AM » by silent lotus


Si, si pito— Guillermo

pero como el amor

algunas poetas y gente siniestra

están ciegos!

Bueno, amigo


— DR (el ojo doliente)


Or: 


La Muerte of a Gringo Construction Worker


Yes, yes, whistle (code for rhetorical blow-job) Milner

but like love (the diversion)

some poets and sinister people (silence  :-\ self-reflection)

are blind (Gitanos, notwithstanding)

Take pleasure, my friend



— DR  (half-soaked literary critic)



(PS I wondered whether to put "part-time literary critic" but found the prospect of humidity a little less misleading)



dear Dax

perhaps ? time to place this in submit ???

silent lotus

~

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