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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #300 on: June 12, 2009, 07:29:49 AM » by Lavonne Westbrooks
Quote from: Rick Stansberger on June 11, 2009, 02:16:06 PM
Don't have a title for this one yet.

Dennie killed her dog
by being jealous
when her husband and the dog
bonded while Dennie
was teaching in China.

Has there been
a death in the family?
The vet asked when the dog
stopped eating.

No-oh, said Dennie
In her little girl way.

Tests were run.  The dog
still died.  Dennie
announced the news to friends
with a little pout.

Shortly thereafter
Dennie and her husband
 broke up.  Just
one of those things,
They both said.

Dennie's new man
Was a stranger to town,
Had no friends or kin,
And rented his place

In a building Dennie owned.

Yikes! A vampire spider lady! I know one of those - Good one Rick!
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #301 on: June 12, 2009, 11:36:46 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Thanks,  El Vee!
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #302 on: June 19, 2009, 10:55:02 AM » by David Circle
you  are so good at explaining sentiments
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #303 on: July 04, 2009, 08:01:10 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Storm Season

The tiger of the air
Is growling among the mountains.

Others are awake tonight
And hear it too:

Women who become cats
To cross a haunted road
and men who sprout
from mesquite shadows
On the same road

But our business is not the same.
They seek to ride.

I welcome Sister Tiger To my lair.
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #304 on: July 19, 2009, 09:54:44 AM » by Rick Stansberger
House of Breath

All window
all door

pull nail
toss board

wind walks here
open the view

wind walks here
& dances too
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #305 on: July 19, 2009, 10:06:29 AM » by Dax











— nice one

like watching a bag dance
of no accord when no one
else
looks bothered, and every house
in the street is crushed except
a fridge covered with reminders
of things to do today

Thank you, Rick

d




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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #306 on: July 19, 2009, 11:34:56 AM » by Rick Stansberger
Thanks, Dax.
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #307 on: July 21, 2009, 10:30:56 AM » by Rick Stansberger
A poem just disappeared.
I pressed the wrong key.

It was a poem in forming
and I didn't get far

I could remember the start
but that feels gone

and this poem's
in its place.
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #308 on: August 20, 2009, 02:21:19 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Well
water
is almost
a metaphor
except for the one
that pumps
iron tasting
coldness
three quarters
of a mile
to Warner's red barn
and soothes
the thirsts
of the cows
who
lap it out of
a clawfoot bathtub,
strange underground
weeds
waving in the day.
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #309 on: August 24, 2009, 05:00:27 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Afternoon Poem

Ketchup in the bottle.
Way down in
the bottle.  Don't wanna
come out ketchup.
Surely don't wanna
come out graceful.
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #310 on: September 01, 2009, 10:20:40 AM » by Rick Stansberger
To a Scholar

Nothing in my hands.
Nothing up my sleeve.
Nothing in my pockets.
Now do you want
to be in my shoes?
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #311 on: September 02, 2009, 11:29:25 AM » by Rick Stansberger
The Party

Lost my hat
the cowboy hat
the straw one.

Lost one
of my boots
the left one.

Didn't mind
walking half
barefoot through
cow shit, but

then I
lost my pants.
Now there was
a problem.
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  Re: Bottom Drawer: Second Revision
« Reply #312 on: September 03, 2009, 09:57:46 AM » by Rick Stansberger
Two Houses

One is grey and flat.
The carpet all over
is a grey perpetual yawn.
Lots and lots of carpet
because lots and lots of space.

The other sits hunched
on a hillside.
Suspicious cracks.
Water has done its work
making little runnels in the back.
But it's so cozy
and set apart.
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  Re: Dragon Hatchery
« Reply #313 on: September 07, 2009, 11:33:49 AM » by Rick Stansberger
At the Dragon Hatchery

All those broken shells,
strings of goo
flaps of egg skin.

Abandon hope
all ye who
like life tidy.

The fwap fwap
of leather wings
too far up to see
makes it worth the mess

and the swooping down sometimes
to give their egg father
a ride.
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  Re: Dragon Hatchery
« Reply #314 on: September 09, 2009, 01:38:26 PM » by Rick Stansberger
un
kind
time
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