Beokitteh
by
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Trifles

were all they were meant
to be at first;
mere baubles to pass the
time and amuse
myself with some small craft.

I began with three crystals
devised from diamond and
lightning; shaped them
on the forge until
they glittered, small stars
among the ashes;
gave them delicate shape with
my hammers and
my skill.

Three jewels:
lovely, radiant, perfect;
Mahtan smiled
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By: Dwimordene

Summary: Obsession and the care and dealing with hamsters collide-welcome to Denethor's world.

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Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered wroth and weary
O'er the arcane seeing stone of drownèd Númenor;
While I pondered, visions seeking, suddenly there came a creaking,
Yea, a veritable squeaking, as of weeping metal by my ( Read more... )

The Amazon
By: Jessica Holt

Amazon river
Strange things may lie deep in the
murky dark waters

Deepest Amazon
By: Jim Jordan

God, are you there
in this deepest Amazon?
There in the blasts of white mist
above the crushing waterfall,
looking down where the rapids
culminate in perpetual
foam ; trauma, trauma, trauma
or are you merely watching
from the wide blue ( Read more... )

Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look, how tiny down there,
look: the last village of words and, higher,
(but how tiny) still one last
farmhouse of feeling. Can you see it?
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Stoneground
under your hands. Even here, though,
something can bloom; on a silent cliff-edge
an unknowing plant blooms, singing, into the air.
But ( Read more... )

The sign says: Do not Feed the Manticore,
And yet the tarmac’s strewn with crumbs and chips
Of bone. The minotaurs lurch placidly
From place to place inside their maze - bullwhips
And cattle-prods are almost never used
As punctuation in their shows at twelve
And two and four o’clock, come rain or shine;
Watch griffons; or, for those who like to ( Read more... )

Oh yes, that would be (Inter)National Poetry Month!!

Start collecting poems, or I'll...  I'll...

Erm...

All right, I have no threats.  But I think everyone should post poems, because that would be SWEET!

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The request-a-blogs: I've started writing the politics one (yeah, out of order, I know, but for good reasons), but didn't get very far tonight.  ( Read more... )