Thursday, May 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Much (Poem #59)
Much (Poem #59)
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Poem #58: Dear
Poem #58: Dear
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Monday, May 27, 2013
41st & Baltimore: Poem #57
41st & Baltimore: Poem #57
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Poem #56: Fumbled
Poem #56: Fumbled
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Poem #55: Embellishment
Poem #55: Embellishment
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Poem #54: It Will Be Different
Poem #54: It Will Be Different
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Poem 53: District of Columbia, May 2005
Poem 53: District of Columbia, May 2005
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Poem 52: The Party
Poem 52: The Party
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Poem #51: Inside
Sheets of ice and rain
Obscure daylight in my mind
Banks of fog close in
And blind me
Blue above
I see only gray
As I lay gazing upward
Body drifting down
Out of reach
Lazy here with you
Watching fruit tree petals fly
From the greening limbs
Is enough
Poem #51: Inside
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Truly Happy (#50)
Truly Happy (#50)
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Poem #49: The Shallow End
Poem #49: The Shallow End
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Poem #48... A SPAM sandwich!
Poem #48... A SPAM sandwich!
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Poem #47: A Little Green
Poem #47: A Little Green
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Poem #46: Poppy
Poem #46: Poppy
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Poem #45
Poem #45
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Poem #44: Autumn Whispers
Amber snowflakes drift
Poem #44: Autumn Whispers
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Labels: Poem poetry writing
Monday, May 13, 2013
Poem #43: Clover
Poem #43: Clover
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Poem 42: Leaden
Poem 42: Leaden
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Labels: Poem poetry writing
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Poem #41: Jane Smiles
Jane Smiles
Poem #41: Jane Smiles
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Poem #40!
Poem #40!
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Poem #39
Poem #39
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Poem #38
Poem #38
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Poem 37: Strangers, you
Darkness glows,
Poem 37: Strangers, you
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Poem 36: Pretty Reeds
When pretty reeds flock teasingly,
You will change.
When mockingbirds sing pleasingly,
And midnight winds blow hot and strange,
The sky tilts
And strokes the parched and fevered range.
It soothes the secret heart, which melts.
Expectant,
It carefully undoes itself.
© Hannah Six, 2013
Poem 36: Pretty Reeds
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Sunday, May 05, 2013
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Poem #34: Should be considered
Should Be Considered
By Hannah Six
The appropriate answer is this:
you shouldn't feel--
it is unhealthy,
in that camp.
While I encourage the truth,
studies show consumption
reduces effectiveness
and increases
drowsiness,
dizziness,
nausea,
and--never serious--a racing heart.
By the way,
when it comes to other words,
it doesn't matter--
if you're shot to the body,
all is created equal
Your best bet is
to lay off,
and forget all you were
before finishing.
Hope should be considered
advice...
Poem #34: Should be considered
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#33: Tiny Soldiers
Nights will drift down around you
like snow,
Tempting you to wrap yourself
In a cloak of priceless words, embroidered with gold thread.
Choose wisely, words that
drop like April petals,
Land between the lines, and present themselves for inspection,
like so many tiny soldiers.
Take heart, and send your favorites
Off to war, into battle,
Let them lead the charge.
Use them, and find them later,
Wandering dazed among the fields
Of a poem.
(c) Hannah Six, 2013
#33: Tiny Soldiers
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Friday, May 03, 2013
#32: Old Gull
Old Gull
A blind dove, I saw, above me, at the rail
There, in gray, she stands
Each day, aloof.
Each day, she weeps into the sea--
That slovenly maiden who sips angels' tears--
And the horizon, though obtuse, not cruel,
Brushes dry her cheek with soft, gold hands.
Below her perch, old gulls like me
Toil, and sing, and meet,
Each day, God's bespoke abuse.
For those like me, how slow rolls this fleet,
And how sweet, each night,
Our meager, sunburnt sleep...
I've heard say
some drinking men have met
The nascence of our lore
In sinking dreams,
While those whom fate detests
Lose patience, sigh,
And, too soon, look away.
(c) Hannah Six, 2013
#32: Old Gull
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
#31 (May 1, 2013)
How bitter! To foresee
My own celestial arrival--
Having detached
My mother's soft-clad soul
From mine,
My only sight her blindness.
I feel myself embrace her,
Yet do not know
Her cheek,
The roughness of her hair,
Her coldness,
Her frailty.
I note my bold intrusions,
My failure to recognize
Her eyes, the firmness
Of her shoulders, sharp and fine,
In immeasurable formlessness.
How pitiful I once was,
A mere vessel
For a spirit
I no longer remember.
(c) Hannah Six, 2013
#31 (May 1, 2013)
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Alchemy (Day 30, #NaPoWriMo 2013)
Alchemy abounds these days,
Lovers like us seldom part,
I rest, stunned, and stare at you,
And you at me.
I'm not timid, nor you weak--
When we revel in desire,
You succomb like tender fields,
In August's blaze.
Fruits imperiled by the sun,
Which to mud has dried the stream,
Still taste succulent and sweet,
Upon the tongue.
(c) Hannah Six, 2013
Alchemy (Day 30, #NaPoWriMo 2013)