All first graders are artists
and then we grade them and
criticize them,
make doodlers of them.
All first graders can sing
and then we grade them and
criticize them,
make hummers of them.
And then we meet,
parents and teachers, to plan
to grade them and
criticize them
for twelve long years.
And then they are educated,
like us, we
hummers, we
doodlers.
It’s a miracle that this
poem is
even here!
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While you were waiting
she was sleeping.
While she was sleeping.
I was wanting,
yearning,
without cigarrettes I have no perceived angst.
Take the pill.
These modern times go down
with the pill.
Why cry?
The world will go on without your poetry.
Why try,
and yet trying is what you are about,
going there,
coming here to
type
again, knowing others will read,
maybe they will try too.
As the universe was expanding
and burning out
he typed these words
on a computer
screen.
Let’s make it a good ride!
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she never left me
so I never wrote
that she left me song
If she had left me I’d be rich
by singing that song all night long
if I had them
she done left me blues
I’d buy me some new shoes
to walk around the town singin’ those
she done left me blues
But I got them she stayed through thick and thin blues
there was no shakin’ her love and then some blues
I got them she stayed through thick and thin blues
what’s a man to do
oh what’s a man to do
so I never wrote
that she left me song
If she had left me I’d be rich
by singing that song all night long
if I had them
she done left me blues
I’d buy me some new shoes
to walk around the town singin’ those
she done left me blues
Oh she never left me
I’ve got them
she never left me
them thick and thin blues
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Post anything, he says.
Wish for anything,
hope for everything.
Leap,
run through the few doors
which open,
and give
thanks.
To Posters in Wordplay:
As you can see the blog has morphed. It is now in control of poetry. Help us to get out of it’s clutches. Post…..it isn’t that hard…..login is way at the bottom on the right it takes you to a new page from which you select WRITE or MANAGE to write new stuff or edit. The new look is great!
If you forgot your password just ask it to email it to you or contact DMJ
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