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Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#18 Clothes: packed; Plants: watered; Travellers: tucked up in bed.
Apr 18, 2019 -
Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#17 It's picking up a bar of soap, and remembering that there's something to be guilty about (but the knowledge of what eludes your grasp, leaping from your lathered fingers ...
Apr 17, 2019 -
Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#16 There's a place behind my ribs that's twisted in a knot of dizzying vertigo from teetering on the cliff-edge of the gulf between reality and that moment in my ...
Apr 16, 2019 -
Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#15 It's a recipe for disappointment, but I confess I've started anticipating your visits again
Apr 15, 2019 -
Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#14 What can you grow on twelve square feet of decking, two storeys up with nothing to shield against wind or sun? Rosemary, certainly; lavender, maybe; a little bit of ...
Apr 14, 2019 -
Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#13 The day the boiler broke, it was raining outside, gauzy drizzle hissing from a pallid sky, thinner than the downpour in my dining room, the roaring mass of water ...
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Re: A Dragon of Carefully-Chosen Words
#12 Sink into the soft embrace of yielding foam and light, puffy feathers; cocoon yourself in warmth and drift away to dreamland. Alternative title: "what I'm about to do RIGHT ...
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Re: saturn is home, and all is well
Wow, that list of prompts for the Zyzzyx Road poem is intense! Good work for getting all that into one poem! I like the bit about the goose stealing chips ...
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Re: these benedight flowers
Ooh, I really like grace your lips like it's a tangerine flavor, that you lick off with your tongue because you can't get enough
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Re: tatterdemalion dreamcoats
Oh, you've got some good imagery going here, paperforest! I love the "thunderstorm tree" in #1, and the streetlights "like washed-out eyes" in #4. Also, I agree with alliyah - ...
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Re: If it comes to me, I'll make it sound profound.
Yay Jabberrr! I like all of these - like Ten said, you've got excellently vivid imagery. I think the metaphor in Exit 62 to My Lover's Heart is particularly creative ...
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Re: a planet rising darkly is a mirror in reverse
Hey if I have to do shots of water every time you use religious imagery, at least I'll be nicely hydrated by the end of the month :D Seriously, though, ...
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Re: sometimes I hear the bell ringing
I love your theme - this is like getting an incredibly personal campus tour. (It's really interesting thinking about how all the places we see every day relate to our ...
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Re: I'll even kick my own butt
I really like the thing you're doing where you write about different emotions every day - I tend to get stuck in topic-matter ruts, too, so this sounds like a ...
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Re: alight for benediction
I always look forward to your poems, Penguini, and I'm really enjoying reading these ones. It's a whole sensory experience - the cicadas and lemon in #8, the soft earth ...
Apr 12, 2019
