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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | VII--8 Good Moments

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:17:28 -0500

VII--8

Good Moments

Like opening the front door
And taking in the first whiff
Of morning air--

Like driving down a dark road
And you and the driver of an oncoming car
Dim your lights simultaneously--

Like getting a hug from your child,
Grandchild, lover, spouse, friend
For no reason at all--

Like walking up steps
And for the first time in days,
Your knees don't hurt--

Like offering your lover
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XLII. 1. Through In

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:32:52 -0500

Welcome back.

A great poem on your return, realistic and hopeful. A good combination.

I shatter and mend.
Spidered panes,
lightly stitched
of the war life wages.
Yet daylight manages
to wiggle in
to dance:
a Tango.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XI-5 Love Upside Done

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:16:31 -0500

Sounds like a good poem already.

Wayne

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXVIII.10. weathering the storm

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:14:17 -0500

rain pounds the ground
like marble hammers, ice
in the form of pressure pitted
hail slaps the roof
and the window by my bed

Nothing like a Texas hail storm. I remember exeperiencing one in August as we drove into Austin for the first time.

And, yes, I have clothes that have worn better than I have....

Wayen

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXX - 3 Wannabe

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:04:52 -0500

Well done. We all have this sense of being ordinary, this belief that something extraordinary awaits us. But only you would use that feeling to describe a wannabee werewolf waiting for the next full moon. Brilliant.

Wayne

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: 9.14 Speaking in Code

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:01:13 -0500

In a twinkling a phrase repeats. The sky
revolves like a pulsar's beam of light
or the cyclops' central, roving eye.

What a great set-up for this tight poem of images. The equally tight rhyme scheme keeps us focused on the sky.

Wayne

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VI--27 Where'd I Leave That Damn Poem

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:05:13 -0500

Or caught
A case of the sillies
And be prancing
Down Times Square
In its underpants.

yeah I've gotten phone calls when they've found mine like this...God only knows why I tag my name to them first before they go...sad thing is once they are 'out' they never come back the same way...little bastards...it's like getting back a half eaten cookie...

Loved this read Wayne. How we all can relate to
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXVIII.08. about those Pletamanians

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:55:42 -0500

I don't think I'm going to look at 'grinch' and mittens the same way Allen through this primary season and beyond! Loved the read...you had to be laughing aloud while you wrote this gem!

Sue

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: 9.10 Tropical Sestina

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:08:10 -0500

I was just thinking about you the other day and was wondering how you were doing. And then I come back to 'the house' and you are here and this is AMAZING. In the whole, in the parts in it's rhythm.

One day I write a poem of the tree
transplanted to the original spring
before I was born: daughter to daughter
the egg of her already formed, tiny pebble
I carry inside tides not moved by the sun.

Love
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XXIII. 24. Lost

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:04:25 -0500

Hello Ilima,
this etheree works great funneling us down to the single word: lost, with all
it's impact we crash into it and feel it's sensation.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII. 4. The statue

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:02:01 -0500

ah to be a statue, a perfect and effectual observer, constant and so present you're absent, great exploration!

Sue

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XXV-3 morning delight

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:00:03 -0500

can I come over Wilt? ...yum! This is simple and delightful. i've been making my own yogurt and have been eating a lot of exactly this..no cream for my coffee but ah yes a coffee press...(coffee poetry!)

S.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXIX -21 Shoo Fly Pie From the Man in the Moon

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:57:47 -0500

Hello dear Alice...keep the cleaver away from you or Sachi is in TROUBLE...doesn't he know a women's place...ha ha yeah right. Not our Alice she's everywhere out and about but when she's hungry she means business then it's her kitchen isn't it? My oh my. So great to read you again. I'm back...was on a fitness, weight loss quest...20 lbs lighter and a lot fitter ...could only manage manage one thing
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XI-4 My Grandson

sbmcdonough@gmail.com (sonoranpoet) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:53:54 -0500

Hey Hawk how've you been? This is terrific. It captures him and Ellen's right someday he'll read this and know that you were really in tune with him. The poem works very well.

Sue

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--6 On Tweets and Poetry and the Moral Highground

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:35:04 -0500

Wayne-- Tis fun. I'm hardly ever there, but it is fun.
will follow you if you follow me.
a lot of good things happen there too-- gointothestory, onefortyfiction
and I don't tweet about toothpaste. sunsets and suchlike are fine.

@austereseeker

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: 9.13 In Event of Moon Disaster

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:07:54 -0500

I like the version without the link.
two unknowns, maybe children, stepping into space as the moon disintegrates.
Sci fi!

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XXIII. 26. Clear Morning

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:23:18 -0500

That dew drop and cloud are almost zen-like.
Indulge in the cool while it blesses. :)

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--7 Settling for Flesh

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:04 -0500

WOW!

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXVIII.09. two women observed

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:19:47 -0500

Interesting women-- yes, their dads must be so proud of them.
Liked the description of the athlete the most-- I could almost see her.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXX - 2 Balancing the Checkbook

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:14:24 -0500

Thanks for the reminder-- need to dust off that tax file and count count count, grimacing. long term capital losses and gains...

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XXV-2 The Dancer

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:09:29 -0500

you brought to mind an old love, Wilt. so fleeting, so un-owned-- but for that moment so veryright.
he brings me satin and silk, fine wine.

I salute thisacceptance--
I never ask where he has wintered
or what he does cold nights for pleasure.

Please don’t say I hate his freedom…
I only want his full devotion.
It’s just a momentary notion,
brought on by winter’s sad reflection
and thinking
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: I-2 Reign of the Eyeball

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:37:07 -0500

Hi Namyh, I agree with what's been said. What an unusual journey to take us on -- so intriguing to get the world's view from the perspective of an eye. And your rhyme is rhythm feels effortless, although I know it's not.

It's great to hear your voice here!

Ellen

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: 9.12 A Beautiful Death

alicefolkart@gmail.com (AJFolkart) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:41:25 -0500

I'd never thought of death as a 'distillation,' but I guess it is. Something to ponder.

This is very dream-like. The consciousness floating, hesitant, yearning for something but it knows not what.

. . . It's hard to speak.
Voice hollow and the drought of words, not thoughts.
They get caught in the dry creek bed.

Drought of words, not thoughts. Plenty going on inside that heat beside the knocking
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXX - 1 Worn-out Playing Cards

judybnotes@gmail.com (hawkseye) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:48:42 -0500

Computer / internet weird stuff tonight -- let's see if I can remember what I intended to say...

He's a worn-out player thinking he's got all the right cards, winning the pretty girl, but it all comes crashing down with reality in town.

(That isn't what I had for you before but my mind refuses to cough it up)

Staying on the humor and rhyme beat this week, Alice, the poem's metaphors are easily
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: 9.11 Dream

chyman2747@aol.com (namyh) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:58:25 -0500

Ellen- There is a lot to be interpreted from this and I liked it. Perhaps there is a voice within us all that demands to be heard when we don't listen or are bombarded by the noise of daily living. I can't think of a better place for that voice to shout survival in the midst of turbulence than in a dream. Somewhere in there you will always find the poet to write about it. You crafted a very though
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Newswire: Poets & Poetry in Rags | 2011-12 IBPC POTY judge: Toi Derricotte!

lowelldude@aol.com (rus bowden) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:15:21 -0500

I am very pleased to announce that poet, essayist, fiction writer, editor, teacher, and co-founder of Cave Canem, Toi Derricotte is our IBPC judge for the 2011-12 Poem of the Year. She will read in July-August. At this point, I should list her awards and honors, but they are so many, here is her link to them:Toi Derricotte: Awards . She is a poet who has emerged from the underground, went back under,
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: I-1 The Werewolf

chyman2747@aol.com (namyh) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:15:00 -0500

hawseye – This indeed is representative of the dark side of human nature and yet it is also that of the nobler side. It’s in the nature of the human species to rebel against being a slave, even up to death. Seems that the free man who dies loses the pleasure of living. The slave who dies loses its pain. Thanks for enjoying this and the wrap of the ending. Namyh

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XI-3 Thoughts On Life

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:23:17 -0500

Any musings on the meaning of life that begin with a Steven Wright quote are musings worth writing and reading, even if you don't know what to call it.

Interesting.

Wayne

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII.3 Overlooking

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:17:56 -0500

Mira,
This is really well written. I love the language, the pacing, really everything about it. I echo Alice's comment on the title -- v. good.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: Not a poem

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:39:12 -0500

Be well! We'll miss you!

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--5 02-01-2012

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:38:27 -0500

Ha, Ha! Fabulous. The rhyme is dead on! This brought a smile to me today (and I hadn't noticed the date).

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XXV-1 What We Need

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:36:43 -0500

Hello Wilt!
I'm so excited to see you here after so many years!! I've thought of you and your poems in the spaces between our meetings, wondering where you are and how you are faring. It's a treat to be here and read your work again.

I so love this poem, for it's strong, brave voice, and beautiful haunting images. I can't pull them apart, they're too good where they are, but the orange in particular
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXIX - 30 Distraction

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:28:40 -0500

But first I have to write some verse,
which will be pretty terse,
because my stomach growls,
and consonents and vowels
will not satisfy.

And I'm stunned... 79 sets of 30!
CONGRATULATONS!

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXVIII. I hate it

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:59:15 -0500

I think your poems are v honest, high class and evoke envy in me.
that's that.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XI-2 January thirty-first

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:37:19 -0500

Many many happies!
And a toast too, in tea.

So glad you're well on the path to recovery.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--5 02-01-2012

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:19:32 -0500

We write the date first, but d'you suppose 2/2/2012 has something going for it?

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--4 Skipping Stones

allen.itz@gmail.com (allenitz) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:50:08 -0500

well done.

i think this might be one of those universal memories, the first skipping of stones. i'm pretty sure i even remember where it happened.

in my case, superhero status ended about a month after i brought the first computer into the house. there are things, it seems, younger minds learn in the womb and us older spend the rest of our life trying to catch up to them. futility, thy name
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII. 2. Bukhara, and the bloom

allen.itz@gmail.com (allenitz) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:45:40 -0500

lovely poem, lots to praise, to start with your defense of the right of the pink bloom to be precious to you, whateverr it's genealogy, orchid or not, this is what it does foryou.

From some long forgotten memory
And the delicate branching of this bloom
In the morning light

our mind and our memories always searching for clues, connections, a sight out of the corner of your eye, a smell, the texture
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXVIII.06. I have a secret

judybnotes@gmail.com (hawkseye) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:14:08 -0500

Allen, great review of human development from naive immortality to perceivedreality.

the idea of one day it might be them lost,
them cold and still,
their physical essence beneath a mound fresh-turned earth

an abstract
like the collision of galaxies in a faraway star system

I remember this, despite all the funerals attended as a child, the black cloth, the dark, shushing quiet of Chicago's
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XI-1 WEB (a clarity pyramid poem)

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:19:50 -0500

You did a great job with the form. I particularly love the last line: it does so much work, bridging the entire thing together. I think this is a clarity poem PLUS -- because the symbol of the poem (web) is also reflected in its delicate structure.

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Newswire: Poets & Poetry in Rags | Poetry & Poets in Rags of January 31

lowelldude@aol.com (rus bowden) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:27:20 -0500

Dear PoetryAficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog

We have such a variety of topics this week, and our Great Regulars section is packed with more articles than most weeks. This is because a larger number than usual of our Great Regulars put articles out, but also, many of them, such as Judith Fitzgerald, Alison Flood, Hillel Italie, and Garrison Keillor have multiple articles. Plus, two stories
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXVIII.05. winter waits

alicefolkart@gmail.com (AJFolkart) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:04:49 -0500

Ah, the leaves letting go, falling out of habit and it is implied that they will, with the help of winter rains, lie on the ground, rot, melt into the soil, nurture the roots of the very tree from which they fell - great image. Also the sap, lying and sleeping warm in the roots, and the branches of the tree reaching up like lovers arms - and then the perfect image - all above 'unrequited' and the
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXIX - 29 Visit to Aloha Care Nursing Home

judybnotes@gmail.com (hawkseye) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:36:11 -0500

so much to delight in this, Alice
"bingo at two" -- why is it always bingo?
"Four and twenty
wheelchairs,
all in a row," -- a sight i can imagine - fitting to the nursery rhyme, too - those four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, the elderly, lost, are baked in their nursing home pie

sad situation, turned on its head -- would that only those lost in fog ever had to endure
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--3 I'm Not Complaining

blueline@goobertree.com (eachilles) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:51:01 -0500

Wayne, this is charming -- I love the repeated refrain of the first line. And this line made me laugh out loud:

Is this the apocalypse
The Mayans and Al Gore have warned us about?

I enjoyed this immensely.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: 9.9 Tiny History of the Iron Works

miradesai@gmail.com (Mira D) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:01:33 -0500

amazing images. this has the power and scale of a new world being born.

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: X-30 On the Opinion of Others

wvscheer@aol.com (WayneS) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:38 -0500

Congratulations on completing your tenth set of poems. A real accomplishment, as evidenced by this poem. I like the way you purge the hairballs of dumb critiques until you reach genuine insight.

The quote is one I want to remember and this poem is one we should all strive to live by.
Wayne

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII.1. The roar

judybnotes@gmail.com (hawkseye) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:42:27 -0500

Mira,
so many images flowed over me as I read this this first time -- then i read the comments and just had to read it again - and then again -- there is a "slap" in the face of present moment and the underpinnings of change that stole what was once graceful, much more alive than current circumstances.

The roar of change, inevitable when monster trucks take on the world (or a mountain
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: XXIII. 25. Palpable Patience

judybnotes@gmail.com (hawkseye) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:32:52 -0500

Oh, Ilima, so many colorful, cheery responses to your poetic "complaint"

How well I understand and was writing of this same angst less than a month ago -- immobility, not my cup of tea - waiting for full freedom is, I might add, a touch easier when the pain itself has accepted its banishment ( as is my state today - quiescent though still somewhat sidelined - however, in my current state,
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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: LXXIX - 27 Bottomless Bells

chyman2747@aol.com (namyh) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:24:12 -0500

Alice - It was as if you captured a Kodak moment in poetry. I loved the creativity and that internal rhyme which works well. Cow rumps and ancient ship prows on verdant seas, now that's gonna stay with me a while and I loved it. Your imagination is creative and its camera is focused just fine. Namyh

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The House of 30 : A perfect Day 4 Poetry AJFolkart, Gary Blankenship, Moderators | Re: VII--2 A Morning Shower

chyman2747@aol.com (namyh) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:35:18 -0500

Wayne - Okay! Okay! I usually take my one shower at the end of the month. But because of your words urging me, drenching me, I'm gonna take two...maybe three tops. LOL. In all seriousness, this was an engrossing write that captures the cleansing of mind, spirit and body that a mere shower can do. I wonder if it has something to do with coming across the water at childbirth. Don't get me started,
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