Tag: rictameter
member name: Jim Ross
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January 16, 2008 01:51 AM EST --
Crystal
Facets my love
Sparkling as time of day
Shifts colors to sing tones of life
Collected and dispersed on the instant
Your heart needs to know how I care
To share all radiance
With your own . . .
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January 17, 2008 02:10 AM EST --
Passage
Caused by yearning
Births a restless journey
About the globe in sea salt moved
Suspended and transmuted for the ride
On swells of moon and sun brought tides
To kiss a shore and stay
For . . .
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March 28, 2008 12:20 AM EDT --
Mismatched
Anything jars
The senses, one-or-all,
For its distinct competition
With its neighbor's at-odds virtues as fair--
For instance, fine male hosiery
By nature formal wear,
Plucked . . .
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September 23, 2006 01:08 AM EDT --
Muffin Trouble
Muffins
Have a habit
Of being on my plate
When I don't want them to be there
Because they are so good and I am not
And the cook has no sympathy
For my sensed addiction . . .
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October 01, 2006 09:00 PM EDT --
Joyful Request
Bright eyes
Shine at mom's knees
When asking for a snack
And tugging at her favorite dress
Unaware of chocolate melt on her hands
"Oh mom can we go for a walk
And . . .
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October 03, 2006 11:28 PM EDT --
Let's Go Bowling!
Bowling
Begins at home
Gathering ball and shoes
And three others who enjoy it
Who pile stuff and themselves into the car
For a tactful ride to the lanes
Where shoes . . .
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October 26, 2006 11:32 PM EDT --
Curtain Hangers
Frisky
Kitty frolics
Blurred in a carpet chase
With a competitive sibling
Who both go vertical on drapery
And stop as wavering fur balls
Who are quickly chased down
By . . .
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December 28, 2007 04:05 PM EST --
Winter
Rips through my clothes,
Chaps and reddens my cheeks,
Sails crisp brown leaves capriciously;
Her time to cool Earth's overheated crust
After seasons of growing stuff;
She shows us her . . .
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January 04, 2008 02:56 AM EST --
Starbursts
Spark from wave crests
To charm a loving pair
Who clasp hands at the liner's rail
And regale as her ring becomes as one
With nature's dancing nighttime heart
And glimpse their . . .
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January 09, 2008 01:12 PM EST --
Flotsam
Hooks rising tides--
As books take rides on trucks--
To beaches round the earth's diff crust
For ardent devourers of enigmas
Who divine tableaus from tidbits
Once fondled as fine art . . .
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January 11, 2008 10:15 PM EST --
Ghost town
Sits in clutter
Designed for photo ops
Foreign to its working class ghosts
Of miners toiling for pennies a day
Amidst unending stamp mill quakes
Suddenly stilled by fire
To create this . . .
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January 18, 2008 05:59 PM EST --
Indulge
My heart a beat
Quicker than the others,
Your eyes, their widened state of awe,
Your grace appears along the ghostly path,
An ethereal truth of you
Lasting beyond your life--
My soul begs . . .
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January 19, 2008 02:37 AM EST --
Portals
Let my love pass
Through ever-changing life
Into atmospheres that bathe her,
Clothe her, and scent her so her laughter peals;
Her echoes touch my lonely room,
Send me through melody
Dancing . . .
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January 28, 2008 02:56 PM EST --
Hornets
For all their noise
And busy hive hubbub
Are stirred to retaliation
For nearby vibrations and loud noises
Reminiscent of tired people
Whose anger flares as riled
Irascible
Hornets
. . .
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February 03, 2008 10:02 PM EST --
This rictameter is dedicated to Ann Rauvola who used her awesome graphic art talents to create an icon and masthead to marvelously display what our poetry form is all about. Thank you, Ann.
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February 09, 2008 11:22 AM EST --
As now
When apples fall
To bruise on hard, dry ground,
A hungry soul senses deep truth;
The deed is done and there is food to eat;
Somewhere beneath the apple tree
Search yields discovery-- . . .
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September 23, 2006 02:03 AM EDT --
Oak trees
Delight my soul
With their tough gnarly limbs
Clad in green for spring and summer
That show maturity in dusty gray
And later crinkle in dry air
Before autumn wind huffs
And bares . . .
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January 23, 2008 12:45 PM EST --
Sweater
Cables defense
From neckline to waistline
A lamb's wool protection for you
Warm on that high granite outcrop, laughing,
Suddenly serious, watching
Condors lift from aeries
You clutch . . .
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February 05, 2008 01:46 PM EST --
Why now?
Snow collapses
As temperatures climb
On ground living in filtered light
To keep the promise of spring growth alive--
For life to sally forth renewed
Into fresh, fragrant air
Why . . .
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February 13, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
Breathless--Rictameter
Breathless
I hear your steps
Unseen behind the door
And my mind wings through images
Of your grace at blinding speeds through my heart
'Til the . . .
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