Tag: writing
member name: Jim Ross
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September 05, 2007 06:10 PM EDT --
Dislodged pebble rolls,
Writes its journey in the sand--
A legend is born.
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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March 05, 2009 06:36 PM EST --
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An Invitation For your consideration:
Rough Drafts is a group for writers who want feedback . . .
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February 04, 2009 03:13 PM EST --
Campbell's* Elixir
Or
Storyteller's Smart Pill (Rictameter)
Driven
To seek the truth
And save the needy clan
The hero's bout in blighted swamps
Wrests the precious . . .
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July 19, 2006 02:23 AM EDT --
The anodyne for loneliness arrives with you--and what you have to say.
Ear Balm
Your warm gentle breath
Chaperoned by loving oaths
In my anxious ear
© 2006 Jim Ross
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March 16, 2008 01:18 AM EDT --
Mobile
Desk bucketing
On ancient back road ruts
As landscape slips by in blurred streams
Captured as jittery-hued rustic scenes
To an author's momentous joy
As incidents burgeon
And . . .
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July 19, 2006 02:20 AM EDT --
There is always a moment when everything is clear
Afterglow
Here in the twilight
Where morning is memory
There's nothing but love
© 2006 Jim Ross
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August 18, 2006 11:51 PM EDT --
Inspired by my friend, Liz, who is learning to fly but who already knows its beauty
Pulling Free
High wings shade keen eyes
Masked behind smoky glasses
While arms tug the yoke
And . . .
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August 24, 2006 10:03 AM EDT --
. . . or anything else you write? The author makes a boo-boo, of course.
I couldn't understand when a particular tanka of mine wasn't getting the hits I thought it should; then I looked . . .
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August 30, 2007 03:09 PM EDT --
Everything I feel about the sea
Comes in metaphoric rush--
Even as the weighty surf gurgles
On the land of “no man’s” sand,
Where fishermen cast long lines
Into the sea’s enigmatic . . .
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December 10, 2007 04:40 PM EST --
For Lynn, who counts the moments of her Writer’s Block .
How bright are the rays
On the far side of darkness;
Golden shimmerings
Await the dusk of your plight
To sparkle . . .
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July 29, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
A birthday loomed for an ageing friend and I saw the fear in his eyes. Being a questing soul that perhaps couldn't see what he gave others, I wrote this poem for him, hoping it would help. Rest in . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:26 PM EDT --
Ernie Z. published a great article, "Are You Attractive to Others?" that inspired the Tanka here. We all need the answers to the questions his article poses--nature, nurture, or both? I'm . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:14 AM EDT --
As summer continues hot and mesquite scents the night . . .
Candlelight Dinner
Breeze fanned flame dances
For lovers beneath the moon
Who eat and drink night
© 2006 Jim Ross
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August 04, 2006 01:27 AM EDT --
There's a place for this poem; the place where I heard sail clasps tinkling against masts, urgent waves slapping hull sides, and the creaking of weathered docks as sailors passed. It shall . . .
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August 07, 2006 01:37 AM EDT --
A squirrel fills his hidey hole with food as I fill my notebooks, lest paucity find us wanting to fight our battles.
Pastoral Pit Stop
I search the morning
For life's colors and textures
To stir . . .
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August 09, 2006 01:30 AM EDT --
There were two slatted crates on the fourth story balcony, each with several chickens in it. An odd sight for an American visitor in China, but not as odd as an emerald green rose . . . anywhere--which . . .
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August 09, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
I'm amazed at the myriad places gifts come from, not the least of which from this anonymous oak in the Sierra foothills.
An Oak Tree's Gift
Two green acorns nestled
In three oak leaves
Now fallen . . .
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August 10, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
Nothing like new blades of grass and a cloudless sky to cheer a soul--even if it is hot!
Summery Soul
Powder blue heaven
Above emerald toe-ticklers
Widen her gray eyes
© 2006 Jim Ross
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August 15, 2006 08:56 PM EDT --
Rays of Jubilance
All is bright today
With sunshine streaming to you
In gold verity
That joyful spume rides wavecrests
And snow glitters mountain tops
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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August 19, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Morning Billows
Morning clouds of night
Ominous shadows to love
Lead our eyes to light
As the breeze and cresting sun
Burnishes their gold billows
© 2006 Jim Ross . . .
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