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My Poems - my best
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Best poems inluded in this folder received at least a 4.5 average based on ten ratings or more:

"Zmitri"  13+: A surrealistic poem of longing, of loss found once again.
"'heart's home'"  ASR: A prose poem lament in letter form to a friend from New York praising Oklahoma and Kansas.
"Koan on an October sky"  ASR: Based on the prompt: like an image tattooed on the sky.
"Clematis on the flagpole"  E: Very vigorous vines vanguish ... a salute to the letter v.
"At three"  E: After watching kids at the playground, trying to remember me as a child of three.
"Speak soft my name"  13+: Can Earth be given a voice? Not a children's poem.
"Of mice, owls and moonflowers"  ASR: A light view of natural processes of life, death, life. Response to a challenge.
"Starbeams on Tulsa"  ASR: A fantasy of what stays and goes in Tornado Alley. Nature versus the follies on Man.
"For Jeanette ... when she grows old"  E: About Kansas and diamond slippers. Jeanette is a hoot, in spite of her knees and sugar.
"A radiant moon has set"  ASR: Homeless, black-eyed, had young children, 34 and found dead in the park last winter.


Good poems that received at least a 4.4. They are filed elsewhere:

"'we are like trees'"  E: A prose poem letter for a friend, using the metaphor of humanity as trees of one forest.
"At two"  E: Just a wistful afternoon with the two year old, quiet, of course :)
"Yes, redbuds sing"  E: Do we hear the melodies around us? Do we ignore the harmonics in our hearts.
"The silk shrouded Rose"  13+: A prose poem vignette written in 20 minutes with a prompt: a bench and a found object ...
"I, Katrina"  13+: In the spirit of I, Claudius, the empress arrives with a case of bad-breeze.
"Boise City"  13+: Can you feel emptiness? Boise City is in the panhandle of OK where it touches 4 states.
"Snow goose in flight"  13+: What can be made of a poet's life? / Two pillows: one for sleeping, one for napping.
"Byron Lynn"  ASR: This is an short elegy for Byron Lynn, who died of cancer November 23, 2004 in Kansas.
"Mission girl"  13+: We are becoming a class stratified society. Not all of us are ab-fab. Sarcastic?
"Kipuka"  E: Just imagine crossing miles of lava fields to reach a green oasis on the slopes of Hawaii
"On the Illinois"  E: The Illinois is an incredibly beautiful river in North-East Oklahoma.
"Summer in Sabetha"  E: This is based on a very beautiful summer in Sabetha, Kansas ... a long time ago.
"First drum set"  E: My friend gave his 2 year old a drum set! Can you hear him play?
"Lament of the bottle"  13+: Supposed to be witty or humorous. PG rated.
"Earth groaned"  ASR: Written as I was thinking of the homeless caught in a rainstorm
Portfolio -> My Poems - my best

Speak soft my name  [13+]   1.3 KB
Can Earth be given a voice? Not a children's poem.

I, Katrina  [13+]   1.5 KB
In the spirit of I, Claudius, the empress arrives with a case of bad-breeze.

At three  [E]   0.8 KB
After watching kids at the playground, trying to remember me as a child of three.

For Jeanette ... when she grows old  [E]   1.2 KB
About Kansas and diamond slippers. Jeanette is a hoot, in spite of her knees and sugar.

Kipuka  [E]   1.4 KB
Just imagine crossing miles of lava fields to reach a green oasis on the slopes of Hawaii

Boise City  [13+]   1.2 KB
Can you feel emptiness? Boise City is in the panhandle of OK where it touches 4 states.

Of mice, owls and moonflowers  [ASR]   1.3 KB
A light view of natural processes of life, death, life. Response to a challenge.

'heart's home'  [ASR]   3.3 KB
A prose poem lament in letter form to a friend from New York praising Oklahoma and Kansas.

A radiant moon has set  [ASR]   1.1 KB
Homeless, black-eyed, had young children, 34 and found dead in the park last winter.

'we are like trees'  [E]   2.5 KB
A prose poem letter for a friend, using the metaphor of humanity as trees of one forest.

The silk shrouded Rose  [13+]   2.6 KB
A prose poem vignette written in 20 minutes with a prompt: a bench and a found object ...

La Bella Vita  [E]   0.6 KB
Toot the flute / and flutter the hands. // All fingers fly / to the tune of her band.

Advice for an electrician  [18+]   0.7 KB
One line cut and the connection's gone. / Two lines crossed and both are gone.

Alps  [18+]   2.0 KB
zones of bend and thrust / where we've created havens for the clouds,

Wheat penny  [E]   1.4 KB
your wheat hair/blowing in the wind;/no government/can devalue/you;/but this/paltry cent

Violets  [E]   0.7 KB
The fragrance of modesty, / shy beneath green hearts

Plain cover jacket  [E]   0.7 KB
"Let me write un-noticed / as a shaft of winter wheat ... in the Central Kansas heat"

In search of Iris  [ASR]   0.8 KB
"And golden-eyed in a dark blue dress,/she squats on the lawn to rest."

Qadr  [E]   1.3 KB
A lament based on Surih 97 from the Qur'an. (Koran).

Zmitri  [13+]   0.7 KB
A surrealistic poem of longing, of loss found once again.

Clematis on the flagpole  [E]   0.7 KB
Very vigorous vines vanguish ... a salute to the letter v.

Snow goose in flight  [13+]   1.1 KB
What can be made of a poet's life? / Two pillows: one for sleeping, one for napping.

Mission girl  [13+]   1.2 KB
We are becoming a class stratified society. Not all of us are ab-fab. Sarcastic?

Starbeams on Tulsa  [ASR]   1.0 KB
A fantasy of what stays and goes in Tornado Alley. Nature versus the follies on Man.