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Poetry Piñata
Take a swat at the piñata and grab at the assorted poems as they fall...
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Put on your blindfold, spin around three times, and give 'er a whack.

Lots of different poems tucked inside -- four pages worth!
Portfolio -> Pockets Full of Poetry -> Poetry Piñata

Hold it  [------]   0.8 KB
He is holding it together

Artist Widower  [E]   0.2 KB
A Writer's Cramp poem (sept form) about fruit...I took this in a weird direction.

Cabbie's Last Shift  [13+]   1.0 KB
I finally wrote a 9/11 poem, for a contest called "City Smells."

Grasping I  [ASR]   1.2 KB
Round 3 of the Slam Semi-Finals - a poem with some help from Paul Simon.

Constanze Weber  [ASR]   0.8 KB
Slamming about Mozart as husband, love lost.

One  [E]   0.6 KB
A chain of 3 Pi stanzas, for writer's cramp.

Disappearing Act  [ASR]   1.0 KB
What does it mean to fade into obscurity?

Offerings Born  [ASR]   1.0 KB
A traditional poem with meter & rhyme; the gifts of love...

Sides  [ASR]   1.0 KB
A free style poem for Writer's Cramp, inspired by Uncle Walt's work.

Commencement  [ASR]   1.1 KB
For the Slam Semi-Finals; Ah, commencement from college. I remember it well.

Van Gogh - Cafe Terrace at Night  [E]   0.9 KB
Envisioning entering Van Gogh's painting, "Cafe Terrace at Night."

The Sun  [E]   1.2 KB
Written for the "Surrealtor" contest, and of the superstar sun...

Revelation  [ASR]   0.9 KB
An unusual kind of revelation, prompted by a bible verse.

Everything it Takes  [13+]   1.4 KB
Playing along with the slammers, though I'm officially eliminated...Round 2, Finales.

Lasting Impression  [ASR]   1.1 KB
A two stanza Neuvain Romantique.

Likeness  [ASR]   0.3 KB
A double (word) Tetractys about the likeness in a mirror.

The Late Chrysanthemum  [13+]   0.9 KB
My first A-Z poem - intended to be about Lady MacBeth but it had a mind of its own.

Snozzberry Tulips  [E]   0.2 KB
Willy Wonka dreams of tulip bulbs....a PI poem - 3,1,4,2,8, & 6 words per line.

Gone  [ASR]   0.2 KB
Prompted dodoitsu about insanity. Good times!

October Hush  [E]   0.4 KB
Naga Utu form for Writer's Cramp, striving not to write a cliche autumn poem.

Carmen Concocted  [ASR]   1.0 KB
For Round 1 of the Finale; Carmen Miranda's hat is frought with fruit.

Gypsy Rhythms  [ASR]   1.0 KB
A companion Pantoum poem, written to complement a friend's Pantoum...

The Passion of the Prairie  [18+]   1.9 KB
Slam grand finale part 2 - destruction

Novice Goddess  [ASR]   1.0 KB
Slam Grand Finale poem one of two: Invention!

Playing Chopin (Piano Concerto #2)  [E]   1.3 KB
How to play Chopin's Piano Concerto #2, in a poem. Nobody said it was easy.

Romance Aisle  [13+]   0.5 KB
A poetic, public, intimate experience with food.

American Charades Aught Three  [ASR]   1.2 KB
For the Return of the Son of Slam Contest's Grand Finale. Prompt = charades.

Leaving Minerva  [ASR]   1.7 KB
For Round 5 of the Son of Slam 3; about a time when I REALLY played the fool...

Backward Glance  [E]   0.3 KB
For writer's cramp poetry week - a (word) Eintou poem about cherry blossoms.

Doctored Illusion  [ASR]   0.8 KB
A pantoum for the Slam, about being scarred by my caesarean section after a 3-day labor.

Assateague Island  [E]   0.4 KB
For Writer's Cramp; Neuvain about horses; mine are the wild ponies of Assateague.

Faith of the Flightless  [ASR]   0.7 KB
A strange spiritual poem in black & white.

Once in a Blue Moon  [ASR]   1.0 KB
Once in a blue moon, mythology and nature intertwine...

I'll Come To You  [ASR]   1.2 KB
The silhouettes of vessels on this golden stage of sea...

Creating Tomorrow  [13+]   0.8 KB
This is my attempt at a villanelle.

Perfect Sense  [ASR]   0.6 KB
Just a fun little piece about contradictions.

Honeybee Confectioners  [E]   1.0 KB
A Pantoum of cotton candy honeycombs, all glistening in the sun.

February Sixteen  [ASR]   0.8 KB
Written for writer's cramp, but definitely from the heart.

Stealing the Midnight Stars  [E]   0.6 KB
The title is the prompt, so I took it from there.

Unspoken Ending  [ASR]   0.9 KB
For Son of Slam 3; of love, and profound loss. Chained haikus mushed into stanzas.

Graduating Backward  [13+]   1.0 KB
Written in 1991... graduating from college and terrified of the "real world."

Seize and Desist  [13+]   1.1 KB
This is a sequel to Graduating Backwards, written a year or so later.

The Garbage Men  [ASR]   1.5 KB
A journal entry stream-of-consciousness turned poem, a la Dr. Seuss.

Portrait of an Artist at Twenty-One  [18+]   0.4 KB
A short poem written in 1991.

Payback  [18+]   0.5 KB
A strange, dark poem.

As If  [E]   0.6 KB
A short poem which was one of a chapbook I published in 1991.

A Waste of Stone  [18+]   0.8 KB
A much-revised edition of a poem written for a chapbook back in college.

Cyclic  [18+]   0.5 KB
A look at the circle.

Whatsoever You Do  [13+]   0.8 KB
I wrote this after I realized I had pre-judged a stranger.

Your Birthday  [E]   1.1 KB
This poem is for everyone who has ever lost a child.

My Piglets and Me  [ASR]   0.4 KB
Triolet about farm animals for Writer's Cramp.

The Day They Told You  [ASR]   1.0 KB
In honor of breast cancer surivor Aunt Pat (Treeshee), for Writer's Cramp.

Mystery Aquatic  [E]   0.7 KB
Prompted by a news story about a mysterious sea creature found in Chile...what is it?

Diwali  [E]   0.4 KB
Celebrating the Hindu holiday of Diwali with a Naga Uta poem.

Common Chords  [13+]   1.0 KB
An orchestrated, ill-fated race at Saratoga, New York.

Genus Rosa  [E]   0.7 KB
Rose triolet for Writer's Cramp. Ever noticed how beautiful roses' names are?

Hooray of Summer  [E]   0.4 KB
Writer's Cramp poem; attempt at a Naga Uta about summer.

Garden Deliciousness  [ASR]   0.4 KB
Dodoitsu about apple blossoms for Writer's Cramp.

Tom & Jerry  [E]   1.1 KB
Simon & Garfunkel used to call themselves "Tom & Jerry."

Breathing Love  [ASR]   0.6 KB
Writer's Cramp free-verse poem about the unique and blended scent of love

Arizona Photographer  [E]   0.9 KB
Writer's Cramp poem, from the viewpoint of a photographer in the desert...

Humility  [E]   0.7 KB
For Writer's Cramp. First try at a countdown poem, and also first try at spiritual.

Snapshots: County Clare  [E]   0.6 KB
Triad about Ireland written for Writer's Cramp

Silent Mind  [E]   1.5 KB
For June 2007's Quotation Inspiration Contest; Live each season as it passes!

When it Rained  [ASR]   0.9 KB
For Writer's Cramp; a nod to Ray Bradbury's "There will come soft rains"

Iceberg Castles  [E]   1.0 KB
A pantoum written for a test writing job & rejected as "too difficult a form..."

Bradbury Park  [13+]   0.8 KB
A prose poem for SLAM, of an urban fantasy nightmare...

1969  [ASR]   0.8 KB
An unrhymed ghazal about the events occuring the year I was born.

June 19, 1953  [13+]   0.7 KB
Of the spy case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were both executed on June 19, 1953.

Rising Spires  [E]   0.4 KB
An Eintou poem of the Latvian capital, during war and at peace.

Milkman Academy  [E]   0.6 KB
What have we learned this year at Milkman Academy?

Decision  [13+]   1.7 KB
Inspired by Roobear to try my hand at animal poetry.

Bad Move  [E]   0.2 KB
These fish have migrated right into the crocodile's mouth -- bad move!

Gallery Season  [ASR]   0.6 KB
My attempt to capture some essence of autumn...

Coastline  [E]   0.5 KB
For Outlaw Poet's Contest; prompted words are 'whisper' and 'scream'.

Marking Endings  [E]   0.6 KB
A look at Labor Day, written in countdown form for Writer's Cramp.

Father In Combat  [ASR]   0.9 KB
For the Son of Slam Round 6 - when every room is a waiting room...

Common Quarters  [ASR]   0.7 KB
For Son of Slam 3... Our home is without rooms.

In Passing  [ASR]   0.5 KB
For Outlaw Poet's Contest, waxing philosophical and sleep-deprived.

The She-Bear's Bush  [E]   0.2 KB
Writer's Cramp Septet about a secret bush with berries for one creature alone.

Reflections on My Eighty-Third Birthday  [ASR]   0.6 KB
Aging is universal; the realization takes a long time to truly accept.

Magnolia Grand  [E]   0.4 KB
Writer's Cramp dodoitsu about magnolias, all heady & rich.

Hazelmoon's Peak  [ASR]   1.0 KB
Writer's Cramp entry/ nod to Elfquest™.

Dinnertime  [13+]   0.7 KB
Story-poem about a monster who lives at the Haunted Hotel (contest)...

Sunset Morning  [E]   0.2 KB
Ae freslighe (I can't pronounce it either but it's a HARD form!)...

Birthmother, Poet  [ASR]   0.2 KB
Writer's Cramp Quintilla about a possibility. Prompt = rain.

Planet Delusion  [ASR]   0.7 KB
Outlaw Poet's Weekly Contest entry bordering on the ridiculously philosophical.

Lantern Room  [E]   0.7 KB
At the elbow of Cape Cod's "arm" is the Chatham Lighthouse...

Westward  [13+]   0.7 KB
Trains as snakes, slithering along distances stretched by time.

Mala Prayer  [E]   0.1 KB
Little Lantern poem for Writer's Cramp; thinking of a Buddhist nun praying...