tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46457309643561395062024-03-11T03:52:37.647-04:00Lightverse - just for fun!Welcome to the Light(Uni)Verse!RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.comBlogger283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-91246930527168862582016-06-04T18:40:00.000-04:002016-06-04T18:40:09.600-04:00Milling About<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><u><br />Homecoming <o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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It’s been nearly fifty years since I’ve been to this old
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It’s where I left a note for you, with all the words my
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I pledged my teenaged love to you and agreed we could run away.</div>
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But then you never replied. Your voice was silent, still.</div>
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So I lifted the board, and with a special sadness, saw the
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The form is Magic 9. <br />The poem was inspired by <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday's</a> prompt of<br /><br /></i></span></div>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-10090435751731088692016-05-30T12:01:00.000-04:002016-05-30T12:06:09.567-04:00CanaLife<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What secrets bridge the span as they stand, bestridden</div>
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across the damp, ancient sandstone façade?</div>
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While the view may appear handsome, it is still forbidden,</div>
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since its face, its veneer, remains impenetrable and
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Perhaps, in the aged mortar, someone slid in</div>
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a secret message or a cipher,</div>
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locked within the seams because that person didn’t</div>
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want the significance known by man or god,</div>
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and so, for all eternity, it shall remain hidden. </div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-small;"><i>Notes: </i><i>The form is Magic 9, a very fun, addicting form. It was recently featured at <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wd-poetic-form-challenge-magic-9" target="_blank">Poetic Asides</a>, as the latest in their Forms Challenges. </i><i>The poem was inspired by <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday's</a> picture prompt: </i></span></div>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-11520651323088621822016-02-17T18:53:00.004-05:002016-02-17T18:53:42.424-05:00Can't Hide<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>“Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.” ― <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/36746.Lemony_Snicket">Lemony Snicket</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1973926">The Blank Book</a></i><div class="MsoNormal">
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‘Twas lookin’ for a
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right after one late
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But nothin’
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A bell can’t shade a
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We knew we were in
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we broke some
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or two. Think they will expedite <o:p></o:p></div>
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the coffins? Damn! A bright headlight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So Jerry tried to run. Not me.</div>
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Was snagged by Officer McGee.</div>
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And choc or closet? Full of spite.<br />Can’t hide when lit by bright
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Form: Kyrielle. Inspired by <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wednesday-poetry-prompts-341/comment-page-1#comment-3605600" target="_blank">Poetic Asides</a>' Wednesday prompt of 'hiding.'</i></span></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-53437207870629025922016-02-16T14:12:00.001-05:002016-02-17T18:54:55.848-05:00Fand<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">photo by Caroline Knopf, image courtesy of </span><a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a></i></span></td></tr>
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Her gilded coat is shiny
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a touch of brine,
a touch of myth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And really, does she
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with pointed pike
and heart so hard?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or does she honestly
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the rocky
coast? Her cheek is flecked<o:p></o:p></div>
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with tears and
spray. Her calling card<o:p></o:p></div>
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is pointed pike and
heart so hard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, she is just
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who once upon a time
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She’s now at sea:
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No pointed pike; her
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The form is Kyrielle. The inspiration is based on the photograph above, as graciously provided for by <a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Magpie Tales</a>. The poem, in turn, is about Fand, a fantastic seabird/woman from the tales of Irish mythology.</span></i></div>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-22597690485814749122016-02-16T11:32:00.000-05:002016-02-16T11:33:30.421-05:00Choices<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">On the Pont de l’Europe by Gustave Caillebotte, public domain. Image courtesy of </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:PD-Art_(PD-old-100-1923)&filefrom=%27Michael+Strogoff%27+by+Jules+F%C3%A9rat+58.jpg#/media/File:%27On_the_Pont_de_l%E2%80%99Europe%27,_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_Gustave_Caillebotte,_1876-77,_Kimbell_Art_Museum.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</span></td></tr>
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Three choices: what to choose of those.</div>
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I don’t think I’ll
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The implications
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So, <i>beautiful</i>. Would that I’d see<o:p></o:p></div>
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a thing divine. Could that be me?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And <i>clever</i>.
Let me but contrast<o:p></o:p></div>
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the
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I think I’m <i>good</i>, ‘though angel-ish?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I doubt it. Should that be my wish?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fear I’m at a strong
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Thus, I won’t choose
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The form is Kyrielle. The poem was inspired by the Wednesday <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wednesday-poetry-prompts-340/comment-page-1#comment-3605262" target="_blank">Poetic Asides</a>' prompt of 'At Last.</i></span>'</div>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-36080330422786108242016-01-23T17:00:00.000-05:002016-01-23T17:03:32.276-05:00Lego My SnowPlow - An Ovillejo Thing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On this very blizzardly (is that a word?) day, I decided to write a few more Ovillejo poems. Over at <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wednesday-poetry-prompts-337/comment-page-1#comment-3599039" target="_blank">Poetic Asides</a>, the prompt this week was to write a Persona Poem. I penned two of them, with two very different voices. That should, hopefully explain the weird, doctored picture, above.<br />
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The snow was piling high.</div>
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(it snapped!)</div>
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some mailbox from its post,</div>
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<i>almost</i>.</div>
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The owner yelled, “You’re toast!”</div>
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He witnessed my mistake.</div>
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I didn’t swerve or brake.<br />
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<b><u>Mom Who Steps on a
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O anguish on my rug! </div>
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It dug</div>
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a hole</div>
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I screamed.</div>
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Yes, Legos double teamed.</div>
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My foot was sorely wrecked!</div>
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It dug a hole. I
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And now, I guess I'll go back to bingewatching television. Stay warm, dry and safe.</div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-54827100417839712862016-01-14T22:18:00.003-05:002016-01-15T06:32:25.872-05:00Shopping Around<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Fashion Store by August Macke/December 31, 1913/Public Domain per</span> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shopping_in_art#/media/File:Macke_-_Modegesch%C3%A4ft.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></i></td></tr>
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Edit:<br />
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I was informed, and rightly so, that I made a structural error to my verse (see the first version, at the bottom of this post below.) Now, I admit to breaking poetic rules on occasion, but you gotta know the rules to break 'em. And 'though I've written a number of Ovijello poems in the past, I forgot a key/signature element to this form. I humbly apologize for my careless error. That's what comes from writing in haste when one is tired, and full of hubris. <br />
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Here is the revised version of my poem.<br />
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<b><u>It’s in the Cards<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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My credit cards await</div>
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their fate</div>
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which is to spend the max</div>
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at Saks</div>
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and other fancy shops</div>
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with stops</div>
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to buy some shoes and tops,</div>
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a handbag, lipstick, jewels.</div>
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No limit and no rules.<br />Their fate at Saks, with stops…</div>
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My brilliant poet friend De Miller Jackson is currently curating the Ovillejo poem form at <a href="http://dversepoets.com/2016/01/14/unraveling-the-ovillejo-a-new-poetic-form-rolls-up-to-the-bar/" target="_blank">dVerse</a>. It's a really fun but challenging form, and since she rather cleverly dropped my name over on Facebook with regard to such things, I decided to play along.<br />
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Here's my entry:<br />
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<b><u>Props<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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My credit cards await</div>
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their fate</div>
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which is to spend the max</div>
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at Saks</div>
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and other fancy shops</div>
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with stops</div>
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to buy some shoes and tops,</div>
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a handbag, lipstick, jewels…</div>
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No limit and no rules.<br />
Ya gotta have your props.</div>
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Anyway, as you can see, I've obviously been away from my blog for a while, and whilst I make no promises presently, I figure it's all for creativity, and that is generally a very good thing.</div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-63879926235247858792015-03-19T21:55:00.000-04:002015-03-19T21:55:25.461-04:00The Sweet 16 - Round 3It's Voting Time Again! I made it to Round 3! It's fun! It's challenging! Come visit and vote!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"><i>Here's the link: <a href="http://www.thinkkidthink.com/3-stitched-vs-10-waylay/">http://www.thinkkidthink.com/3-stitched-vs-10-waylay/</a></i></span></td></tr>
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Thanks for your support!!!RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-5077310962467479272015-03-16T11:54:00.000-04:002015-03-16T11:54:19.202-04:00March Madness 2015 - Round 2I made it through Round 1!!! Now, it's time for Round 2. Please visit and vote for my poem, <a href="http://www.thinkkidthink.com/6-carafe-vs-3-renegade/" target="_blank">'The Short Cut - An Aesop Fable.'</a> Thank you!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">The current bracket - for Round 2</span></td></tr>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-56572378323200169762015-03-11T17:13:00.000-04:002015-03-11T17:13:12.921-04:00March Madness 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thinkkidthink.com/3-cull-vs-14-pastiche/" target="_blank"><i>ThinkKidThink's March Madness 2015/my 1st round bracket</i></a></td></tr>
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Hi there! As you can see by the above picture, I managed to snag a spot amongst the 64 awesome 'authletes' who are competing in the bracketed kids' poetry competition of the year. <br />
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So, I need your help. This is the link to <a href="http://www.thinkkidthink.com/3-cull-vs-14-pastiche/" target="_blank">my particular bracket</a>. Please visit it and vote for my poem. Thank you from the bottom of my sweet little poetic form fundament to the top of my perfectly coiffed (yeah, right!) metric & scansion head.<br />
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And while you are at it, I have a couple of talented friends who are in the running too - so please vote for their poems as well. <a href="http://www.thinkkidthink.com/2-bode-vs-15-indoctrinate/" target="_blank">Damon Dean</a> and <a href="http://www.thinkkidthink.com/8-horizontal-vs-9-palatable/" target="_blank">Tiffany Strelitz Haber</a>.<br />
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Thank you...thank you...thank you!!!RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-2403088258785876652015-02-19T09:44:00.001-05:002015-02-19T10:25:54.191-05:00Temptress of Cookies<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;"><i>Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile
by Alphons Mucha, 1897/Image courtesy of</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></i></span><i><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfons_Mucha_-_1896_-_Biscuits_Lef%C3%A8vre-Utile.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Wikimedia Commons</span></a>/Public Domain<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><u>Temptress of
Cookies<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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She proffers up a gilded plate.</div>
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I wonder, could this be her bait?</div>
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“Biscotti or a bourbon ball?”</div>
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Surrender! I am in
her thrall.</div>
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“Taste this cantucci di Prato.</div>
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Just one bite…” I’ve
won the Lotto!</div>
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Those Florentines! I
can’t forestall</div>
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surrender! I am in
her thrall.</div>
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She’s wicked. She’s a
temptress. I’ve</div>
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just never felt so – S’mores! – alive!</div>
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Her schnecken’s my confectioned all.</div>
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Surrender! I am in
her thrall.</div>
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“Rochers à la noix de coco?</div>
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Petit fours?” She drives me loco!</div>
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She’s a Pfeffernüsse doll.<br />
Surrender! I am in
her thrall. </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle (yes, I love this form!) The artwork which inspired this poem is by my favorite La Belle Epoque artist, Alphons Mucha. Especially with the Girl Scout cookie season (yum!) well upon us, I thought this poem was kind of apropos. And for more noisy treats, please check out the <a href="https://phoenixrisingpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/the-sound-of-love-devices-cacophony-and-euphony/#comments" target="_blank">Phoenix Rising</a> site. And don't forget, <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides" target="_blank">Poetic Asides</a> is serving up treats, too.</span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-21304293376895514462015-02-18T13:32:00.000-05:002015-02-18T13:33:27.577-05:00Reaction in Copper<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYpJKsNDHq3Y5CKYnUcjBYswjFHh-lXNOhvmX93Dke996aB_jas2VtO1chzMWn3dWT_MmryjEsp8F2EKGeznqh6cm73mYsZhivQE5Q8bEXPQ-rIUF7GISYJTZKeDSc2U7CddKa_pCnJdh/s1600/Misky_A_girl_plaiting_her_hair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYpJKsNDHq3Y5CKYnUcjBYswjFHh-lXNOhvmX93Dke996aB_jas2VtO1chzMWn3dWT_MmryjEsp8F2EKGeznqh6cm73mYsZhivQE5Q8bEXPQ-rIUF7GISYJTZKeDSc2U7CddKa_pCnJdh/s1600/Misky_A_girl_plaiting_her_hair.jpg" height="400" width="328" /></a></td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Ludwik Misky, A girl plaiting her hair, 1916. Image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Misky_A_girl_plaiting_her_hair.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons/PublicDomain</a>.</span></i></div>
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<b><u><br />Anamnesis<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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She watches. A
defiant glare.</div>
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She sighs, and then she pulls more hair</div>
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into the burnished copper braid. </div>
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She should be scared; she’s not afraid.</div>
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Some light streaks through a window slat</div>
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illuminating ginger plait</div>
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which shows one tendril'd lock has strayed.</div>
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She should be scared; she’s not afraid.</div>
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She brushes back the errant strand,</div>
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then glances at her empty hand</div>
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which soon will grasp a smallish blade.</div>
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She should be scared; she’s not afraid.</div>
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And with a swipe, that auburn tress</div>
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falls to the floor. “Let <i>them</i>
obsess</div>
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about the one who disobeyed.<br />
She should be scared; she’s not afraid.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: Form: Kyrielle. The poem was inspired by the above artwork. When I first saw it, I thought that the girl in the picture was wary and very much wanted freedom, even if it came with a cost. From that, she decided that the only way to get to that good and safe place would be to cut off her beautiful hair.</span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-59538646556631969272015-02-08T13:03:00.000-05:002015-02-08T13:04:33.546-05:00Onomatopoeia Dreamscape<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">"SYNTAX(1813) - 27 - The Doctor's Dream" by
Thomas Rowlandson - Image extracted from page 293 of The Tour of Doctor Syntax:
in search of the picturesque ... Fifth edition, with new plates., by William
Combe. Original held and digitised by the British/image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SYNTAX(1813)_-_27_-_The_Doctor%27s_Dream.jpg" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a>/Public Domain.</span></i></div>
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<b><u><br />Onomatopoeia Dreamscape</u></b> </div>
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Flip-flap-flip-flap-flippetty-fling,<br />
books go flying zig…zag…zing.<br />
Words are all a-clink, a-clatter.<br />
In my dream, there’s naught a-matter.<br />
Fwoosh! A novel buzzes ‘round,<br />
blurting out each verb and noun!<br />
Next, some poems play with patter.<br />
Words are all a-clink, a-clatter.<br />
Bam! I clap my hands while trilling,<br />
“Ding! Dang! Dong! It’s all quite thrilling!”<br />
Cream-white paper, inky spatter…<br />
In my dream, there’s naught a-matter.<br />
Giggle, giggle! Themes now mingle.<br />
Flying tomes give me a tingle.<br />
Oh, so fun, this chitterchatter!<br />
In my dream, there’s naught a-matter.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle. The poem was inspired by the above picture in conjunction with the prompt of <b>Onomatopoeia</b> from <a href="https://phoenixrisingpg.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/the-sound-of-love-devices-onomatopoeia-and-alliteration/comment-page-1/#comment-296" target="_blank">Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild</a>.</span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-54097576636507310982015-02-02T22:30:00.000-05:002015-02-02T22:30:49.389-05:00Pianissimo <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Jules Pascin, Café Scene. Image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Pascin_Caf%C3%A9_scene.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>. Public Domain.</span></i></td></tr>
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<b><u>Pianissimo</u></b></div>
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<i>“If love played an
instrument, I’ll bet it would be the piano.
88 keys, double infinity, and the ability to chop down trees with a
sharpened mustache.” ~Jarod Kintz, This
Book Has No Title<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Oh, play one song, one simple tune.</div>
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Love, to your charms, I’m not immune.</div>
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Your joyful noise is such a tease,</div>
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unlocked by your piano keys.</div>
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I am that audience of one</div>
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who longs for magic to be spun.</div>
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There’s eighty-eight varieties.</div>
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Unlock each note, piano keys. </div>
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I hear the music in my head.</div>
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I know that nothing’s left unsaid,</div>
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despite the chords of congeries</div>
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unlocked by your piano keys.</div>
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Crescendo, passion, and release</div>
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not tempered by my heart’s caprice.</div>
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It’s all about those ivories,</div>
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since love unlocks what’s in the keys.<br /><br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle. The poem was written based upon a suggestion offered from the newly created and launched <a href="https://phoenixrisingpg.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild</a> website.</span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-89351363043423121852015-01-31T21:11:00.000-05:002015-01-31T21:11:46.682-05:00The Pose<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: white;"><i>Léopold-Émile Reutlinger - LOTI, Manon_SIP. 934. Photo
Reutlinger/<br /><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_postcards_by_L%C3%A9opold-%C3%89mile_Reutlinger#mediaviewer/File:LOTI,_Manon_SIP._934._Photo_Reutlinger.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>/Public Domain</i></span></div>
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<b><u>1903<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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I think I’ll rip these curtains down.</div>
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They clash with my charmeuse Worth gown.</div>
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I’d break the Internet, you see,</div>
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but it is just nineteen-oh-three.</div>
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Instead of grease, I wear this dress.</div>
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that’s quite notorious.
The press</div>
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would love to see some more of me,</div>
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but it is just nineteen-oh-three.</div>
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No Internet. No
YouTube buzz.</div>
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No Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr. Does</div>
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that mean I can’t break hearts? How dree,</div>
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but it is just nineteen-oh-three.</div>
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Celebutants must feed the need</div>
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of culture or they won’t succeed.</div>
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‘Though I am hardly bourgeoisie,<br />the year is still nineteen-oh-three.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle. The pose which was struck in this portrait reminded me of a certain woman on the cover of a certain magazine, who was supposed to 'Break the Internet.' I thought it was kind of an interesting comparison. Also, although the woman in the above postcard was clearly wearing Edwardian dress, I do not know if the dress was actually Worth, or if the picture was even taken in 1903 - although it was from a collection that was created in that general era.</span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-18613959247304974872015-01-25T23:47:00.000-05:002015-01-25T23:49:41.576-05:00Germs<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: white;">Microbes/Sewage, 2014…Author: Sustainable Sanitation
Alliance. This file is licensed under
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons" title="w:en:Creative Commons"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Creative Commons</span></a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Attribution 2.0 Generic</span></a> license. Image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microbes-sewage_(14403755612).jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>. </span></div>
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<b><u>Path-O-Gens<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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Salmonella – what a fella!</div>
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He went viral with Rubella</div>
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on the YouTube site ‘Infective.’</div>
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Are you sick? That’s their objective.</div>
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E. Coli’s best friend is Crypto.</div>
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They both never walk on tiptoe</div>
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when your system’s ineffective.</div>
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Are you sick? That’s their objective.</div>
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Pseudomonas, Fungi, MRSA - </div>
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they’re another gang. A curse, a</div>
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blight, a pestilence collective.</div>
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Are you sick? That’s their objective.</div>
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Salmonella – what a fella!<br />
Are you sick? That’s their objective.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle Sonnet. I came across the above graphic, and it just seemed to lend itself to this poem instantly. </span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-50972850486110353042015-01-24T21:10:00.001-05:002015-01-24T23:55:07.865-05:00A Toast to Socks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: white;">The maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes...from A Song of Sixpence by Walter Crane, 1909. <br />Image is courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Socks#mediaviewer/File:Sing_a_sing_of_sixpence_-_illustration_by_Walter_Crane_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_18344.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>. Public Domain.</span></i></td></tr>
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<b><u>Just Plain Wrong<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<i>“Never put a sock in a
toaster.” ~Eddie Izzard<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I sniff and smell a thing that’s burnt.</div>
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The scent is bad. I
haven’t learnt</div>
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that socks just simply don’t belong</div>
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in things like toasters. Just plain wrong.</div>
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It’s just that my toes feel like ice,</div>
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and toasty socks would be quite
nice!</div>
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I should have known this all along:</div>
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No socks in toasters. Just plain wrong. </div>
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But if I’d put <i>my toes</i> inside</div>
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the toaster…well…my hide’d be
fried.</div>
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A sock plus toaster? My torch song.</div>
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No socks in toasters. Just plain wrong.</div>
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I sniff and smell a thing that’s burnt<br />
in things like toasters. Just plain wrong. </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The poetic form is Kyrielle Sonnet. I happened to see the above quote (which is serving as my epigraph here) and it just conjured up some funny mental images. My imagination was ignited, so to speak, and thus a poetic conflagration ensued.</span></i>RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-29216993333089423722015-01-21T14:32:00.002-05:002015-01-21T14:32:52.102-05:00Ruins<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i><span style="color: white;">A woodcut of the ruins of Kildare Cathedral, c. 1835. Anonymous - The Penny Magazine of the Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 4. 11 July 1835. London. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.</span></i></div>
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<b><u>Ruins<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
</span><i>“Love is a springtime plant that
perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” ~Gustave
Flaubert</i></div>
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Amidst these ruins, I can see</div>
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a ghost who quite impossibly</div>
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still hints that I will somehow find</div>
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a love whom I’d once left behind.</div>
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I won’t believe this ghost.
But then,</div>
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I’m more concerned with now; not when.</div>
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Still…maybe it’s my state of mind:</div>
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A love that I’d once left behind?</div>
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My thoughts might haunt me, as they may,</div>
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but in these ruins, thoughts don’t weigh</div>
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much more than leaves with wind entwined</div>
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for love. I've left
regret behind.</div>
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Amidst these ruins, I can see<br />a love; but love was left behind.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle Sonnet. The poem was inspired by both the above artwork and the above quote. It was posted on <a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wednesday-poetry-prompts-294#comment-3514925" target="_blank">Poetic Asides</a> today, since their Wednesday prompt theme is, "State of the ..." </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I would also like to add that the poem is merely a creation; that is, the words came to mind to form the poem, and they do not have any real life bearing on me or my past, although I suppose in an alternative universe, it could have happened that way.</span></i></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-5499630744891449852013-06-14T09:18:00.000-04:002013-06-14T11:43:28.424-04:00Ghosts in Plumage<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The poem was prompted by the <a href="http://www.kharahouse.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Thirty
by Thirty Challenge</span> </span></a>theme of '<b>plum</b>.' </span></i></span></div>
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<br />RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-31286511259427676032013-06-12T10:02:00.000-04:002013-06-12T10:02:15.858-04:00It's a Puzzlement...and so much more...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Caïn venant de tuer son frère Abel, by Henry Vidal in <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries_Garden" title="en:Tuileries Garden">Tuileries Garden</a> in Paris, France, a photograph by Alex E. Proimos, image found at <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Notes: The form is Kyrielle (with a tiny bit of modification.) The poem was inspired by the theme of '<b>more</b>' at Khara House's <a href="http://www.kharahouse.com/" target="_blank">30 by 30 Challenge</a>.</span> </i></span></div>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-2913794368734440562013-06-10T11:00:00.000-04:002013-06-10T11:00:14.789-04:00The Emerald City and Other Green Tales<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Image courtesy of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Emerald_City_of_Oz_cover.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Shades of Green-ish</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some idioms make use of green</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Notes: The form is Huitain. You can find out more about it at <a href="http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2006Challenge/for.html" target="_blank">The Poets Garret</a>. Today's <a href="http://www.kharahouse.com/" target="_blank">Thirty by Thirty Challenge</a> is, as you probably guessed, '<b>green</b>.' I love prompts that have to do with color, so this was a lot of fun for me. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As an aside, you might think that, for inspiration, I am listening to music by <b>Green Day </b>or maybe even the soundtrack from <b>The Wizard of Oz </b>(and yes, I do love both, actually!) but oddly enough, I am not. Instead, I'm listening to <a href="http://officialghosttown.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><b>Ghost Town</b></a>. Last night, I took my daughter to see them (along with some other great bands) at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. My daughter was in total heaven, which was very cool. But interestingly enough, one of <b>Ghost Town</b>'s songs is titled Zombie Girl. And since zombies fairly often are depicted as being kind of green - well - there you are! </span></i></span></div>
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RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-30745765024709520742013-06-09T08:20:00.000-04:002013-06-09T08:20:00.126-04:00A Fiendish Art<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’ve been a wicked girl,” said I, “but if I can’t be sorry, why, I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on such fiendish stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve made it an art</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let's Go Fly a Kite, Gwen and John Anderson, image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Let%27s_Go_Fly_a_Kite..._-_geograph.org.uk_-_516692.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Notes: The form is Trijan Refrain. My poem was inspired by the prompt '<b>courage</b>' from Khara House's <a href="http://www.kharahouse.com/" target="_blank">Thirty by Thirty Challenge</a>. I like the kite metaphor of rising up from the pull of heavier things which surround it, because in that first moment of flight, each individual can find the courage to do so many different things, especially those things which were never expected.</i></span></span></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-69255873980014958982013-06-07T10:56:00.000-04:002013-06-07T11:00:52.848-04:00Trembling Aspen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Populus tremuloides = Peuplier faux Tremble by Pierre-Joseph Redoubté, image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T2_53_Populus_tremuloides_par_Pierre-Joseph_Redout%C3%A9.jpeg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Peuplier
Faux-Tremble </u></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Here’s something cool, quite right:</div>
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the French say, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tremble.’
</i>Same</div>
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as ‘aspen.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(English
name.)</div>
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This poem I now write</div>
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is just to shed some light</div>
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on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tremble/aspen’s</i>
fame.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This aspen is unique.</div>
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A different kind of tree:</div>
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it clones itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
see,</div>
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although its bark is sleek</div>
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it has a strange physique</div>
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and trembles where winds be.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I think this narration</div>
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got lost in translation.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Notes: The form is <b>HexSonnetta</b>, inspired by <a href="http://poeticbloomings.com/" target="_blank">Poetic Bloomings' In-form Poet </a>form of the week. Today, <a href="http://www.kharahouse.com/" target="_blank">Khara House's Thirty by Thirty Challenge's </a>prompt is '<b>tremble</b>.' <br /><br />I thought I remembered that this word meant something different in French, so I looked it up and to my delight, discovered '<b>tremble</b>' in French means '<b>aspen</b>' in English. However, the interesting thing is that, as the title of the poem points out, there is a real tree called the trembling aspen (or, in French, the peuplier faux-tremble.) Since I love the humor of getting lost in translation, I decided to go with it, although I'd be willing to guess that this may not have been the original intention of the prompt.</span></i></span></div>
RJ Clarkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018296461199649445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645730964356139506.post-2975205248240718062013-06-06T10:15:00.001-04:002013-06-06T10:15:31.540-04:00It's a Bit Bitter<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJXiHmTM0VXU73jvS3BUT7vDKTRKRfHohp8KZjWJ57shGD6OC4YRgpKYY3uDTVaJ6Pc5h558Eh64KIuYoY5pg4GT2ZbU3m4Hw_KbOK6k40secfyF78pJ5EGqg-qtul8P2zyzaWnPBKOxd/s1600/Angosturabittersbottle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJXiHmTM0VXU73jvS3BUT7vDKTRKRfHohp8KZjWJ57shGD6OC4YRgpKYY3uDTVaJ6Pc5h558Eh64KIuYoY5pg4GT2ZbU3m4Hw_KbOK6k40secfyF78pJ5EGqg-qtul8P2zyzaWnPBKOxd/s400/Angosturabittersbottle.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Image courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angosturabittersbottle.JPG" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Angostura Bitters
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This sonnet was written to rhapsodize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on Angostura’s mysterious brew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who knows its strange secrets?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only five guys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Combine it with mixed drinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s what you do:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Add a dash to Manhattan, Ponche Crema,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a Singapore Sling or Trinidad Sour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A drop in a Shandy is not a dilemma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Top off a Sazarac next happy hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Roys and Sundowners can benefit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">from Trinidad’s famous tonic of spice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you make a Zombie, just put a bit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">into your goblet, along with crushed ice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, here’s to refreshment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Share with a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This sonnet is now at its bitter end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes: The form is Shakespearean Sonnet. <a href="http://www.kharahouse.com/" target="_blank">Khara House's 30 x 30 Challenge </a>prompt today is '<b>Bitter</b>' so in keeping with the theme, I wrote this poem largely to arrive at the final couplet. However, I did find out that this secret concoction from Trinidad and Tobago is 44.7% alcohol by volume (so don't drink it pure!) I also learned that it can work well when sprinkled on meats and fish, too. To be honest, I have never actually tried Angostura Bitters , so perhaps I'll add a dash of it to something, now that I've written about it.</span></i></span></div>
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