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NaPoWriMo 2013

List under Colorblind Opportunities

Wanted: White-Styled Privilege To Alleviate Effects of New Jim Crow. Please Forward to: Nearly Two Million, Currently Subjugated And Awaiting Justice And Civil Rights And Restitution Alongside Several Lost Generations. So Many Broken Lives Can No Longer Wait for the

Michael 2013/04/192013/11/08 NaPoWriMo 2013, New Jim Crow Movement No Comments Read more

Lament for the Lost Birds

To Every Thing There is a Season. Surely Carolina Parakeet, Yours was too short and too colorful. In wisdom were you made communal, The earth made full with your divinity: Separated in hats of divine extinction Forever. All Creatures Great

Michael 2013/04/162013/04/18 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Marathons

Tragedy with Evil Growing Stronger, Will Good Rescue a World Once Defended? A person my age may live much longer, Beyond times for which they were intended.

Michael 2013/04/152013/04/16 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

Super Empowerable

  My Essence Indomitable, My Inspirations Invaluable, My Motives Unassailable, My Potential Incalculable, My Growth Unstoppable, My Hopes Sustainable, My Achievements Certifiable, My Future Attainable, My Education Irreplaceable!

Michael 2013/04/142013/04/14 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

Walk with Dogs to Trillium Grove

The one-eye Collie and the Manic Bird Dog, too, too excited passing Pasture Gate. Still cluttered with last year’s milkweeds. Too, too many box elders are taking root. Broken Dormer on the old well in the weeds, threatening, as remembered, to take

Michael 2013/04/132013/04/15 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013 No Comments Read more

A Game of Briscola

You are always in the game, wherever I’ve played it. Forty cards in the deck, With a nickel always at risk, And your special “Oomph!” And swish of the wrist, Sending the taking three or ace to the table…are always,

Michael 2013/04/122013/04/14 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013 No Comments Read more

Oh Tears!

Tears Idle, tears… “Yes you DO know what they mean” said the teacher, and I was so self-impressed. “But I wonder to the degree … of dying eyes” said the blind man, my teacher, my guide. So I knew, I’d

Michael 2013/04/112014/07/07 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

While concocting a new poem each day

While concocting a new poem each day The poet knew he’d be battling ’til May: The urge to keep fighting ‘Gainst writing ‘Bout writing Til he weakened: giving one muse its say.      

Michael 2013/04/102022/10/16 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

The Alpha Diamond of Corona

When I found you your star, Alphecca to the Arabs, but Gemma, always from then to you and me, The Alpha Diamond of Corona, shining in the Crown of the North on those summer evenings. The back patio. To smell

Michael 2013/04/092018/04/04 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

A Patch of Plastic in the Existential Sea

Back in the day, Before Mere Opinions Became Facts, Before Free Markets Enslaved Children, Before More Packaging Brought Less Product, Before a Slice of Cheese needed a Fossil Wrapper, Before Garbage, Became Exportable, Before Land Became Disposable, Before Extinctions Were

Michael 2013/04/082022/10/16 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

Still My hero

Not the final days, We’ll Talk About That Later, As I approach that age. But there was a time, yes, before mine, Where by your stories, You proved the world existed, long before I had my consciences. And it could

Michael 2013/04/072013/11/19 Biography, NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems 1 Comment Read more

If you can just get out of your body (A hymn)

If you can just get out of your body, You’ll discover you know how to fly. Swoop past your personal biography, Find a way to where the Time Goes By. When stars do glow, let Novae light the way, To the

Michael 2013/04/062013/04/07 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems 1 Comment Read more

Cinquainicity

My thoughts get on the page quickly, needing freedom to get to their new home inside your mind          

Michael 2013/04/052013/04/07 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems 1 Comment Read more

Syzygy at Midnight

My Army of Dreams: the Armada returns in failure. Every bend of fate in flames.  All hopes and all the schemes of a lifetime, this lifetime, my lifetime, now crashing everywhere at once. Legs refuse to stand, on the field

Michael 2013/04/042020/05/04 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

When I hear your jazz

Your trombone wants to KILL the blues. Doesn’t it? I mean the Baby Boomer Blues. The All-I-wanna-hear-me is-funk’n-Blues. Forget what it ain’t, let’s explain what is. Total Sonic Immersion.  But Christ, if writing it could say it, why would you use music?

Michael 2013/04/032013/04/07 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems No Comments Read more

Quotable in Black and Grey and White

Those are my boys, Humphrey & Sydney & Peter & Claude & Me. Quoters & Knowers & Watchers & Readers… …and Boozehounds. All of us Warner Brothers. With formative years: On Top of The World! Didn’t every guy used to be

Michael 2013/04/022014/08/16 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems 1 Comment Read more

Xanadu Lost

And as Jove’s Sceptre swept me from his throne. Most heard within – the rise of hubris moan. Yes, Did I fall through years. (The Dome! Kersplash!) Hear All! The Alph runs grey with Human Ash. Mortal.  Alone. My Nimbus fades from

Michael 2013/04/012013/04/07 NaPoWriMo 2013, Poems 1 Comment Read more
The Alpha Diamond of Corona - A Poem

Recent Thoughts

  • Not the Trinity
  • Forty Four #HashTags Forming a Poem.
  • On litmus tests of patriotism
  • Every Word is Brokenhearted
  • To Lose You, My Friend
  • Epiphany. A short movie.
  • With the former and of the latter
  • Transitions of a Memory
  • Last Night I Finally Told Him
  • Improvising Gettysburg: A Movie and A Song
  • Prologue
  • “Remembering Frederick Douglass”: A Concert Review
  • List under Colorblind Opportunities
  • Lament for the Lost Birds
  • Marathons
  • Super Empowerable
  • Walk with Dogs to Trillium Grove
  • A Game of Briscola
  • Oh Tears!
  • While concocting a new poem each day

Index

Responses

  • Ben on Prologue
  • Max Hartshorne on Every Word is Brokenhearted
  • Elaine Gotham on Every Word is Brokenhearted
  • Michael Tomb on To Lose You, My Friend
  • Gabriel Sloane on To Lose You, My Friend

All Thoughts

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