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… for National Poetry Day (Thursday, October 7, 2010): AS YET UNTITLED (a work in progress) Composing words of romance, verses as yet unformed. Visions of hair, long, dark and curled, Of laughing Van Morrison eyes. Freckled skin, kissed by the sun, Slender curves, longing to be caressed. A heart, offered freely, given totally, Not [...] TO THE PRESENT TENSE By the time you are by the time you come to be by the time you read this by the time you are written by the time you forget by the time you are water through fingers by the time you are taken for granted by the time it hurts by [...] ADVENTURES IN INK Fountain pen, an adventure in ink. Words drip from the nib’s caress ——— Strokes flow across the page, swooping letters, sweeping serifs. A poet composes, filling the page with images culled from the mind’s recess. Copyright © 2008, Steven L. Sheffield THE FIRST POEM of the day will be calm and gentle, a stumbling, messy easing in, fingers gently on the typer, becoming familiar with the shape of the keys, the sound of the hammer and the form of the letters, it will be a chance to breathe, to gather some momentum, to look at the [...] |
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