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thin ice

 

Out there you never felt the whistling cold,

the scalpel probe of blue steel, seeking out

your crimson core. Scribing arcs across the

 

ice, arabesque and pirouette, sharp turns

where crystals flew like frozen sparks. Your

skates left traces, silvered tracks; we knew

 

the cracks, like sonar bleeps, would never

catch you. Oblivious, y...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565

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 myspace

slowly …
slowly …
surfacing
from sleep
buoyed up
and up
on bubble-dreams
stains of dingy dawn
drip
through the black
and stream
through fissures in the blind

a thoughtful mind
has gagged the Sunday clock
its hands
and solemn face
today suffice
to portion out
our spans of life
slice
by slice
by
tick-tock
slice

 
You lie close
...

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Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted anything here for some time now; not through lack of interest - but simply time and inspiration. However, I am hoping that some of you might feel willing to help me with something that's very new - well, it is to me anyway. Those of you with whom I've conversed over these last few years will know that I have regularly been an advocate of freeing poetry from the...

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the process

 

this is

a message

from me

to you.

 

it is conveyed

via

these

small black

symbols

formed by the dark

pixels

on the screen

 

the patterns

they make

are the

shapes of my

thoughts

 

light waves

from them

are  being

collected by

r...

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buried treasure

 

how could you forget so soon

that moon-faced milky bar smile?

sure, it’s been a while

and now there’s only you

to keep him safe.

a face every mother could love.

 

he was good to you.

those day trips

with the boys in blue

the view of mill towns

long-lens

front page

never-to-be-forgotten days.

 

one day he...

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genesis

 

Here we are now

You

and

I

beneath our

broad and

bounteous

sky

our

firmament

of

roaring

stars

on this

fragile

globe

of ours

this realm of fire

and dust

and space

this

elemental

human

race

as far as we

can know

or see

there’s

no one

here

but you

and m...

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Bay 3

 

He would come to her mostly at night. Sloping down the long corridors

of white-tiled darkness. The easy smile, soft words.

A touching of hands. Close and quiet; fixed

in their yellow cone beneath the anglepoise.

 

Some nights her eyes were seastorms. A fury of wind

on black waves. A craze of hot, white lightning

against the pale wash of turquois...

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Just a reminder that voting closes this Friday, so if you haven't already voted . . .

The entries were:

Tigerella Warrior by Laura Taylor - http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=26019 BE GRATEFUL by M.C. Newberry - http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=26018 The Berry Bridge by Francine - http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/b...

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Hi Everyone,

I just thought I'd post this purely for the picture, which I stopped to take on my travels today. I'm sure there must be other place names with a poetic connection - if you know of any why not add them?

Here's the link to the origins of the name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryme_Intrinseca

Incidentally it's not far from East Coker - of T S Eliot fame:

http://ww...

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WOW! Great response everyone!

We have (by my count, and please give me a shout if I've missed anyone) twenty-one - yes 21 entries!  Entries and links are as follows:

 

Tigerella Warrior by Laura Taylor - http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=26019 BE GRATEFUL by M.C. Newberry - http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=26018 ...

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Hi All,

And a very happy and poetic New Year to all the team and subscribers to WOL!

Thursday January 5th is the closing date for entries to the WOL Comp, after which voting for your favourite entries will open.

There are currently 16 entries, so if you want to swell the numbers please post your entries a.s.a.p. See here for rules:

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry....

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