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OKAY.. Hit me hard as Shakespeare did visit and this is what poured out and I mean poured out! It is a ten minute or less write and I haven't a clue from where it came... Maybe I should begin to entertain the belief in muses even if they might be old rusty ones??? Do not ask me to remove the 'woe' or any old fashion term as Willy might get pissed. Only kidding..

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Stretching a bit so let me know feelings etc. I tend not to so am a bit guarded but this is what one must do in order to grow or produced the same old thing over and over.. This past twelve months have been full of loss for so many.. I was reminded of that and remember an early morning a couple of days ago that I found very healing for me. I hope this is in a way a healing type of poem.

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Another shitty free verse poem. All feedback is welcome.

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Just words about observing the night and the moon and what it reflected in my imagination. Any and all feedback welcome The title just doesn't fit but I had used the one I wanted!

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Is anyone out there as tired as I am of the commercials they play with the nightly news? Ugh! Medicine for heart failure, COPD, urinary urgency and... what's with the bathtub scenes in the Cialis commercials? I never have gotten that one figured out. This is a silly poem poking fun at our society's obsession with youth. Enough already!

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*The asterisk is added because a similar title exists. Mysterious and strange - that altered space/time we occupy between ordinary consciousness and sleep. Review comments welcomed.

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I've been playing around with a slightly different meter format. This poem is laid out in 4 line stanzas with the following meter (syllable) pattern: 8,7,10,7. It posed a bit of a challenge, but I had fun shuffling words. All comments are welcomed. Also, I would appreciate any suggestions for sites accepting poem submissions. Thanks in advance!

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A little insomnia isn't all bad. Comments welcome.

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Being so far behind in reviewing I actually don't feel comfortable even posting but this has been sitting around. Will hopefully feel more like reviewing later today. I read the work but the reviews sounds so blah I erase them. Any and all feedback welcomed.. I am looking into going to school to learn how to write in a more technically correct vein. h...online class of course so any suggestions as some we know are gimmicks. Me a student at my age!! haaaaaaa

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The utility of some man made objects is really quite wonderful. Notes from a walk in the woods at night. Comments welcome.

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This is a memoir of my daughter's death and the communications we've had since her death. Since it is a true story, I want to know if it's readable and interesting.

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Yesterday I had fun! Silly piece for those who know my beserkness. Not a word but that is fitting! This is a piece I have been working on for weeks and struggling. I am afraid it shows but tweaked it a bit last evening. When one does a piece in honor of another to me it should represent their best. Is this there? No! Will it ever be? Not sure it is possible. Why this piece of art has so moved me I haven't a clue unless it is the darkness this man lived in at times and my own small pits I have visited. Serious input is welcomed. Sometimes that open the mind to see your own work more clearly and can tweak the thinking.

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My writing penchant is humour, so this one is unusual for me, but had to be written. Whether I should have posted it on tNBW is another matter. I find the saturation promotional advertising of up-coming tv programs to be extremely irritating. One in particular that was doing the rounds really p'd me off. As I lay in bed one night trying to sleep I got quite incensed. I could not sleep until I had grabbed my laptop computer and wrote down what was bounding around inside my skull. This is the result.

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Observations of living for over a half century. Well over may I add! Using an altered Haiku format. Definitely not in best writing form but sick or not ... a writer writes!! Critical commentary always welcomed as here to better my writing.

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Simply observing what lies around me, overhead or underfoot. This time it was overhead. How a vision can affect creative impulse and the need to follow through. Nature, beauty, responses. any and all feedback

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Free verse nature poem, outside my nature series. Trying to create a feeling of an experience with very few words.

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Does duty preclude a young girl coming of age? Where is the line drawn between common sense and public opinion? Feedback welcome

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Nighttime observation, August 2009

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I recently saw a drawing of the moon with a frowning face and decided to attempt another chaiku.

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I wrote this a number of years ago. My wife is from Bakersfield, Califirnia where fireflies are only a rumor or a myth. When I drug her to St. Louis, she was in awe of the "lightning bugs". I started telling her about my childhood experiences with those little fly by night critters. That evening I sat down an wrote this. That was in late 1997. I wasn't sure if this should be regarded as a memoir or not, so I put it in the "other" genre. Any thoughts about that? I am posting this with the hope that you might enjoy it and offer any comments about ways to make it more engaging or flow more smoothly. I want it to be a casual read that leaves the reader with slight smile or a warm feeling. I am not an educated writer. I am open to any and all comments and suggestions. Thanks!

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When I can't sleep and I'm going too fast, I need to slow down, rest but I can't, I just can't. Here is one of those nights.

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REVISED--I moved the stanzas around as suggested, killed the ugly semi-colon. The 'Yet,gravity' still doesn't seem quite right. Poem on the freedom of sky...and floating away.

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