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stirring of the sky

April 18, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

multicoloured sunset

my eye was born in the stirring of the sky a painted ingot fired with the dawn burning at the dam’s early light a dividing wall eroded and a river ran from the zenith a molten composition cast upon the cotton ball sky cooling it cracked in a crinkling with it my arrogance that once…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: eye, GloPoWriMo, Light, Poem, sight, sky, sunset

moonlight

April 17, 2021 by Dale 2 Comments

partial lunar eclipse

I lay there — changing beneath the thin cotton sheets caught in the threads of the silver light pinpoints revealing each letter upon the pages I devoured in the thinness of the night. I lay there absorbed in the alphabet constant an ephemeral Enigma predicting into what I would with each turn metamorphosize wish I…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: change, childhood, Discovery, GloPoWriMo, moon, moonlight, Poetry, reading

No Regrets

April 16, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

graffiti on a corner

no regrets, cast away recall cast away away cast away all painted memories in aerosol drip my spell upon a wall Vive la France and Charles De Gaulle Pour the streets with alcohol Being bad – meh – that’s my downfall Screw the good, life’s protocol Smoke a cigarette, how banal Rather, maybe, sex in…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: Edith Piaf, GloPoWriMo, Graffiti, life, Poetry, regrets, Rhyme, Skeltonic

Earthly Habits

April 15, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

herbs in a jar for preserves

my Father always toiled at the earth above the rocks he kept our yard a solitude of quiet and play a kinder garten circled by the elm hedge and shaded by the twin aspen it was always home and always work. my Father always toiled at our garden on the verge of my perception I…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: childhood, Family, father, garden, GloPoWriMo, legacy, Poetry, preserves, son, toil

My Life is a Valley

April 14, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

a valley is my life a natural paradise I was born of a valley a winding lake monster filled with blossom and pollen fragrance captured, hilled in hands I am wet with wandering rivers deepen my back enter me and I deliver passage running between the mountains I am a yoga pose interrupting the plain…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: Dale, GloPoWriMo, life, Poetry, valley

Gone to the Birds

April 13, 2021 by Dale 1 Comment

pigeons fed in town square

Gone to the Birds World Health Organization reports #vaccinations administered by air travel break our distance the answer contradicts wet market obfuscation origin stories rapid testing rising numbers birds gather in public unmasked fed prescriptions sourdough pieces intensive care moistly distributed to the populations all variants flock together casting caution to the ventilation open borders…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: birds, covid, GloPoWriMo, humour, news, pandemic, pigeons, Poetry, vaccination

Letter to Giovanna

April 11, 2021 by Dale 4 Comments

Insalata di Arance

Dear Giovanna La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio I have fed and dined upon your words satiated my own hunger for travel and culinary knowledge. Your family the treasures you have shared are now my treasures stringing families together keeping me nourished my mind dressed and many years marinated and seasoned. I’ve cooked my way through…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: Cooking, covid, dolce vita, Gangivecchio, Giovanna Tornabene, GloPoWriMo, letter, Poetry, Siciliy

Yesterday’s Lament

April 10, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

Yesterdays dreams in a drawer Paperbacks promised cascade dog eared devoured once a Word was enough Mother Nature’s Country boy reaching Across the universe across the daffodils distracted abandoned Ask me why? Bad boy? Because? Please, please, me Carry that weight slide it close Writer dried up pens inkwell waiting yellowed clippings recordings ramblings No…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: Beatles, GloPoWriMo, Junk Drawer, Lyrics, memory, Mother Nature's Son, Poetry, songs, writing

Gordon’s Friday List

April 9, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

Marco’s meat hammer donkey??? best refinement training? 1 kilo kosher salt dozen aprons (blue) 5 signed copies of Street Burger 2 boxes Arborio rice cough drops hair gel change of clothes overnight bag buy dozen scampi dog eared copy of Merchant of Venice Michelin’s recommendations in Canada Chicago??? map of Golden Mile find lease Mont…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: GloPoWriMo, Gordon Ramsay, humour, list, Poetry, To-Do List

on the death of a tree

April 8, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

Falling Tree

Can you hear me? Can you hear me cry? Can you hear me as I die? I wonder if my voice travels Outside this place, this clearing, Surrounded by my brethren And sisters born from a great fire. The staff of my life has rotted away See my mangled entrails, my roots Now exposed by…

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30 Poems in 30 Days – Global Poetry Writing Month (2022)

  • A Love Song

    A Love Song
  • Chosen

    Chosen
  • Wormwood

    Wormwood
  • Bashert

    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
  • Aisling for the Land

    Aisling for the Land
  • Hard Boiled Boy

    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

    Sense of Time
  • We Reflect

    We Reflect
  • A Family Grown

    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

    Fly — Away
  • Curtains

    Curtains
  • A Question Heard

    A Question Heard
  • The Storm

    The Storm
  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
  • Bun in the Oven

    Bun in the Oven
  • The world don’t owe you nothing

    The world don’t owe you nothing
  • the syrphid

    the syrphid
  • Osborne

    Osborne
  • Love is not a Word

    Love is not a Word
  • Meta

    Meta
  • Super-Pop

    Super-Pop
  • footprints on the sands of time

    footprints on the sands of time
  • Spring Grows

    Spring Grows
  • Neptune’s Recline

    Neptune’s Recline
  • Red Light, Green Light, Stop

    Red Light, Green Light, Stop
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog

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