The Daily Poetry Club

8 Poems

1. Sorgie says:

   February 19, 2010 at 10:13 am

   Two of them on the wire
   Making sharp, tick-tock movements
   like clocks

   They seem perpetually curious,
   ticking their heads and tails
   while their fellows
   many more than two
   congregate in a fir

   chattering with one another
   making plans or small talk

   when suddenly, without warning
   they all lift off and go
   til spring

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2. Ashlee says:

   February 19, 2010 at 12:15 pm

   Up and onward we climbed together,
   Never mindful of the weather.
   Our path seemed to take us ever upward,
   Which, at the time, seemed the same as forward.
   Little did I think of gravity then
   But climbing up higher, I fell farther my friend.
   And have I gone backward now? to you I mouth,
   Now that our adventure has gone a bit south?
   I’m standing on solid, flat ground again
   But I know that itch to climb will soon
   crawl back under my skin.

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3. Meryl says:

   February 19, 2010 at 2:58 pm

   If things go badly
   they have “gone south.”
   If things go rightly,
   have they gone north?

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4. Tristan says:

   February 19, 2010 at 6:43 pm

   “Love and riches await you in the south.”
   That’s the way I like my future told:
   specific, optimistic, and
   swaddled in sugar and egg whites.

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5. lazerlipz says:

   February 19, 2010 at 7:23 pm

   You can run south as far as you like
   But no place is further than trouble
   Later or sooner you’ll set on some cliff’s edge—
   Some barren border
   And nothing behind but trees for miles
   So play me some of that delta blues
   Let my hands and I’ll clap
   Let my voice and I’ll wail
   To it’s wrenching
   Pentatonic, pleasure-pain
   Play it Raw
   Rowdy
   Relentless
   As Rude as you like
   Until I’m battered and sore
   And heart bleeds in exulted misery
   Though a hellhound’s on my trail,
   I’ll sing laments like gospel
   And the devil can’t stop me—

   His achy heart knows it’s blues,
   And the fool’s seen bad days too

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6. SBgiselle says:

   February 19, 2010 at 11:39 pm

   Dawn
   Rising in the east
   Sunset
   Brightening the west
   North
   There’s a star in it’s sky
   South
   ……………………………

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7. deepgreen says:

   February 19, 2010 at 11:41 pm

   All my life
   I have tried to master
   A southern accent
   To no avail
   I always fail
   What is my problem!?

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8. Volkam says:

   February 19, 2010 at 11:46 pm

   South the cry came
   so south I went
   happiness filled the gap of pain
   brightened the drab walls of this traveler’s tent

   I am among much more cheery personality
   with smiles and laughs under the sun
   people who believe in responsibility
   yet still know how to have fun

   we sing we dance we play
   we laugh we joke we race
   all of each and every day
   I feel snug and in place

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