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The Daily Poetry Club
A poem a day keeps the mind at play.
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Every night at midnight (Mountain Standard Time), a new topic is posted. Your job is to write a poem that day that has to do with the topic. Post it as a comment under that day's blog post. Repeat the next day! Your don't have to be a great poet to join. We're definitely not...We just created a Facebook fan page!
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Recent Poems
- wryness: How beautiful Unembellished Shines the sunlight On the water. Here a flash, There a sheen. Soft flashing. The waves, The waves. Living.
- Andrew: Courage to look, I quickly turn away. The girl I love, Her heart I cannot sway.
- Russell: It has taken some time, really hours of study and preparation, but luckily a big red “F” has never been mine
- Tristan: I faintly feel my spinning wheels come creaking to a stop. To keep them going, momentum slowing, takes much more than I’ve got. A push, a prod, a smile and nod, I’ll take what...
- D. Edgar Lamp: FAILURE Fortune gathers those who know, All the seasons take their turn, Instant while the moments glow. Logic binds the rapturous burn, Urgent weather aches to go, Rising fractal...
- Meryl: If F stands for FAIL, Why does BYU use E? Does E stand for EPIC FAIL? Could that possibly be?
- Volkam: Traveling up a long winding stair I grow and learn the stairs never end but I don’t care I want to feel the struggle and the burn at times the stairs are smooth or rough my efforts...
- Tristan: They say that it ends. They say that it gets better. I don’t believe them.
- SBgiselle: High School Day by day, It is the longest thing invented. Year by year, It flies by like it never even happened.
- Meryl: I struggle to research; I avoid writing. But soon my paper will be longer than this poem.
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An adult orangutan male
has an arm span of seven feet
and can weigh well over
two hundred pounds
and grow six feet tall
they are reportedly very territorial
and though they look wrinkled
like prunes, or your fingers
left too long in the tub
researchers say they are quite fierce
and although they are furry
they do not sound very soft
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+3
When I sleep
My head melts into the covers
and my lax cerebrum lolls out lazily,
rolls airily into a mellifluous sea
of caramel, Karo syrup
and warm molasses.
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If I fail magnificently
in a blaze of gory glory,
please portray me in my
video biography as a
hardcore softie,
like a tattooed, sailor-mouthed
Harley rider who secretly
sells tulip seeds online
because he likes the way they smell,
the way they look, and
the way they remind him
of his mother.
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I tried to write a ’soft’ poem
But it was too hard.
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+5