Comments for The Daily Poetry Club

Comment on 3/10/10: Failure by Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:59:02 +0000

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 I can get.

Help come quick,
come pure and thick;
I’ve miles to cover yet.

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Comment on 3/10/10: Failure by D. Edgar Lamp

D. Edgar Lamp — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:38:53 +0000

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 through the fern,
Eager toward its final show.

Favor garlands those who win,
Always brings the nascent bloom.
Ill-equipped the fools begin ,
Laughing in the face of gloom.
Unction cannot cure their sin,
Reverie within the tomb,
Ether makes them small and thin.

Fame ignites for those who stay,
Answers play their hide and seek,
Islands rise to greet the day.
Languid kings in riddles speak,
Urchins left in love’s cliché;
Raucous, raging, hollow, weak.
Even failures find their way.

~ D. Edgar Lamp

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Comment on 3/10/10: Failure by Meryl

Meryl — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:46:54 +0000

If F stands for FAIL,
Why does BYU use E?
Does E stand for EPIC FAIL?
Could that possibly be?

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Comment on 3/9/10: Long by Volkam

Volkam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:47:37 +0000

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 teach me what I’m made of

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Comment on 3/9/10: Long by Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:52:06 +0000

They say that it ends.
They say that it gets better.
I don’t believe them.

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Comment on 3/9/10: Long by SBgiselle

SBgiselle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:32:50 +0000

High School

Day by day,
It is the longest thing invented.
Year by year,
It flies by like it never even happened.

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Comment on 3/9/10: Long by Meryl

Meryl — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:27:26 +0000

I struggle to research;
I avoid writing.
But soon my paper
will be longer than this poem.

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Comment on 3/9/10: Long by Russell

Russell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:42:04 +0000

The other things
that put themselves
in between the things
I actually want to do
seem infinitely long

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Comment on 3/8/10: Death by Volkam

Volkam — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:20:22 +0000

I met him in a house macabre
sitting under the dim luminescence
of a dusty old candelabra
I shuddered at his prescence

“What kind of fuerte
might you have young man?
Enough to escape Muerte?
Do whatever you can…”

He’s been quietly near my bed
while I have been ill for days
yet he vanishes to the land of dead
when life bathes me in its rays

Again I saw the man
as I faced the sword arm of death
his dark eyes were expectant
yet escaping I kept my living breath

A third time he came
after I had lost one who I love
“you can slip out of this world” he claimed
I replied “but not into heaven above”

I still see him there and here
but he leaves me mostly alone
his voice I will not again hear
until my body is as cold as cold stone

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Comment on 3/7/10: Mexico by Volkam

Volkam — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:37 +0000

along the grainy beach
the ebb and flow of tide
eased me to soft sleep
in a nearby hotel room I lie

I’ve run across the sand
late late at night
and from this strange land
felt the familiar touch of moonlight

I have fed iguanas flowers
of a color deep and red
they did not shy or cower
but scurried to be fed

I have climbed temple stairs
but you would have to be a madman
to run down them on a dog dare
in a hospital you would land

I’ve spent days helping the needy
their dark eyes
always turn friendly and beady
as their heart grows in size

played along turquoise waters
of the Caribbean sea
met someone’s attractive daughters
who were all too interested in me

yet for all these things
the language escapes my mind
but yet love and friendship sing
from actions so kind

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