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CLOAK OF LIFE
We live in "casings" , birth to tomb
First infant...wrapped in mother's womb,
Later years wrapped in tradition,
living a life without decision
When, at last we shed that shirt
...and wrap ourselves in mother earth
Ned Pendergast
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Infinite Blue
Our moon is a silver chalice
to drink from
before we slumber
sheltered in each other's arms.
How could I not love you
more each day
knowing
there can be no compromise?
Our stars are gods to wish upon-
errant dreams
guiding the owl's shadow
in the windows before daybreak.
Mark A. Murphy
The poet reports: I was born in the UK in 1969. I studied philosophy as an under-graduate and poetry as a post-graduate. My first full length collection, Night Watch Man & Muse is pending from Salmon Poetry (Eire) early in 2012.
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Public Announcemnent
She said she was queer- Outloud
into a megaphone
time didn't stop
people didn't turn and stare
the world is still spinning
and i am on it
and i am she
Bethany L. Young
Bethany L. Young has been writing zines and trying to overthrow the government since age 12. She strives to add anthropological flair to her counterculture writings. Ms. young is a lifelong advocate for gay and lesbian rights and gender equality.
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Love's Charge
No felon hunted down by burly cops
could so resign himself to his arrest
before a gun barrage that never stops,
as I, who cede before your ardent quest
to send me to the prison of your arms.
A bruiser threatening the use of force,
could not intimidate me like your charms,
to follow you along your chosen course.
And I who fought opponents with more might
than you - when honor made me stand my ground -
delight imagining my taking flight
to empasize the ties that leave me bound.
Yet, weary from opposing love's constraint
I waive my civil rights without complaint.
Frank De Canio
Frank De Canio
The poet reports: I was born & bred in New Jersey, work
in New York. I love music of all kinds, from Bach to
Dory Previn, Amy Beach to Amy Winehouse,
World Music, Latin, opera. Shakespeare
is my consolation, writing my hobby. I like Dylan
Thomas, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Frost , Ginsburg, and
Sylvia Plath as poets
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bathos
awash in
bathos
we
await -
cerulean
current
a d r i f t -
fearing
for
more.
there is no more.
Vaughan Rapatahana
The poet reports - Fortunate to have been published in wide range of publications in a wide range of places and was longlisted for Proverse Prize in Literature in 2009. Third collection of poems Home Away Elsewhere scheduled for early 2011, while have also co-authored poetry teaching resource English through Poetry series, User Friendly Resources, Aotearoa. Am poetry editor for MAI Review Journal, based at University of Auckland, from where I also managed to get a Ph.D!
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"My Death"
When I die the sea will rage
And swells will thrash the rocks!
Stars will fall! The moon go in eclipse!
Volcanoes will erupt and spray their ash
And liquid red into the firmament!
All to tell the deity I died.
I think he wouldn't notice otherwise.
Joseph Hart