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| MEMBERS POETRY |
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 | Buried Treasure
Re-post your best writes from the past. | 7 | 45 | Mon Jul 19th, 2010 01:13 am
by Serah
in Only in a Dream  | | The Village Greene
General poems of no specific nature. | 620 | 3,951 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 02:42 am
by Cappuchino
in A thought | | The Open Field
Genuine off-the-top-of-your-head observations, written NOW | 14 | 115 | Mon Jul 26th, 2010 03:04 am
by rws
in A Visitor’s Guide to Hell | | The Gauntlet
Poetic challenges from members to all comers. Post your replies here or in the other forums. | 35 | 1,151 | Thu Feb 4th, 2010 02:14 pm
by Cappuchino
in Brothers at Arms | | The Muse's Cave
Poems about writing, inspiration, and playing with the muse. | 10 | 91 | Fri Jul 9th, 2010 03:55 am
by Cappuchino
in Sister Spider | | The Sundial
Poems about this day and age, the modern world. | 157 | 1,328 | Wed Jul 28th, 2010 01:41 am
by Serah
in Everyone’s An Artist | | The Cathedral
Anything of a religious nature (for OR against) | 205 | 1,593 | Wed Jul 28th, 2010 02:27 am
by Serah
in Jerusalem. | | The Jester's Playhouse
We love comedy at Rhymalot! | 335 | 2,416 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 11:44 am
by Ted Cherry
in Poems of Ted | | The Queen's Boudoir
Poems of Love, heartbreak, and the usual romantic musings. | 362 | 2,137 | Sat Jul 24th, 2010 07:07 pm
by Erthona
in In Your Heart I'll Wait. | | The Jousting Arena
Political and Controversy! | 111 | 838 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 02:48 am
by Cappuchino
in Much Ado About Nothing | | Merlin's Mirror
Poems about yourself, feelings, memories, etc. | 305 | 1,947 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 02:51 am
by Cappuchino
in Chords | | The Royal Orchard
Nature poems. | 150 | 1,166 | Sat Jul 24th, 2010 07:09 pm
by Erthona
in A Nature Study. | | The Nannie's Nursery
Poems written with children in mind. | 99 | 808 | Fri Jul 16th, 2010 08:12 am
by Krazy
in The Tiny Elephant | | The Dragon's Lair
Fantasy, Vampires, Unicorns, Gothic...YOU name it! | 98 | 655 | Mon Feb 1st, 2010 01:49 pm
by Erthona
in Wolf Moon | | The Smith's Forge
Form Poetry, Haikus, Sonnets, proper verse. | 146 | 1,221 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 02:31 am
by Serah
in Thinking | | The Torture Chamber
Poems of heartbreak, sorrow and tears. | 207 | 1,342 | Tue Jul 20th, 2010 02:53 pm
by Cappuchino
in One Small Wreath | | The Spinning Chamber
Experimental work, and exceptionally graphic poetry, that may be too much for "normal" forums. ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK | 36 | 264 | Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 01:08 pm
by Ben Gunn
in Knowing Somebody You Don’t. | | Waxing Lyrical
Lyrics, and songs you've recorded | 32 | 237 | Sun Apr 11th, 2010 01:47 am
by rws
in Fear | | The Town Crier
Spoken poetry where you can hear the writer speak their verse | 49 | 367 | Sun May 16th, 2010 11:52 am
by Cappuchino
in Lipstick hands | | The Weaver's Loom
Short stories, and stuff. | 81 | 497 | Sat May 15th, 2010 02:24 am
by rws
in The Second Conversation |
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| THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE |
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| BECOME A KNIGHT
 How to join the Round Table and have your own forum. | 1 | 1 | Thu Jul 20th, 2006 11:34 pm
by King Oder
in Joining the Round Table | | The Fox's Den
From the shores of Mongolia... | 2 | 7 | Tue Dec 30th, 2008 11:11 pm
by Ted Cherry
in ????? | | Dawn's Dungeon
The Lady WittyBartendar welcomes your jesty input. | 6 | 146 | Wed Mar 17th, 2010 05:14 am
by Ted Cherry
in The Smallness of it All. | | The Coffee Shop
David tells of his life as a Postulent with the Capuchins. | 295 | 743 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 05:07 am
by Ben Gunn
in Too Much | | Ted's Shed
Sir Ted Cherry welcomes you... | 8 | 262 | Sun Jun 27th, 2010 03:26 am
by Ted Cherry
in Reaity | | Sweet Caroline's Corner
the sweetest spot at KP | 6 | 663 | Fri Jul 16th, 2010 08:22 am
by Krazy
in Visions | | Treasure Island
 Sir Ben Gunn is the chief pirate here... | 48 | 2,439 | Thu Jul 29th, 2010 11:18 am
by Ted Cherry
in Construction - 4 liners as they come. Hopefully daily...join in if one comes to mind. | | Sir Dreamwarrior
the Dwayne in Spain stays mainly...oh, you know... | 75 | 711 | Sun Jul 4th, 2010 09:08 am
by Dreamwarrior
in Back and better than ever! | | Lady LucidDreams
Dive in and see for yourself! | 23 | 227 | Fri Jun 6th, 2008 04:45 am
by rws
in Second Life | | Sir Ghostknight
The Knight of the Ghost? | 3 | 84 | Sun Apr 13th, 2008 01:58 am
by Ted Cherry
in welcome to ghostknight's haven | | The Lady Boadicea
(known to her friends as Boadicea the Incredibly Awesome) | 3 | 149 | Thu Jul 23rd, 2009 07:22 pm
by rws
in Favourite poems | | The Lady Krazy
(or should it be the krazy lady???) | 18 | 123 | Sat Jun 21st, 2008 03:11 pm
by rws
in Gone, Baby | | The Lady Janneke
The Lady welcomes any and all non-English or bilingual poems... | 13 | 97 | Tue Jan 5th, 2010 01:40 am
by Cappuchino
in Comunidad | | Sir Wewak11
| 24 | 106 | Sat Jul 3rd, 2010 08:52 pm
by Cappuchino
in Quickies3 | | Lady Playdoh
Beware - magic exists...
| 5 | 32 | Tue Apr 21st, 2009 01:59 am
by rws
in The Princess and the Dragon | | Lady Wisdom Seeker
An East Coast member of the Round Table | 9 | 57 | Thu Feb 11th, 2010 03:00 am
by rws
in Will it ever be... | | Sir Dustmote
Our newest Knight! | 2 | 19 | Sun Mar 30th, 2008 03:02 am
by Shrek
in MEME Warriors | | Sir Fade ElBrunen
 Is Fade a glove puppet??? Come in and see for yourself... | 13 | 102 | Mon Jun 25th, 2007 12:03 pm
by Fade ElBrunen
in IO | | Lady Rask
Step in and see... | 4 | 8 | Wed Apr 22nd, 2009 09:16 pm
by rws
in Prelude to an Epiphany |
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| A Classic Poem |
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Choosing to Think of It
by Stephen Dunn
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Today, ten thousand people will die
and their small replacements will bring joy
and this will make sense to someone
removed from any sense of loss.
I, too, will die a little and carry on,
doing some paperwork, driving myself
home. The sky is simply overcast,
nothing is any less than it was
yesterday or the day before.
In short,
there's no reason or every reason
why I'm choosing to think of this now.
The short-lived holiness
true lovers know,
making them unaccountable
except to spirit and themselves--
suddenly
I want to be that insufferable and selfish,
that sharpened and tuned.
I'm going to think of what it means
to be an animal crossing a highway,
to be a human without a useful prayer
setting off on one of those journeys
we humans take.
I don't expect anything
to change.
I just want to be filled up
a little more with what exists,
tipped toward the laughter which understands
I'm nothing and all there is.
By evening, the promised storm
will arrive.
A few in small boats
will be taken by surprise.
There will be survivors, and even they will die.
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| Featured Poetry |
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Cool Tombs
by Carl Sandberg
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs he forgot
the copperheads and the assassin . . .
in the dust, in the
cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
cash and collateral turned ashes . . .
in the dust, in the
cool tombs.
Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar,
sweet as a red haw in
November or a pawpaw in May,
did she wonder? does she
remember? . . .
in the dust, in the cool tombs?
Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin
horns . . .
tell me if the lovers are losers . . .
tell me if any
get more than the lovers . . .
in the dust . . .
in the cool
tombs.
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