Will be posting here for April, 2012 - for Facebook 2012 Challenge.
Day 1 April Write Olympics
WLTM: (Who Would You Like To Meet?)
I would like to meet Shakespeare
Find him in his native haunts
I would drink the ale of his time
Talk to him of rhythms, words, rhyme
I would like to meet Shakespeare
Discuss theater and dreams
Costumes, sets, scrims and screams
Sonnets, love affairs, and tears
Yes, I'd like to meet Shakespeare
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HE LOOKS LIKE.... [For Michael]
He looks like
Your boy
He smiles, speaks, talks, walks and runs
He looks like
All boys
Most times
He loves pizza, puzzles thinks they're fun
But sometimes
He's awkward, and walks around and around
He picks up objects, then he drops them
Searching for answers that can't seem to be found
He looks like a lost boy
His eyes unfocused and sad
He wants to remember
And when he doesn't
He thinks that he's been bad
He looks like
Your boy
But he's different
He lives life inside the movies
In his head.
On Autism - World Autism Awareness Day.
© Gay Reiser Cannon * 4.12.2012 * All Rights Reserved
Day 2 Poetry Writing Olympics
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EVERY POET
has eyes that see in a unique color -- singular in the rainbow spectrum
paints a world unique to experience as the sphere spins a personal
trail of truth stretching that history starpoint by lightyear
Every poet
has ears where rhythms of life spin the sounds of a private world
into a singular song composed of the beats of words strung along
a staff of life where cups clink glasses, where birds sing trees
Every poet
can touch a personal nerve, a thread of holiday joys and morning
heartaches, lonely nights, and haunted writes. Feels the break in
other lives, knows the cast of a cold sunbeam on an empty bed
Every poet
reaches for the sublime, for the eternal, connects the veins of leaves
to the arteries of the human heart; bleeds the colors of autumn where
stains are left printed on the snow, rained away by spring, summer baked
Every poet
finds the minutiae of everyday and examines it with art's magnifying glass
knows truth is found by degree, nobility learned by example,
true love -- forgiving and unconditional
Every poet
a rare spirit who shares
© Gay Reiser Cannon *4/4/2012* All Rights Reserved
Posted for Day 4 - April Write 2012 - Poetry Olympics
Prompt "Every Poet Matters"
Prompt "Every Poet Matters"
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