Again
the world

fades away,

all the colours

turned shades of grey.

I looked around to see,
wonder if this could really be.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ohsteve) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18976 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:32:06 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18837/t/the-point-of-conceiving.html How were you conceived?

In love of course, on crisp white sheets

That your mother had washed and pressed

The day before.

Lights out, lights on, the details escape me

But one thing is certain, it wasn't done in a hurry.

Or it might have been on the bedroom floor

feeds@yuku.com (evowayne) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18837 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:56:11 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18819/t/Son-of-my-Father.html Son of my Father

A man in quiet desperation, sits and reads the tomes,

written by other hands, the words are his lore.

He understands the ancient wars... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ohsteve) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18819 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:18:39 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17556/t/Still.html

Blinds drawn against a darkened lawn,
and there, framed within each
sodden, leafy blade -
a glimpse of you.

Imprisoned in a prism of streetlight;
through dew your face draws clarity,
like the proton ghost of a Savior
impressed upon a blanket for the dead.

My mind traces your figure
with the finger
of a memory sieved through window screens -
cutting out your form with words,

formed when you dropped... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cicada Rising) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17556 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:00:50 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17529/t/June.html June

I.

The most miserable thing about June
are the peaches -
how the peach tree goes untended,
sprawling across the ground
like a worn-out dog;
hardly stirred
by the wind
and flies.

Every year the peaches
get eat up by Junebugs,
worms, and squirrels -
gnawed and discarded
before any ever
get fat enough to fall.

Green peaches
rots slow,
leaving the grass pockmarked
and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cicada Rising) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17529 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:36:44 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17472/t/Cavalcade.html Cavalcade

We've only been till lately, at a loss
of the breadth of majesty and power
of galaxies ten trillion miles across,
spinning 'round a million miles an hour!
We've only spent these past four hundred years
picturing our nearest neighbor planets;
a scant five decades launching new careers
breaking free of gravity and granite.
What once we wore, the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Collumcille) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17472 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:20:01 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17465/t/Self-Assessed-Roundel-for-Sarah-by-invitation-.html Self Assessed

I suppose it'd be best to say nothing
while slumbering canines lie in repose;
but I do get fed up with tongue biting,
I suppose.

I was not called to writing, I chose;
yet I can't claim to do this very thing
if I've no power for it and it shows.

As fish gotta swim and birds do take wing,
So too, is a dandelion not a rose;
and you may take me to task for... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Collumcille) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17465 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:36:11 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17164/t/When-You-Were-Near.html Hello!
I've made some changes based on Sarah's comments. But I've left the orginal poem below the new one so that all can see the differences. Question: Is the change in tense distracting?
-Jael

New:
I shudder in the darkness when you are near
and hold my eyes tight against your touch.
Do you remember why I flinched in fear?

If the pillows weren't straightened there... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jael73) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/17164 Sun, 25 May 2008 11:55:53 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/16364/t/The-Charioteer.html I do not need this cart, these hidden wheels,
they mock what I am and what I have done.