Some locals are condemning Halloween.
"Abolish it!"
Is their hue and cry.

70 is the average age
in a town of 8 bars
and 33 churches.

...........Are old women
in the woods with walkers
performing satanic rituals?

feeds@yuku.com (turtle) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21836 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:31:23 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21756/t/Transparent.html Weasels won't wallow in pity
And cattle don't cry when alone.
Chipmunks aren't mean chumps that sling nuts,
To harry the neighbor's new home.

Meerkats aren't making malicious
and Mynas don't mean to malign.
Raccoons aren't racked with resentment
Toward cheeky rooster's incline.

The dally of doves is willfull,
They dawdle desiring to dine
On crumbs prying pigeons might miss,
Or... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (turtle) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21756 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:05:39 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21661/t/Metaphor.html I once compared the poet to a hurdy gurdy player:


Every evening,
in "Ile de la Cité"
The hurdy gurdy player
would wheel his music cart
out to the park.

On his shoulder,
in short breeches
and an usher's cap,
sat a monkey with a tin cup.

The hurdy... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (turtle) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21661 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:46:51 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21122/t/the-knight.html

a man looks his whole life
he look high and low,town to town
nation to nation for the one
he goes through wars,sceenes of death and horror
and the one was in his next door nabors house the whole time...waiting.

an old couple swings on a front porch as the sun goes down
they wish upon venus as it shines its white light over all stars
they hope with every fiber of their being
they concentrate very hard for that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (7thghost) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/21122 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:46:21 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/20365/t/Casualty-of-a-divorce-.html fingers discreetly
wipe treacherous tears.
father never came
my son says
with a nonchalance
studied.
my heart clenches
I reach out
into this splintered world.
we sit in clotted silence
his head droops
onto my shoulder.

let him dream
of warm sunshine
of balloons,blue clouds
of clowns,cookies
a sea of happy faces.

let him wake
with my kiss
and I will hope
this... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (phoenix) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/20365 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:00:36 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/20146/t/Fallen-.html I feel the urge
to step off this
precipice.
to unleash the
restlessness gathering
within.
to graze the
bowels of earth
feathers singed
sooty speckled
molten fire
singing through
my veins.
to swoop into
this slate sky
screams puncturing
a listless moon. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (phoenix) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/20146 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:23:09 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19687/t/Icicles.html
Around us these others cannot see the city
through the lower leaves of a ginkgo tree:

The skyscrapers, the temples, the pond
between it and them. Their jungle

is filled with excuses ―
a scandal, a mask, a palimpsest.

I use a metaphor and Jin hears
imperative ― something about a following power

too close to the surface.
A cup of coffee warming her hands,

my woman watches the light hit a wall-mart... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Yejun) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19687 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:06:57 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19526/t/wanna-go-back-to-the-bridge.html wanna go back to the bridge
dont even want to write this
go back to you and me and nothingness
remember talking about grits there
feel like grinding everything up now just like them
all the gaps between everyone
alone
but people are
coming in from the sky
rising out of the dirt
motorcycles in your living room
grind up thought too
that just makes me think
Im in what my mind created
while each tiny atom everywhere
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (OCTOGENARIAN) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19526 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:11:39 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19359/t/Twilight-Wind-a-glosa.html A glossa, using another poets lines/verse, you first state that verse, then writing ten lines you use each line of their verse for an ending line and your verse has to expand on theirs. the 6th, 9th and last lines have to ryhme. Try it, it is harder than you think.