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Thursday Read Write Poem

Posted on 14:51, November 19th, 2009 by EKSwitaj

A typo in one of my poems in the Winter 2009 issue of SparkBright (warning PDF ahead) has pleased me so much that if I publish said poem in a book, I may well keep it. See if you can spot this portal of discovery.

Praise Song for a Marine Climate

praise the poor puddles that pucker the land
pressing the pebbles & sand into bowls
that keep their praise of all that's gray
damp long past blue
                    pushing all that doubt away

wind
does it all
but the strange color of the heights we breathe
gets all the attention
                       & the shades
                                    on our eyes
do not prevent apprenticed eyes
from seeing past their occupation

their possession
laws
     & gears

              rain only keeps them in
when no one praises
that impure wash
that baptism of mud
& doubt

Written in Response to read write prompt #101: p-p-p-poetry

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7 Responses to “Thursday Read Write Poem”

gautami tripathy on November 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm

The p words simply flow here!

perfectly plastered

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Barbara on November 19th, 2009 at 5:32 pm

I love the opening stanza, and especially the first line. I would steal that one for sure.
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David Moolten on November 19th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

I love the “baptism of mud and doubt”, what a great contrast, and the abstractness of “doubt” is earned by the very vivid build up of details throughout the poem.
David Moolten’s last blog ..Celebrity

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Tina Celio on November 19th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

A cleansing poem – cyclical, the way the marine climate naturally works out its own impurities. Very nice!
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