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    Untangling the Entangled

    I’d like to split those two apart
    But they are too entangled.
    They will not split,
    Won’t think of it,
    Old-fashioned, not newfangled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    nice pieces

    next word: breaking up
    Breaking Up

    This frozen relationship, now thawing,
    Like the great tundra of the north lands,
    Holding contests to guess the first crack,
    Is breaking up, soon to float away,
    A floe bobbing in a black sea of emotion,
    Leaving crystals in its wake.

    This time alone, now gnawing,
    Like a rat, stowed away, chews the rope, yet
    Holding on with each heave and sway,
    Is breaking up, little by little,
    A moment here, a moment there of connection,
    Leaving hope to heal this sever.

    ampoule, September Fourth TwoThousandFourteen
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    Looking around me I saw this word, perfect for the season we are approaching: TAILGATING

    Hope a bunch of you will give it a go.
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    Tailgating

    You gotta love your car a lot
    To party in a parking lot
    With asphalt grass beneath our feet
    We’re grilling till we’re full of meat
    And full of beer before the game
    And after too. It’s all the same.
    And when there’s nothing else to do,
    We’ll party till that’s over, too.

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    Tailgating means something different to me:

    i love to drive

    my car doubles as a bier;
    can, when tailgated, speed,
    or precipice perceived
    breed anxiety; marrying
    vertigo, hypoxia, and
    palpitation - allowing
    neuroses to caper freely

    10/9/2014


    Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
    tailor STATELY
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    I love both of these!
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    new word:
    DAWN
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Dawn

    Today began. The pleasant dawn
    Awoke us before moving on.

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    Dawn

    Stage door East,
    I gasp at your entrance,
    holding my breath
    as you come further in,
    spreading your arms,
    holding the universe,
    I, sitting there wide-eyed,
    await your first line.


    ampoule, October TwentySecond, TwoThousandFourteen
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    Dawn Talkin' Blues

    I was standin’ there in the welfare line
    Down in Nome, Alaska, back in time,
    When a man come up to me and said, “How do.
    You know it’s mighty dark, this time o’ day,
    And it’s real hard to find your way,
    When the sun don’t come up here
    Until round noon.

    The dawn don’t break here, son,” he said,
    "It more creeps up on you instead,
    with twilight lasting longer than I’d like.
    A bit like the breakfast show with Desperate Dan.
    And though it’s true, I ain’t his biggest fan,
    Y’ know, frankly, I can’t stand the man,
    The time it takes the sun to come ’s a trial.

    It’s cold an’ dark half the year round
    And in summertime, or so I’ve found,
    It’s equally cold, and although it’s light, it’s dank.
    I dream of living where it’s warm and bright,
    In a place where palm trees greet your sight,
    All a swaying real stately in the breeze—
    And Droppin’ coconuts… in bunches…

    Now I know I’m buildin’ castles in the air
    And life for folks just ain’t that fair
    And I’m stuck here, just like you, for the duration.
    I’ll still be here when the rapture comes
    And I’ll spend my time a-twiddling my thumbs,
    Until my time of glory leads me hence.
    They’ll take me away in a snowmobile…”

    Well I looked at him and said, “That’s sad,”
    Although I knew the man was mad
    I thought it best to humour him, this time.
    I saw that he was smokin’ weed
    He even offered to sell me some GM seed
    Said he bought it off some crazy woman called Palin
    By mail order…

    But I declined, though it wasn’t kind,
    For I’d already made up my mind
    That I’d be moving on before too long.
    So I took my dole and dug a hole,
    And I’m diggin’ still, though I’m growin’ old,
    But by now I gotta be getting’ close to Hong Kong.
    It’s a long way down, folks…
    Last edited by Hawkman; 10-25-2014 at 08:52 PM.

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    very nice entries and reads
    and the next word is:

    romance

    my entry:

    romance
    is a silhouette
    of tense
    too much
    and it becomes expense
    less is enhance
    a makeup artist stance.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    An image built on mistake
    A free-throw without disdain
    melody of hex without refrain
    always in haste to overtake

    A keeper, not born as
    A seeker, aims infer
    A winner, hopes concur
    A loser, fright invites

    An end from the haste
    A free-lance on May Day
    willingness to faux pas
    only wanderlust to TAILGATE

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    Romance

    Someone other looking out
    Aware that we are looking in
    Surprised that all there is to find
    Is good enough and they don’t mind
    To let the play begin.

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    nice pieces to read

    and the word is;

    jealousy



    jealousy
    you sound
    fallacy
    without
    you
    I can be new
    without a care in the world
    but true.
    Last edited by cacian; 12-05-2014 at 04:06 PM.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Jealousy

    The weekend’s magic had been spent.
    They thought their spouses did not know,
    But everyone knew where they went.
    The way back home got trashed and bent.
    What love was left refused to grow.

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