Posted in Meme, Poetry, tagged Lucille Clifton, Poetry Friday on November 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Homage to My Hips
these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don’t fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don’t like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known [...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged Dorothy Parker, Frustration, Poetry Friday on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Frustration
If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folk who give me pains;
Or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moments pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.
But I have no lethal weapon-
Thus does Fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are [...]
Posted in Poetry on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Shelves of Ratty Books
I dream of shelves of ratty books,
their covers tattered, torn and worn;
a multitude of waiting pages,
innumerable for each child born.
Inside each tattered, torn, old cover,
enchantment waits each passerby
who’d dare to open up the cover
and read each word with eager eye.
I dream of shelves of ratty books,
for every child to hold so dear;
ratty [...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged Poetry Friday on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An Afternoon In The Stacks
Closing the book, I find I have left my head
inside. It is dark in here, but the chapters open
their beautiful spaces and give a rustling sound,
words adjusting themselves to their meaning.
Long passages open at successive pages. An echo,
continuous from the title onward, hums
behind me. From in here, the world looms,
a jungle [...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged Video on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I have to work today. Which means no reading books. Boo! Hiss!
So I’ll leave you with a little rhyme…
Posted in Meme, Poetry on November 30, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Lesley tagged me for this a couple of days ago but I haven’t had time until now.
What’s the first poem you remember reading/hearing/reacting to?
Ummm….I’m really not sure! I’ve never read a lot of poetry and I don’t really remember reading much as a child.
I was forced to memorize (name of poem) in school and…
In Flander’s [...]
Posted in Canadian, Fiction, Poetry, Reading Challenges, tagged Summer Reading Challenge on July 12, 2006 | 1 Comment »
(Yes, I know this is the 3rd SRC book I’ve posted about tonight but I’ve been almost done of this and Candyfreak for a few days so I just sat down and finished them tonight.)
I’m going to be honest. Poetry intimidates the hell out of me. It didn’t used to be that way. [...]
Posted in Bookstores, Canadian, Poetry on July 8, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I went for a walk tonight.
I did not intend to buy anything.
I thought maybe I’d go to a patio, have a beer. But the patios were full of loud people who had been there most of the day, many celebrating the World Cup. I just wasn’t in the mood for that.
So I stopped at the [...]
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