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Paul Bonnifield
Jodi Foy Buchan
Judith Carol Day
Tony Crawford
Kathleen Guler
John Grassby
Harriet Freiberger
Karen Leslee
Edith Lynn Hornik Beer
Graydon D Hubbard
Michala Miller
Joyce Phillips
Cesare Rosati
Sandra Sherrod
William D. Skees
Bill Stocks
Susan de Wardt Bonnie McGee
Marian Tolles
Glen Poulter
Tina Weintraub
Robert Howe
Todd Kelly
After attending a creative writing class in 1995, I heard about the Steamboat writer's group. As I listened int the group to the readers and critiques, I learned a way to express through words. I found my niche. I discovered poetry says so much with so few words. My world expanded.
DEVELOPMENT
Pressured sanctuary
jumped - pillaged - scooped
into bubbly champagne swamp.
Groomed to accommodate
tuxedoed reptiles.
TOWNS
Blended like thick hot stew
community flavors
passions
simmering in a human pot
toward compromised living
GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS
Rotting flesh
sits in a lazy boy.
Jellied flab settles,
settles, settles,
until balance exits,
pain enters,
becomes daily.
Sedimentary rock forms
stealing the show,
a stone
center stage.
SCHOOLING
Cheery platitudes splattered.
Pompous lectures snorted.
Arrogant justifications spewed,
in classrooms of illusions
and painful semesters.
Until experience
grants a degree of compassion
ATTRACTION
A royal flush in spades
dropped into a life
amazing to see
Nerves wriggled into shakes
Sweat appeared and dripped
Holder couldn't lie.
Cards looked good.
All players folded
But on second glance,
the jack was clubs.
Foiled again.
Gold doors -- unfolded
I became nourished cold
A fed ember
Warm - reflecting
Broken maze called me
A wandering seeker
A handy servant
Replacing - reconstructing
DOUBLE TALK
Crawling words like worms
slithered through synapses,
disconnecting.
Non-sentences clogged brain channels.
Confusion left dirty tunnels of space,
until silence relaxed
logic flickered on,
lghted mind returned.
Logic rolls in calmly
ommon sense spills in gratefully
On a thin line
Precariously ready to drip
off the thread
The mystery -the humble -the simple
So easy to loose
To nonsense - ignorance
war
DARK GREEN
Reptilian grandiosity
slithers in their minds,
secreting scaly power
immobilizing others
with a black pawn
that speaks their forked tongue.
Gentle innocence visited.
Bringing peace and experience to
unknowing initiates.
Pink light healing.
attitudes of truth
and cosmic relief.
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