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- From: bu016@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Zita Marie Evensen)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: writing poetry ...[ poem]
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:44:33 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: bu016@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Zita Marie Evensen)
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- WRITING POETRY ...
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- picking flowers
- from a garden of words
- and sounds and images ...
- for a tranquil afternoon
- of ikebana and green tea.
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- clowning with a happy-sad face
- in baggy pants and daisy-decked fedora
- chased by an irreverent bull
- in a dusty rodeo arena ...
- parched-throated, heart stopping
- daredevilness ...
- and a tsunami of laughter.
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- riding a whiplash roller-coaster ...
- scrambling thoughts ... inside-out,
- up-side-down ... screaming
- visions in your mind.
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- sand-painting with
- turquoise, white jade, and red earth
- in communion with earth spirits
- and manitous of long ago.
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- heart-throbs and heart-aches
- what-weres and what-might-have-beens,
- que sera seras, que pasas ...
- alohas, bienvenidas ...
- te amo por siempre.
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- curling up and reaching
- into the time-reversed rhythm
- of the memories of a one-celled
- life and soul.
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- zita evensen
- c1992, sept 4
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- .. i am a romantic .... no apologies ......
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