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A collection of poetry written and originally posted on www.writerscafe.org. Most of these were written for specific requirements, i.e. contest parameters, and many are award-winners. Spanning many topics and formats, there is sure to be something to catch everyone's eye and heart.
Contents:
*Poetry – Acrostic; Wo(Man) – Diamante; Under the Hedge – Haiku
The Question; Summer Rain – Tanka; The Four Year First Date – Linked Haiku; Elder Secrets – Haiku; *Starlight – Haiku; Speculations on a Spiderweb – Cinquain; Soul Dance; *Ice Curtain – Haiku; Free Range – Haiku; *All the King’s Men; Rain Dance – Haiku; Deep as a Well; Prairie Sunrays – Linked Haiku; Shadow Dancing; A Conjuring; *The Soul Eater; **Whirlpool – sonnet; *To the Muse – sonnet; Take My Hand; Dream of Me; Shelter Here; In Dreams – triolet; **Happy the Man – sonnet; Forever Yours; Ethereal Solidity; **A Writer’s Philosophy – acrostic; A Mad Moon Rising; The Flying Dutchman; I Lift My Eyes…; Let Us Be Children; *Ode to a Crow; The Wreck of the Rising Tide; In the Midnight; Woven; Time; Waiting in the Forest; *Lollipop Land; If Only…; Poetry School; No Swimming; *Where Did Daddy Go?; *A Cautionary Tale; **Waning…; *To Tell Medusa No…; *Reflection of Wonder; *The Twenties; *The Musical Box; King Moon; The Great Leopard; *Plastic Roses; *Notes from a Chinese Junk Shop; Not Your Mama’s Nursery Rhymes…; Black Balloon Rising; **My Tomboy; Do Not Mourn; *Campfire Philosophy; Bright Life; ***Reflections on a Summer’s Day; And the Trees Wept Blood; *If You Could…; Turn Back the Hands on the Dandelion Clock; Painted Horses; Sailing to Neverland; Stepping Out; Poet Laureate of the Laundromat; *My Grandmother’s House; *When I Am Old and Gray; *Lost in Flames; *Jumbled; *I Will Wear My Rue…; Heels; *Dare I Cut the Strings?; Concerning the Burning of Witches in Salem; *Annabel Dawn; *A Trillion Raindrops; Empty Cradles; **It Was All So Simple Then; Listen to the Rain – alphabet acrostic; My Mama Says…; That Day the Earth Stood Still; *What Would YOU Pay?; For Rosalia; The Contest; Silly Love Song; A Toast; **My Boyfriend’s Dead; Fairy Dance; Defiant; *Haiku to Chocolate – haiku; *Coca-Cola Kid; *Better in a Bottle; *Cerulean; *Durn Martians…; Crystal Unicorn; Daily Ritual; Acrostics – acrostic; *No Paliacchi Here; *The Snob – limerick; Ten Aspiring Writers
*Prize winning poems
Excerpt
Sample poem:
Ethereal Solidity
I wanted to create
a poem --
as delicate as
moonlight and
cobwebs --
to whisper of
fragility...
of the glass
tower where
I sit
alone...
but instead
came solid
words --
stable
as granite.
7/26/07
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