Poems About Life As A Writer Seeking Friendly Advice
#LifeAsAWriter
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
9th Nov 2018 00:36am
9th Nov 2018 00:36am
The Knack
( a Quatern )
A tribute to Elizabeth Bishop
(1911-1979)
and her poem “One Art”
I tell myself it doesn’t matter much,
When at the end of day my tally’s off.
A post-it note reminding me some such,
To go and buy the syrup for my cough.
So what if I forgot and lost the note,
I tell myself it doesn’t matter much.
I’ll make some tea & honey, let it float,
I keep it in my pantry or the hutch.
So while I’m thinking which I’ll fix a lunch,
Make finger sandwiches to have with tea.
I tell myself...
A tribute to Elizabeth Bishop
(1911-1979)
and her poem “One Art”
I tell myself it doesn’t matter much,
When at the end of day my tally’s off.
A post-it note reminding me some such,
To go and buy the syrup for my cough.
So what if I forgot and lost the note,
I tell myself it doesn’t matter much.
I’ll make some tea & honey, let it float,
I keep it in my pantry or the hutch.
So while I’m thinking which I’ll fix a lunch,
Make finger sandwiches to have with tea.
I tell myself...
#LifeAsAWriter
#ElizabethBishop
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oskar
Poem Published
31st Oct 2018 8:33am
31st Oct 2018 8:33am
I have forgotten
I have forgotten the name of.
My friend who knew things said it was because
the man wanted egg and bacon for breakfast preferable
of the fried kind.
It is annoying they have come to fix the internet and
I keep thinking of the painter's name especially of say
“Late night at the diner” How can I forget yes, I blame the internet?
it has made us lazy, just look it up don't bother to think.
I wonder if my friend still thinks the man in the song only wanted
breakfast?
Was it Edward Norton?
My friend who knew things said it was because
the man wanted egg and bacon for breakfast preferable
of the fried kind.
It is annoying they have come to fix the internet and
I keep thinking of the painter's name especially of say
“Late night at the diner” How can I forget yes, I blame the internet?
it has made us lazy, just look it up don't bother to think.
I wonder if my friend still thinks the man in the song only wanted
breakfast?
Was it Edward Norton?
#books
#LifeAsAWriter
#MyInspiration #passion
#MyInspiration #passion
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JusTim_
Poem Published
28th Oct 2018 9:07pm
28th Oct 2018 9:07pm
I am a poet
I am a poet, your spirit, your soul
who lies in the answers
of questions untold
I live in reflections of foolish or wit
you see me in all,
either simple or fit
I come for the feeling but stay for the charm
float with the happy
and die with the harm
I'm desire or fantasy, sometimes I'm real
I bathe in each ocean
you cannot conceal
I'm thinking, releasing, caressing the fear
blood spilt out on parchment
I'm the one who still cares
who lies in the answers
of questions untold
I live in reflections of foolish or wit
you see me in all,
either simple or fit
I come for the feeling but stay for the charm
float with the happy
and die with the harm
I'm desire or fantasy, sometimes I'm real
I bathe in each ocean
you cannot conceal
I'm thinking, releasing, caressing the fear
blood spilt out on parchment
I'm the one who still cares
#LifeAsAWriter
518 reads
12 Comments
Amorous_tryst
Poem Published
26th Oct 2018 7:13pm
26th Oct 2018 7:13pm
Hope I Don't Step In That
* Denotes the beginning of a tangent in progress.....skip to the next set of **s to save valuable time.
**/** = Tangent within a tangent. (Tangent as in wandering off point, not tangent as in a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.... C_f)
Though normally included in footnotes I believe, decidedly placed here instead...…. possibly due to presently feeling somewhat in a charitable mood.
Well, dear reader, this piece is not the product of the inspiration I was searching...
**/** = Tangent within a tangent. (Tangent as in wandering off point, not tangent as in a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.... C_f)
Though normally included in footnotes I believe, decidedly placed here instead...…. possibly due to presently feeling somewhat in a charitable mood.
Well, dear reader, this piece is not the product of the inspiration I was searching...
#funny
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
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george4man2box
Poem Published
18th Oct 2018 9:39pm
18th Oct 2018 9:39pm
I Cannot Weight To Hmm...
Be Pressed By A Dumbbell
Two fifteen pound
steely danse sing
wrought iron dumbbells
ill-tempered, impatiently,
and intensely a weight
their turn to hmm... press me,
and forthwith dense trait
heavy handed prestidigitation
to yours truly, this primate
currently attempting
to craft sad excuse
for a poem, sans far fetched
notion, aye trite re: late
engendering, foisting, and goading
bizarre lifelike qualities
to inanimate solid helpmate
to build...
Two fifteen pound
steely danse sing
wrought iron dumbbells
ill-tempered, impatiently,
and intensely a weight
their turn to hmm... press me,
and forthwith dense trait
heavy handed prestidigitation
to yours truly, this primate
currently attempting
to craft sad excuse
for a poem, sans far fetched
notion, aye trite re: late
engendering, foisting, and goading
bizarre lifelike qualities
to inanimate solid helpmate
to build...
#LifeAsAWriter
#myself
#SelfReflection
#acceptance
#SelfDiscovery
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PoetSpeak
Poem Published
17th Oct 2018 2:07am
17th Oct 2018 2:07am
I'm Your Thug
Using a razor till I cut myself
What does that tell you
Travel by night
Just to buy eggs
Organic if you must know
Fame was good
Always got good tables in restaurants
On the subway I'm a regular Joe
Writers get away with that
No annoying fans
No autographs
You're sexy
I'm a thug
It's all good
I wear a wind up watch
Stainless steel
Just like my heart
What does that tell you
Travel by night
Just to buy eggs
Organic if you must know
Fame was good
Always got good tables in restaurants
On the subway I'm a regular Joe
Writers get away with that
No annoying fans
No autographs
You're sexy
I'm a thug
It's all good
I wear a wind up watch
Stainless steel
Just like my heart
#LifeAsAWriter
611 reads
10 Comments
Blackwolf
Poem Published
2nd Oct 2018 00:49am
2nd Oct 2018 00:49am
Angst
Angst Ridden Over One's Emotional Waters
Sacrificial Thoughts To Irrational Slaughter
War Of Words , Ones Heard And Yet To Come
Talking To Oneself One's Internal Programs Run
Hear Me Shout Into My Head , Hear My Brain Cry
I Write It Down To Save It For When It May Apply
"And When You Are Writing And Reading
Are You Bleeding Words Heard Needing
A Place A Space Poetic Grace Interlaced
Dead Stop Or Speeding Phrasing Paced"
This Is My Mind Drive Under My Thumb
With Buttons...
Sacrificial Thoughts To Irrational Slaughter
War Of Words , Ones Heard And Yet To Come
Talking To Oneself One's Internal Programs Run
Hear Me Shout Into My Head , Hear My Brain Cry
I Write It Down To Save It For When It May Apply
"And When You Are Writing And Reading
Are You Bleeding Words Heard Needing
A Place A Space Poetic Grace Interlaced
Dead Stop Or Speeding Phrasing Paced"
This Is My Mind Drive Under My Thumb
With Buttons...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords #SelfReflection
#PowerOfWords #SelfReflection
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AdamW
Poem Published
26th Sep 2018 10:25am
26th Sep 2018 10:25am
V. S. Naipaul Passing
At the house of Mr. Biswas
we'd evesdrop: a bond between us.
On moonless nights like this, I swear
we had a light leading us there.
we'd evesdrop: a bond between us.
On moonless nights like this, I swear
we had a light leading us there.
#LifeAsAWriter
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1 Comment
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
25th Sep 2018 11:23pm
25th Sep 2018 11:23pm
Letters To A Young Poet IV
September 21, 2018
Jade Pandora
San Fernando, California
Dear Geoffrey,
With your latest letter received, nestled next to my trusty field journal in my leather shoulder tote which sits in its own chair next to mine, I write this letter in the San Fernando Public Library on a Friday’s beautiful late morning. It’s near where I just came from, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles. Where I went to pay my respects at the grave sites of my...
Jade Pandora
San Fernando, California
Dear Geoffrey,
With your latest letter received, nestled next to my trusty field journal in my leather shoulder tote which sits in its own chair next to mine, I write this letter in the San Fernando Public Library on a Friday’s beautiful late morning. It’s near where I just came from, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles. Where I went to pay my respects at the grave sites of my...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#RainerMariaRilke
782 reads
4 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
25th Sep 2018 1:46am
25th Sep 2018 1:46am
Letters To A Young Poet III
September 18, 2018
Jade Pandora
Woodland Hills, California
Dear Geoffrey,
I’ve concluded a brief jaunt out for vitamin supplements and healthy sustenance at a Whole Foods on Ventura Blvd. Things like radish sprouts, avocado, crookneck squash, veggie pot stickers, angel hair pasta, jasmine rice and yogurt kefir.
Now, while still on the boulevard after shopping, a whisper from the muse had me pull over to the curb to jot notes in my field journal. At least I am in a better position to do this than the...
Jade Pandora
Woodland Hills, California
Dear Geoffrey,
I’ve concluded a brief jaunt out for vitamin supplements and healthy sustenance at a Whole Foods on Ventura Blvd. Things like radish sprouts, avocado, crookneck squash, veggie pot stickers, angel hair pasta, jasmine rice and yogurt kefir.
Now, while still on the boulevard after shopping, a whisper from the muse had me pull over to the curb to jot notes in my field journal. At least I am in a better position to do this than the...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#RainerMariaRilke
698 reads
4 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
24th Sep 2018 8:55am
24th Sep 2018 8:55am
Letters To A Young Poet II
September 15, 2018
Jade Pandora
Los Angeles, California
Dear Geoffrey,
I was downtown earliest today (near where I was born) before the heat burned away the early morning overcast I love. To the Hall of Records, securing copies of files having to do with issues of property lines, easements, abatement, old applications and licenses for add-ons. Not to mention the odd transcripts of court cases of who got what in a divorce or subsequent child custody hearings.
I enjoy extending my abilities as free...
Jade Pandora
Los Angeles, California
Dear Geoffrey,
I was downtown earliest today (near where I was born) before the heat burned away the early morning overcast I love. To the Hall of Records, securing copies of files having to do with issues of property lines, easements, abatement, old applications and licenses for add-ons. Not to mention the odd transcripts of court cases of who got what in a divorce or subsequent child custody hearings.
I enjoy extending my abilities as free...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#RainerMariaRilke
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4 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2018 9:36pm
22nd Sep 2018 9:36pm
Letters To A Young Poet
September 12, 2018
Jade Pandora
Catalina Island, California
Dear Geoffrey,
Yes, the postmark is confusing I’m sure. It’s been years, but I have taken the day boat across the channel over to Santa Catalina. To check on a number of areas of the island’s coastline from which several family members have requested in their wills that their ashes be scattered offshore by hired craft, and the vote fell to me. At least the weather is cooperating even as Fall will soon...
Jade Pandora
Catalina Island, California
Dear Geoffrey,
Yes, the postmark is confusing I’m sure. It’s been years, but I have taken the day boat across the channel over to Santa Catalina. To check on a number of areas of the island’s coastline from which several family members have requested in their wills that their ashes be scattered offshore by hired craft, and the vote fell to me. At least the weather is cooperating even as Fall will soon...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#RainerMariaRilke
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