...If I said I wrote poetry for a reason I’d have to defend my reasoning every day. So I don’t. I write for fun – and if it isn’t fun it’s better than being bored or feeling useless. I admit to feeling bored and useless occasionally.
But there is more to Poetry than one man’s opinion of it.
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There are many views – no less especially here. Most, sadly, are neither original nor particularly new because that is what we’ve come to expect as an unforgiving characteristic of this Site.
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But occasionally there are gems to be found, wicked nuggets of gold garnered from sparsest sands. I’m tossing in what I can. If you’ve encountered something of mine you consider worthy, congratulations. Toss me a line. I’ll understand!
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My arbitrary decision to limit poems posted here to 100 will stand as long as Poemhunter continues its childishly innocuous and anonymous censorship practises. I have seen no sign of it improving yet.
If
you're
bored,
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http: //modernpoet.proboards98.com/index.cgi?
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http: //famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/ivan_donn_carswell
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http: //ivan_donn_carswell.poetrycraze.com/
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http: //www.igorevich.blogspot.com/ - 'Poetry from the Orchard'..
keeping a day ahead when
space occupied by those
preceding still reeks of
waste is deemed vagrancy
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you caught me in-between
those things I didn’t start
and the few that
simply got away
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the simple account
– love ran out
no-longer sustained by
medieval bracelets charmed
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Yesterday’s dust storm dashed
unrealistic pretension about
Nature’s propriety – there’s
nothing better expressed than
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a way to piss
yourself off thoroughly
and guarantee morbidity
is by trying to please
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