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My Notebook (4/20 Poem)

Jan Davidsz de Heem, Vanitas

Perpetually empty;
eternally plenty
of pristine pages, saved
for thoughts better than these.

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Posted on

April 10th, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

Awards and Publication

Featured on Four and Twenty Website

Zombie Love (10 Word Poem)

Bernie Wrightson, Cemetery from Mary Shelley's Frankenstien

Finally it is true,
“I love you
for your brains.”

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Posted on

January 23rd, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

Why Poetry is Superior to Painting (A Rebuttal of da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting and Poetry)(10 Word Poem)

Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Hands

Poets can
lay lines down
while they drive
around town.

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Posted on

January 23rd, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

As I Age (10 Word Poem)

Theodore Gericault, The Three Skulls

Words I knew
I understood,
at twenty-two,
finally speak.

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Posted on

January 23rd, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

Colors Bind (10 Word Poem)

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude II

Explaining blue
to a man blind
since birth,
she wept.

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Posted on

January 16th, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

Life is Poetry (10 Word Poem)

Steve Mills, Reflecting on Life

Words,
their timing;
their tone,
have consequences
of their own.

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Posted on

January 16th, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

On The Surface (10 Word Poem)

Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life of Books

Too poor
for paper,
I scribble my thoughts
on
electrons.

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Posted on

January 11th, 2012

Category

Micropoetry, Poetry

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