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Round ??? day 7
I haven't written anything since before Christmas thanks to a very bad eye infection that kept me from the computer, stopped me reading and left only a diet of tv over the holiday.   
It's clea...


Started Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:41am by nas
4 26 Last Post Jun 2nd, 2015 at 3:43pm
By: Tim
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2015 Round 1 day 4
Bottom of the Heap
The coffee shop is warm, internet is free and Beth's learned how to stretch one drink to last an afternoon.  Surrounded by people who move with purpose – meeting friends, resti...

Started May 30th, 2015 at 8:27pm by nas
2 33 Last Post Jun 1st, 2015 at 5:32am
By: nas
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Re-visioning  CA Run 6 of 15  2015
Note: I was reading "old" poems posted in the On Track forum and found a poem of Daniel's (A Rondeau) -- these were the first four lines:
"Reflect again, and you will see it's turned
from le...

Started May 30th, 2015 at 6:06pm by Normpo
2 36 Last Post May 31st, 2015 at 7:39am
By: Just_Daniel
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Masked Love Limerick - CA Run 4 of 15 - 2015
Masked Love Limerick
Never saw her face when he'd date her,
Though his love for her couldn't be greater.
But finally he asked
That she take off her mask
Since then all he doe...

Started May 27th, 2015 at 12:45pm by Normpo
3 40 Last Post May 28th, 2015 at 4:56am
By: Tim
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2015 Round 1 day 2
Patterns
Her life is an open book
journaled on facebook 
video diaried for youtube.
Spoken words that cry
a need to be heard, 
for someone to give her the hug, 
the ...

Started May 26th, 2015 at 6:26pm by nas
6 56 Last Post May 27th, 2015 at 8:52pm
By: nas
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Chamfer part 1
Chamfer

     Chamfer wakes up hungrier than usual. Today is Muscul’s—the Sun God’s—birthday, which marks the end of the rainy season, and in two moon cycles, the start of the Zafra, the great harvest. In th...

Started May 26th, 2015 at 7:13pm by Tim
7 57 Last Post May 27th, 2015 at 6:10pm
By: Tim
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Ceramic Senryu - CA Run 3 of 15 - 2015
Note: didn't know which one of these gets my point across better (maybe neither one succeeds) I also toyed with the idea that the title might be "No Feat of Clay"  ~smile~ 
Ceramic Senryu
statue ...

Started May 26th, 2015 at 11:58am by Normpo
5 41 Last Post May 27th, 2015 at 5:43pm
By: Tim
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My Name in Future Imperfect Tense - CA Run 2 of 15 - 2015
Note: Looking back on poems from my past (wayyyyy back to 1956), I like to re-visit those immature poetic beginnings and re-present them.
My Name in Future Imperfect Tense
If I don't cast a shadow...

Started May 25th, 2015 at 1:48pm by Normpo
5 44 Last Post May 27th, 2015 at 12:43pm
By: Normpo
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2015 Round 1 day 1
Auction catalogue in hand,
she takes a peripheral view.
The house stands bare
among withered weeds,
windows boarded
peeling paintwork, faded blue,
roof tiles broken
...

Started May 25th, 2015 at 7:59pm by nas
4 19 Last Post May 26th, 2015 at 7:42pm
By: nas
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Dangling - CA Run 1 of 15 - 2015
Dangling
At 14:
I had climbed out
            on a tree limb
            overlooking Rahway River,
            hanging from my legs
            like a daring trapeze arti...

Started May 24th, 2015 at 12:22pm by Normpo
3 44 Last Post May 26th, 2015 at 6:39pm
By: Tim
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2013 - Round of 15 (#13) - A Binomial Expression
A Binomial Expression
filled with the
(emptiness)
within 
parentheses
without 
numbers
or
letters,
you can’t feel liberated
if en(closed).
Whethe...

Started Dec 22nd, 2013 at 11:06pm by Normpo
2 36 Last Post Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:37am
By: nas
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2013 - Round of 15 (#12) - Is There a Voice In My Room?
There’s a Voice In My Room
Alone within these boundaries
I know it is not mere caprice.
Just find me so I can find peace
‘wake from the silence of these sheets.
I wish for it ...

Started Dec 21st, 2013 at 2:23am by Normpo
3 45 Last Post Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:34am
By: nas
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D7
A Poem Wakes Itself
(after Neruda)
Morning circles the rug
like an orange tabby, waiting
for me to rise and open the door.
Familiar as cobwebs in corners,
my first words, not y...

Started Dec 23rd, 2013 at 4:42am by Tim
3 21 Last Post Jan 1st, 2014 at 9:04am
By: nas
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2013 - Round of 15 (#11) - First Dates…Last Prunes
Note: NO! I do NOT do drugs and never drink! I was sober writing this just now! You guys shouldn't have mentioned first dates!
First Dates…Last Prunes
First:
hopes of a peach,
the taste ...

Started Dec 21st, 2013 at 1:09am by Normpo
5 61 Last Post Dec 23rd, 2013 at 4:11am
By: Tim
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To Bee or Be   R39-29 (Bumped UP from 2008) See My Last Post
To Bee or Be
Devora
Dvora
From her flows
milk and honey
To be
(with or without the sting),
be what you are,
yet be
my bee.
I am a defender of [the “e”...

Started Aug 16th, 2008 at 4:49am by Normpo
12 96 Last Post Dec 22nd, 2013 at 11:56pm
By: Normpo
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D6
Modern Love
for N
Net her before she jumps to familiar waters,
use a lure like a Ferrari or Corvette. Keep her reading
the next line and the next line of your proem, until she’s blind<br...

Started Dec 18th, 2013 at 9:35pm by Tim
4 20 Last Post Dec 21st, 2013 at 6:57am
By: Tim
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2013 - Round of 15 (#8) Tanka - Foggy Meltdown
Tanka - Foggy Meltdown
This foggy meltdown
yawns and sends a message clear.
I used to awake,
and with no rhyme or reason,
write a tanka for you, love.
© Norman S. Pollack...

Started Dec 17th, 2013 at 11:03am by Normpo
2 39 Last Post Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:41am
By: Normpo
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2013 - Round of 15 (#10) Tanka - Eating Color
Tanka - Eating Color*
It wasn’t on her menu;
I’m full from eating color.
I lost my way home
while picking pink daffodils
leaving them by the mailbox.
* Borrowed this grea...

Started Dec 17th, 2013 at 11:19am by Normpo
3 33 Last Post Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:39am
By: Normpo
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2013 - Round of 15 (#9) Tanka - Angled Memory
Tanka - Angled Memory*
Tangled knots, these thoughts
are my angled memories.
I climbed a mountain
only as an exercise
for my body, not my soul.
*This phrase was from a na...

Started Dec 17th, 2013 at 11:11am by Normpo
4 40 Last Post Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:27am
By: Normpo
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D1
From the Digitized Tower
with apologies to Countee Cullen
and J.K. Rowling

We shall not always read while others work--
This kindled majesty of our e-books,
Nor amble, scrolling down, ign...

Started Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:40am by Tim
5 51 Last Post Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:07pm
By: Tim
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D2
Codicil to Last Will and Testament of a Minor Poet
I, _____________, of sound mind and disposing memory, and fully understanding the nature and extent of my property and of this disposition there...

Started Dec 10th, 2013 at 1:31pm by Tim
6 70 Last Post Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:06pm
By: Tim
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Yeah, who keeps score anymore? D4
Writer’s Block
He wakes through foggy mire
and a cluster of fireflies, the space between 
their bodies her silhouette, her eye 
blinking a message forgotten as his open. In bed, <b...

Started Dec 12th, 2013 at 4:02am by Tim
5 25 Last Post Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:04pm
By: Tim
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Round ??? day 6
Some Nights
Some nights I lie awake
still climbing walls
slick with yesterday’s stress,
handholds crumbling
as I haul my body higher
falling
into days sodden with dr...

Started Dec 18th, 2013 at 6:58am by nas
3 30 Last Post Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:33am
By: Tim
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Round ??? day 5
Destruction
Eva hasn’t been back since she and her parents fled on a goods train in the middle of the night.  The memory is still vivid; running through her mind like a film on repeat.
* * *...

Started Dec 15th, 2013 at 7:39pm by nas
4 29 Last Post Dec 19th, 2013 at 6:00am
By: nas
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Round ??? day 2
Bric-a-Brac
His mind’s a bric-a-brac stall
of disordered experiences
rummaged through
then worn as new
bought today.
He wastes hours
holding onto the past,
wear...

Started Dec 8th, 2013 at 7:23am by nas
5 31 Last Post Dec 18th, 2013 at 6:56am
By: nas
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