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This forum is for COMMENT ONLY. When posting a poem here, please do NOT request critique; when responding or offering a comment, please DO NOT ever offer critique. Post your poems in On Track or Firebox ONLY for critique. You may, if you wish, post a poem concurrently in Main Line and On Track as long as you adhere to the posting rules in each forum Posting Rules:You may post 1 piece each day but you must FIRST respond to at least 2 other poems in this forum before posting again.

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Peace Tonight In the house of memories Mum sits in her usual spot at the table by the window, regal as a queen waving her black-gloved wrist for attention. I like it here. she used to ... Started Feb 24^th, 2018 at 12:52pm by nas	2	59	Feb 25^th, 2018 at 2:34pm By: nas
Candle Wrote this as a teenager upon the loss of my grandmother. I changed the pronouns to 1st person plural (instead of the original 1si person singular) so it is more generic. It's not "great poetry" (wri... Started Feb 25^th, 2018 at 12:26am by Normpo	0	50	Feb 25^th, 2018 at 12:26am By: Normpo
Flying Visit Miles still to go: a steep climb up the side of another tower block stacked like boxes one on top of the other but I’m stuck in an unmoving queue of people, fingers bent ... Started Dec 25^th, 2017 at 9:46am by nas	4	67	Feb 25^th, 2018 at 12:16am By: Normpo
Nightly Heartbeat - A Senryu Nightly Heartbeat - A Senryu On hot nights I wake, restless and sweating on sheets —burned by blazing dreams. Started Nov 24^th, 2017 at 3:52pm by literarius	10	51	Jan 18^th, 2018 at 8:01pm By: literarius
It's It Of all the words a poet weaves there's only one he mostly grieves. He thinks he uses it correct, assuming so, he still believes. A poet's psyche soon is wrecked, if readers ca... Started May 7^th, 2009 at 10:36pm by jgdittier	11	29	Nov 15^th, 2017 at 3:30pm By: literarius
for fun How much more blood must spill to pay the cost of words said once and gone beyond recall? How many will be left to bear the pall of that last warrior, once his life's been lost? T... Started Apr 1^st, 2010 at 9:36pm by dericlee	10	43	Nov 4^th, 2017 at 3:30pm By: Normpo
Misbehave with me Time does not behave, when lovers meet. Hours pass in an instant. Yet, eternities unfold between each pulse. Touch does not behave, When lovers meet. Each simple fi... Started Jan 7^th, 2011 at 3:30pm by Jerusalem	5	21	Nov 4^th, 2017 at 3:28pm By: Normpo
First Date Do you recall yesterday's dreams? Heat and rain on a summer's night well seasoned with the burn of your touch as we lay on a cloak of verdant green. You spun m... Started Aug 10^th, 2015 at 5:54am by nas	11	45	Aug 6^th, 2016 at 6:29pm By: nas
Love Song of N. Stuart Pollack (re-visited after reading NY Times arti I wrote this poem a while ago -- I wanted to re-post it after reading an article in the NY Times Magazine this week titled 'Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" Here is the link to that article -- I think... Started Aug 8^th, 2015 at 11:05pm by Normpo	2	15	Dec 19^th, 2015 at 2:44pm By: davidf
The Un-Wanted Choice You, Never knew your mother Never knew your father Nor they You. You, Never knew your sisters Never knew your brothers Nor they You. Selfish woman<br ... Started Sep 13^th, 2015 at 6:10am by Terry	2	23	Sep 15^th, 2015 at 5:05am By: Terry
Care For The Caregivers Children... have the heart's of mighty lions, and when we listen we can hear their awesome roar. Their smiles give light to darkened days, that threat to steal their lives away...... Started Sep 9^th, 2015 at 10:26pm by Terry	1	44	Sep 11^th, 2015 at 5:44am By: nas
Epitaph for a poet Note: In 2003 I wrote 20 poems (parodies) of Emily Dickinson poems - here is one of them. Emily Sampler # 13 Epitaph for a poet Where every word is told to go Who sees where ashes ... Started Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:28pm by Normpo	3	25	Aug 8^th, 2015 at 11:02pm By: Normpo
Passive Homicide You don’t even know it when you kill me. You have no motive, except harmony. Indifference becomes your shield when being angry isn't intolerable. You use words I want to ... Started Jul 12^th, 2015 at 10:59am by Jerusalem	1	36	Aug 1^st, 2015 at 5:35am By: nas
Antecedent (Remember the Farhud June 1-1941) I wrote this a few days ago-- the related reference is explained below the poem. Google it to learn more. Antecedent With all hope dashed asunder, he waits upon the moon. Time left h... Started May 30^th, 2015 at 2:11pm by Normpo	5	51	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:12pm By: Normpo
A para of "The Solitary Reaper" Alone she picks her beans of soy, this isolated Scottish lass, harvesting crops with songs of joy... I'll stop before I pass. And now she shucks the beans for noon, and trill... Started Jun 13^th, 2015 at 10:33pm by jgdittier	4	26	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:11pm By: Normpo
Stopping by Woulds and Slowly Meaning (For Daniel) Stopping by Woulds and Slowly Meaning Whose woulds are these? I think they're mine. I would so like to write great lines, I would these words were more profound; I would I had mo... Started Jun 5^th, 2015 at 2:23pm by Normpo	3	34	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:10pm By: Normpo
A Vanilla Villanelle A Vanilla Villanelle Note: to be read with an Italian accent! Little can I offer, in a villanella and what more could I do. It's just a poem. This bard is not a real-a happy fel... Started Jun 13^th, 2015 at 2:05pm by Normpo	5	48	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:09pm By: Normpo
Music Man “and I will be alone again tonight my dear forever changes.” He courted me with records playing all his favourites, a story attached to each. Curled on the settee half asleep... Started May 26^th, 2015 at 6:06pm by nas	10	104	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:08pm By: Normpo
White Rabbits... How long ago and how'd it come to pass that lepus canuculi, fortune foist? Why hairy hares of wholesome whitish class could guarantee a month when all rejoiced? On January one and ... Started Jun 16^th, 2015 at 1:16pm by jgdittier	5	42	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:04pm By: Normpo
Reexpressed guidance from Shakespeare Repeat thy thoughts in mind before ye speak And plan thy acts in second thoughts immersed. Respect thy friends and their delight e'er seek. Vulgarity's a habit ever cursed. Indulge... Started Jun 15^th, 2015 at 8:38pm by jgdittier	3	34	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:01pm By: Normpo
SMILE SMILE The smile that lights the dismal day when even faith seems held at bay and all of life’s in disarray is often from a stranger. It comes as quite a nice surprise ... Started Jan 11^th, 2011 at 5:54pm by writer	9	39	Jul 5^th, 2015 at 12:00pm By: Normpo
Three Days Late at the Library (This is eleven years old) O demon guilt, my conscious now proclaims Your weight to be my burden, heavy held. My fate has fallen into Satan's flames, To restitution now I feel comp... Started Jun 7^th, 2015 at 2:30pm by jgdittier	6	57	Jun 13^th, 2015 at 2:01pm By: Normpo
I WILL NOT WRITE A POEM TODAY I WILL NOT WRITE A POEM TODAY I will not write a poem today. There is no rhyme I want to say. Not even if someone should pay. I will not write a poem today. It shouldn't matte... Started Jan 4^th, 2011 at 5:26pm by writer « Pages 1 2 »	16	65	Jun 13^th, 2015 at 1:59pm By: Normpo
Stopping for Ron (jgd) Stopping for Ron (jgd) I think I know whose woods these are. The fellow drives that beat-up car and lives in town on Maple Street; he’s often down at Norton’s Bar. Whoa up th... Started Jul 22^nd, 2009 at 12:20am by Merlin	13	70	Jun 13^th, 2015 at 1:33pm By: Normpo
A Poet Knows At times my muses beseeched me to let them approach the honored status of a poet. Tho I was comfortable only as a verser, I'm proud of La's and Il's effort here... A poet knows his words ... Started Jun 5^th, 2015 at 2:21pm by jgdittier	2	23	Jun 6^th, 2015 at 11:38am By: nas

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