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barbsdad2003
May 12, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

each poem comes

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each
poem
comes

a
gift shrink-wrapped in
cellophane except by gray-
white inhausted news-

print
by olive leaves
of palm of vibrant greens of
violet of pine---her

pointing
needles glued aplace
by pitch that sluggish viscid
sap from weeping tree

each
poem
comes ...

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— barbsdad2003, May 12, 2010

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Mark

Mark

16 years 1 month ago

each poem comes

bye a song singer trapped on vinal filling minds with screaming words each poem comes... Mark Resilient Flexibility RUN; when there seems to be no answer common sense will not speak, so run - -go running..
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barbsdad2003

16 years 1 month ago

Filling ...

minds with screaming words. I like that. Seems like there oughta be a poem in there somewhere. So appreciating your flyby, your read, your comment. Per usual, Chuck
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barbsdad2003

16 years ago

A ...

startlingly beautiful new profile pic you have there. Worth a long look. A very long look. There's a lot to it.
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 1 month ago

Dear Chuck

My favorite lines: print by olive leaves of palm of vibrant greens of violet of pine—her and I love that you began and finished with the same lines. Always, Cat
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anonymous1

16 years 1 month ago

inhaust = to drink in

I had trouble finding this term, inhausted. Love the way you have used it here. Lisa
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barbsdad2003

16 years 1 month ago

Thanx, Lisa

Glad you cleared that up for me. I had no idea. (On my other hand ... I may be lying when I say I had no idea. Lying maybe, maybe not.) Hadn't been familiar with inhaust. Didn't know 'twas a word. It popped up as a synonym for imbibe. I guess that clued me ... at least a little. I like that you appreciate how here I've used it. Chuck
loved

loved

16 years 1 month ago

sir

It is a simple request Most of us At least I At the lower of intelligence Scale heights upto our own … Should we hope to pole-vault? To your level We shall have to a dictionary own… I dare say as a poor tyrant poet I can ill afford one… Pray accept my plea And Do be kind To side by side outline To convey words with their meaning… I exhaust you say inhaust. I understand now It’s meaning…. LOVED
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 1 month ago

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ as the name suggests, it's free. It does not contain inhaust, but let your mind play, does exhaust occur? Perhaps some things can be implied or guessed without suggesting a poet limit themselves. I shudder to think of a language without brillig, slithy, mimsy or outgrabe Jess,
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barbsdad2003

16 years ago

Sorry, loved

I'm intrigued by words. Am nearly always delighted to be using a new one. In speech, in writing, wherever. Love dictionaries, synonym finders, idiom references, etc. Took a little Latin in high school, a little Spanish in early college. As Jess suggests here just above, the Internet provides ready reference. Hope you weren't made too terribly uncomfortable. If so, sorry. Yours, Chuck PS: There's also just plain old Dictionary.com. And of course here at the library I'm surrounded by helps of all kinds. All free.
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Marie-I-Be

16 years ago

On Words:

A common friend to one is an intimidating stranger to another. An author cannot pre-assess the vocabulary knowledge of his readers. I think the best writers sprinkle such challenging word-jewels throughout. I enjoy some difficulty that sends me to my resources. If an answer is not found, at least here at Neopoet one can come right out and ask the author to explain!
loved

loved

16 years ago

excellent please

Excellent Please kindly read my apology No not limitation I don't mind to plead ignorance, As far as I can broaden my intelligence… Limitations and impossible Are two words in my dictionary? Which I have removed… Thanks for your explanation It wizens me and helps In the deliberation…
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Marie-I-Be

16 years ago

loved

Happy to be of help.
loved

loved

16 years ago

thanks

U visited my site just once, I wished u’d read more… I looked up inhaust Couldn’t find it… I too coin words of my own So I thought Sorry to Jess all the more. A poet is beyond the realms of eternity A poet’s mind is free To say what ever he may It’s for folks like me To interpret it in any way We can Or our minds suggest. My usual thanks
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barbsdad2003

16 years ago

Webster's ...

Unabridged sits on a pedestal here at the library. I consulted her, found inhaust: imbibe, inhale. And brillig, slithy, mimsy, outgrabe are all words not coined by Jess. Check Lewis Carroll. If you get far enough into it, you'll find them (brillig, slithy, mimsy, outgrabe) all. I'm practically certain of it. Words. Fascinating. Chuck
loved

loved

16 years ago

thanks

Now I feel educated Ignorance has been scraped And Draped Now it shall be buried Ere to me It gets married. Loved
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 1 month ago

and I shudder to think of poetry without Chuck.

soliciously bewisdered by this excursion into enjambed layerousity, chuck. Cheers, Jess, Reprehensibly irrepressible, "the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind." [Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged]
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barbsdad2003

16 years ago

You ...

know, Jess, I'm not supposed to laugh aloud in the library. Now you've gone and caused me to break the rule. Omigod, hope no one was listening. Or if he/she was, that I wasn't reported. Or if reported, perhaps I'll be lucky enough to be made an exception (though with my luck, it's more like I'll be made an example). As to exception, hope so, hope so, hope so ... Yours, Chuck
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years ago

oh Chuck! I'm doing a diploma in librarianship!

In six weeks the first part is complete I will be qualified to shelve books, cover them in plastic and go sshhhh (I've been practicing in front of the mirror)! If I get a job in your library I promise to make an exception. Cheers, Jess,
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barbsdad2003

16 years ago

Thank ...

goodness, for goodness's sake. Chuck PS: And congrats on your librarianship venture to this point. So far I manage to do a fair job of unshelving (i.e., removing from shelves) books. The rest, the plastic and shushing, I do need, I think, additional training in the public interest of library competency.
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magics02

16 years ago

Chuck

I really liked this one, the image in my mind as I read it and it's flow so swiftly. Less words... your correct with great meaning, I hear it, I feel it and I see it. Lovely Bravo Mona xoxo TIME well spent is TIME well lived
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barbsdad2003

16 years ago

Thanx

So kind you are. Appreciate your dropping by, your read, your comment. And that you liked, heard, felt, saw. Yours, Chuck

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