I don’t suppose
if I asked you would go;
wanted only to watch
the sun set.
The purple hue,
the parade of clouds
and you
so clear, crisp and clean;
an apple
and as delicious.
is a forum for my poetry and exhibit of the writing process. Read completed and rough drafts, or follow the evolution of a work from brainstorm to finished draft. Most are written and revised as I go, and a few are old poems I thought I would also share.
nomorewhimper is an end to silence, and once the air is awoken, who will resist its wild tempest?
nomorewhimper is an end to silence, and once the air is awoken, who will resist its wild tempest?
Index
- All Finished Poems
- All Most Current Drafts
- AlmostSunset
- Baby I Scar
- BakedDreams-1
- BakedDreams-2
- belly of the beast
- Belmont&City
- Bonfire Blaze
- CherriesWet-InSun
- Clammy Hands
- DreamBeetle
- El Thoughts Two
- FistsFlying
- human thin
- Language Love
- LettersonaPlate
- Livingworth
- Market and 40th
- Mid-SpringMorning
- My Hand in Time
- Mynd Letter
- MythOf Meritocracy
- NewtonsOnlyLaw
- OnTheFarm
- OpossumBelly
- Outlast Winter
- PedestalsRosePetals
- PrescienceofServe
- RamshackTrashcans
- Rarelywarmnights
- Reading-Pennsylvania
- Reflections Driving East
- Relativeashumidity
- RememberingKittens
- Shattered Glass
- So it goes
- SongoftheCicada
- Soon Shattered Day
- SummerIce
- Taught to throw
- ThatsWhenSheSwallows
- Thin Sheet
- Thisautumnmonth
- Thousand Threads in One
- Tickle
- Tight Rope Walker
- Unfurled Sail
- UnstillEarth
- VolcanoThoughts
- Walk Through
- whimper
Blog Archive
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2010
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Jan
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- Belmont and City; Final Draft (+/- some grammar re...
- Shattered Glass; Draft #3
- Baby I Scar; Draft #2
- Baby I Scar; Draft #1 (from Brainstorm #2)
- Shattered Glass; Draft #2
- Language Love (draft #3 of Freewrite B)
- Shattered Glass; rough draft
- Belmont & City: Midday; Draft #4
- Taught to Throw; draft #4
- Song of the Cicada (draft #4)
- This Autumn Month; draft #2, finished poem
- Mynd Letter (draft #3)
- Belmont & City Mid-day; Draft #3
- Belmont and City Mid-day; Draft #2
- Belmont and City Line Mid-day; Rough Draft
- So it goes.
- Mynd's Letter (formerly Imagination Letter) draft #2
- What living is worth
- Almost Sunset
- Imagination Letter (from Letters rhyming exercise)...
- Dream Beetle (draft #4)
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OfRememberingKittens
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OldPoem
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OpossumBelly
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OutlastWinter
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PacNWPoem
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PedestalsofRosePetals
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PrescienceServe
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Prose
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RamshackTrashcans
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RandomPoetryPieces
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Reading
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SeasonCowSmells
(2)
ShatteredGlass
(5)
SmellLikePoop
(1)
SoonShatteredDay
(2)
Strand1
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Strand3
(2)
Strand4
(2)
Strand4Part2
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StreamConsciousness
(6)
Taughttothrow
(2)
ThinSheet
(2)
ThisAncientThread
(1)
ThisAncientThread-Draft
(6)
Thisautumnmonth
(3)
ThousandThreads
(1)
ThreadPrologue
(3)
Tickle
(2)
TightRope
(4)
UnfurledSail
(1)
UnstillEarth
(2)
VolcanoThoughts
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WhenSheSwallows
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- I have spent a considerable portion of my life writing all manner of words. In 2002, I won the Green Theatre's Young Playwright's Competition, and my play, Ahab and Illyich, Illyich and Ahab, received Runner's Up honors at the Spelthorne Drama Festival. However, I am most interested in writing poetry. I eventually earned an English B.A from Penn State, and an M.Ed. from the University of Oregon. I currently run a restaurant I helped open, having written most of its recipes, and have many years time spent teaching. I am vegetarian and an avid cyclist. I love my wife Amy. I can not do without my cat Boris, and I deeply miss my little Bella, who lost her battle with feline leukemia. I'm a Capricorn but I don't care.
2 comments:
the simplicity of this is so beautiful. your chosen words are so striking!
thanks! your comment describes pretty much what I was going for with this poem.
obviously modern in inspiration: I've always loved William Carlos Williams, and this poem was written as an echo of his simple yet awesome poetry.
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