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49reasons
Member since March 30, 2011
Member for 15 years, 2 months
into the night
i
no words are suspended
between silence of night
and dawns morning light
ii
declarations of now
touched lips and life inhaled
into souls once breathless
iii
the color of night shimmers
in the afterglow of rightness
to form paths of intimacy
fused into skin as fingertips
ink their own course
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49reasons’s timeline
- March 2026
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30 MonAnniversary
15 years of membership
- March 2021
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30 TueAnniversary
10 years of membership
- March 2016
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30 WedAnniversary
5 years of membership
- March 2012
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30 FriAnniversary
One year of membership
- July 2011
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04 MonReceived a critique
on into the night from @CCfire
"Hmm..that first stanza I think I'd make stronger by just saying "no words are suspended..." and cut out the 'no longer' It feels a more worthy statement there to lead into these vignettes. The second one is a little cli…" -
04 Mon
- June 2011
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21 TueReceived a critique
on here the tears flow from @raj
"i liked the unique style of your expressing a forlorn mood... you may want to remove "still" from "yet still i need"..." -
21 TueReceived a critique
on here the tears flow from @Kailashana2
"I like your poetry! Succinct, full of meaning and easy to read. Waited until another poem was posted before I commented. All too often first poems are the best poems and the poetry goes downhill after that. Not in your…" -
21 Tue
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15 Wed
- April 2011
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16 SatFirst critique offered
on "A young woman who loved me spoke Welsh to me" by @Marie Marshall
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15 FriHighest posting month
April 2011 — 10 poems
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13 Wed
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10 SunFirst publication
Small
- March 2011
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30 WedJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 11 days later.
About Me
I have always written, on the back of old envelopes, on napkins, scraps of paper. The words were for my eyes only til Chez (CCfire) thought it was time I should share with others.
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"a stanza of poets"
a collection of emotions
flowing gently across pages
each word heralds moments
never to be forgotten
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Location: Melbourne, Australia, AUS
Pablo Neruda
Charles Bukowski
Anne Waldman
Recent Work
into the night
here the tears flow
redesigning life
for want of
circumvent
haiku ~ flow
a silent muse
warm breeze
released
once, we were lovers
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