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CCfire
Member since March 26, 2011
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if despair had a name
if he brings a midnight poem he's written
will i let him read it
will we read it a few times
out loud, as we have in the past
and if he shoots like a rocket
into the forest, igniting the fire
as he has in the past
will i want to see him again
because his voice
lifts the gray from flowers
because he says i swell and
break the silence within him
i have carried him
sleep-quiet and placed his
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broken body in the arms of aphrodite
to let the shadows fall away
so i could see his heart
resembled mine
yet i want to ask him
when will i know enough
to stand still
to find our truth, love
and all the nonsensical things
before it's lost
in the maelstrom of consequence
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26 ThuAnniversary
15 years of membership
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26 FriAnniversary
10 years of membership
- March 2016
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26 SatAnniversary
5 years of membership
- September 2012
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17 MonReceived a critique
on favorite jeans i should toss out from @Ian.T
"I have found those socks you are missing, I am not sure what is happening in this world. Those machines they sell us as washing machines worry me, I had a sock come out the other day with a flies backside stuck to it wi…" - March 2012
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26 MonAnniversary
One year of membership
- July 2011
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21 Thu
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20 WedReceived a critique
on if despair had a name from @raj
"i loved the feeling of despair expressed so very vividly in this write... do you thing "i have cradled him" would read better?..just a wee bit of suggestion..." -
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- June 2011
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- April 2011
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15 FriHighest posting month
April 2011 — 23 poems
- March 2011
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27 SunFirst critique offered
on "she" (since unpublished) by @Kailashana2
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26 SatFirst publication
the blue crane
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26 SatJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I began writing when I was about 16, a journal to my mother after she passed away, I put it away for a long time afterwards and only began again about 7 years ago when a marriage breakdown had me wondering about the cheapest form of therapy. It proved to me that writing it out was better than any $100 an hour psychoanalyst. I live in the beautiful city of Melbourne in the best place on earth I think but I am biased. I love to travel the globe when I can and I people watch, I write about them and how they intertwine my life. It's the only way I know how to write, keeping it real and raw is something I do because I feel you should always write what you know.
Location: Melbourne, Australia, AUS
Favorite Poets
Bukowski
Neruda
Rumi
Gibran
Jeffers
Corso
Waldman
Kerouac
Recent Work
birth of the sun, moon and stars
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the blue crane
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Workshops
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| Shark Pool (initial workshop) | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2011-05-16 | Concluded |