Celadon

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You don't have to tell me

Posted Jul 18, 2010 · 31 lines · 2 critiques

Here’s to a summer of cool, mouth-watering melons

languid afternoons with friends

Celebrations of sun and savvy sales

(Oh those shimmy shirts

those silken pink petti-slips)--

well-spent money for our handsome males.

To breezes soft, streets so sunny

And all of youth so sweetly mated,

in sidewalk cafes

drinking lattes

And two sugars, please--for what is fated.

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And here's to celebrations on summer nights--

A disco beat deep in the city

where they dance on checkerboard tiles

(It’s your move, honey)

The river fireworks-- whoosh! An explosion on the skyline--

where romance bursts into a thousand lights

Tonight an evening rain--umbrellas up,

we're wet and laughing
   & in my garden,
   frogs glisten.



Such be my recent runes

of all the what-have-yous

(you don't have to tell me)

of summer suns and summer moons

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@Kailashana
July 2010
18 Sun

Received a critique
on You don't have to tell me from @Loreli
"Wonderful! Lori"
18 Sun

Received a critique
on You don't have to tell me from @Seren
"Welcome back and what a wonderful first poem back ... brava nothing to crit love and hugs JayCee x x (“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ra…"
18 Sun

Posted a poem
You don't have to tell me
" Here’s to a summer of cool,   mouth-watering melons"
Open thread 31 lines
May 2010
27 Thu

Anniversary
One year of membership
September 2009
21 Mon

Received a critique
on The best of the old world from @Seren
"This is one of your best that I have read in my opinion its wonderful ... you painted a beautiful picture in words ... Love Jayne x x"
21 Mon

Received a critique
on The best of the old world from @lyz
"This poem is so picturesque, and you have worded it beautifully.It makes you feel and you have painted a picture for me. Your last write was quite good as well. Thank you. Indra sounds like a poem in himself. I Have not…"
21 Mon

Posted a poem
The best of the old world
" The best of the old world  "
Open thread 29 lines
20 Sun

Received a critique
on Summer's Hum from @lyz
"and a beautiful poem. Summer gardens, sounds divine. Thank you for sharing this breath of fresh air. Love Lyz. XX"
20 Sun

Received a critique
on Summer's Hum from @Seren
"Just beautiful summer is on its way here with a vengance and this really fitted the day we are having here 35 degrees and its only the spring lol one week we freeze to death the next we are cooking in our own skins lol…"
20 Sun

Posted a poem
Summer's Hum
"Summer's Hum"
Open thread 25 lines
July 2009
16 Thu

Received a critique
on Once I believed from @Bonitaj
"to reiterate my earlier praise... I get lost in these images - particularly as I interpret it on a human and not a literal level. Can you see how that would make an equally, if not greater impact? It certainly works won…"
15 Wed

Received a critique
on Become from @Ink Dragon
"I am becoming a fan (or should I say an addict?) to your writing really fast. The gods shall be the poets They the balladeers are wonderful lines, but may I suggest to add a little something along the lines of who sing…"
11 Sat

Critiqued
"rainbow counting (inspired by Leonard)" by @Kailashana
"I love this poem, especially because of the quality of your images in the last verse and last line, delicate and almost transparent. What a lovely experience! Thank you! -Celadon"
10 Fri

Posted a poem
Once I believed
"River stone,"
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June 2009
29 Mon

Posted a poem
Become
"Become"
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21 Sun

Posted a poem
Poet-tree
" "
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18 Thu

Posted a poem
Celtic Poets
"The storm shall never cease."
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17 Wed

Critiqued
"Does the soul quietly know?" by @Taniaspoetry
"Celadon Hi Tania! On the same subject * the soul quietly knows what the heart is unwilling to accept*....powerful lines!... My sister used to say " With one eye we see the world outside; with the other, we see the truth…"
17 Wed

Critiqued
"Identity" by @Spiffs
"Celadon Hi Spiffs! Love your first verse... discovering the stranger... and the final wonder of finding yourself in the last two lines.Much hope here! Reminds me of a lovely song by June Tabor called "Sudden Waves"! War…"
17 Wed

First critique offered
on "Identity" by @Spiffs
17 Wed

Posted a poem
Lost or Won
" Toulous the Turtle was a small reptile created with all the natural accoutrements for success, but this did nothing to allay his fear of Sea-Pond he must needs traverse. Poised on the edge of this great undertaking, he felt it to be a dizzying prospect; he wasn't qualified, didn't have the education, wasn't in the right set. (Right set? His mother shot back. You belong to the great ancestral line of the Chrysemys Picta! We belong to water! Besides, your bride-to-be is waiting across the great waters, so you have to take the plunge. Go and don't look back!) So it had to be today. A sad leave taking from his mother. He moved then to Log, which served as a bar, to bask in the sun with his buddies. Together they drank and talked of those who "made it." His friends further delayed his departure by ordering a Bog Grog, known for its highly anti-freeze properties, and topped it off with harrowing sea-lore of the dangers lurking in the deep. Any other time this might have been entertaining. Time to bid farewell, though he was far from ready.  He detoured to the small library harbored under a great leaf next to a lovely puddle and here he perused self-help books: The Fear of Getting in the Swim, The Art of Following your Instinct, Plato's Allegory of the Pond, Ardent Turtle Travelers, and How to Stop Worrying and Start Swimming. What finally inspired Toulous was the book Turtle, The Action Hero. With the voice of the author still ringing in his veins he crawled down to the shore with a few of his friends in tow. With each imprint on the sand, he realized that things had progressed too far to turn back now."
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Highest posting month
June 2009 — 5 poems
05 Fri

Posted a poem
A Stallion's Song
" A Stallion’s Song "
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May 2009
29 Fri

Posted a poem
A-poeming to the sea
"     "
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28 Thu

First publication
Of my favored poet
28 Thu

Posted a poem
Of my favored poet
" Whenever  I read his poems, seeking the sweetness within the calyx,"
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on You don't have to tell me from @Seren

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on The best of the old world from @Seren

on The best of the old world from @lyz

on Summer's Hum from @lyz

on Summer's Hum from @Seren

on Once I believed from @Bonitaj

on Become from @Ink Dragon

"rainbow counting (inspired by Leonard)" by @Kailashana

"Does the soul quietly know?" by @Taniaspoetry

"Identity" by @Spiffs

on "Identity" by @Spiffs

June 2009 — 5 poems

Membership begins

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