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Diatom Shells
Member since August 3, 2009
Member for 16 years, 10 months
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A Handful of Sparrows
I have opened my heart wide,
like a blanket being opened above a bed.
The constant kick in synch
with the music of your words,
So soft spilling like honey in the air.
A whisper...
A floating feather,
A single cotton petal sifting sorrow
with powder and bread.
Inner beauty...
Inner beauty...
Forgive me and forget it.
I have sown a song for you.
I will reap the rewards of a tune.
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A color not defined by light,
but by every sound that proceeds
from the mouth.
Singing is a web of bone-white vowels
laying naked in the spectrum on your tongue.
I met your angel last night.
He told me you created a note so wide,
you had to crack the surface of skin just to finish it.
Then I heard you fall and bend in half
like melting candlesticks.
Inner light...
Inner light...
Forgive me for forgetting it.
Do you remember the door
you came in the first time?
You took the spoil thereof
and sold it for two farthings.
Diatom Shells’s timeline
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02 FriAnniversary
15 years of membership
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02 FriAnniversary
10 years of membership
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02 SatAnniversary
5 years of membership
- August 2012
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11 SatReceived a critique
on A Handful of Sparrows from @Ian.T
"I have spent 55 years writing bits and pieces of all types and find this learning of form a hard job, and I really infuriate some of the masters sometimes lol :-) You just write each piece as you normally do then just t…" -
10 FriReceived a critique
on A Handful of Sparrows from @Dalton
"I don't agree with the science of poetry so to speak. To me its always been the emotion or feeling or personal message behind the words that mattered. Most of what I write comes out in a splurge. From where I know not…" -
10 FriReceived a critique
on A Handful of Sparrows from @Dalton
"i just think its a great change in style from the poems you posted to the old site which although were kind of short and snappy were on a biblical theme one way or another. Despite being beautiful that theme is what mad…" -
09 Thu
- August 2010
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02 MonAnniversary
One year of membership
- June 2010
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- February 2010
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16 Tue
- August 2009
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15 SatHighest posting month
August 2009 — 20 poems
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07 Fri
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03 MonFirst critique offered
on "Perfect pet ?" by @shazbat
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03 MonFirst publication
And Nothing Shall Be Hidden
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02 SunJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
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