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Eumolpus
Member since January 20, 2017
Member for 9 years, 4 months
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THE YEAR OF COVID
The future is due sooner or later.
It’s stuck in traffic or missing a train.
I spend the year in a waiting room
Like under a willow in the rain.
How impatiently the days pass
Spinning like a tumble weed.
How little the moments last--
Time consumes all it receives.
I toss and turn this morning
Knowing the hours to be worn,
Every minute another death recorded,
Every minute another tragedy born.
We who survive may look back
After the cures free us to mourn,
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Holding hands in halls of packed
Humanity singing a requiem song.
The future will come, later or sooner,
Reaffirming it’s on the way.
But we have been to war and wounded,
And will never be the same.
Eumolpus’s timeline
- January 2022
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20 ThuAnniversary
5 years of membership
- July 2021
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05 MonReceived a critique
on AFRICA from @Obadiah Grey
"I miss this guy, he has reeaall talent, where's he buggered off to?" - November 2020
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28 SatReceived a critique
on Homo Erectus Speaks Out from @Dandini
"Great last line. Who doesn't, from time to time? But it's not always worth the effort...." - September 2020
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07 MonReceived a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @scribbler
"is "pectinate?" I meant to say pertinent.....maybe it was spell check or maybe just a plain typo" - August 2020
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31 Mon
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31 Mon
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19 Wed
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03 Mon
- July 2020
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31 Fri
- April 2019
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17 WedPosting milestone
100 poems posted
- August 2018
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07 TueCritique milestone
1,000 critiques given
- June 2018
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28 Thu
- January 2018
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20 SatAnniversary
One year of membership
- May 2017
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15 MonHighest posting month
May 2017 — 6 poems
- January 2017
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24 TueFirst critique offered
on "''GONE WITH THE WIND...'''" by @lovedly
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20 FriFirst publication
IMAGES FROM THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE (since unpublished)
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20 FriJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I've been reading and writing poems for 50 years; Neopoet seems like a great way connect with other poets and enjoy the sharing. For a pen name I choose that of Eumolpus, the poet in The Satyricon by Petronius during the time of Nero; an age very similar now!
I am also a musician on nylon string guitar and I use a combination of classical, samba, and jazz playing at readings, which makes a unique poetry experience.
I speak French well, and some Spanish (enough to enjoy translation) I'm working on a book translating Paul Eluard. Poetry is the closest thing I have to a religion.
Location: Washington DC
Favorite Poets
D.Thomas
Stevens
Eliot
Blake
Rimbaud
Oliver
Delmore Schwartz
Neruda
Marti
Commings
Moore
Cohen
Merwin
Borges
Breton
Baudelaire
Sabines
Voznesensky
Eluard
Oliver
Recent Work
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Workshops
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| Critique For New And Old | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2020-01-16 | Concluded |
| Prose as poetry: the prose-poem | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2019-12-04 | Concluded |
| Primal Poetry | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2019-06-17 | Concluded |
| Primal Poetry | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2019-06-17 | Concluded |
| Cellar Door | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2019-03-27 | Concluded |
| Implied Imagery SHOP Here we go ! | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2018-11-16 | Concluded |
| The Great, Big, All-Inclusive Critique Workshop | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2018-06-18 | Concluded |
| UNFINISHED WORKS | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2018-03-28 | Concluded |
| Poets of West Africa in English | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Concluded | |
| IMAGERY IN POETRY( ready to start?) | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-24 | Concluded |
| Meter... The Workshop. | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2017-04-29 | Concluded |