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Robert Leutwiler

Member since May 19, 2019

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The Cloud

Posted May 25, 2019 · 28 lines · 1 critiques

cowards have used the cloud for acquisition
to hide lies about friends and foes alike

as the misty mountain top flees from
inquisitions and cries out loud

so may your eyes open wide
as the mists of liars collides

with the reality that most of us
want peace and heavenly sunrise

which chases the lying clouds away
leaving the pine green freshness over daisies

to wake us to higher aspirations
to clean the air and leave us breathless

after waiting in line to reach the top
of Mt. Everest, now too common

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like the storm clouds of confusion
misapprehension, willful bending of the facts

to pull the wool over our eyes as
far as we can't see while asleep..

wake up to the song of the nightingale
who knows how to divide the chaff from the ray

if you trip over the edge (rye for night)
through phantom emotions awry and fallen to the depths,

take a hike up Smokey Mountain
to open your eyes wide and

screw your head back on straight:
the gate to healthy living!

trace the water falls of El Yunque
'midst smiles of universal hiking....

Robert Leutwiler’s timeline

May 2024
19 Sun

Anniversary
5 years of membership
May 2020
19 Tue

Anniversary
One year of membership
May 2019
26 Sun

Received a critique
on The Cloud from @paul
"on telling the reader how we all must have our heads on straight. I like your use of metaphors and imagery. I will be reading more of your work keep on bettering your craft. There is a potential of the reader getting a…"
25 Sat

Received a critique
on The Cloud from @tyro
"I can understand the title, The Cloud, but to me the poem was about the beauties beyond the ego. Your word uses and metaphorical allusions were marvelous. At one point I felt it was getting too long... I reread it and n…"
25 Sat

Posted a poem
The Cloud
"cowards have used the cloud for acquisition"
Open thread 28 lines
25 Sat

Posted a poem
The Cloud
"cowards have used the cloud for acquisition"
Open thread 28 lines
24 Fri

Critiqued
"Ode to Early Flowers (April Contest)" by @Rula
"I will have to stop commenting now since the birds are singing sweetly, especially robins, and each day I like to observe how the trails are changing colors in Connecticut. Actually I prefer Puerto Rico where the colors…"
24 Fri

Critiqued
"SPRING OWLS" by @scribbler
"I notice you do not include Whitman in your favorites. His sensibility and style does depart from the others you mention. "I just said 'hoot'! I wish I could write like that about my wife and I but we tend to be more li…"
24 Fri

Critiqued
"FINAL TROPHY" by @scribbler
"We happen to be watching a Swedish series called Wallander with exciting plots and great acting. The main character who is about 60 (Kurt Wallender) is constantly out in the wild or in dangerous urban settings always de…"
24 Fri

Critiqued
"SHAKING OFF DUST" by @scribbler
"fine way to make light of but still to feature feelings about limbs wearing out. Like the way you keep going forward on new roads."
24 Fri

Critiqued
"A St Certificated....." by @Roscoe Lane
"I do not make comments on the minutiae of form since to me the only thing that works is reading the poem over and over or even singing it out loud if possible. Then revise if necessary keeping in mind all the elements o…"
24 Fri

Critiqued
"One Careful Owner..... Or Not." by @Roscoe Lane
"The attitude you show so well applies to all kinds of apathy on the environment. Personally I am very concerned about the rain forests and have worked to preserve El Yunque in Puerto Rico along with the coasts and very…"
24 Fri

Posted a poem
untitled
"we invited"
Open thread 11 lines
22 Wed

Posted a poem
Love (Recon 31)
"Pa says we must avoid at all cost"
Open thread 43 lines
22 Wed

Critiqued
"You, Bird" by @Eumolpus
"now finally more birds are singing in New England. I rather prefer tropical birds but I am now hearing all day lovely singing out there which does tempt one to take wing somehow. Since you are a musician, I am sure you…"
22 Wed

Received a critique
on sun doh yan from @Eumolpus
"feeling I am reading a poet who has read a lot of poetry and understands poetry. I basically like the same poets as you, I did a masters in Rimbaud. I don't have a clue where the poem is coming from, what is the intent…"
21 Tue

Critiqued
"Soliloquy of A Demented Mind (Epilogue Side B) " by @Zeussirius
"Daniel Revell nagami kumquots rejected for failing memorials "Leave No Trace" rescinded Guilt Free, alone in my cell recalling the days practicing French at Parkmoor the 3 of us seeking mastery who was the 3rd? 4 years…"
21 Tue

First critique offered
on "Soliloquy of A Demented Mind (Epilogue Side B) " by @Zeussirius
20 Mon

Posted a poem
sun doh yan
"a type of silence"
Open thread 20 lines
19 Sun

Received a critique
on Ideology of the Cranes from @Geezer
"I won't pretend to know anything about your style, but seeing as no one else has said hello yet, I figured I might as well. I know that there are some here that write very much as you do and will be anxious to greet you…"
19 Sun

First publication
Ideology of the Cranes
19 Sun

Posted a poem
Ideology of the Cranes
"the group's absurd March to understanding"
Open thread 30 lines
19 Sun

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.
15 Wed

Highest posting month
May 2019 — 6 poems

About Me

About me

I am neither a zombie nor a traitor!

Location: USA-- Connecticut and Puerto Rico

Favorite Poets

Essama Chiba

RImbaud

Nerval

Mallarme

Valerie

Pales Matos

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Tacey M. Atsitty

Roethke

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Rilike

Agrippa d'Aubigne

(not bothering with accents) LeAnne Howe

Sy Hoahwah

Elizabeth Bishop

Anne Sexton

Vallejo

Emily Dickinson

Urayoán Noel

Trevino L. Brings Plenty............

Recent Work

The Cloud

Posted: 25 May, 2019

The Cloud

Posted: 25 May, 2019

untitled

Posted: 24 May, 2019

Love (Recon 31)

Posted: 22 May, 2019

sun doh yan

Posted: 20 May, 2019

Ideology of the Cranes

Posted: 19 May, 2019

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