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wesley snow
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For Stan
This stroll I’ve taken time and times before.
Each moment was as pleasant as the last.
I’ve seen the trees and harkened to Stan’s lore
while trodding grass as green as days long past.
For green and lush they were spite all the pain
and now I can recall the loveliness.
The fear is still remembered, but as gain;
those lessons learned that helped me to address
the joys and how to keep them close to me.
And so I walk again with my old friend
to gaze at flowers red and blue he sees.
We pass old huts whose roofs begin to bend.
Like us they now walk slowly in the sun.
I hear a mockingbird who, like a hawk,
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keens sharply causing rabbits near to run.
No need to give a voice to quiet talk,
the sound the path makes is enough for us.
We two are old and like the huts we creak,
so I thank Stan without the need to speak.
Yes, old now and if wiser we don’t know.
Mistakes seem fewer, although just as hard,
but still we’ve come here time and times before
and I’ll keep coming back as life retards.
wesley snow’s timeline
- May 2026
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26 TueAnniversary
15 years of membership
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10 years of membership
- February 2019
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01 FriReceived a critique
on When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be (Imagery Workshop) from @weirdelf
"I'm mortified by the transgression I have wreaked against Keats work in this workshop. https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/poems/fears-transgression-final-rewrite-imagery-workshop" - April 2018
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- June 2017
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15 ThuHighest posting month
June 2017 — 12 poems
- May 2016
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26 ThuAnniversary
5 years of membership
- December 2015
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- April 2015
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30 ThuPosting milestone
100 poems posted
- December 2014
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- May 2012
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26 SatAnniversary
One year of membership
- April 2012
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01 SunCritique milestone
1,000 critiques given
- May 2011
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27 FriFirst critique offered
on "DOUBTS ON A STORMY NIGHT" by @scribbler
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26 ThuFirst publication
An Ottava Rima on Self
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26 ThuJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I am a 52 year old horse trainer from California. I have been doing this work for 27 years. I met my wife (the horse trainer) when I was teaching dance at Arthur Murray's International. She was a student until I quit from the stress of a job where I had to be pleasant all the time. Though I have written in some form or another all my life, it was seven years ago that I began seriously to work on an unfinished epic poem entitled "Caco, Man of the Morning Star". When I began the poem I had little understanding of poetic forms, I simply wanted to write a very large romantic, fantasy adventure in verse. Over the years I have gleaned what knowledge I can from innumerable sources until I feel now that I am writing in a vacuum. No feedback on my poem means my poem need only please my limited sensibilities to remain acceptable to me. A year ago I looked for an online forum in hopes of gaining that feedback. I spent twelve very fruitful months at Algonquin's Table and much of what I learned there has been incorporated into my poem. However, AT's population is not geared very strongly toward critique and I look elsewhere. A friend sent me here. I hope that I will be able to post my very large poem and discuss it with the forum as well as a number of smaller pieces for the sole purpose of improving my poetry in general.
wesley
Location: Southern California, USA
Favorite Poets
Tolkien
Byron
Longfellow
Shakespeare
Dr. Suess
Elizabeth Browning
Robert Browning
Dickinson
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Four "mind rhymes".
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Workshops
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| Poets first poems | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-23 | 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 |
| Abstract words and abstract poetry | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-05-01 | Concluded |
| Three classic poetic forms. | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-01-14 | Concluded |
| Collaborative Poetry Writing (Voices of Neopoet) | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-03-23 | Concluded |
| Asking any questions.Using your computer for poetry, to ininityand beyond. | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2015-11-10 | Concluded |
| Storytelling in Verse (sempiternal): The Ballade | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-11-01 | Concluded |
| The Minnow’s Shop (Beginner’s Workshop) | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-10-16 | Concluded |
| Hiding emotions in metaphors | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-09-11 | Concluded |
| Storytelling in Verse (sempiternal): The Horror Story | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-07-01 | Concluded |
| Meet The Masters | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-06-05 | Concluded |
| An Exploration of Style, Subject, and Critique | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-05-08 | Concluded |
| TITLES here we go | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-04-24 | Concluded |
| Critique and Criticism | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-04-05 | Concluded |
| Meter Is Our Friend | (syllabus) | Wading Pool | Started 2015-03-03 | Concluded |
| Effective Contemporary Pastoral poetry [Let's start] | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-02-08 | Concluded |
| "Sonnets"...Let's Know More | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-01-22 | Concluded |
| Humor In Poetry | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2015-01-07 | Concluded |
| Renga 11 with "Dedications" for your loved ones | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2014-10-27 | Concluded |
| "The Right Word" | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2014-11-18 | Concluded |
| Can you make a limerick serious? | (syllabus) | Plunge Pool | Started 2014-11-03 | Concluded |
| Storytelling in Verse: A Study in Pink. | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2014-09-26 | Concluded |
| Storytelling in Verse: Dramatic Verse. | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2014-09-07 | Concluded |
| Workshop: Renga 10 "Birds of a Feather" | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2014-08-31 | Concluded |