Forum / A poem for your edification – or not

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    Sam Rasnake
    Sep 02, 09:09am

    "Instant Karma"

    The world shatters.

    Words are lost.

    *

    Charlie Parker
    pray for us,
    pray for me.

    And Kerouac –
    you pray too.
    Dance naked
    around your statue
    in Lowell, Massachusetts

    *

    while the Lord Buddha
    dips his quill in ink
    centuries from now,
    closes both his untamed eyes,
    then scratches clouds
    over Desolation Peak.

    ~

    [The poem was originally published years ago in Electric Renaissance, and later in Necessary Motions.]

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Sep 02, 09:53am

    Grand, this.

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    Estelle Bruno
    Sep 02, 09:57am

    This is so gorgeous we got chills~

    from Estelle & Susan Tepper

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    D'Arcy Fallon
    Sep 02, 10:35am

    Love this, Sam.

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    Sam Rasnake
    Sep 02, 09:00pm

    Thanks, James, Estelle, and Susan. I appreciate your reading this piece.

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    Michelle Elvy
    Sep 03, 06:32am

    I love this, Sam, but I love your newest one even more. And not just because it's up at 52|250 - I would love 'Deep Things' anywhere.

    For the rest of you, here you go: http://52250flash.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/deep-things-by-sam-rasnake/

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    Sam Rasnake
    Sep 03, 08:22am

    Thanks for the comment here, Michelle - and the plug for this week's challenge at 52|250. I really connected with this one.

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    Kim Conklin
    Sep 03, 08:26am

    "A rabbit
    practices her own
    hard philosophy,

    reads the fence line
    as prologue to sky."

    You make this look too easy, Sam! Love both of these pieces.

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    Sam Rasnake
    Sep 03, 08:27am

    Thanks for reading, Kim. I appreciate your words.

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    Bill Yarrow
    Sep 03, 08:31am

    "Crickets deep the bladed green

    in a clot of honeysuckle air.
    We’re all shadows here.
    My love for you is dark."

    Very fine. Enjoyed.

    What's behind posting poems to the General Forum, Sam?

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    Gloria Mindock
    Sep 03, 08:54am

    Love this Sam!

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    Sam Rasnake
    Sep 03, 11:15am

    Thanks, Bill and Gloria. I appreciate your reading this piece. Glad you liked it.

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    Darryl Price
    Sep 06, 06:26pm

    I'll read anything by Sam. I've always found his work to be consistantly interesting and often boldly wondrous to behold if I may use that word. Thanks for another. Sweet.

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    Sam Rasnake
    Sep 06, 06:54pm

    Appreciate the endorsement, DP. Thanks for the visit to this piece.

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