dr_con Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Running with the Dead (This is about) This poem is about Being awkward bookish Frustrated fanciful and Fuming this is about Standing before Audience Trying to speak truth Before you know yourself and the wanting The Wanting for something real authentic but you haven’t separated Intensity from Love Pain from Ecstasy Experience from Responsibility its About finding my friends And favorite authors before dream had edged into waking Wishing For nuclear absolution To be wiped clean To remain comfortable as violence transforms From chronic to terminal about holding onto stories Tight tight their horizons obscured the death Of their species a moment of celebration rather than loss Dumbfounded jogging through An old cemetary I saw our Names repeated An endless Liturgy Echoing the antecedents Of those I thought I knew And started laughing as the two hawks who Landed told me You Know nothing and possibly, nothing too well And so this is about The Hare who was frightened Running and hiding Saying Silly Silly Boy Your world is so fragile Enjoy this hunt chase magnificent Now. Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger11 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Enjoyed the read Dr C. This poem is about - that is a great hook cheers badge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Thanks Badge! As I was formulating the piece, I suddenly saw the young new poet at the open mic, who feels obligated to preface the poem with an explanation or a signifier, and realized I had been doing that to an extent as well about the poem that was emerging. Heh;-) Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Juris, it's funny how by now some of us have been around long enough to have the benefit of hindsight. ? I tend not to preface, but I do love background info on artworks and enjoy when others give insight into what inspires them. I enjoyed how you expressed the various stages from knowing oneself, to the wanting, to the separating, to knowing too much, knowing "nothing too well." Sometimes I wonder if it would be desirable or beneficial to toggle back and forth between the stages. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Hi DC, I really enjoyed reading this. Sometimes you fly way over my head but this poem was clear as a bell. I could feel it, understand it and truly appreciate it. Thank you. ~~Tink PS... I love background and footnotes with a poem but I want them at the end not the beginning. I want to savor the poem first, then take it a step further with additional or explanatory notes. At another site, I'm able to create "drop notes" where on the post all you see is the poem and the link marked "Notes". If you click on the link it opens and any footnotes or explaination of form or whatever the poet chooses to share is there, hidden for those who want more. I haven't figured out how to do that here yet. There has to be a way. Quote ~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~ For permission to use this work you can write to Tinker1111@icloud.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 On 9/29/2018 at 11:34 AM, Tinker said: At another site, I'm able to create "drop notes" where on the post all you see is the poem and the link marked "Notes". If you click on the link it opens and any footnotes or explaination of form or whatever the poet chooses to share is there, hidden for those who want more. I haven't figured out how to do that here yet. There has to be a way. You could add a footnotes topic to the Member Archive, and each poem's footnote link could point to its own reply within the topic. You could even add links within the footnote replies which reverse back to their respective poems. Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 On 9/30/2018 at 4:34 PM, tonyv said: You could add a footnotes topic to the Member Archive, and each poem's footnote link could point to its own reply within the topic. You could even add links within the footnote replies which reverse back to their respective poems. Tony, What a great idea. I have now created a Footnote thread where anyone can post their "footnote" and link it back to their poem. Footnotes ~~Tink Quote ~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~ For permission to use this work you can write to Tinker1111@icloud.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoelJosol Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 This impresses upon me how a potentially mundane exercise of running through a cemetery turn into profound reflections latching into images and thoughts in the library of our mind converting the routine into a "liturgy" or a poet using spoken poetry takes the mic and ignites our reflections of hawks and hares. Quote "Words are not things, and yet they are not non-things either." - Ann Lauterbach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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