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Posted by CaliforniaPeggy in The DU Lounge
Wed Apr 02nd 2008, 01:39 AM
Every week, I've gone, and I've been so damn nervous...

It hasn't stopped me...

But tonight, I said to myself...lighten up! Have some fun with it!

And I did.

And something very cool happened...

The audience had fun too...

I think I have this thing licked!

Here's the two poems I read tonight:

Love is the reason I write

It has slashed my borders

And freed my heart mind soul

The newness of time is its gift

I have walked in strange landscapes

With only your smile as guide

Now visions fill me

Passions animate

And all this time


I’d thought I was too old.


Illness

The blood courses sluggishly under my parching skin

Dry wrinkles appear

My nerves are flattened

Muscles lie slackly against my powdery bones

Tomorrow I may live, or die

Right now it’s too much effort

To think

The world is alien through feverish eyes


A phantom will arrive

He may transport me

To the place where

I will feel whole, and well, again

Or he may kill me

I am indifferent.

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