Tag: poetry
member name: Chris Brockman
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August 08, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
A Matter of Good Training
Aboard the train I've time to think,
And thoughts come floating down
From thought balloons of puffy clouds
So light but still profound,
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August 29, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
I teach community college writing classes at a federal prison. Our fall semester just started, so I am very much caught up in that milieu. My mind turns to an introductory poetry class I facilitated . . .
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November 14, 2008 09:34 AM EST --
Out Damned Spot!
You know those frisky, faithful tunes,
The kind that follows you out of the yard
And won't go back no matter what you do?
You try . . .
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September 13, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Over the years I have found it to be very useful to write poems for specific occasions. The one here was written for a memorial service I conducted for a 23 year-old woman who died of cancer, . . .
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November 06, 2008 09:48 PM EST --
My wife came home from a NOW convention years ago with a tee-shirt on which was a drawing of Emma Goldman and the quote: "If I can't dance, comrade, then I don't want to be part of . . .
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October 05, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
I assume that anyone reading this has an appreciation for art, be it painting, music, scupture, theater, literature, or whatever. But how many of you have been an art object? More . . .
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October 17, 2008 09:12 PM EDT --
First Star
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July 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
This was published in the Winter issue of the Oakland Journal
On Hearing Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" For The 99 th Time
I do not think I will ever witness perfection in music. . . .
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August 06, 2008 04:40 PM EDT --
I wrote this poem for my teenage children so that they could visualize what I mean by philosophy.
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October 25, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
America
What is America?
America is a hockey mom
Who runs to be Vice President.
It's a man with an African father
Who is elected President.
It's . . .
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October 28, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
My wife and I both voted early, last week for America!
America
What is America?
America is a hockey mom
Who runs to be Vice President.
It's a man with an . . .
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November 02, 2008 09:35 PM EST --
Radio Days
With I Pod earbuds growing in their ears,
Contemporary kids court cool
And imagine they're listening to life,
But it's only buds, after all.
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July 13, 2008 02:09 PM EDT --
My Wife is Fitness Coordinator for our county Senior Services. The senior center has its annual 90+ dinner coming up, and she asked me if I knew of any positive poems about aging that could be read . . .
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June 10, 2008 08:32 AM EDT --
Here's another of my Adult Bible Stories.
"Shepherd Boy Rocks Giant"
Deliver me from the tabloid press.
What they don't mistake, they make up.
This "fight" . . .
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March 30, 2008 10:06 PM EDT --
APPLE OF MY I
"Today's forbidden fruit
Is tomorrow's health food,"
She said, taking an enormous bite
From an organically grown apple.
She . . .
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June 05, 2008 10:50 PM EDT --
This is one of the first poems I ever wrote
( (a long time ago). I think it's time to recycle it
in this election year. . . .
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August 08, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
Between the Lines
I am alone...
All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from...
I am a rock...
I'm just a lonely boy, lonely and blue.
I'm all alone . . .
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November 02, 2008 09:33 PM EST --
Radio Days
With I Pod earbuds growing in their ears,
Contemporary kids court cool
And imagine they're listening to life,
But it's only buds, after all.
. . .
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