LET US HEAR FROM YOU: Write, read poems for MountainWord
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… you can arrive by paper mail, e-mail, mp3 or YouTube, by comments here at the blog or what you will.
One way to make MountainWord more fun is for us publish more of your writing, both in the posts and the comments. Make a comment, and send your poem or your recording of a poem — yours or even a favorite — to Vic Burkhammer at MountainWord.
Otherwise… well, here. I’ll get us started, in the spirit of John Berryman in his “366th Dream Song”:
“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. / They are only meant to terrify & comfort.”
January 13, 2009
sometimes these days when poets die
their web sites stay up awhile
never even noting the passing
you look for news
and you wonder how long this will last
but everything just stays
the same and you bookmark them
wishing you could do
something to help but you too
are on the way
toward heaven’s light
paradoxically hidden
deep in the earth
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Surely you could do better.
I’m mainly interested in short poems of less than 15 lines.
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