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Brockton
Poetry Series
May
17, 2008, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Brockton Library, 304 Main
Street, Brockton, MA
The
Brockton Poetry Series offers a free
venue with workshop, open reading,
features and refreshments once a
month. The featured poet for the
month of June is X.J. Kennedy.
Sponsored
by The Greater Brockton Society for
Poetry and the Arts, Inc
Info:508
580 7890
millerfrank12@yahoo.com
http://thinkworks.com/bps
or gbspa.org
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Featured Poet:
Jared Smith
May
10, 2008, 5 pm - 7 pm
80 Border Street Cultural Exchange Center, 80
Border Street, East Boston, MA Free
Higganum
Hill Books will be launching the new book of poetry
by critically acclaimed poet, Jared Smith, The
Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations. Jared
will read from his new book and inscribe copies.
There will be light refreshments.
Sponsored
by Higganum Hill Books
Info:617-418-5060
info@80borderstreet.org
http://www.80borderstreet.org
Deborah
Rasa at the Poetry Zone
New Mexican poet
Deborah Rasa and Perie Longo, Poet Laureate of Santa
Barbara.
May 10, 2008, 2
p.m. - 4 p.m.
Karpeles
Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa
Barbara, CA
New Mexican poet
Deborah Rasa will read her newly published poem,
"Shohko" (Sage Trail Magazine, April
2008). Rasa's edgy, juicy performative poetics,
alternately prophetically bold and metaphorically
tender, are based on her forthcoming book,
"Sexing the Divine, A Poetics of Sacred
Desire" [RedThread Press, 2008], from which she
will read additional select poems culled from her
series titled, "Rinzai Zen." Her
impassioned readings performatively delivered have
already wowed audiences in the UK and Australia.
Info:805.403.0567
http://www.deborahrasa.com
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A Violent World
© RayBlais
Too much water,
and then there’s none Too hot here and too cold
there Turning, twisting winds of sand Lightning
turning woods to ash Oceans overtake the land
Mountains of sand and snow slide down Erupting
core of molten lava Plates below collapse the
ground.
From the
heartbeat that is earth Come the struggles that we
endure Not a part of our making Too many lives for
the taking.
If you view the
world within The world that we have been brought
to Natural disasters that come our way And weather
extremes that overstay Violence in man can be
explained From nature’s seeds we just react And
take our place among the cast.
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Missing Nature
© RayBlais
What he saw he couldn’t see That amongst
nature’s scenes Of the flowers and of the birds Adding comfort to this
world.
In the meadows of his field Is an emptiness
of his choice Not to see nature’s beauty And of the songs that it sings.
He would miss the day he saw That of which he
didn’t see If the scenes were no longer there And of the songs he didn’t
hear.
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Raymond G Blais is a published author who has
written over one hundred and eighty poems that will be included in a book called
“One Man’s Poetic Impressions Of Life”. Several of his poems have been
published in “About The Arts”, “USA Patriotism Magazine”, “BojLi”
and “Voice Net”. He is also a poet of the month contest winner and the
winner of many poetry slam contests in the leading internet community poetry
site; GotPoetry.COM.
All of his poems included those that have been
published can be viewed at his personal web site of WWW.Blazingimaginations.COM.
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Dear Poet
Congratulations!
Your work is worthless.
Your rant is not worth a grant.
Why do you care?
Starving artists exhibit the most flair.
They cater to no constituency
Save the solitary soul.
Unfettered by the skeins of expediency
They rise
To universality
© Copyright 2002 Rochelle Hope Mehr
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No Fault of
My Own ©
Jeremy Smyers
He's not happy he just looks happy because he's drunk
all the time and it's not his fault that the light at the end
of the tunnel turned out to be a train.
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©PEREZ,
Ma. Lourdez Q.
i
feel that my mind has literally stopped thinking
the actions i project aren't supposed to happen
my body is in conflict with my consciousness
and my lips have no control
i speak yet not asleep
but the words that escape
are beyond my consciousness
i only start to reflect the next day
but as the sun bids its farewell,
these actions that i can't comprehend haunts me again
i am in a quandary
my own actions are overpowering my senses
and all i can do next is to regret...
© 2001 Oct
PEREZ,
Ma. Lourdez Q.
Makati City, Philippines
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