I seem to remember a news story from a few years back of a woman being shot in her own back yard but it was said it was her own fault for wearing a brown...
"The Trail Is Not a Trail" I drove down the Freeway And turned off at an exit And went along a highway Til it came to a sideroad Drove up the sideroad Til it...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 2, 2006 4:30 am
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POEM FOR THE NEW YEAR (2006) This year looks just like the old year The rain is still driving hard & the roads out of town are closed due to mud slides &...
Most people having written the rest of this poem would have made the last line "Nowhere left to go." On "spiritual" list there is a lot of talk about paths,...
... And that's what makes Snyder--or anyone who's ever been 100 feet from their car and enjoyed it--different. ... There's a lot to be learned from the...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 2, 2006 4:55 pm
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Poetry Campaign The Warrior Poets Society has an ongoing, 365-days a year poetry campaign going, where poets from all over are invited to write about...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 2, 2006 5:00 pm
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Here's an easy way to make a haiku. Complete the following two lines with a line of your own. Remember, it has to be five syllables in length. now it's the...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 2, 2006 11:56 pm
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now it's the new year, i see through the window-glass my neighbor's fence fall Steve ... lines with ... length....
~A Mouse in the House~ Part One, a night not fit for man nor beast... Outside, the wind howled like a distant wolf. Inside, the rain flowed freely, probably...
Perfect TIming Dennis! I've been working on my voice very much and I have four new songs to share if you click here: http://www.myspace.com/olyecolgy Enjoy! ...
Seedlings which never cease, the timelessness they bridge... Is gratitude in you? How does gratitude grow you? Is Gratitude sky, leaf, water lake? Is it...
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK We live in the world we wake up in or else roll over go back to sleep & try for another one later A light bulb turns on the darkness...
SHARON I was sitting cross legged in the park reading a poetry book under a tree by the duck pond when you walked up pushing a stroller stopping so I was face...
(\ /) ( \ __ / ) ( \()/ ) ( / \ ) TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL ( / \/ \ ) AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU / \ SHE IS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL ( ) SENT TO WATCH OVER YOU ____ ...
Witness I want to tell what the forests were like I will have to speak in a forgotten language W.S. Merwin [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 7, 2006 3:07 am
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~Activism, 2006; A Harrowing Ride Home! ~ by joey racano Work done for the night, I headed on a suicide bike ride home- dark highway, no lights on the bike,...
Decided this guy's idea makes for a great poem! Enjoy! ... From: Rick O'Neill [mailto:rick_oneill@...] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 11:27 AM To:...
In case you haven't seen this... ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 8, 2006 4:36 am
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THE NIGHTS ARE OKAY The nights are okay but the days are made for love You light the afternoon skies You get my love rising I’m being lived by you Who do you...
We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when...
Rumi. (Then I went and looked it up--I was right!!) ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 9, 2006 7:37 pm
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BEYOND THESE WALLS AND FENCES by Tre Arrow Beyond these walls and razor wire fences there is a greater world. Beyond the concrete and steel, the polluting cars...
STORM WATCH When the rain stops we don’t believe it We go around the house looking out all the windows to see where the next storm is lying in wait for the...
I'm forwarding this to this list because I thought it might be food for some new poems and/or would encourage you to post already written poems on these and...
Hi All, I've now changed the list so that people can send attachments. I noticed on some e-mails that folks wanted to send attachments, but they were stripped...
Beginners Dedicated to the memory of Karen Silkwood and Eliot Gralla "From too much love of living, Hope and desire set free, Even the weariest river Winds...
"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, referring to Robert Frost Full quote: "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds...
Dennis Fritzinger
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Jan 11, 2006 3:51 am
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In Broken Images He is quick, thinking in clear images; I am slow, thinking in broken images. He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images; I become sharp,...
Okay things are getting crazy and nobody is acting like it... Here in the Olympia / Seatlle area we've had 25 consecutive days of heavy rain! We're going for...
Deane, We have a radio with the government weather staion on it. You just push down this thing on the top & it comes on. The voices aren't live but recorded...