Friday, January 14, 2011

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Self portrait 
Shoveling Zen
In my driveway
Beginning-less end
Chasing flakes formed desire

Saving a quarter
Spending my time
Dispensing justification
No answers satisfy

Seeing while sleeping
Waking eyes blind
Midnight scars reflection
In morning sun rise

Puzzle pieces choosing
Not needing to rhyme
Knitting loopholes for laces
Life's wellspring fortify

Pressing boundaries
Starching the lines
I discovered 
Myself
Missing me

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved


Something I have been working on and feels suited to the music posted on Friday Poetically at One Stop Poetry. Check out great inspirations created there.
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    Tammy- I loved this your poems have such rhythm and feeling. Thank you for sharing

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  2. dustusJanuary 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM

    Nicely done. My favorite lines were "Midnight scars reflection / In morning sun rise" reminds me of restless sleep and processing bad dreams upon awakening.

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  3. ClaudiaJanuary 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    oh - i liked the ..Knitting loopholes for laces..

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  4. Maureen NewmanJanuary 14, 2011 at 1:16 PM

    "starching the lines" comes with application. May they never become hardened. Nicely done!

    Ma

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  5. Brian MillerJanuary 14, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    nice...some great lines here...and those last two lines speak volumes...back to zen shoveling...smiles. great take on the prompt...

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  6. izzyJanuary 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    I love the beginning! and the sense I get of letting things just flow by-no matter what they are, until you come around a corner- and there you are-/were...Thanks.

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  7. joannaJanuary 15, 2011 at 8:54 PM

    so many lovely one-liners to make up one beautiful poem.

    creative and reads well out loud.

    nice one shot,

    joanny

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  8. Gemma WisemanJanuary 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM

    Gorgeous ideas mixing up the senses! Especially love "Knitting loopholes for laces..." and "Pressing boundaries/ Starching the lines..."

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