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  April 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 3 total

Windigo

A solitary traveler,
Abroad on snowshoes with his team,
Stops to crack the ice and take
A drink from a still flowing stream.

The wintry sun slants toward the west,
Evening falls on forest and lake.
From out the sylvan depths he hears
A...

by Jim Gardiner

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Warsaw September 1939

I was in Warsaw when the first bomb fell;
I was in Warsaw when the Terror came -
Havoc and horror, famine, fear and flame,
Blasting from loveliness a living hell.
Barring the station towered a sentinel;
Trainward I battled, blind escape my aim....

by Robert W. Service

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Ode to Trump

'Tis done! But yesterday he ruled, America's most grand,
To despots and emirs bejeweled he'd dictate and demand,
(Their gifts not fecklessly bestrewn to find a favor, seek a boon),
And lordly to command.
Once master of his nation's fate,...

by Jim Gardiner

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Pretty imagery, pleasant rhyme and meter; it feels good to say it out loud. It paints a lovely picture of a country road, in autumn, in the evening.

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Many of the entries are very dark, many contain good imagery but are unpolished, as if the author scribbled them down in a passion, but never went back to proofread or revise. Many are by women complaining of faithless love, accusing but lacking introspection. This poem has none of that. It has a single thought, concisely expressed, with consistent rhyme and meter and no tortured rhymes. 

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