7 Lies Hidden in Certainty

Do not fall prey
to his quick words
spoken in a tone
of absolutes
for nestled deep
within his fast
reply lies truth-
less facts.

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Note:  My father has--in his infinite wisdom--taught me that when someone asks a question if you answer quickly with confidence in your voice, whether it's truth or not, they will believe you.  He does not use this trick with malice and often if you wait long enough his facial expression will give it away. 


This is my Three Word Wednesday [3WW=>absolute(s), fall, nestle(d)] inspired piece for the week.  If you get a chance, check out how some other talented writers twist these words into life.

6 Last Call: The First That Wasn't

The First That Wasn't by rmpWritings

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The First That Wasn't

Is is possible to know heartache
when you have never known love? 

My reflection stares back at me
searching...

I think back to the us that wasn't;

might I be different
had you stopped talking about 'what-ifs'
and just took action?
might I see myself different
had you not opened your mouth with words
but opened mine with yours?

Was this the beginning of the end
when there was no beginning to start with?

I think back to the first kiss that wasn't
searching for an answer,
searching for a scapegoat.

My reflection stares back at me;
sorrowful eyes searching within me
pondering 'what-ifs'
instead of taking action.

Is it possible to know love
when you've never known heartache?

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This is my offerings for this week's dVerse Poets Pub OpenLinkNight. If you get a chance, check out all of the talented poets who have stepped up into the spotlight. 

1 Time Capsule: A Wedding Song--a poem for two voices

Title:  A Wedding Song -- a poem for two voices
Date:  02/16/02
Setting:  Life after college--during second post-college job
Form:  Free verse -- Poem for two voices

Should he but touch her face
	Should she but whisper his name
and she melts	and he melts

They are drawn
	connected
to one another	to one another

Today she stands before him
	Today he stands before her
with her heart wide open
	with his soul to bare

No words can express
	No token can reveal
the bond they share
but for today	but for today

As she gazes into his eyes and speaks
	As he smiles back at her and speaks
They unite as one	They unite as one
	pledging
devoting
	their lives
to one another	to one another

Should he but say her name
	Should she but smile his way
and she melts	and he melts
falling
	even more
deeply
	in love
with one another	with one another

(Technical) Notes:  In order to get this to line up right, I had to use tables.  I'm not sure how that will effect the appearance of this on mobile devices.  The layout is extremely important to the way this poem is intended to be read.  Each column is a different person.  Anytime a line appears on the same  line in both columns, the lines are read together.  To make this easier here, I have altered the color of the lines read simultaneously.

Notes:  I attended two weddings this year.  One of my high school friends got married and my brother got married.  I wrote this for my friend.  I did end up writing another poem specifically for my brother and his wife, but I still gave them a copy of this one.

This was my first attempt at writing a poem meant to be read by two voices.  I think when I first started teaching, I came across a book called Math Talk:  mathematical ideas in poems for two voices.  The whole idea seemed quite interesting to me and took two things I loved and put them together:  math and poetry.

I have since attempted writing another poem for two voices.  It was also supposed to be an attempt at writing a sonnet.  (It would have been my third.)  The sonnet part didn't really work.  I totally muffed the iambic meter and the second line ended up with two extra syllables.  Granted I didn't quite realize it at the time.  But it did turn out to be a decent poem for two voices.

Artifact I:  Original hand-written poem

Artifact II:  The final product that I created for my friend and sister-in-law.

5 Can I Have This Dance?: Rainbow Dreams

Title:  Wonderful

Artist:  Everclear
Album:  Songs from an American Movie Vol. 1:  Learning How To Smile
Genre:  Rock

Rainbow Dreams

She falls asleep
to clashing voices
rocking her home
like a vicious hurricane.

She wakes
to orange juice
poured by glassy eyes
hiding behind an acid smile.

"Everything will be wonderful"
echoes in her ears
a hollow promise
as she leaves.

"Everything will be wonderful"
steers her actions
a blatant lie
as she plays.

She returns home
to a turbulent storm
forcing her to take refuge
with closed doors and headphone.

She falls asleep
to rainbow dreams
carrying her away
to a wonderful someday.

7 I Don't Do Mornings.

your voice grates on
my half-lidded state
like the rusty hinge
of a loose gate
flapping along with
a persistent
blistering wind.

my need for a lethal
injection of caffeine--
to destroy the last bit
of slumber still lingering
in my veins--awakens.

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This is my Three Word Wednesday [3WW=>hinge, lethal, need] inspired piece for the week.  If you get a chance, check out how some other talented writers twist these words into life.

9 Last Call: I'm Not A Robot

I'm Not A Robot by rmpWritings

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I'm Not A Robot

31 oodroo
cellecta 950
lipshi (there should be a tz tacked on to the end of that for the fun of it) 50

Seriously!  Am I actually supposed to be able to read that?
-click-
-click-
finally...
poleleg 46

Damn spammers! 
-click-
-click-
ofaxter 11

21 directur
xpleade 2
laitives 28

Who on earth takes these pictures?
Have they ever heard of a focus?
-click-
-click-
Is that an eight?
-click-
9 whitied

Really, my brain and these letters are working on different wave lengths.
-click-
71 perfeso

20 drendem
minarry 24
sesterc 16

Ahh...letters using pointillism...
11 edsmory
13 suppast
sysfyi 369

I swear word verifications were not this insane before.
-click-
Spamming programs keep upping the ante.
-click-
Seriously?!?
-click-
46 beenbid

Really!?!
One day computers will be able to read this better than me...
-click-
To bad I'm not a robot.
-click-
20 ersevan

furtsUp 24

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I know...I use word verification here on my own blog; so should I really be riffing on it?  I do understand the purpose of it, but some of those crazy waves of letters are absolutely insane.  When they first started this whole word verification thing, I do not remember them being as insane as they are now.  And what happens when computers are trained to recognize the letters and numbers better than our human eyes can?

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This is my offerings for this week's dVerse Poets Pub OpenLinkNight. If you get a chance, check out all of the talented poets who have stepped up into the spotlight.  

2 Time Capsule: --Dancing & --Messy Jessie

Title:  --Dancing  & --Messy Jessie
Date:  between 11/21/97 and 02/01/98
Setting:  Senior year of college
Form:  Not a Limerick

--Dancing

There was a young man from France
Who didn’t know how to dance.
He went to a fair
On his lovely mare
And boogied when struck by a lance.

--Messy Jessie

There once was a girl named Jessie
Whose hair was very messy,
Until one day
In the middle of May
She met the lockness, Nessie.

Notes:  I wrote this long before I ever truly explored meter in form.  I had a basic understanding that there had to be a certain type of beat that went with limericks when I attempted these two quite pitiful (meter-wise) entities.  As far as meter is concerned, I did not really explore that until I wrote my first sonnet about eight years or so ago.  Even that was only a brief meeting.  Not until this blog did I begin to really delve into meter.

As for limericks, this past month or so I came across a blog (Mad Kane's Humor Blog) that challenge readers to partake in a little limerick fun.  It was from here that I realize how truly awful my initial attempts were.  Since these two, I have written three limericks that fit the form a bit better.  It is definitely an interesting form.

Artifact I:  Original writing (torn from a notebook I used for one of my college classes)

Artifact II - IV:  Limericks inspired by challenge