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ANY POET IN A STORM May 2010 April 2010
Our Friends Poems
At The End Of The Road
poem by Linda Law
How often have we wondered if we are at the end of the road in our lives?

Borden He Who Lives Near the Boar's Den
by Sage Sweetwater

Smoke On The Water by Kate Burnside
An experiment of three poems in one: one read across, two down. The really cool thing would be if all three poems had slightly different senses and meanings, but alas mine are pretty much the same!

The Seaside by Jane Air
A glimpse of circus dome
To a giant ice cream cone
Standing on ...

Waiting, Waiting
poem by C J Heck

today
the universe
is coursing
through ...

************************************* Took a short break from keeping this update here. I'll catch up ************************************ Secrets in a Song by Janet Caldwell
A poem form 5 Degrees Of Separation, her best selling book of biographical poetry.

Contrast by Sage Sweetwater
A highly erotic piece of flash fiction as to show differences, but metaphorical likenesses put side by side in opposition. It makes good poetry...

Race For Life by Kate Burnside
I returned at the weekend to my old stamping ground of Bath to take part in the 5K, all women, Race For Life organised as a national fundrasing event by Cancer Research UK. Both a privilege and a challenge to be involved, but my daughter and I came romping home in just under 38 minutes... here's to 10K next year!

Love Of The SeeingA poem with a Universal theme by A Pax
Holy City On budget day in the UK when the depth of the developed world's problems was brought home to us we remind you of Ian R. Thorpe's poem which he claims was the first to deal with the financial crisis in verse. The Making and Unmaking Dance
The eternal dance of the seasons, of creation, destruction and recreation, celebrated here for the summer solstice in a poem with a pagan flavour by one of the most read poets on the world wide web.

On The Good Ship Vaccination
It seems to Sue B the healthcare industries, if we would but trust them, will one day find a vaccine to immunise us against every ailment, even death. A sardonically comic poem from this American poet

After You Ian R Thorpe asks what will be left of our culture when the Thought Police have completed their experiments in social engineering.

Beginning Monday The Church Be Landmarked
Another poem of lesbian love, rebellion and rejection of mainstream values from Sage Sweetwater

New Beginnings - Her Soul Mate Appears
Paert 15 of Tink's Abandoned Life Autobiography, part poetry, part prose (his one is a poem)

Broken Hearted Survivors Sonnet
Nordette Adams Flexing poetry muscles with sonnet poetry form on traditional love theme.

Ancient Cutlery
Devils in the mundane easting implements? Why do you think those ancient dining forks had three times asks Sage Sweetwater in this poem of pagan tradition.

Jesus and The Pasta Makers
A pasta makers Bible maye? Doubt it somehow in a poem from pagan novelist and poet Sage Sweetwater

Jesus Cast The Ladle
"Jesus cast the ladle, made thirsty travelers recite the straw that broke the camel's back." Moore critical analysis of Bible "truths" from Sage Sweetwater

Daze by Janet P Caldwell
Janet's mind is scrambled again in this poem of bipolar experience.

Jesus Paid The Butterchurner
Jesus Paid the Butterchurner in the Churn Staff. A literary, biblical fable by Sage Sweetwater

Daedalus' Other Son by Kate Burnside
What a joy, while in Spain on my birthday last week, to be given a copy of blues-guitar-hero Joe Bonamassa's new Black Rock album. On it he's recorded a beautiful version of Leonard Cohen's Bird On A Wire, complete with the intoxicating and haunting sounds of Greek/North African pipes, flutes and sitars. Sat listening to this on a windswept beach with the Moroccan mountains rising less than five miles in the distance across a dazzling Atlantic strait stirs things in very deep places and I'm still feeling light-headed! Magic!! :)) xx ... Methinks I must take up belly-dancing!

Boys Games - a skewed sex life by Ian R Thorpe
Have you ever thought there is something a bit iffy about the super macho male. All the drinking, being crude, treating women like sex dolls etc. And what about the team sports? I've always been suspicious of all that bonhomie in the showers... Jesus Has A Brain - religion and rebellion by Janet Caldwell
A plea for tolerance from the Texan witer, poet and hottied (OK, I declare an interest here)

Dark Becomes Dawn by Tinka Boukes.
Transcendental poem from the South African writer

Skinsby Janet Caldwell
Don't wear your animals

What They're Really ThinkingIn this comic poem Banana The Poet wonders what is going through the minds of candidates in the ~UK general election.

Notes To Self by Janet Caldwell. Texas based poet Janet who has always "loved life out loud" offers some philosophical advice in this poem.

NaPoWriMo - 30 - YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!
Kate Burnside reaches the end of her poem a day challenge.

NaPoWri Mo # 29 by Kate Burnside
My thanks to dear John Flanagan for this wonderful suggestion: 10 Famous First Lines... It is, perhaps, interesting to note that I have only placed two of the lines in the same place as the original, yet perhaps they are the key lines in both enjambements and the sense and meaning of both stanzas hangs from them? See what you think...

My Heavy Laden by Tinka Boukes
Though Tinka lives in South Africa this poem was inspired by the eruption of " Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.

Abacus by Sage Sweetwater
The Seer's time to count coup. The Lesbian Prophet is an innovator bringing new beliefs and practices to her people. The "Abacus Movement" comes from a time of the most worst of circumstances to form the new revitalization movement as coined and told by Sage Sweetwater preaching a cataclysmic end to the current order and a return to Old Ways, moving the beads on a sliding rod.

NaPoWriMo # 28by Kate Burnside
barrel-scrapin time tonight, I'm afraid! This is completely off the cuff... :)) xx Kate Burnside is in the home straight but at the limit of her poetic endurance.

Anvil by Sage Sweetwater
"Close On" a phrase used in this poem is a screenwriting term of a shot description that strongly suggests a close-up on some subject, action or person.

70s Splutter
Young love and some mistakes recalled in this poem by Janet Caldwell, the hottest poet in Texas.

NaPoWriMo #27 by Kate Burnside
A poets tools laid out in this reflective little poem

Poetry Labyrinth
Armageddon - Ian R Thorpe

2012? Who cares about Nostradamus, the Mayan calendar and Armageddon - its not the end of the world is it

Ancient Lover - Janet Caldwell<

> Janet's secret lover in this highly charged erotic poem seems to come from another time or another dimension maybe.

On The Cusp - Helga Ross<

> Ever felt a change was in the air. Helga certainly does in this poem

Comic Verse Attack Of The Killer Trousers
Have you ever noticed anything sinister about old men's trousers. You will after you read this funny poem.

Hunny Pot
Are Pooh and Piglet just toys who share the same toybox. The truth about their relationship is outed in this rather rude poem

Where Did All The Money Go?
Don't Call Him Ray - The Bear Paw
Ode To Hazel Blears
Pastor Penny The End Of Days