Sonnet Street Slam: New Orleans

Where does swarthy laughter in its flight flow
when Bridger mountain forms the springtime melt
and Spencer drifts of dreamtime lost in the snow
and Jamie ships out past the orbiting belt

This is when the yawning abyss does form,
above the vaulted, gloried ceiling stars
to shower down light hearts to play the harem
end quick fingers pluck the lines of puckered scars

Alyeska calls! Her song in quilted white
Her corsage the stolen emerald of holly bush
the birds make eyebrows in the morning light
while fish spawn and slump in the water rush

But lately all that beauty fails to spark
half so well as your face swimming in the dark.

-by-Tristan Bennett...freshpoetry.org
-writ.on-12/23/2012


Word of the day:
-complicit- def: culpable of being an accomplice, having partnered with a wrongdoer; playing a part or portion in a wrongdoing

The usefulness of youtube: Lectures

Word of the day:

- nascent - def: coming into being; being born...beginning to form, start, grow, or develop: said of ideas, cultures, etc.

"Your warmth soaks within me as steeping tea"

Your warmth soaks within me as steeping tea

sitting in the sun, bitterly keeping me

up at night for far too long, and my only

Apothecary is song poetry--

Sonnet therapy: and where would I be

Without it? Probably two-faced pleading,

“Let us in!”

                    Living out of a suitcase

needing any food for thought, say fruitcakes.

Even the worst delicacies need eating.

So here you have it, oh please keep reading,

because without your ensconced eyes--thing

is that it’s premature failure singing

the truth back in a looping direction--

because fresh eyes see no lies, inspecting

the thoughts of two minds combined on one page.

Poem by one another, and you know ‘em

as yours truly, whose life is lived on stage.

So um, I guess, where is it we go from

here? How about eternity beyond all age--

from the forest through the prairie until

the land becomes sand bordering the sea.

Word of the day:

- elation - def: a feeling of exultant joy or pride; high spirits