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A plane home,
holding it together like winter in June,
a passed away friend’s dry ground
hard to find as any
from a mile up,
or only six feet away.

No cocktails, no Dramamine,
I’ll sick and seizure just the same;
my manual is made of liquid,
fragile as a prayer
recited in slumber
at the luggage station,
where a conveyer  lets go, go, go
until the rollers break;
until the rubber throws up its hands
in split hair strands, and finally says
“no.”

A plain home,
holding it together like a desert palm,
a seed that strayed from comforts
of tropical showers to root
in spider-webbed salt flats
on a curious, epileptic wind
that carries each and every one of us
a mile up, or six feet down
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A month later, the much needed edit.
Daily Deviation, 2007-07-25

Daily DeviationA Casual Funeral by `nonculture is a simple, structured, poignant narrative with startling imagery that both enlightens and comforts. (Suggested by =kaujot and Featured by `PoeticWar)

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There I was thinking you were done and dusted with this site.

I'm not a poet, but the repetitions were nice, and I quite enjoyed "I'll sick and seizure just the same".

Reads much better out loud.

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<alienhead>SORRY I AM NOT UP TO SPEED ON DILDONICS.
It comes and it goes, but not everyone is lucky enough to have it return.

Poetry or life?

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Slither my sliver of silver shivers,
into time's gears,
So maybe someday it will cease to deliver
the product of my fears.
a friend.

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Breaking entering
The dark and lonely places
Finding a big gun
thanks - finally got around to editing it.

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Breaking entering
The dark and lonely places
Finding a big gun
This is really good. Excellent in fact. The structure, how you've laid it out in a sort of "starting point, travel, ending point" works fantastically well.

where a conveyer lets go, go, go
until the rollers break;
until the rubber throws up its hands
in split hair strands, and finally says
“no.”


It may seem like a simple, easy-to-see-coming rhyme, but honestly, I was really taken aback by this bit of the second stanza. It's amazingly powerful.

The only thing I can find that could be improved is the opening. It seems a little weird to have all of those complex phrases just separated with a comma. A small irk.

This is really, really great. Best piece of poetry I've read on dA in some time. If I had ever learned your name, I'd say, "Good job [your name]." But alas, I'm forced to say good job, nonculture. Seriously.

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I saw, darling, but do lie.
This is a beautiful poem. <3

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00:37:09 <GunShyMartyr> Why is ~mypenis a seniorpoet?
[insert Kelly]

How could I have forgotten that?

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I saw, darling, but do lie.
ha - it happens to all of us. Thanks for the fav and comment. I still creep around here sometimes.

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Breaking entering
The dark and lonely places
Finding a big gun
The first stanza started out simple,
but the second definitely kickass;

No cocktails, no Dramamine,
I’ll sick and seizure just the same;
my manual is made of liquid,
...
where a conveyer lets go, go, go


And this line here:
a mile up, or six feet down

summarizes everything about funeral just right.

I really don't have a critique.
You're good.

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haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
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