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jjhunter

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

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poetree_admin

Have a poetry-related post or posts this week from your own journal/space that you'd like to share with the community? Comment on this thread with the link(s) and a brief description of you're linking to.

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poetree_admin

This is the thread for non-personal, i.e. 'general' poetry news. Submission deadlines for poetry-related 'zines, news re: poets from outside the comm, and so on.

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poetree_admin

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zirconium

The muse hijacked me for a bit last night, because two poems inspired by trees wanted to be written.

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zirconium

Dos Gatos Press is welcoming submissions of southwest-centric haiku until 2/1, haiga until 2/20, and calendar poems until 2/20. Details at http://dosgatospress.org/how-to-submit

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jjhunter

Ooo, very cool! Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

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jjhunter

There are many things I like about both, especially the second one, but

its unburied garbage
and unappeasable ghosts

as a descriptor of Greece is the scent of smoke and the knife that cuts it. Nicely done.

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thesilentpoet

I have 1 more hour left on my library reference desk shift, and therefore one more hour left in this weekend's special edition of 'Poetry for the Masses!'

Two freebies are linked. :) It's pay-what-you-will, always.

(Dear admins, this is my first time visiting the picnic, hope this sort of post is allowed.)

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raze

Normally I'd just link, but this one is part of an access-only post. I did another "poetry by characters" yesterday. The MC was in a conflict that included child soldiers and was stabbed by one; this poem is a reflection of some of the psychological trauma that resulted.

Over
The vice-grip of her fingers
on my sweat-slick shoulder
betrays her fear even as she says
"It's okay. It's over."

The words become a mantra.
She's trying too hard
to convince the nightmare
to end when sleep does.

And I can't tell which
I'm trying harder to hide:
the crack or the snarl
in my voice as I reply,

What does over look like, exactly?

There are things you hide
from people you love.
You hug their eyes closed
hold them close in your blindfold.

I'm sorry. I'm fine, really.

Because I know my embrace
is an eager tattle-tale
for shaky hands and gooseflesh;
I'm not ready to tell her

That every day
for three weeks
I re-opened the gash in my side
wishing it would scar.
It didn't seem right
that he only left a mark
in places I couldn't see.

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raze

Nicely done! The photos accompanying the poems are quite lovely as well.

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ysabetwordsmith

Here is the Poetry Fishbowl report from January 22, featured series Fiorenza the Wisewoman:
http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/2688075.html

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fyreharper

Ooofh. That hits hard.

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fyreharper

firecat did an "up-goer-five" version of the "Shall I compare the to a summer's day" sonnet. It is pretty amazing: http://firecat.dreamwidth.org/799011.html