Shipwrecks
The wonderful Grandiva asked these questions on her blog:
“What about you?
What moves you?
What do you do because your soul demands it?
What art makes you feel and brings you to another level for having experienced it? What have you learned or gained from your shipwrecks? –Grandiva 2008″
Jo:
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Poetry moves me.
POETRY
P O E T R Y
~poetry~
…poetry…
POETS
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P erfect words
O dd moments
E legant thoughts
T houghtful deeds
R aw courage
Y ou on toast
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My soul demands souls
words with soul
souls with spirit
spirits within
poetry with soul
souls plump with poems
spirit poets
warrior poets
fierce poetry
poems with music
Soft poems
erotic poems
soul poets with edge
edgy poets with soul
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What art makes me feel?
God art, human art, earth art,
frail art, glistening art,
bloody art, pure art,
dirt art, suffering art
poetry, paintings, music,
star hums, cave thrums, tree
frogs, underbellies,
PINK FLOYD and life
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shipwrecks?
I’ve known a few
and the pirates, too, whose
jiggery and puffery sunk ‘em
they say I use down,
down, down a lot in my
work…yes I do…
it would be natural to say
where my paths always
lead, wouldn’t you?
I live on an ark; it rocks
in the storm but won’t
tip, and though lightening
cracks and waves batter,
all the gusting hurled my
way is mere howling.
I’ll eventually land on some
distant shore where blood and
lime seethe in the print
of a another lost human foot
and be sweetly home
–Jo 2008
