Tag: poem
member name: John F Walter
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February 14, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
for Inmaculada Cara Martin, beloved wife, forever my valentine. With special use of the public domain lyrics from Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart's immortal song, MY FUNNY VALENTINE, now a jazz . . .
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October 23, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
for Ed Nudelman, Gather´s most prolific poet troubador and my dear friend in the emptiness. This poem is as much about weathering brickbats in the real world as in the virtual. . . .
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December 09, 2007 05:29 PM EST --
for Will Evans, to whom this email poem was addressed
Yesterday was my wife´s saint´s day,
so I was offline and not answering calls
if you called--I don´t think you . . .
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August 07, 2007 01:43 PM EDT --
For Nathan Schauer, poet, writer, teacher and friend
I´ll not speak of the thing, though it´s
Hurled between us like the sun's bright disc.
I´ll live as if it can´t . . .
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August 11, 2007 10:55 AM EDT --
For Kathryn Esplin-Oleski, versatile journalist, fiction writer, and poet, who I am lucky to count as one of my virtual friends on Gather. The documentary on global warming featuring Vice . . .
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March 31, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
For Padre Flavio Zavala, my first mentor, who taught me a little Spanish, a lot of Latin, how to play chess, and what I needed to know about finding God in the small things.
Plaza . . .
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March 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
for Ludolf Grolle De Rochefort, pre-Simulationist painter, poet and patterner of invisible textures.
you don't ever get straight
though you try hard
and at times it feels just right
in . . .
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August 01, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
for my wife Inmaculada Cara Martin
Granada breathes out its burnt roses at dusk.
I think about the child I don´t have,
the children we won´t raise,
since my . . .
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April 02, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
For Boris G., virtual buddy and fellow poet, who keeps me on my toes with his incandescent prose.
---Hypocrite lecteur--mon semblable, --mon frère!*
Au Lecteur, LES . . .
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December 14, 2008 02:08 PM EST --
for Ron Breedlove, soldier, storyteller, poet and astute political observer.
a little accordion music maestro
will the goggling geese in the back . . .
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December 19, 2008 03:31 PM EST --
you imagine oatmeal
wish for a hot shower
then view again a shore a sea
zoom back to your tracks
tamped into wet sand
it's started raining on your bed
but there's no parasol
flung . . .
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May 01, 2006 09:00 AM EDT --
for Angela Claire and Andalucia Dotson
may·day [máy dày] noun. distress call: the internationally recognized communications distress call.
My friend draws bright discs in . . .
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September 17, 2006 02:22 PM EDT --
for Jenn B., my "jennie james," brilliant young writer and ex-Gatherer who I've worried about for four months since she left us, but now have learned happily is full of more life than ever! . . .
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March 13, 2007 06:10 PM EDT --
For Brenda Clewes, beautiful dancer and brilliant pre Sim poet of the embodied mind. Her work interrogates consciousness and the evanescent self in a way that recalls a great modern American video artist, . . .
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July 22, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
For all contemporary artists who get mired in the latest critical theories and lose hope. This one especially goes out to my pre Sim homegirls Amy George and Jill Pazerackas of . . .
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October 11, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
For Barry Crooks, friend, fellow playwright and poet, and searcher for the reality ¨in between.¨
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The doll world surely exists, just as does any cherished mirror . . .
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February 28, 2007 02:13 PM EST --
For my youngest brother Patrick Walter, brilliant and versatile actor and writer, now living with his beautiful wife Monika and baby Yrja in Norway's northernmost Arctic Circle, who probably has . . .
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March 21, 2009 05:14 PM EDT --
For David Lipshultz (1970-2004)
If I could wash my face in this basin
while I wept at your grave in Phoenix
dude I swear . . .
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July 15, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
Sonnet elegy for Don Francisco Cara Martin, my father-in-law (1930-2002).
I never liked its name, 'Alzheimer's,´
Which brings to mind a faulty rhymer,
Who, . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:51 PM EST --
For Jan Hersh, the Hatshepsut of Gather versifiers, who neither has donned nor ever possessed the imaginary Egyptian talisman I ´ve invented strictly for the purposes of this poem. The . . .
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