*insert crazed war whoop*
I composed this latest American sentence mere seconds after Sidney Crosby scored the tie-breaking goal for Olympic gold in the most stressful hockey game ever.
Hats off to uber-amazing US goalie Ryan Miller and the agressive American team who forced me to physically hold a hand over my view of the Canadian net throughout the entire game. Interactive audience participation - what can I say?
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Olympic gold so tough to grasp, making victory all the sweeter.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Poetry Train Monday - 141 - American sentence 3
Posted by Julia Phillips Smith at 1:20 PM
Labels: American sentence, Gold medal, Hockey, Olympics, Poetry Train, Sidney Crosby, Team Canada
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Poetry Train Monday - 140 - American sentence 2
I waited until the hockey game was over before writing this for the Poetry Train. I was hoping I would have a much different American sentence to craft.
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History always repeats itself, even if it takes fifty years.
Photo by Harry How
Posted by Julia Phillips Smith at 1:07 PM
Labels: American sentence, Hockey, Olympics, Poetry Train
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Poetry Train Monday - 138 - Falling With Abandon
With Valentine's Day approaching, here's an ode to love, which I wrote this evening after indulging in watching ballet pas de deux on You Tube.
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Falling With Abandon
Love yearns
Yearns like the sea
The shore always slipping through
Fingers of foam
Its absence cr-
-acks
cracks the heart
Cracks like a dry lake bed
Love refuses
Will never give in
Love scrambles like tiny turtles
Scrambling from the sand for their watery refuge
It stalks with lethal prowess
Stalks like the panther gazing
From the shadows
Love competes
Love collides like
Tangled antlers
It shyly flirts
Flirts like the cocked head of a kitten
Love swirls
Swirls in the pit of the stomach
Swirls like dervish snow squalls
It bursts from the breast
Bursts like startled flamingos
Love burns without warning
Love burns like orange flame
Flame wrenched from trees by blue lightening
It falls with abandon
The abandon of a glacier calving
Into the open arms
Of the sea
Love kicks with springy delight
Rambunctious delight
The springing leap of young goats
It protects
Love protects like a bear's
Swiping claw
Love soothes like the tongue
The tongue of a doe nudging her fawn
Its joy spreads
Spreads through the cosmos
Spreads like smiling stars
Stars revolving in the vast night
- Julia Smith, Feb. 7, 2010
Panther photo by Liorah_Lleucu
Posted by Julia Phillips Smith at 6:19 AM
Labels: Falling With Abandon, Love, panther, Poetry Train