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This was the time when New Orleans hurricane spake back to Noah and the US President of Sleaze in Rose Garden Mix and Match Fund Raiser for earthquakes in Pakistan and crickets in Tehran 

The Perfection of Love 

Why is Life Worth Living? 

What if the laws of physics in the universe changed from place to place and we derived inaccurate probability equations without form? 

Tribute to the English Movie Star Dorothy Chili Bouchier 1909-1999. She Made 57 films and rejected Hollywood. 

-- Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian Poet 5/13/06 

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”—Henri Matisse 

(A short poem by Request)--- Epigram taken from an older poem. 

TV/Radio Exercise by Nell .  

"The world only goes round by misunderstanding." - Charles Baudelaire 

FLASH POETRY SUBMIT FOR: "Now I will shine for all the world to see." 

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion." - GK Chesterton 

Random quotations from the New York Times and Google. The quotation is used as a prompt. 

Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) 

Confessional Poem for Nell's Poetry Seminar Prompt 

Prompt from Poetry Seminar: not confessional confessional poem based on a line quoted by Nell: "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth" -- Jean Cocteau 

Prompt for poem .... was beauty or lost beauty 

Ritual and Meditation -- The Year is 1957 

First Draft from a Prompt at Zoetrope written today: Write a poem in any form or style incorporating: rabbit, gun, cradle, couscous, paragon, cheese steak (for my UK friends cheese steak of course is Philadelphia food, but Camden is a city immediately across from Philadelphia. Step on the bridge in Camden, New Jersey and you are immediately in Philadelphia. Camden had horrific schools. I taught there in the 1970s, and from what I hear it is no better today. 

Hieronymus Bosch and “Ecclesia's Paradise” 

Poem separated from "The Garden of Earthly Delights" 

First Draft -- 1 January 2006 

My mystical mystery child tour (1945 to 1948)  

“Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.” Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French author. Saint-Fond, in [i]L’Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du Vice, pt. 2 (1797)[/i] 

Life, all life seems spiritual and at the same time, a scam. The poem explores, along with that first chapter of Genesis, this hypocrisy. Agnostics have their spiritual havens. Sometimes, Buddhism answers mine, and ironically, the Old Testament) enlightens. Yet, I prefer to live in reality and meditate to attain spiritual calm -- Sean  

The Four Seasons by Stravinsky (if he had written the piece) 

Fictional treatment of autobiographical notes 

Biographical poem (part of a longer work on childhood and adult abuse 1943-1962) 

vector 1. Mathematics. a. A quantity, such as velocity, completely specified by a magnitude and a direction. b. A one-dimensional array. c. An element of a vector space. 2. Pathology. An organism, such as a mosquito or tick, that carries disease-causing microorganisms from one host to another. 3. Genetics. A bacteriophage, a plasmid, or another agent that transfers genetic material from one location to another. 4. A force or an influence.  

Revised to exclude three stanzas that may not be part of the poem. What do you think? 

Home has many faces and traumas 

Note: I have hesitated to post this poem. It has been brewing inside since a dream where I transformed my mother into a monster or she me, and it became a monster movie. Colors are a natural connection to mood, past, future, and the impossible. I hope the poem upsets and at the same time is art. 

Ten Haiku Poems Connected Theme 

This Unitarian looks at his beliefs and ideology and dances with theology 

"Flash Prompt and Exercise for July 10 -- By Caz Ferguson Zoetrope Sunday Afternoon Flash Exercise -- What a week. We need some happiness, so here it is. The prompt is very simple today, folks. Write a poem expressing joy. Write about anything that makes you happy, in any poetic form." --- My Poem, "Moral Man/Immoral Society", asks the general question: is "joy" possible in this imperfect world? 

Flash Dream Cartoons -- Written from prompt: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/endofworld.html  

Sarah For Esther Simms (summer 1972) Pubished 1972 Dublin Magazine 

After reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "A Mathematical Problem (A humorous student-days poem on geometry), in a letter to his brother George Coleridge, 1791" and Kubla Khan -- OR, A VISION IN A DREAM. A FRAGMENT. (1798)  

“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word “no.” To “no” there is only one answer and that is “yes.” Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.” Victor Hugo (1802–85), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 6 (1862)  

A prose-poem reflected With Opitcal Isomerism 

On the Nature of Matter After reading Shakespeare's LIII Sonnet 

POEM THAT USES PROSE FOR DETAILS -- From The Journal of John Colman Mate on Dutch Ship, Little Fox, Murdered By His Crew In 1611 

Every day the world seems more and more impossible. 

Memory of the Chicago Democratic National Convention August 1968 & Second George W. Bush Inaugural, Washington, DC 

Poem for my son Ian for his birthday 12-5-1978 

My pessimism grows daily as I read the newspapers and copy in my notebooks the daily art of our disintegration 

"Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd!" POPE BENEDICT XVI -- 24 April 2005 ------- From 1984: "He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him. To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. It must be round about that date, since he was fairly sure that his age was thirty-nine, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945; but it was never possible nowadays to pin down any date within a year or two." --George Orwell, 1984.  

After Reading the "Second Coming" of William Butler Yeats. 

Diary Inspired by Anais Nin's Fiction 

Adapted from original Diary of Eugene Goodwin (American civil war era diary) 

Poem came from exercise by Wenonah Lyon at Zoetrope: Write a flash or poem based on one of these proverbs (or one of your own choosing): "There's more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed." "Many a mickle makes a muckle." "Facts are stubborn things.." "A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple."  

Old Testament & Book of Revelation 

Songs for an Agnostic's Easter 

for Spring and April to come -- 

Fear cripples for life. "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again!" Sections #5 and #6 By Laurie Fallon ("Dirty Little Girl") A Virtual Person  

Exercise for Poetry Seminar. I kept to the visual patern in first draft but then as the poem came together the line breaks changed. 

Nostalgia: Hudson River, Jacob Van Ruisdael and Theresa (1963) [Nostalgia: From Greek nostos, a return home]  

Argument for the Book of Byzantium: As children are abused by adults, terror grows. As horror expands, intellect diminishes and lives are wasted in the pursuit of apparent gods, forgotten nightmares and natural greed. On 9/11/01 thousands evaporated into dust. That mortal wound reminded me of my own face when I was beaten and raped as a child. In the mirror now I am blank before terror was tasted as air failed and sulfuric smoke rose. (more to come) 

The Poetry Seminar Group looked at this several months ago. How about Poetry IV. What do you think? Argument Byzantium: As children are abused by adults, terror grows. As horror expands, intellect diminishes and lives are wasted in the pursuit of apparent gods, forgotten nightmares and natural greed. That wound reminded me of my own face when I was beated and raped as a child. In the mirror now I am more blank than before terror was tasted as air failed and sulfuric smoke was rising.  

My Self & Soul in 2005. Written after reading Yeats's "Self and Soul." 

A Poem for Rebirth, revival and ecstasy. 

Back Story -- Memories of Vietnam 1968 -- Riding the time line of the Great River now called Hudson or Thames. 

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake on December 26, 2004 which generated tsunamis that caused one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. This rare type of earthquake known as a megathrust earthquake struck at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time)in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the largest earthquake on Earth since the 9.2-magnitude Good Friday Earthquake off Alaska in 1964. 

Geli Raubal (1931) was Adolf's first reported murder. The Reichstag fire (1933)was an early lie of the National Socialists Party. Rodney King (1992)was another lie perpetrated by the LA Police. Laurie Fallon (1992)is one layer of horror, "noir" and history carved as fiction but more truth. "Laurie is real and actual," Peter Jackson Campbell, the Gadfly speaking in his three times weekly column for the Bergen Sentinel, Hackensack, NJ. 

Traditional Valentine's Day Poem 2-14-05 

Poem written for an exercise using the preparation of food as starting point 

Hurlyburly Flash Exercise From Taxi Murders -- Written for the flash challenge 2/18/2005 1178 words 

Serial murderers (brother and sister) kidsnap late term pregnant women. TxM6 may be the story of one survivor. More at http://taximurders.com 

Poem is part of a book in progress: "My Mother is Marilyn Monroe". The book is an account of my life as a child.