Dragonfly's Poetry & Prolixity


Dragonfly: Any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest. Also called regionally darner, darning needle, mosquito fly, mosquito hawk, needle, skeeter hawk.

Poetry: The art or work of a poet.

Prolixity: Excessive wordiness in speech or writing; longwindedness

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Apologia by Jill Alexander Essbaum

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Apologia By Jill Essbaum I have been sodden with wine. I have been confused by wine. I have been lied to by men, And yet, I lie down ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Amy Winehouse - Rest In Peace

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"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs an...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Frenzy by Anne Sexton

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One of my collaged composition books. FRENZY by Annie Sexton I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typ...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

December 11th by Anne Sexton

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December 11th by Anne Sexton Then I think of you in bed, your tongue half chocolate, half ocean, of the houses that you swing into, o...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Temptation by Nina Cassian

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Temptation By Nina Cassian Call yourself alive?  Look, I promise you that for the first time you'll feel your pores ...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Dish of Fruit by William Carlos Williams

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Vincen t Van Gogh , Still Life with Carafe and Lemons , 1888. The Dish of Fruit By William Carlos Williams The table describes nothin...
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Monday, July 4, 2011

Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot

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Winter Moon by Marion It's an Eliot kind of day today.  I came to Mr. Eliot's works in my early 40's and now I can't get ...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Let Me Be Your Tattoo

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My dragon tattoo, covering an old scar. LET ME BE YOUR TATTOO By Marion Let me be a tattoo on your cold, hard heart: an arrow to pierc...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Leaves in a Drained Swimming Pool by Dean Young

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Leaves in a Drained Swimming Pool by Dean Young Poetry is an art of beginnings and ends. You want middles, read novels. You want happy e...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

In Praise of Lucille Clifton

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To My Last Period Lucille Clifton well girl, goodbye, after thirty-eight years. thirty-eight years and you never arrived splendid in...
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I am a Moonchild born breach on the full moon during hurricane season in South Louisiana. I read; therefore, I am.
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