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, August 30, 2011

The Moon by Robert Bly

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Hazy moon, tangled in trees by Marion. The Moon Robert Bly After writing poems all day, I go off to see the moon in the pines. Far in...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

To Make a Prairie by Emily Dickinson

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My Wisteria in Spring---breakfast for a fat, hungry bumble bee. To Make a Prairie By Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Interiors by Stephen Dunn

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Cards are from my Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Interiors By Stephen Dunn In New Orleans, a Bed and Breakfast in a seamy part of town. ...
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The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

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Sunset at Hodges Gardens State Park The Summer Day By Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who mad...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

One Need Not Be A Chamber to be Haunted by Emily Dickinson

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Brumidi Corridors are the vaulted, ornately-decorated corridors on the first floor of the Senate wing in the U. S. Capitol. One Need Not...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

"The Leaf and the Cloud" by Mary Oliver

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My favorite shy, blushing rose. 6. And how shall we speak of love except in the splurge of roses, and the long body of the river shin...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Gift by Czeslaw Milosz

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One of my ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Gift By Czeslaw Milosz A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds w...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

All Things Pass by Timothy Leary

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All Things Pass By Timothy Leary, homage to Lao Tzu All things pass A sunrise does not last all morning All things pass  A cloudbu...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Rome Itself by Rod McKuen

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Photo of the Coliseum from poster.com In the early 70's I was a teenager and my boyfriend used to give me poems he said he'd writte...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

The Broken Field by Sara Teasdale

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The Broken Field By Sara Teasdale My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain. Whe...
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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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