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

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Mistaking Opiates for the Clear Light by Suzanne Paola

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Support Poets.  BUY LOTS OF POETRY! Mistaking Opiates for the Clear Light By Suzanne Paola There's always been this confusion with white...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Pretty Words by Elinor Wylie

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Yellow weeds a sproutin'... Pretty Words By Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1929) Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, lik...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Reading Anais Nin

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I have been reading Anais Nin all this week.  A very few of my favorite passages jumped out to be shared here: “The morning I got up to begi...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Happy Birthday, Dearest Anais Nin

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Anais Nin A few of my Anais Nin books. Anais Nin was a prolific diarist and writer born February 21, 1903. She is one of my favorite authors...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

God's Justice by Anne Carson

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Red River Dragonfly photographed by me last year. God’s Justice By Anne Carson In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks....
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

"Night Poems" By Ben Ditmars

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One of my favorite bloggers in blogland is Ben Ditty (Ditmars).  "Night Poems" is his new book of poetry and I'm sharing my r...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Who It Is Accuses Us by Linda Pastan

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Blythe, my tiny window sill doll.   Who It Is Accuses Us By Linda Pastan   Who it is accuses us of safety, as if the family were soldiers in...
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Monday, January 9, 2012

Lady Marion to the Dark Tower Came

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I have just discovered Stephen King's Dark Tower series.  All 7 books, 3712 pages, give or take an introduction or two and that's wh...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon

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LET EVENING COME By Jane Kenyon Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down....
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year!

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Two of my new dolls, "Draculaura & Frankie Stein".  “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I ...
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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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