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

Friday, August 19, 2016

Clear Night by Charles Wright

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Last year's lunar eclipse moon...the magical clouds parted... CLEAR NIGHT By Charles Wright Clear night, thumb-top of a moon, a back-lit...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje

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I've always had a nose for scents---quite like a bloodhound I've been told.  I could smell beer on my mother's breath the secon...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

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                     Monet's "Houses of Parliament" from his series of this painting. Monet Refuses The Operation by Lisa Muel...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Conjuring by Hilda Morley

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Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds, thirsty and fighting for dominance, coming in for a landing wings, whirring little cyclone, flying ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Wilderness By Carl Sandburg - And I Am Mourning My Own Wild(er)ness

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Our beautiful forest, our magical woods overflowing with wildlife that will go...where??? is being systematically destroyed as I write...cle...
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Saturday, July 9, 2016

...Dragonflies draw flame...

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                 Blue Tiger Dragonfly, Drawing Flame--- As Kingfishers Catch Fire Related Poem Content Details By:  Gerard Manley Hopkins As...
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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Before the World Intruded by Michele Rosenthal

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                                                      Birth of a flower When you're young, the whole world, a lifetime(!) is ahe...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Broken Things

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                               Old, Broken Things...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Aubade By Philip Larkin

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Aubade By Philip Larkin I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges wi...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Floating Trees By C. D. Wright

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Floating Trees By C. D. Wright a bed is left open to a mirror  a mirror gazes long and hard at a bed  light fingers the house with its own a...
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