Current poems in progress...

The Summer-pleasant breeze
---Jonathan S. FeBland, Edgware, UK.
takes its toll on former doldrums
----M
buds are budding and teens are kissing
----M
headlines printed to be recycled
---M
so what's new
---fallon
after all these years
---f
besides Bukowski and you and me
---f
and maybe ferlinghetti or perhaps Sartre,
---f
Or maybe that guy who is always on the corner
---f
and in your face, IS your face
---f
What about him? what about you?
---f
What about he, she, they, it , we, them,
---f
Just how bout the whole freaking disfunctional Borg. huh?
---f
I'm asking here: just tell me something.
---f
Tell me something true.
---f
Are you still the same person I remember?
---Anonymous
Are you still hidden in a dream?
---Anonymous
...
----M
No. I'm smoking cigarettes with American friends
----M
and downing coffee at Les Deux Magots
----M
I just asked that they scroll the awning
----M
no pen, no blue-lined paper...all gone to waste
----M
all men look like you, before success, before the mistress
----M
sings the blues across a poolroom of testosterone
----M
You see, I haven't changed much more
----M
than Simone the day she turned the page
----M
to better taste the cognac
----M
but they died, all the references died
---...f
and went to hell, as far as i can tell
---Anonymous, ...f
...
---Anonymous
Have we proof that France existed?
----M
What if we were only gaining muscle in midwestern fields
----M
without crossing over, frozen in our twenties
----M
in a skin aging drift, poetry harnessed.
----M
That felt love still aches past the ideals of peace
----M
and you. And You? Are you still hiding in a thesaurus?
----M

very atmospheric -M

I gazed upon her image
---Jonathan S. FeBland, Edgware, UK.
through a groggy morning filter
----M
and still retrieve a sense of beauty
----M
Venice remembers pageantry and war
----M
I remember a tired room
----M
where flowers paper wall and groom
----M
in the fever of a moment
----M
A Grand Canal of running gold
----M
shoes abandoned in the chase
---k, NU, CA
and all the cherished world before us
---k
a train to catch out of the water
----M
an annointint of feet
---fallon
Rose and lavender
---f
The begged us to stay but we kept running
---Anonymous
engaged in our own flight
----M
O the mysteries of night
---Jonathan S. FeBland, Edgware, UK.
Show themselves at this hour
---Anonymous

am back at my (interactive poetry)home after 6 months on the go in asia...glad to see some familiar signatures -M
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where were you in Asia? (I was in Australia, last month) --k
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Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, India...amazing trip! -M
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wow! sounds awesome... --k

I woke up this morning
---Znethru
With the sun shinning through the window
---Miza-t, U.K.
It came as something of a surprise,
---SplitRail
When a very large truck
---Anonymous
Thundered past noisily
---Anonymous
spewing smoke, and dust and filth and bedraggled ladies of indeterminate age.
---Split
O wisdom O sage
---Znethru
Would I ever turn the page?
---Znethru
I woke up this morning
---Anonymous
to raindrops afalling on the pane
---isa
alas there was little surprise
---isa
all the dust from yesterday
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
has turned into tomorrow's recommencement
---david, vienna, austria

Best authority has it that the sun was shining rather than shinning through the window! -Znethru

Little Mickey Mac
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
Didn't go to school
---Anonymous
He'd wander off the track
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
Ignoring every rule
---Anonymous
His pocket bulged with secrets
---Anonymous
What could he have in mind
---Anonymous
"It only takes chappati flour...
---Anonymous
Albino olives and rind"
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
A bottle of Chianti
---Anonymous
And all the beer you can find...
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
Some friends and grass and summer sun
---Anonymous
To up the relaxation ante
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.

In today's society
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
One needs to have a pied-piper mentality
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.

If I write one line every day
---Jonathan FeBland (Znethru), Edgware, UK.
it will take a while
---Anonymous
there may not be time
---Anonymous
but why be pessimistic?
---Jonathan S. FeBland, Edgware, UK.
Certainly a clock can be stopped
----M
between coffees lined to march
----M
through hours behind desks.
----M
...
---Anonymous

not to be sarcastic or mean, just honest curiosity,
what is znesthru, and also Fe Bland? i have never seen
these words before, thanks...f

Silence lives in memory alone- in Memory and in Death.
---angharad
Revolt brews behind silver screens dead beats wear as shades.
----M

The first thing he might be doing
----M