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day to day poetry...
by learned
2002 August 31

what do you lot think is your favorite example of a day to day thing which makes you see poetry and inspiration?

for me it is extemely crumpled up notes of money on desks and floors, with coins strewn all over the place



mountanins in morning mist
by stilltrucking
2002 August 31

a road
children at play
my hands



sex, music, love
by judih.
2002 August 31

litkick poetry



well
by learned
2002 August 31

if you get sex, music, love day to day you probably are bound to feel kinda poetic...and tired i'll bet



or rather
by panta rhei
2002 August 31

full



oh
by litnrod11
2002 August 31

smiles and frowns
the way we treat each other
smells are also good



My dog just
by fallerte
2002 August 31

farted
I'm a little stretched on this one.

Love and acceptance?



i think i understand the question, heres my answer
by kerouac&dylan
2002 August 31

people misunderstanding eachother, or having a "communication breakdown"



yeah thats kinda what i said
by kerouac&dylan
2002 August 31

mine is people, in paticular, lately anways its people misunderstanding eachother, but the way people treat eachother is also good. i like when people truelly have a connection and tell there sould or at least a part of there souls to another, that happends in small ways sometimes and its just beautiful.



there you go an inspiriring smell
by kerouac&dylan
2002 August 31

maybe lightning rod can be inspired and write a kick ass poem about your dogs fart...



rain
by Billectric
2002 August 31

pouring down on green.



god damn your right, though for me rain
by kerouac&dylan
2002 August 31

is more of a thinking thing, i just like to stare out into it and think or not think about anything at all, i love the rain.



a little metaphorical than that
by Cora
2002 August 31

i see it..i see the death in the dormant looks in the faces of people i see day to day..so i choose to write to speak to paint the world alive..to slap them awake to remember why they live *not just to die*



i thought the opposite
by learned
2002 August 31

that you live to build a mausoleum for yourself...paintings for the decor, music for the ambiance, writing for the epitaph and everything else for the smile on the face of your corpse



:
by Divine_Mendacity
2002 August 31

A derelict buildin. rotten to hell w/ weeds up throu.. the mesh & wooden shutters likewise rotten in ruin o..industrial landscape---



opposition assumption
by Cora
2002 August 31

typically misunderstood..by whom but just about everyone..they do not understand..maybe never,,but what i see what i think is not about death..about the life i hear the life i wanna live..for i am..for what i know..i feel..left as inspire..maybe misrepresented but i am human maybe mistakes made but that is beauty..my bones ache for more..i lean in..i learn of..i seek more..do you know..for i what to be made ashes carried with the wind in the end..not a mosaleum made and nothing but a memmory..for my ashes to dance an i did..for i will still be dancing in the after..for i will never be over and will come back to do it again



entropy
by stilltrucking
2002 September 01

sunday comics
mountaims submerged
darknessesses in fog
what am i really seeing, hearing, feeling, reading

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