tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378187182012-02-16T21:21:17.649-07:00established april fools day 2004Jeffrey Spahr-Summersnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37818718.post-17993194972111093782007-02-22T05:24:00.000-07:002007-08-03T03:44:42.810-06:00<span style="font-family:arial;"><em><strong>"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them-the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."--</strong>Fyodor Dostoyevski</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>The Death and Life of a Dream</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">a dream,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">it's true</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">dies first</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">soft, tender, unattended</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">relegated to the long expanse</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">of bygone</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">misplaced emotions</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">desires and secrets</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">decay of the bottom</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">of our malleable minds</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">archaic thoughts</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">forced to peek around</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">life's current corners</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">a treasure both luxuriant</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and worthless without them</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">still sealed with intense</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">covert feelings</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">secretly stashed</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">it suddenly</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">will dust itself with doubting fingers</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">earnestly wanting to feel</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">needed again</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">trying hard</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">not to crumble</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">when newly exposed</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Eila Mahima Jaipaul</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>paramount to my problem</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">is the them/her/you of it all i</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">know no other way to say it</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">i am burned by the passion</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">of such fire over and over it</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">means i become a prisoner</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">of love willingly i search my</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">soul for solutions reasons i</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">cannot bring myself to love</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">myself realizing this curses</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">me/you/them/all i hold dear</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">J.A. Spahr-Summers</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(May 25, 2006) </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37818718-1799319497211109378?l=archivesvol32006.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jeffrey Spahr-Summersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37818718.post-12652092274553426262007-02-17T05:47:00.000-07:002007-02-27T04:49:22.256-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><em><strong>"Human, all too human."--</strong>Friedrich Nietsche</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I want to thank all the following contributors for allowing me to use their poems over the last 2 years;</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bobbi Jo Green</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Karen E. Harrison</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Christopher Soden</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Royce Franzoni, Jr.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tiffany Franzoni</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jason Robert Hall</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tony Bush</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ryfkah</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ward Kelley</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Kristin Johnson</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jim Bennett</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Todd Heldt</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tom Berman</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bert Glick</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">David Fraser</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Michael Levy</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Kenny Klein</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">T.L. Stokes</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Merilene Murphy</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Taylor Graham</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">John Browning</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Andie King-Vaughn</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Josie Lawson</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Anthony Liccione</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Helen Bar-Lev</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Gerald Bosaker</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Michael Pacholski</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Alex Stolis</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Joel L. Young</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Melanie Simms</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jospeh Veronneau</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Patricia Gomes</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Norm Wygant, Jr.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jim D. Babwe</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jackie Goldstein</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Maurice Taylor</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">John Simon</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Donna Kuhn</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Kristi Swadley</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">James Carraway</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Wes Ward</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Glenn Smith</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Cory Habbas</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bam Dev Sharma</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Chaim Rosenblum</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Birgitta Jonsdottir</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Arif Khudairi</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Timothy Smith</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Donna Pecore</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Simon Perchik</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Maria C. James</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">T. Ashok Chadkravarthy</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Roger Humes</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">James M. Brown</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Stephen Roxborough</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Laura Stamps</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jake</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Pamela Lindley</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Daniel Elijah</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Samuel Hazo</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Gerald Stern</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bonnie Florea</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Patsy Anne Bickerstaff</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ted Kooser</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Andrew Kirkwood Peterson</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Michael Estabrook</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Carolyn Mahdi</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ulrike Gerbig</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bridget-Rose Lee</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Daniel A. Olivas</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Umesh Ghoshdastider</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Linda Benninghoff</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Justin Spahr-Summers</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Elinor Melvin</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Alan Lee Birkelbach</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Michael Virga</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sonja Broderick</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em>Please forgive me if I have overlooked anyone!</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Special apologies to Alan Lee Birkelbach for abruptly ending his poetry series when I stopped production temporarily in October 2005.</em><br /></span><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37818718-1265209227455342626?l=archivesvol32006.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jeffrey Spahr-Summersnoreply@blogger.com