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BlueDemon77
Member since June 4, 2012
Member for 13 years, 11 months
Goodbye/Lucky by Ron Woodruff
Goodbye/Lucky by RW
I have to find the barrier, the drop,
the scarier stop
The rest of the 80-90 empirical proof
If I'm a goof I'm glad to be so
loud and free
though I often whisper
Open scars and mean guitars
my family name will not last
The past, the apathetic Czars
the prototype, the blast
I am quite insane
looking through cellophane
but despite have had a transcendent life
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as fun as spontaneous writes rife
with honesty, sometimes ugly
somber or unleasant
and the stars above
and I the coiled pheasant
gripping underbrush shrub
when the grey sky breaks
and the guns discharge
It like wrestling is fake
and truth a colliding barge
for love and poetry's sake
I wish it more than goodbye.
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BlueDemon77’s timeline
- June 2022
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04 SatAnniversary
10 years of membership
- August 2017
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20 SunReceived a critique
on Goodbye/Lucky by Ron Woodruff from @arja
"wow! as usual, your mind has traversed into different fields of interesting ideas and places again.." - June 2017
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04 SunAnniversary
5 years of membership
- March 2014
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28 FriReceived a critique
on Goodbye/Lucky by Ron Woodruff from @eightmenout
"Speaks volumes. Sent me off into different mental planes and brought me back again. Hope all is going well with the book. Did you get the professorship? Scott" -
27 ThuReceived a critique
on Goodbye/Lucky by Ron Woodruff from @emeka ozurumba
"good collocation of massive ideas" -
26 Wed
- December 2013
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03 Tue
- November 2013
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26 Tue
- June 2013
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04 TueAnniversary
One year of membership
- August 2012
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04 Sat
- June 2012
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15 FriHighest posting month
June 2012 — 10 poems
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11 MonFirst critique offered
on "R A Y N E . . . . . . " by @Esker
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10 SunFirst publication
4/4
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04 MonJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 7 days later.
About Me
I have studied and loved what is considered High Literature but I still care as much about the vitality of a genre writing. Much of my poetry comes from the topics of Love, War, a pattern to the universe, what it all means, sexuality, and narrative storytelling. I love enhabiting other voices.
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Rimbaud
Coleridge
Sylvia Plath
Robert Lowell
Allen Ginsberg
Ai
Langston Hughes
Maxine Kumin
Anne Sexton
Kerouac
Burroughs
Amiri Baraka
Wallace Stevens.
Recent Work
Politicula
Predatory
Fedora on the rack....
Point Omega
First Evening
Contest Wins
This member has not yet won any contests.
Workshops
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| An Exploration of Style, Subject, and Critique | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-05-08 | Concluded |
| The Bottom Line | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2013-09-09 | Concluded |
| Naked Emotion, Truth and Originality | (syllabus) | Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2013-07-30 | Concluded |
| Collaborative Couplet Quatrains | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2013-05-12 | Concluded |
| THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY (poetically speaking) Beginning | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2013-05-17 | Concluded |
| Show And Tell: Intensive Critique Workshop | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2013-02-28 | Concluded |
| GREAT POETRY (a workshop) | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2013-01-19 | Concluded |
| Eternal Renga Continues | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2012-11-07 | Concluded |
| fixed verse – it's not a curse | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2012-10-28 | Concluded |
| Mindful Memorable Freeform: The Challenge | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2012-08-31 | Concluded |
| Eternal Renga | (syllabus) | Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2012-08-22 | Concluded |
| Critique workshop - positive critiques | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2012-08-25 | Concluded |
| RHYME PATTERNS (part 1) let's begin | (syllabus) | Wading Pool | Started 2012-08-07 | Concluded |
| Working With Japanese Poetry | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2012-06-10 | Concluded |