Month: May 2012
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QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions You ask me who I am. I tell you that I am a man. You ask me why I write. I say I write to understand. You ask me why I dream. I tell you I dream so I will not scream. You ask […]
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WILLISTON CROSSING
This poem was written as I sat in our RV in Williston Crossings RV Park, Williston, FL looking at the woods surrounding our site and the asphalt roadway network slicing the woods into sections. The park is beautifully laid out, but I wonder what a Seminole Chieftan like Micanopy would think if they saw it today. WILLISTON […]
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POEMS FROM MAYPORT ONE AND TWO
MAYPORT ONE Mayport! Clouds laying low, grey, thick, layered cream far out on the ocean scene; fat roll before the jagged top, a bear’s head amid cloud rubble changed to dog then disappeared, as the sun looked on and spread its sight, split the scene, dissolved the cream, removed the night. 5/21/2012 MAYPORT TWO Mayport! […]
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PART ONE: The Old Man And The Moon Dancer
This is part one of a large poem I am working on. I will be placing it here in sections. I hope you enjoy. THE OLD MAN AND THE MOON DANCER (PART ONE) Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions T’was an old man, I spied, Down by the sandbanks, At the […]
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I MET AN OCTOPUS THE OTHER DAY
I MET AN OCTOPUS THE OTHER DAY **The Marine Biologist’s Day on the Beach** Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions May. 7, 2012 I met an octopus the other day, An upside-down solitary cephalopod, One who’d gone astray in a peculiar sort of way, From those who, one might say, were his […]
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THE SHADOWS OF THE MORNING LIGHT
THE SHADOWS OF THE MORNING LIGHT Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions Sure t’is the morning of regrets When memory doth not forget neglects, And stabs the soul with a cutting stone, And one finds they are all alone Sure t’is a fine tormenting day When memories come that should not […]
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PLACES
PLACES Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions Soft. Velvet. Open. Drew Caresses. There lay the lure. May 3, 2012
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THE KISS
THE KISS Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn Poet in the Rain Productions She kissed the open warm hollow of his neck And there found a softness lay in sweetness fair; While her breath trailed moist upon his flesh She drew him close with fingers curled tightly in his hair. May 4, 2012
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GOODMORNING!
It is 0645 and my micro-wave has decided to go on vacation. Put a cup of water in it to heat and nothing. Zero. No zap. No nada. Nuttin’. Everything seemed to work but wonder upon wonder the water she did not boil. What is this, I thought to myself, surely I put the cup […]
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 