For the PA Prompt – Write a Poem about an Inteview…. 5 Poems

Note:  I just wanted to get these up and posted will pretty them up tomorrow....

High Powered Interview

so you say that

you created it

all

not with a shred

of grandiosity

but with a simple

glowing statement

of fact

and I ask you but

one question

if so

why then did

you leave this

void of gaping

belief as grand

as the abyss

of that canyon

out US west

within my core

where you

believe you

should live

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PKP says:

September 12, 2012 at 5:06 pm

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Interview with a dandelion

How do you reconcile

the destruction of

your self

with the joy

of the child

who blows

you to fluttered

wisps on the wind

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Marie Elena says:

September 12, 2012 at 8:54 pm

Oooo … love this one. What a spin!

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PKP says:

September 12, 2012 at 5:09 pm

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Interview with Hortense

It was more years than I’d like you to hear

when first you came into my life Elephant Dear

I need you to know, I need clearly to say

that your compassion informs “who” I am today

Now other girls and boys listen too

to the wisdom dispensed from the largest

to the smallest dignified “who”

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PKP says:

September 12, 2012 at 5:24 pm

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At the Pearly

I did not believe

not really that there

was

such an actual gate

but now here I

stand a once mortal pearl

in the light of luminescence

awaiting my fate

I lived by the credo

do unto others and each

day do something kind

if it all counts for something

I would not at all mind

if on the other hand

found my papers are lacking

I probably would not fit in without

unfair, unwanted, celestial backing

So I’ll just stand here and

soak up the sun

on the sheen of the pearls

on the gate wait long begun

Stand here and wait and not

weave words toward my behalf

my life my resume cannot be undone

I’ll pass through or be left here to linger

eternally listening to your chiding laugh

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SharoninDallas says:

September 12, 2012 at 10:13 pm

These are all lovely.

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PKP says:

September 12, 2012 at 5:31 pm

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Interview with the oft-pictured Nazi who bayonetted a baby

Now, in the fading light of your years

Now in long passed time of insanity passed

Now that infanthood has been returned

with your rationality and those soft creatures

deemed then unworthy of life, gurgle and coo

How?

do you still the sound

of screams?

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seingraham says:

September 12, 2012 at 7:35 pm

Ah – indeed, This one will stay with me Pearl, a long, long time.

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Marie Elena says:

September 12, 2012 at 8:56 pm

Oh my …

One of the most powerful poems I believe I’ve come upon in a long time.

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SharoninDallas says:

September 12, 2012 at 10:14 pm

That IS the question. Very powerful.

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