<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558</id><updated>2011-11-12T16:14:35.378-08:00</updated><category term='Angel Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Beauty Poem (Triolet) by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Zip Form.Haiku by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Sun Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Moon Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Metaphor Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Snow Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Soul Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Farewell Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Depression Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Double Cinquain Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Wind Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Abstract Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Cinquain Variation Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Death Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Christmas Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='DORSIMBRA by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Friendship Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='God Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Tribute Poem (Septolet) by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Sad Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Children&apos;s Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Soldier Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Tree Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Ghost Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Season Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Tribute Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='People Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Monoku by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Parent Poem by Laverne 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term='Relationship Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Winter Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Nature Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Beach Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Star Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Quatrain by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Sailor Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Sea Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Adventure Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><category term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Poetry and Water</title><subtitle type='html'>Well daylight never comes too soon</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' 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type='text'>Moments and Half Creatures</title><content type='html'>The fairytale talk in every photo;&lt;br /&gt;Six months on slow water;&lt;br /&gt;Something to say like silk in the middle;&lt;br /&gt;One night when God hears the garden;&lt;br /&gt;Black, can be hardly, turning piano keys and starlights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyrght 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2263493207229208717?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2263493207229208717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2263493207229208717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/11/moments-and-half-creatures.html' title='Moments and Half Creatures'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3792051582249453495</id><published>2011-11-12T16:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T16:06:42.340-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Wind Woks</title><content type='html'>Cats, have written meowing whispers;&lt;br /&gt;A blow into my mouth beyond towering hills;&lt;br /&gt;Into my arms of crystal, blankets of wax over body;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the tune that skips over water, the salting breeze of &lt;br /&gt;sparkle, care and no lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3792051582249453495?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3792051582249453495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3792051582249453495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/11/wind-woks.html' title='Wind Woks'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4647417611195378394</id><published>2011-11-12T16:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T16:04:31.089-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>night days</title><content type='html'>Owls, old vintages wheels and cats;&lt;br /&gt;The hole in the sun howling;&lt;br /&gt;Twelve towels grinding softly against my spine;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the floor, disappearing wax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4647417611195378394?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4647417611195378394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4647417611195378394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/11/night-days.html' title='night days'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4891484561222748657</id><published>2011-11-12T16:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T16:02:56.637-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Cupboards</title><content type='html'>Angels plus three and laughter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reasons, nervousness, tables tops&lt;br /&gt;Catching me, kitchen counters, moonlight &lt;br /&gt;- Objects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4891484561222748657?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4891484561222748657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4891484561222748657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/11/cupboards.html' title='Cupboards'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5503751215386039517</id><published>2011-10-23T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-23T10:44:49.562-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Clothes Lines</title><content type='html'>Head, climbing pillows&lt;br /&gt;I turn songs to mirrors&lt;br /&gt;Then giggle&lt;br /&gt;Like years so clear draws to daytime&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A coat hangs with adventure&lt;br /&gt;Rags move when clouds soak blue holds&lt;br /&gt;Sleeves punish off water waves, off clothes&lt;br /&gt;A slither on collars, smells tulips bows into lines&lt;br /&gt;A locks on looks waves wavy stems of butterflies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wind eats through&lt;br /&gt;Air shaped flowers and windows&lt;br /&gt;White soaking coats rolling movements and principles&lt;br /&gt;Inside out, tulip bowls lovely something like hankerchiefs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the laundry - a wedding dress&lt;br /&gt;button holes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waiting and wavering like an &lt;br /&gt;ocean of squirrels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5503751215386039517?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5503751215386039517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5503751215386039517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/10/clothes-lines.html' title='Clothes Lines'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6858360698790579360</id><published>2011-08-12T14:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T14:01:27.512-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Auto Thought</title><content type='html'>"The light in the window turns black into celebration."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6858360698790579360?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6858360698790579360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6858360698790579360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/auto-thought.html' title='Auto Thought'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5087120247760540336</id><published>2011-08-12T13:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:58:22.738-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>My Ad</title><content type='html'>I'm not a black hoop&lt;br /&gt; a servant a teacher in a book&lt;br /&gt;the for-ever in love refers to calendars outdated&lt;br /&gt;I am a creative board allowing logic to be a nuisance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5087120247760540336?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5087120247760540336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5087120247760540336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-ad.html' title='My Ad'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4602973376134277291</id><published>2011-08-12T13:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:54:11.013-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Refer River</title><content type='html'>black stones that hold a melody in my dust&lt;br /&gt;ran what makes me authentic&lt;br /&gt;the kicks and the bars the frugal citation&lt;br /&gt;binded in a universe on page 1&lt;br /&gt;those digits touching subjects and space&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;refer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4602973376134277291?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4602973376134277291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4602973376134277291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/refer-river.html' title='Refer River'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1730497228655639250</id><published>2011-08-12T13:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:48:14.529-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Criminal</title><content type='html'>I want to hurt you like a choice.&lt;br /&gt;A sedated man on trial for no reason.&lt;br /&gt;Election friction sits on the gun at end of the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1730497228655639250?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1730497228655639250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1730497228655639250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/criminal.html' title='Criminal'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1922183880250954581</id><published>2011-08-12T13:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:44:50.238-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>NYC</title><content type='html'>The seventh round of hands the death of serenades and&lt;br /&gt;I love you's the way we fire that road of hawk and bullets&lt;br /&gt;The newborn thing that has no worry no worn of worms in red apples&lt;br /&gt;The law in no creation&lt;br /&gt;the for o fight and thin of somethin&lt;br /&gt; a drop of get exploding action&lt;br /&gt;The axe of showtunes in the unbalance &lt;br /&gt;I like to turn the stun of heat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1922183880250954581?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1922183880250954581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1922183880250954581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/nyc.html' title='NYC'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2765277264101650766</id><published>2011-08-12T13:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:40:01.931-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Zilla</title><content type='html'>Sometimes you got to beat the cry in the gutter;&lt;br /&gt;Beat the clock in the matter of letters this is the solemn sound;&lt;br /&gt;of a poet -  when poetry moves from mind to gold from bringing to color&lt;br /&gt;to kind eternal function to flesh life can be a tunnel a wound &lt;br /&gt;unmanage your tongue here -  Un Press to beat yourself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hint of tierra, please&lt;br /&gt;The ghost to steal a garment&lt;br /&gt;The ness confessions of learning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hang your lyrics on liken slumps&lt;br /&gt;Until you satisfy your tears&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2765277264101650766?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2765277264101650766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2765277264101650766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/zilla.html' title='Zilla'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4563674229719898444</id><published>2011-08-12T13:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:30:34.568-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Cake Brown Sugar</title><content type='html'>Smooth like a stawberry straw in a starry shake&lt;br /&gt;She made feel like red sky stalking a trophy torch&lt;br /&gt;She dipped me in river whip cream, the nile flowed sweet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Empty to the top of pyramids with god like touches from youth&lt;br /&gt;The hard filling cruded like oil into caramel edited deleted shoes&lt;br /&gt;She was the captain, a caption of cotton queens, shaken bacon milkshake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4563674229719898444?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4563674229719898444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4563674229719898444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/cake-brown-sugar.html' title='Cake Brown Sugar'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7998580056470425754</id><published>2011-08-12T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:23:22.746-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Caught in the Yours</title><content type='html'>A hairpushes a brush through the pin lock, land of hair&lt;br /&gt;Black blake tangles in we webs weak war&lt;br /&gt;in tangs of tidal legs twist in tweek&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hold off hands tarnished wood in wok of work&lt;br /&gt;Ushering the bred of lighted candles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wed of shelter...grey pinned eyes- holds pain &lt;br /&gt;Making get the claim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The glass sinning thighs - a concert -  a walk in the park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7998580056470425754?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7998580056470425754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7998580056470425754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/caught-in-yours.html' title='Caught in the Yours'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1976718789342025547</id><published>2011-08-12T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T13:12:30.660-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>The American Waist Line</title><content type='html'>Uncanny does paper find you sleeping with gnaw tips of advice;&lt;br /&gt;Adversing the same soiled old for no good bowl of rice;&lt;br /&gt;Have all the read reasons in your bed behaving like a copper wire book;&lt;br /&gt;A body, in vein motor notepad, internet chat me up hooker hotline - lover and crooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you tumble like a cake trampled, tapped out circus tramp;&lt;br /&gt;Turkey all gobbled up in greasy fat cranberry sauce weight loss crime,&lt;br /&gt;You're all hoisted up, your waist line, buttered crusted bread behind;&lt;br /&gt;The scale says overweighted BABY please drop down Kid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The por favor is beacuse you have a big mouth, too visor grip to control;&lt;br /&gt;The governement doesn't have rules to shut down your spastic hole;&lt;br /&gt;Your old dress will never come back in style, clown outfits are outdated;&lt;br /&gt;Stop your feet fungus from smelling jitter bug, people think you stink and you're hated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1976718789342025547?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1976718789342025547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1976718789342025547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/american-waist-line.html' title='The American Waist Line'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7676943965063988152</id><published>2011-08-12T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T12:47:54.693-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>No Man, Dishwashing!</title><content type='html'>The exaltation sense burrowed energy, like dish detergent spotless;&lt;br /&gt;The first sponge to the bubble dish, double hands, sweatless;&lt;br /&gt;The face redirected to relegant recourse and recharge;&lt;br /&gt;An apron relaxing in all the red lady bugs on green leafs large.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quoting the neon powers of the dishwashers whallop whip, lollipop drain,&lt;br /&gt;The mild smell of fish, odorous salmon lemon, course and de-boned fillet;&lt;br /&gt;Yellow sponge deep fish diving into sinking metal cooling tap, wrapping;&lt;br /&gt;Spaghetti tail, red wined cabonara sauce sticking to porcelain panning. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cracking lettuce, dried red tomato lost, cesar bread crumbs on the dice;&lt;br /&gt;On the window bothers the tiny black little after dinner fearless flies;&lt;br /&gt;On the screen buzzing, stirring, bouncing like little rubber domestic balls;&lt;br /&gt;I sing, the harmony from the my hands, dish-pan, grease, no gloves, no man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7676943965063988152?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7676943965063988152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7676943965063988152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-man-dishwashing.html' title='No Man, Dishwashing!'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6032580531654869938</id><published>2011-08-12T12:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T12:46:54.483-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>The American Boy</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;I felt heaven, leave the the aved snow, in removal;&lt;br /&gt;From the American Boy, a few days in the North;&lt;br /&gt;Flawed wind from his windpipe spilt out in cruel sandpipers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The white oil from sojourning burned his turned tongue angst;&lt;br /&gt;That broke free the mountain, potted avalanche, climb;&lt;br /&gt;His arms after ice picking, packed cold in a blood-sensei sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond a look into the afternoon, a mirror morning light;&lt;br /&gt;Diagram war, a burlesque butterfly pressed in passport molted rock;&lt;br /&gt;Uncertain, in seconds, the seasnow bells and bald eagles cut elapsing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A crawl after snow midway, two eyes - jasper his shrieks frozen retirement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6032580531654869938?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6032580531654869938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6032580531654869938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2011/08/american-boy.html' title='The American Boy'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7808357999316257740</id><published>2010-12-20T15:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T15:21:26.924-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>untitled</title><content type='html'>lips are beating in my storm&lt;br /&gt;smacking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;red robin&lt;br /&gt;breast&lt;br /&gt;pouter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;barelegs harmful&lt;br /&gt;blown on the back of my neck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her struugle is touching land&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her hands on hips and tulips&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she is thinly membraned&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;making my bed possess telegraphic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7808357999316257740?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7808357999316257740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7808357999316257740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/untitled_20.html' title='untitled'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2799782469441314027</id><published>2010-12-20T15:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T15:14:02.631-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Tea Spout</title><content type='html'>hot,comes&lt;br /&gt;out of smoking&lt;br /&gt;tea pots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;un-dresses&lt;br /&gt;milk and grass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;white, &lt;br /&gt;gray collect&lt;br /&gt;a closed spout&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;angry gas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2799782469441314027?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2799782469441314027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2799782469441314027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/tea-spout.html' title='Tea Spout'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2212291572568944791</id><published>2010-12-20T10:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T10:33:06.381-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To A Star Gulper</title><content type='html'>If you are gulping at the stars;&lt;br /&gt;Why not, take the cup to your lips;&lt;br /&gt;Make the smudged red off your lipstick;&lt;br /&gt;Color the blushing of fiction science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the moon responds to create any kindness;&lt;br /&gt;Arrest him and don't ask for him to die but write;&lt;br /&gt;The voice that takes a train in a peaking light;&lt;br /&gt;Ask the creator, to touch its perfume - &lt;br /&gt;silver gray hills, open hands absorbing orchids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2212291572568944791?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2212291572568944791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2212291572568944791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-star-gulper.html' title='To A Star Gulper'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2636005062985082651</id><published>2010-12-19T13:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T13:41:51.143-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Wales</title><content type='html'>I love you Sleeper, Driving Mad&lt;br /&gt;On a mattress power Low Ness&lt;br /&gt;I can’t hear the peeps of Attitude&lt;br /&gt;You alone stone, sometimes at Night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met a Meltdown Moon, Balcony&lt;br /&gt;Views like purple flowers,  castles&lt;br /&gt;Windows outside, face falls, &lt;br /&gt;Sounds whales, tapping, Ear drums&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Net opening Ships, magic and wind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2636005062985082651?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2636005062985082651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2636005062985082651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/wales.html' title='Wales'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5081655361461067845</id><published>2010-12-19T13:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T13:32:22.362-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Amazing</title><content type='html'>You, the Peace of My earth, first&lt;br /&gt;The Face, Precious Eyes, like Marble&lt;br /&gt;Your heart, appears like a book of Jasmine&lt;br /&gt;I want to take, crystals, your eyes, sparkle&lt;br /&gt;You cannot fade, in the Park, where people walk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I listen to your beautiful and random, Things&lt;br /&gt;I love the Example of Brilliant punctuation&lt;br /&gt;Your hips in phrases and Sexy is possible&lt;br /&gt;Your Sun is bombing my weak palm trees&lt;br /&gt;You're Extraordinary in the translations of angels and nervousness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I gather my Tides for you,&lt;br /&gt;My blood in the Hands of a mission called I Love You &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5081655361461067845?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5081655361461067845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5081655361461067845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing.html' title='Amazing'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-778722639272756226</id><published>2010-12-19T13:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T13:17:59.001-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>15:45</title><content type='html'>Re - restless  tired a rain turning , blunting across&lt;br /&gt;You are a Sea, the sun the strength sky holding strokes&lt;br /&gt;Ever, eager in aerial, She- Everest arrives, aimly grieving green&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bluest worry calls  - stars want the to be moonlight in eaten music&lt;br /&gt;The heat the menacing without you I –  would freeze&lt;br /&gt;The time to take in - the winter seas to beyond my sink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unwash, white hope the the cliffs scalding clean,&lt;br /&gt;Because I love you, doing dishes - who pieces love I can play again&lt;br /&gt;Gathering the night to run the notes Olympus rings flames of fingers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I own amazing- places where I gave birth to night and all &lt;br /&gt;The sun  - suddenly a planted moonrash on a Monday – &lt;br /&gt;My tears washing buckets and smiles - Degas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-778722639272756226?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/778722639272756226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/778722639272756226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/1545.html' title='15:45'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4334971538156045704</id><published>2010-12-17T16:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-17T16:20:19.086-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;A Day Flower-Rain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I taught myself a miracle today;&lt;br /&gt;To sip from my inside daisies;&lt;br /&gt;A heart beyond healing angels;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But more important than that &lt;br /&gt;I needed to retrieve-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My amen and my universe;&lt;br /&gt;The flurries of my thickness;&lt;br /&gt;That slides in and out of my chest;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My test undoing flapping wings;&lt;br /&gt;Out of chimes behind my running -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The patience of my love that travels - &lt;br /&gt;Further than my eyes can spin,&lt;br /&gt;I want my skeleton to fall and heal,&lt;br /&gt;And I will - my day I call your name Flower-Rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4334971538156045704?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4334971538156045704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4334971538156045704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-flower-rain-i-taught-myself-miracle.html' title=''/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4718227191273583246</id><published>2010-12-16T11:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:34:30.879-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Spills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hot, sea spills&lt;br /&gt;human hair humbled&lt;br /&gt;not like today&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no kind words blow&lt;br /&gt;living - pressing against my shoulders&lt;br /&gt;locks of summer wind&lt;br /&gt;a note on a paper towel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;being home&lt;br /&gt;nothing wrong has happened&lt;br /&gt;no agony&lt;br /&gt;un-humble is in my coat wanted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my decisions are as&lt;br /&gt;independent&lt;br /&gt;as the days are strange&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;without warmth&lt;br /&gt;clumsy I fall&lt;br /&gt;when I feel&lt;br /&gt;I can never seem to enjoy&lt;br /&gt;what I have&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;imprints, my fascination&lt;br /&gt;on the sound of disappointment&lt;br /&gt;inside, the warmth of my home&lt;br /&gt;a gust of fire, unexciting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4718227191273583246?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4718227191273583246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4718227191273583246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/hot-sea-spills-hot-sea-spills-human.html' title=''/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1470121060464804138</id><published>2010-12-16T11:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:25:21.389-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt; Release&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sound whips, skips, and breaks&lt;br /&gt;gust of whipsers and quakes&lt;br /&gt;the sound in hours, soils, and stains&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;screams the war on skin, white sheathing inside pain&lt;br /&gt;the end is to the ground rough,&lt;br /&gt;between the backwards and awake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the date with death in pins, the blood&lt;br /&gt;manner to ashes are very weak&lt;br /&gt;the knife to sever in complain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the breathing sun when the earth is gone&lt;br /&gt;plucks the name of rage into the rain&lt;br /&gt;the rings of tears, the red reached and done over&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tears unconformed and flowing in divides&lt;br /&gt;an affection unpolished to the ears&lt;br /&gt;the rains carefully drop to the floor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1470121060464804138?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1470121060464804138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1470121060464804138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/sound-whips-skips-and-breaks-gust-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3236941795190223749</id><published>2010-12-16T11:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:18:05.539-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>untitled</title><content type='html'>the sky - sand and wind and hair&lt;br /&gt;with little ease&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tumbles hazel&lt;br /&gt;soft willow ears&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gentle mouse runs&lt;br /&gt;grey into destiny&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3236941795190223749?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3236941795190223749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3236941795190223749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/untitled_662.html' title='untitled'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6754923444817567970</id><published>2010-12-16T11:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:16:53.840-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>fog</title><content type='html'>fog,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;throats and ropes&lt;br /&gt;a cold night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a wind throw - silently desert&lt;br /&gt;into the ruin of running grey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a whisperless&lt;br /&gt;night, the white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6754923444817567970?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6754923444817567970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6754923444817567970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/fog.html' title='fog'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4546564609216887075</id><published>2010-12-16T11:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:15:16.622-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>untitled</title><content type='html'>makes us deaf&lt;br /&gt;the strokes of poems, on every key&lt;br /&gt;wonders to the height, but never dies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;looks like the dancing shapes&lt;br /&gt;falling off the better&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;despite the song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well and stirs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4546564609216887075?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4546564609216887075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4546564609216887075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/untitled_2751.html' title='untitled'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5933538709107826171</id><published>2010-12-16T11:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:13:03.968-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>untitled</title><content type='html'>the highway - is my moon&lt;br /&gt;the wind a scent - chirping with cries of boys&lt;br /&gt;every river is changing its clothes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;without warmth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;suddenly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5933538709107826171?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5933538709107826171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5933538709107826171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/untitled_16.html' title='untitled'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2740634377521066760</id><published>2010-12-16T11:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T11:10:11.795-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>untitled</title><content type='html'>a mouth and milk crumbs&lt;br /&gt;melt again.  butter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;strawberries, rumple redder than the sea&lt;br /&gt;the scream, delicious&lt;br /&gt;never heard as the jam combs, white wheat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;warm against wild honey hungry&lt;br /&gt;a coffee cup with passionfruit skin&lt;br /&gt;longing for&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all morning. lake of stomaches&lt;br /&gt;sea of marmalade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a basket with tea tall flowers, orange&lt;br /&gt;a sun is late. edible reddish orchids. bright mountains&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2740634377521066760?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2740634377521066760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2740634377521066760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/untitled.html' title='untitled'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3443936130638497544</id><published>2010-12-16T10:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T10:59:54.882-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>heaven</title><content type='html'>heaven felt first&lt;br /&gt;mighty angels running in the sun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my quiet spirit, beautiful&lt;br /&gt;kept me from harming &lt;br /&gt;anyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a cool shade&lt;br /&gt;it built me up and yielded&lt;br /&gt;gentleness in my mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for nothing of being, i should be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3443936130638497544?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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type='html'>i could be&lt;br /&gt;every hunter's down&lt;br /&gt;a clear blizzard blue in skiing hills&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blue wings and shadows&lt;br /&gt;butterflies - army bare armor&lt;br /&gt;a roll of snowballs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---running eskimo feet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6715912365234703409?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6715912365234703409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6715912365234703409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/eskimo.html' title='eskimo'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1917369539299156553</id><published>2010-12-16T10:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T10:51:45.006-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>a sound in the garden</title><content type='html'>When you heart beats, it makes&lt;br /&gt;a sound that can be found in gardens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;made of: bare eardrums&lt;br /&gt;shuffling of pauses and quiet&lt;br /&gt;dragging of whispers and cool murmurs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;touches my shoulders and grabs my insides&lt;br /&gt;as tireless as wings of angels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a tongueless thought, the budding &lt;br /&gt;effects of clouds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in your ears shrinks sweet, i call to you&lt;br /&gt;till the rain stops&lt;br /&gt;the whirs of the air&lt;br /&gt;the chilling tap of air bubbles&lt;br /&gt;twisting with caution&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;curious can be long&lt;br /&gt;the must as moist moistens &lt;br /&gt;the mist moves in &lt;br /&gt;the clouds clousd over coming down comets condescending&lt;br /&gt;yet the rain stays&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;too deeply&lt;br /&gt;i - the white necked nightingale -&lt;br /&gt;daring and open&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1917369539299156553?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1917369539299156553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1917369539299156553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/sound-in-garden.html' title='a sound in the garden'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7396094469935080867</id><published>2010-12-16T10:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T10:46:12.866-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Motherhood</title><content type='html'>about women who have been&lt;br /&gt;worn by Motherhood&lt;br /&gt;the eye the sunshine&lt;br /&gt;is sunny&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a face is in a sunroom with sobs&lt;br /&gt;all her cooking is empty - ingredients&lt;br /&gt;where a soul has, no recipe, blood&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;eggs are pushing&lt;br /&gt;silently sunny side up&lt;br /&gt;over cliffs, a cry is not a song&lt;br /&gt;a bedless wind, becomes a bundled baby&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if those wounds are in bandages detached&lt;br /&gt;a cantoloupe blue&lt;br /&gt;soft lays a gigantic wind&lt;br /&gt;carrying her insides, now honey and cut through&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7396094469935080867?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7396094469935080867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7396094469935080867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/about-women-worn-by-childhood.html' title='Motherhood'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7909596249354781733</id><published>2010-12-16T10:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T10:40:27.578-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friendship Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Dear Friend:  Bella Akhmadulina, Russian Poet</title><content type='html'>the dying sky in late&lt;br /&gt;to see by tears&lt;br /&gt;blue ghosts in silver&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;human hum shades&lt;br /&gt;tall and shatterless glows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all the hills you climbed&lt;br /&gt;and covered&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;droves and dwells in blue grass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;come, so things, you &lt;br /&gt;left behind&lt;br /&gt;your footprints and the river&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blasted over breasted bridge&lt;br /&gt;and broken stops, it so went&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gray grapes and age&lt;br /&gt;rage, broken filled famine fear, revolutions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now bruises over blood is in the river&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kept sinking, seeking, to be seered&lt;br /&gt;red breast inside brown skin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh heart, deep now a cave&lt;br /&gt;craving, climbs candles channeled spirit&lt;br /&gt;landscape mountain&lt;br /&gt;desert water&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wrestles 1/2 mile - life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7909596249354781733?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7909596249354781733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7909596249354781733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/dear-friend-bella-akhmadulina-russia.html' title='Dear Friend:  Bella Akhmadulina, Russian Poet'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6307370541174508805</id><published>2010-12-15T11:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T11:45:46.072-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Good Recipe</title><content type='html'>I’d prefer to die calmly and peacefully&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;happiness agrees -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’d be a good recipe,&lt;br /&gt;pears and peas,&lt;br /&gt;baby sun, snow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sleeping bags, cunning shapes,&lt;br /&gt;of elbows and macroni,&lt;br /&gt;inside a cup of heart-i-chokes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an incurable illness, my last days&lt;br /&gt;to the fish and feet – I call love&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6307370541174508805?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6307370541174508805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6307370541174508805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-recipe.html' title='Good Recipe'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4311874916910209305</id><published>2010-12-13T08:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T08:20:53.558-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Shoes</title><content type='html'>My beautiful pair of shoes,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I heard complain, complain -&lt;br /&gt;Don’t ever go down that miserable pathway again,&lt;br /&gt;Don’t ever set your foot on bad terrain,&lt;br /&gt;Don’t go on down roads on legs filled with pain,&lt;br /&gt;Don’t carry on like this - in morning traffic lanes -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My beautiful pair of shoes said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4311874916910209305?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4311874916910209305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4311874916910209305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/shoes.html' title='Shoes'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6423615037533412627</id><published>2010-12-13T08:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T08:19:30.625-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>happiness</title><content type='html'>the best thing-&lt;br /&gt;a heart shaped leaf&lt;br /&gt;plants in bell shapes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thick,&lt;br /&gt;a head of blue flowers&lt;br /&gt;the two&lt;br /&gt;unlike limestones&lt;br /&gt;live,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leaves, &lt;br /&gt;in swinging tones&lt;br /&gt;of light&lt;br /&gt;the tiny flowers, too&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6423615037533412627?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6423615037533412627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6423615037533412627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/happiness.html' title='happiness'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3170893167009022102</id><published>2010-12-13T08:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T08:15:19.468-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>You Are... the End of the Day</title><content type='html'>carrying loads in your head&lt;br /&gt;palm trees violently blush&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;overlay &lt;br /&gt;of large roses, a red&lt;br /&gt;open &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;windows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the seasons are pleasures&lt;br /&gt;calm fruit juices and sugar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sweetly dancing without music&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3170893167009022102?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3170893167009022102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3170893167009022102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/you-are-end-of-day.html' title='You Are... the End of the Day'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6754283990644085580</id><published>2010-12-12T14:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-12T14:24:27.778-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To Dlin:  If I am a Ghost</title><content type='html'>The toothbrush, swabs the inside&lt;br /&gt;Facial tooth, a far fairy tale&lt;br /&gt;My hair in tangled knots, sleep&lt;br /&gt;The mirrors see what pajamas smell&lt;br /&gt;Pink - the meat of a woman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6754283990644085580?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6754283990644085580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6754283990644085580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-dlin-if-i-am-ghost.html' title='To Dlin:  If I am a Ghost'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-8414673338471686978</id><published>2010-12-11T13:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:58:43.815-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To: D</title><content type='html'>The air can face the stoniest wall&lt;br /&gt;What is the deepest tragedy when there is no one at all&lt;br /&gt;Hence the fact that a poem is always lingering&lt;br /&gt;The thoughts of a blur worth shimmering&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last gloss to take to the glossy finish&lt;br /&gt;A photo to listen and memory to diminish&lt;br /&gt;A book to be read with words of dying honor&lt;br /&gt;The glimpse of love, in a female petal and pending power&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the time that I’ve spent, not oval&lt;br /&gt;In a circle of trapezoids and rhombus&lt;br /&gt;The world has eyes to feel the very vision&lt;br /&gt;The equal of scientific premonition and domination&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day is mine, in moments&lt;br /&gt;The glory in glass pins and circles&lt;br /&gt;Every flower must go noticed &lt;br /&gt;Or the smell,  passes just scent- a- cation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-8414673338471686978?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8414673338471686978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8414673338471686978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-d.html' title='To: D'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3581260576206080104</id><published>2010-12-11T13:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:45:52.209-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Round in A Circle</title><content type='html'>I’ve seen the cat run around in circle&lt;br /&gt;In the circumference worthy of the sun&lt;br /&gt;This with all the beams and beans of strings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cat was black with back drawn up&lt;br /&gt;To the sky, in the cutest stretch&lt;br /&gt;Its tail purely female from the top&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Round in a box, round and round&lt;br /&gt;The room on the carpet, maroon and brown&lt;br /&gt;It chased a mouse, Cleopatra, from the hall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cat ran around, I’ve seen it&lt;br /&gt;It’s eye pure energy white with clouds&lt;br /&gt;For, no litter, no catnip, in the light of night&lt;br /&gt;The ultraviolet, purple, guilty with sights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thimble, thistle, whistle&lt;br /&gt;The cat I know, your name&lt;br /&gt;The cute little kitty playing games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3581260576206080104?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3581260576206080104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3581260576206080104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/round-in-circle.html' title='Round in A Circle'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-8120865785185073566</id><published>2010-12-11T13:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:34:27.913-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To:  Poem (Beautiful Leaf With No Destination)</title><content type='html'>Seeking the painting of beauty’s frustration&lt;br /&gt;No dire desert dryness to tend you&lt;br /&gt;Not the night to the long moon in dreary&lt;br /&gt;The hunting of hummingbird and nightingale meekly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The handsome face of freedom sets its feet in free&lt;br /&gt;Now the sky and the immortality is all but me&lt;br /&gt;Too coward to let go of money’s strength and fraility&lt;br /&gt;Human voice just floats off the tips of cotton waves, do you see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The water in haste hassles to hue in harmony&lt;br /&gt;It races against your heart and no woman’s sails&lt;br /&gt;No children chases the rainbow stars impale&lt;br /&gt;The loud streets with rickshaw flowers gracing freckles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last the mark left to imbed&lt;br /&gt;The one of beauty that doesn’t sleep in your bed&lt;br /&gt;You beg like light from small fire flames and place&lt;br /&gt;Here is only beauty’s frustration, words in the gutter, uttering and out of place&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-8120865785185073566?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8120865785185073566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8120865785185073566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-poem-beautiful-leaf-with-no.html' title='To:  Poem (Beautiful Leaf With No Destination)'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7971336139663260232</id><published>2010-12-11T13:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:23:40.014-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Vigor, Butterfly</title><content type='html'>The joke is in the butterfly invigorated&lt;br /&gt;whose wings and flutter has never been stimulated&lt;br /&gt;Bbut her mother comes to ease the honey onto her wings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her father watches as his watch constantly stings&lt;br /&gt;the adult father butterfly undress with anger and frustration&lt;br /&gt;The elation from the daughter butterfly grief&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her mother is there to take the pain away&lt;br /&gt;father refuses, brown, decaying leaf &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The butterfly invigors, the muscles trigger&lt;br /&gt;the last heart, rigored, two hearts, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;released&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7971336139663260232?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7971336139663260232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7971336139663260232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/vigor-butterfly.html' title='Vigor, Butterfly'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6041729440207482254</id><published>2010-12-11T13:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:16:46.508-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To: CL Thornton Poetry Soup</title><content type='html'>So hush, your manliness imbedded in thorns&lt;br /&gt;Your course poem for horse crud and crude corns&lt;br /&gt;Make the magnet repèl from both sides of your ass&lt;br /&gt;What an interesting poem from someone so crass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well lets see if you can top yourself one more time&lt;br /&gt;Make the lines a little longer and red so red like wine&lt;br /&gt;Make the rhymes deep and faultering to a camel's hunch&lt;br /&gt;Make the cheap words love the reader with a punch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is it with your manliness imbedded in thorn,&lt;br /&gt;Hush, CL, someday your poem will make your children mourn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6041729440207482254?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6041729440207482254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6041729440207482254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-cl-thornton-poetry-soup.html' title='To: CL Thornton Poetry Soup'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6410548830042035650</id><published>2010-12-11T13:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:09:28.511-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To:  Spiritwind Wood (Poemhunter)</title><content type='html'>Up in a dermis of dreams&lt;br /&gt;A thousand acres high&lt;br /&gt;The sky, so with birds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The clocks, winds with hand&lt;br /&gt;Together, says the day to the night&lt;br /&gt;Composed, in composure, sun beams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The glass raven glisten, slits&lt;br /&gt;Eyes of open sheers, split&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sending seven dandelions, wilting&lt;br /&gt;white, flowers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6410548830042035650?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6410548830042035650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6410548830042035650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-spiritwind-wood-poemhunter.html' title='To:  Spiritwind Wood (Poemhunter)'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-8834799485920782158</id><published>2010-12-11T13:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T13:04:10.972-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To: Ivy Rain (Poemhunter)</title><content type='html'>Class less acts of bizarre  - happiness&lt;br /&gt;Throws the winds to west wind and east&lt;br /&gt;It travels along the coast in a balloon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming from all sides the pale enhancement&lt;br /&gt;Pure love and enchantment&lt;br /&gt;The severe, the preserve of persevere&lt;br /&gt;The one thing to count on is the feeling of feeling good&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The god who is within the threshold, wind&lt;br /&gt;The bold, the gold and the one that can't be hassled&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-8834799485920782158?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8834799485920782158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8834799485920782158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-ivy-rain-poemhunter.html' title='To: Ivy Rain (Poemhunter)'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7641137937365929446</id><published>2010-12-11T12:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T12:59:14.297-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Puragatory Holds An Ass:  To Poemhunter Kay Shaw</title><content type='html'>Do you the difference between heaven and hell&lt;br /&gt;The girls and boys who prance around with a foul smell&lt;br /&gt;What is the glory of heaven and hell, and are there Gods&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps, the shortness of their genitals and the misshapen frowns&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the stagnate in the vile stench victory &lt;br /&gt;The monkeys that dance in cages with long hair and tempermental fury&lt;br /&gt;Is it the time to lay your opinion and conviction on the loose line&lt;br /&gt;The difference between heaven and hell is such a mighty fine line&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the picture is clear, the transparency will resolve to visible&lt;br /&gt;The people will come together and make the separation viable &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7641137937365929446?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7641137937365929446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7641137937365929446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/puragatory-holds-ass-to-poemhunter-kay.html' title='Puragatory Holds An Ass:  To Poemhunter Kay Shaw'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6006057900972920063</id><published>2010-12-11T12:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T12:51:03.795-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To: Voicesnet</title><content type='html'>She is no courtesy&lt;br /&gt;But what divine light can be mine&lt;br /&gt;No longer is she held a prisoner of the mind&lt;br /&gt;Her mother is highly abusive with smile of grey perfume&lt;br /&gt;Her father is another abusive liar in the rocking chair in the room&lt;br /&gt;What can be all the hassle and long delay without a reasonable cause&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At night an owl calls, the night snow dissolves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6006057900972920063?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6006057900972920063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6006057900972920063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-voicesnet.html' title='To: Voicesnet'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2027149444117880924</id><published>2010-12-11T12:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T12:46:25.805-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>envious daylight</title><content type='html'>Sun I am not envious &lt;br /&gt;Furious, bulb, luming&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am, not the earth&lt;br /&gt;Still, stellar, green&lt;br /&gt;Fortitude and fortune, solitude&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The eyes, white tiger&lt;br /&gt;Blue, salty thoughts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2027149444117880924?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2027149444117880924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2027149444117880924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/envious-daylight.html' title='envious daylight'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4247259557253952335</id><published>2010-12-11T12:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T12:40:22.754-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Dead Summer Leaf</title><content type='html'>He is her decaying leaf, her dead bag;&lt;br /&gt;Her cuelty left over with desire;&lt;br /&gt;He can’t please her stings much less;&lt;br /&gt;Fill her air with fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Too less  - do they know;&lt;br /&gt;The sad deadness of the willow green;&lt;br /&gt;The surest denial (he), the only love she has ever seen;&lt;br /&gt;Cast in two fold the flag of false fallacy;&lt;br /&gt;She has more now than any male fantasy;&lt;br /&gt;Come what the earth hath held and moved, he is always the liar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She has the run and bolting of every light and fair moon-&lt;br /&gt;Wistful with the yellow, the blue and the crescent smiling fool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4247259557253952335?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4247259557253952335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4247259557253952335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/dead-summer-leaf.html' title='Dead Summer Leaf'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2567119795489665985</id><published>2010-12-11T12:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T12:38:21.418-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Colette's Breeze</title><content type='html'>The seven times of breath lasted till all fortune tell;&lt;br /&gt;The traitor with the fortune telling ball dispel;&lt;br /&gt;All the over drama in my mind it did adrift;&lt;br /&gt;The calming down the street on Greek gods and myth;&lt;br /&gt;Mother or mercy that makes these calls a summer haul;&lt;br /&gt;I take to the ocean the call in a sailing ships call;&lt;br /&gt;All the sailor’s for all that they are truly typical true - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sweetest time when her cool swift breath dances in the room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2567119795489665985?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2567119795489665985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2567119795489665985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/12/colettes-breeze.html' title='Colette&apos;s Breeze'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2726893894922026311</id><published>2010-11-20T15:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T15:45:17.413-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To: D</title><content type='html'>This day, I wear as a glove&lt;br /&gt;to evening, but nothing else&lt;br /&gt;naked shelves devour self&lt;br /&gt;stuff pouring out of books&lt;br /&gt;breathing into me like power&lt;br /&gt;ready as best as I can be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My space fills out like a bird&lt;br /&gt;air lilies, lonely children&lt;br /&gt;first born - I'm scared and in bent sticks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, I smell the fragrance of candles, on its knees&lt;br /&gt;it crawls to me&lt;br /&gt;lingering from nostrils to ears&lt;br /&gt;from air tight to fire tight in the sky&lt;br /&gt;all of me, off the ground&lt;br /&gt;and jumping real&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These sunsets and days peel and pile into my vacancy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2726893894922026311?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2726893894922026311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2726893894922026311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/11/to-d.html' title='To: D'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6702063268135427528</id><published>2010-11-12T13:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-12T13:04:07.746-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Breakfast</title><content type='html'>She – of rain and breakfast,&lt;br /&gt;laying outside smoking bacon, honey bees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sitting in baby chair arms, open blue eyes,&lt;br /&gt;sunflowers stroking teabags and lemon drops -&lt;br /&gt;white buzzing sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sipping 50 yards, voice spreading air, kites floating by&lt;br /&gt;smell of toast,  &lt;br /&gt;sun dispersing, suntoast  and buttercups&lt;br /&gt;first summer, blossoming early  evergreen and hazelnuts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her heart is made- &lt;br /&gt;of kitchen things&lt;br /&gt;between garden glass and flower garden-&lt;br /&gt;peach cobbler and apple pie in the oven-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;morning comes to her like seagulls flying over harbors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6702063268135427528?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6702063268135427528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6702063268135427528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/11/breakfast.html' title='Breakfast'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-180890423107950152</id><published>2010-10-15T17:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T17:54:46.537-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Youth</title><content type='html'>I realize I‘m your cloud&lt;br /&gt;In your face, as light and cosmic dust&lt;br /&gt;Just blown from the waves of ultimate violets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If everything is you, purple&lt;br /&gt;Flowers, in splitting yellow glow&lt;br /&gt;Dandelions, daffodils fulfill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sh!  These shoes float on depth into you&lt;br /&gt;Balloons lift onto air&lt;br /&gt;I can fly, a cloud within a butterfly, collecting time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-180890423107950152?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/180890423107950152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/180890423107950152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/10/youth.html' title='Youth'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4684732544019697063</id><published>2010-10-15T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T13:24:06.231-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>- yellow canary -</title><content type='html'>is sleep delicate, from frustration&lt;br /&gt;an invention of lilies to unforgettable&lt;br /&gt;from all things, no horror, in time flows&lt;br /&gt;this alter in a thousand passionate woes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fingers mix passing and emotions&lt;br /&gt;raining from the torn illiterate verb of no&lt;br /&gt;vanishing into the eyes of sleep&lt;br /&gt;sail into the vision of flight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nesting into white pupil eyes&lt;br /&gt;a pool of exotic flowers sailing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stars stream from a tilt&lt;br /&gt;walls echoing fire dancing walls&lt;br /&gt;into a soar of despair and sweat&lt;br /&gt;bubbles of evolving eternal - devotion is met&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one crystal where our eyes flash&lt;br /&gt;wings straight away - like feverish yellow canaries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4684732544019697063?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4684732544019697063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4684732544019697063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/10/yellow-canary.html' title='- yellow canary -'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5978669643884347893</id><published>2010-10-15T13:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T13:13:26.638-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Solitude</title><content type='html'>Solitude, I read it&lt;br /&gt;To someone – lonely and desperate&lt;br /&gt;I found it&lt;br /&gt;and solidly it was borrowed from another heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solitude, I read it&lt;br /&gt;Just love in someone’s soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because love had been lost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5978669643884347893?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5978669643884347893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5978669643884347893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/10/solitude.html' title='Solitude'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7780807889527970975</id><published>2010-09-03T15:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T15:19:16.667-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Bristles</title><content type='html'>A virgin sculpture  - &lt;br /&gt;Words into multiple sublime - the way colors dry in wrapping,&lt;br /&gt;A woman licks shivers the truth in champagne red bubbles,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dry  - in wrapping mad eyes;&lt;br /&gt;She wipes her windows clean -&lt;br /&gt;Searching for soft surfs - &lt;br /&gt;Tight curling breaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A virgin sculpture succumbing to the rivers of avalanches;&lt;br /&gt;Pinned to the heart beat of the sun -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What else is a lover for, the heat and the eerie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7780807889527970975?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7780807889527970975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7780807889527970975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/bristles.html' title='Bristles'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3994247124179540637</id><published>2010-09-03T14:47:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:49:54.523-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>passionate angry</title><content type='html'>mind transfers&lt;br /&gt;property&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----underskirts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tip toes&lt;br /&gt;-----exciting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3994247124179540637?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3994247124179540637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3994247124179540637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/passionate-angry.html' title='passionate angry'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-9221536085971143626</id><published>2010-09-03T14:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:47:46.261-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>him - carnate</title><content type='html'>grey hair&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;emanicated&lt;br /&gt;him&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;choke&lt;br /&gt;in clouds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-9221536085971143626?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/9221536085971143626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/9221536085971143626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/him-carnate.html' title='him - carnate'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6817556161455947572</id><published>2010-09-03T14:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:47:01.405-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>mud butter</title><content type='html'>gums&lt;br /&gt;in seclusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gripping&lt;br /&gt;on sidewalks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;shriek&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6817556161455947572?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6817556161455947572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6817556161455947572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/mud-butter.html' title='mud butter'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-257106391292649333</id><published>2010-09-03T14:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:45:54.825-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>string beans</title><content type='html'>hollow&lt;br /&gt;between thighs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;push, eagerness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-257106391292649333?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/257106391292649333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/257106391292649333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/string-beans.html' title='string beans'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7456160180919232280</id><published>2010-09-03T14:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:44:53.810-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>honey hummingbird</title><content type='html'>near&lt;br /&gt;fingers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sweet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;duet soft&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7456160180919232280?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7456160180919232280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7456160180919232280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/honey-hummingbird.html' title='honey hummingbird'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6898098553417770572</id><published>2010-09-03T14:42:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:43:44.524-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>ransack</title><content type='html'>roughness&lt;br /&gt;to the ground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the sky &lt;br /&gt;thrown down&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6898098553417770572?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6898098553417770572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6898098553417770572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/ransack.html' title='ransack'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3750746174749391469</id><published>2010-09-03T14:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:42:46.613-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>--childbirth--</title><content type='html'>loose leaves&lt;br /&gt;in pieces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;violets&lt;br /&gt;disorderly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3750746174749391469?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3750746174749391469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3750746174749391469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/childbirth.html' title='--childbirth--'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-8534974793249959840</id><published>2010-09-03T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:41:46.234-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>peach tree</title><content type='html'>a natural slide&lt;br /&gt;fine over&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sweet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-8534974793249959840?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8534974793249959840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8534974793249959840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/peach-tree.html' title='peach tree'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-768425115734286354</id><published>2010-09-03T14:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:40:46.556-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>--eyebrows---</title><content type='html'>red with covered blood&lt;br /&gt;staining floors &lt;br /&gt;to skin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;half open, half closed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-768425115734286354?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/768425115734286354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/768425115734286354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/09/eyebrows.html' title='--eyebrows---'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6871225073040589481</id><published>2010-08-29T11:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T11:24:42.766-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>snow whistles</title><content type='html'>white pillars, willow – &lt;br /&gt;feet float feathers&lt;br /&gt;the palms of feet &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on the ground, printless&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on the soil where women &lt;br /&gt;have left their seeds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;baby leaves and seeds -&lt;br /&gt;shaping the air into &lt;br /&gt;a bald sun, sinking sun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blows, blue afternoon, earth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6871225073040589481?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6871225073040589481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6871225073040589481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/snow-whistles.html' title='snow whistles'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2901590847509683504</id><published>2010-08-29T10:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T10:32:16.868-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Inspired by Carolyn Devonshire Poetry Soup:  You Can't Have What You Want</title><content type='html'>I've taught changing seasons -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To write complexities&lt;br /&gt;Away from something I call my pride&lt;br /&gt;It has a dream with a face&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rolling in a voice&lt;br /&gt;This house is in the night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grasping a pool of light&lt;br /&gt;White stars peaking - granules&lt;br /&gt;A body up and breaking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I choose to create all these rattles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2901590847509683504?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2901590847509683504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2901590847509683504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/inspired-by-carolyn-devonshire-poetry.html' title='Inspired by Carolyn Devonshire Poetry Soup:  You Can&apos;t Have What You Want'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-7441467774503732180</id><published>2010-08-29T10:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T10:24:25.957-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Inspired by Mysteria - Piptalk</title><content type='html'>She is herself - going&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sea out untroubled, sea&lt;br /&gt;Stretching thoughts, sea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see years, sea&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to let go, no&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No hearts, feeling&lt;br /&gt;A heart, no heart -feeling young&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-7441467774503732180?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7441467774503732180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/7441467774503732180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/inspired-by-mysteria-piptalk.html' title='Inspired by Mysteria - Piptalk'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-8756645054029426842</id><published>2010-08-29T10:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T10:21:11.427-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Inspired by LE and MS Voicesnet</title><content type='html'>Heaven, smooth face and tranquil hands waits for -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nesting in the dust for so long;&lt;br /&gt;She withers and drops to the ground;&lt;br /&gt;Like a flower that burns, leans, and in the ruins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her children pass her by in the doorway;&lt;br /&gt;Waving goodbye to the witness – the tone of death;&lt;br /&gt;Traction in their goodbye – the shallowest current.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now, she is sitting on the floor;&lt;br /&gt;Looking up at the empty sun;&lt;br /&gt;As her children cry unilluminated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not having the energy to get up;&lt;br /&gt;Nesting in the dust for so long;&lt;br /&gt;She falls in slow, snow blindness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heaven gives her clothes – an effort in oldness;&lt;br /&gt;Nesting in the dust; &lt;br /&gt;She withers and drops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-8756645054029426842?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8756645054029426842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/8756645054029426842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/inspired-by-le-and-ms-voicesnet.html' title='Inspired by LE and MS Voicesnet'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6965390381282368588</id><published>2010-08-29T10:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T10:13:35.947-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Inspired by CL Poetry Soup:  Eat Fresh</title><content type='html'>The eat, is fresh – like water&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The drink, not the desert – humid&lt;br /&gt;The thirst in heavens – blow in the wind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deep vast in plains, plenty, wind&lt;br /&gt;Light fingers, with sand gusting – dry&lt;br /&gt;The cup – you drink, quench&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The desert moon, heat is fresh – like water&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6965390381282368588?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6965390381282368588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6965390381282368588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/inspired-by-cl-poetry-soup-eat-fresh.html' title='Inspired by CL Poetry Soup:  Eat Fresh'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-779513287262607368</id><published>2010-08-29T10:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T10:12:32.030-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Inspired by J in Poetry Soup:  Relic</title><content type='html'>Moonlight drinks moon rushing to night song;&lt;br /&gt;Night daffodil blows and I am thrushing song;&lt;br /&gt;Weeping tears wearing spirit clothes;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Formerly, two tears – a thousand resurrections;&lt;br /&gt;Of night covered in the rain –&lt;br /&gt;My rain fire, rain fire – I am a relic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-779513287262607368?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/779513287262607368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/779513287262607368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/inspired-by-j-in-poetry-soup-relic.html' title='Inspired by J in Poetry Soup:  Relic'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3385804044016169586</id><published>2010-08-29T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T10:11:21.100-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Inspired by Poetry Pages.Com :  Good Morrow</title><content type='html'>Good morrow drowned by sorrow;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry gave me back my day.&lt;br /&gt;In my mind I wanted to say,&lt;br /&gt;Why is it that sorrow is such a bore?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorrow with its pressing life -  two eyes to see - &lt;br /&gt;Worry, worry sorry blue eyed dream, why me?&lt;br /&gt;Hence we fly when dreams are sinking&lt;br /&gt;Sorrow with its pressing life -  two eyes to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good morrow drowned by sorrow;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry gave me back my day.&lt;br /&gt;Hence we fly when dreams are sinking;&lt;br /&gt;I shall sleep disturbed, silent and not afraid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3385804044016169586?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3385804044016169586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3385804044016169586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/inspired-by-poetry-pagescom-good-morrow.html' title='Inspired by Poetry Pages.Com :  Good Morrow'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2231989943570958630</id><published>2010-08-28T15:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-28T15:14:05.306-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Dear Sylvia:  Violets and Me</title><content type='html'>I can picture “sure no problem”&lt;br /&gt;Alone with first glance, first surprise- my angel of fire&lt;br /&gt;I believe it, I study it&lt;br /&gt;Even though I don’t get it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I get to heaven now&lt;br /&gt;People still wouldn’t get it but I have the key&lt;br /&gt;Without a hell out of mind, I wear cuts&lt;br /&gt;I have to be sincere and keep my “oh-no’s” holy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s about noticing the contradictory male in a summer dress&lt;br /&gt;I’m not addicted to her dynasty&lt;br /&gt;Something in me just wants to be noticed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2231989943570958630?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2231989943570958630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2231989943570958630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/dear-sylvia-violets-and-me.html' title='Dear Sylvia:  Violets and Me'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3185651862328489562</id><published>2010-08-28T15:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-28T15:15:30.817-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Dear Sylvia:  Stars Called Monstrousity</title><content type='html'>With the wind born of stars, I want to show you the coolness of stones&lt;br /&gt;I take shots at different angles,  what do I call it -&lt;br /&gt;A world just like you and me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am walking in a dream, day over shadows&lt;br /&gt;I would like to meet you in recovery&lt;br /&gt;Between my wounds and my heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The swelling and how it makes me feel&lt;br /&gt;The truth is – a love affair and how molten lapses&lt;br /&gt;A full moon dropping over grass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m standing alone thinking, I am an owl&lt;br /&gt;As one hour walks flat through which the green crawls&lt;br /&gt;One night solitary all – alone without windows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3185651862328489562?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3185651862328489562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3185651862328489562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/dear-sylvia-stars-called-monstrousity.html' title='Dear Sylvia:  Stars Called Monstrousity'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1635095111958145732</id><published>2010-08-28T15:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-28T15:11:05.270-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Dear Sylvia :  Fragile</title><content type='html'>Patience smiles on her mouth, &lt;br /&gt;She whispers her best rhapsody,&lt;br /&gt;She has a white T-shirt,&lt;br /&gt;She holds carefully - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sky wet becomes&lt;br /&gt;A curving story.&lt;br /&gt;Erratic winds paraglide into her,&lt;br /&gt;I follow the covers of this hard back book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Into the white surface  - a thousand atoms,&lt;br /&gt;A face exploited, the way I want to suckle juice,&lt;br /&gt;A female’s heart collapsing into a falling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1635095111958145732?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1635095111958145732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1635095111958145732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/dear-sylvia-fragile.html' title='Dear Sylvia :  Fragile'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1894418984204489277</id><published>2010-08-27T16:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T17:27:22.986-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Novel and Preface of Tears</title><content type='html'>Night, deep-body&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me dreaming of perpetual truth -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it occurs in the orchids of my fear&lt;br /&gt;Let me pass the press of words&lt;br /&gt;Is it true that I am listening to mere darkness&lt;br /&gt;Or myself, my fear, having been heard so loud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am always here sitting on the fence, objects that have come by&lt;br /&gt;Daylight draping veil away from scraps of positive, &lt;br /&gt;O reason, I raise my hands  that have become slow&lt;br /&gt;I take a moment to find thoughts used and old&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am clean of wonder, I have put  the dogs to rest, tonight&lt;br /&gt;Barking.  They watch me.  Big energy.  Hooking night into my&lt;br /&gt;Windows. As I crawl into bed.  Bedroom is shuttering to the wind.&lt;br /&gt;The sounds ripe on my body.  My personal effort a drunk cat. Sleep. Black inspiration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1894418984204489277?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1894418984204489277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1894418984204489277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/novel-and-preface-of-tears.html' title='Novel and Preface of Tears'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5658374474628902764</id><published>2010-08-17T17:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-17T17:56:50.173-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>The Now of Things</title><content type='html'>If I leave love on the answering machine &lt;br /&gt;and love leaves a comment&lt;br /&gt;Turn the lights down and stop the lights from feeling so much&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is our moment extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;Love is all we know, that love is just looking at me&lt;br /&gt;All is more to more to me than I too dare adore you,&lt;br /&gt;Leave the comment for me with love and so &lt;br /&gt;Watch it eat our laughter as it sweeps my access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I leave love and it inches down scales and pumps me&lt;br /&gt;We have even scores on our bingo cards&lt;br /&gt;It measures like a good joke&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t funny how we know each other now&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hurricane for a companion, this love&lt;br /&gt;Wrestling with our bodies &lt;br /&gt;Our good nature&lt;br /&gt;To exist in peoples brain&lt;br /&gt;I have tried to un -lower myself&lt;br /&gt;Do you know what I mean&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you desperately come easy like &lt;br /&gt;The way candy and roses holds a girls heart&lt;br /&gt;Help!  do you feel  - cross like &lt;br /&gt;When your clothes feel like the felt of your hair&lt;br /&gt;Whether  you would know the feeling or not&lt;br /&gt;Too long too short&lt;br /&gt;Wavy or curly&lt;br /&gt;As I look through my right eye and see you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s the way you release into my answers&lt;br /&gt;A little more to learn &lt;br /&gt;A little more to be strength&lt;br /&gt;I would kill just to have you in my brain flow&lt;br /&gt;I’m not stronger than you&lt;br /&gt;I’m not harder than you&lt;br /&gt;Before we leave our moods we will swing with each other&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does it seem cruel to never draw lines?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;written for Jamie Thurston&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5658374474628902764?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5658374474628902764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5658374474628902764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/now-of-things.html' title='The Now of Things'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2375074055935480038</id><published>2010-08-16T11:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T12:01:27.031-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Young Soul with Ole' Feet</title><content type='html'>It is for us - young girls&lt;br /&gt;I walk all the time&lt;br /&gt;All ways – in restless threshold and useless shaking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toward what I call&lt;br /&gt;I need to keep myself warm&lt;br /&gt;On the right paths for my feet&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday feels me because I am here today&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead &lt;br /&gt;I let the retinas of my eyes &lt;br /&gt;Rumble&lt;br /&gt;Circumspect on my face to see the worlds outer-shell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think of the men &lt;br /&gt;who are renegades&lt;br /&gt;horses, black stallions, mustangs&lt;br /&gt;I look out my window to nowhere&lt;br /&gt;I see nothing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new frontier called young girls &lt;br /&gt;A body that holds pictures&lt;br /&gt;Hold memories not for me but young girls&lt;br /&gt;I go off in bold cries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am I safe in my own arms&lt;br /&gt;I give good luck its draw&lt;br /&gt;Restless threshold and useless shaking&lt;br /&gt;I shuffle in my confession to God&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I speak as a mouth should&lt;br /&gt;And pull out chewing gum with my tongue&lt;br /&gt;I am a young girl again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am just a woman  - a dead man walking in silence&lt;br /&gt;No song to hold my head up high&lt;br /&gt;Entangled is my gift of light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2375074055935480038?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2375074055935480038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2375074055935480038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/young-soul-with-ole-feet.html' title='Young Soul with Ole&apos; Feet'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-905301615934430677</id><published>2010-08-13T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T07:46:00.223-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Before Sex</title><content type='html'>Words rolling down buildings&lt;br /&gt;White tracks and traces wounds of love&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it would lie as silence sailing in death valley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dawn would trust a leaf, lifts weary upon hearing sad&lt;br /&gt;Depth would forget seven cycles, a cloud (death), a wall and dismissal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-905301615934430677?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/905301615934430677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/905301615934430677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/before-sex.html' title='Before Sex'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1548084022052448366</id><published>2010-08-13T07:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T07:45:19.876-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Not Much</title><content type='html'>Although shots  ring in my ears&lt;br /&gt;My dreams withdrawal –&lt;br /&gt;Not for me, but for my leftover sensibilities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To begin cruel- no splashes in war&lt;br /&gt;Just soft glimpses of what used to be true&lt;br /&gt;My body become a rest room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stink of Gertude and John&lt;br /&gt;Flicking fast, frustration into my throat&lt;br /&gt;Of all people, repeating, repeating - over&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1548084022052448366?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1548084022052448366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1548084022052448366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-much.html' title='Not Much'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1213445616214417023</id><published>2010-08-13T07:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T07:44:41.904-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Odd and Cracked Appetite</title><content type='html'>Sometimes I crawl into my skin  - caring&lt;br /&gt;About things I don’t know about –&lt;br /&gt;It has a road -  long and winding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we live together as boy and girl&lt;br /&gt;Special with unmarked meaning&lt;br /&gt;Passionate fruit - cascading over bread&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salt - on glass rims &lt;br /&gt;The taste seals my lips in privacy -&lt;br /&gt;It’s more than the misery of my sanity&lt;br /&gt;As purifying as mother and daughter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1213445616214417023?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1213445616214417023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1213445616214417023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/odd-and-cracked-appetite.html' title='Odd and Cracked Appetite'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2487210558341068435</id><published>2010-08-05T15:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-05T15:30:55.841-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>A Dad's Heart</title><content type='html'>My dad’s heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His tides held anger screens&lt;br /&gt;At 73, his life spun to the edge&lt;br /&gt;He ran like native magic up to the very day&lt;br /&gt;Swallowing his pride&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many friends he did enjoy&lt;br /&gt;From far and near glances&lt;br /&gt;Mother there to give him and receive&lt;br /&gt;Suggestion and favors&lt;br /&gt;The part of him that grieved and grieved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But often in the jungle&lt;br /&gt;The memories of travelling , his business and golf&lt;br /&gt;Served himself as a devoted teacher&lt;br /&gt;Made him stronger and opened people’s eyes&lt;br /&gt;Always there to be a man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once upon a time, &lt;br /&gt;Cups of coffee, lonely and important things - &lt;br /&gt;Dwelled&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My father  - in that special place, no penalties&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2487210558341068435?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2487210558341068435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2487210558341068435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/08/dads-heart.html' title='A Dad&apos;s Heart'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4153865540882317224</id><published>2010-07-26T09:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T09:58:16.141-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Quiet</title><content type='html'>now rain, a lazy river-&lt;br /&gt;a call - whispers up a river-&lt;br /&gt;a kiss - slow like waves-&lt;br /&gt;about the wind down-&lt;br /&gt;a kiss drives deep into the river and welcomes&lt;br /&gt;hope  -  it closes in the veins of my heart-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4153865540882317224?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4153865540882317224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4153865540882317224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/quiet.html' title='Quiet'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4987299425696394779</id><published>2010-07-25T17:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T17:34:59.379-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Peace is With Me</title><content type='html'>Stay with me or be the blame &lt;br /&gt;Make the matters worst or be the willing &lt;br /&gt;Try your time and see where it leads&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps in the stages of the universe can please &lt;br /&gt;Will be better still, can not try and test the tantamount&lt;br /&gt;Back to that place that makes a man – a man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s test that plan but have you got the courage to turn your back&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4987299425696394779?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4987299425696394779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4987299425696394779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/peace-is-with-me.html' title='Peace is With Me'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-345479798511509102</id><published>2010-07-25T17:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T17:30:24.583-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>i reach for him, he was smoking goats</title><content type='html'>I hated him for so long&lt;br /&gt;To where, I don’t know, the rifle on the ground&lt;br /&gt;Dead smiles, his father, the battleground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was the smoke, the tool, the bug&lt;br /&gt;His eyes, our eyes didn’t meet&lt;br /&gt;The devil shook the death in me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Down, down his face and pride&lt;br /&gt;Broken pieces of darkness, the rifle&lt;br /&gt;His music to die on request to my ears&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His lips, undeniably blue and out of breath&lt;br /&gt;His face, in death - it hovered – I hated him for so long&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-345479798511509102?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/345479798511509102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/345479798511509102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-reach-for-him-he-was-smoking-goats.html' title='i reach for him, he was smoking goats'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5773978617710450246</id><published>2010-07-25T17:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T17:28:53.533-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>night</title><content type='html'>ease - &lt;br /&gt;hanging,&lt;br /&gt;hungry&lt;br /&gt;sad-resting, sea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5773978617710450246?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5773978617710450246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5773978617710450246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/night.html' title='night'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-5526611914929227153</id><published>2010-07-25T17:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T17:28:15.780-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>dreams</title><content type='html'>sit – not like butterflies&lt;br /&gt;every night – quiet stars, run&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-5526611914929227153?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5526611914929227153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/5526611914929227153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/dreams.html' title='dreams'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2466272039160248988</id><published>2010-07-25T17:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T17:27:28.737-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>abandon</title><content type='html'>left eye - circled - the sky&lt;br /&gt;torches of hitchhiking light&lt;br /&gt;blue, coats – ran – red&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2466272039160248988?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2466272039160248988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2466272039160248988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/abandon.html' title='abandon'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-9159609606154804705</id><published>2010-07-25T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T17:26:46.688-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Haiku Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>haiku - dark</title><content type='html'>night&lt;br /&gt;black sips – a glass, sits&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-9159609606154804705?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/9159609606154804705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/9159609606154804705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/haiku-dark.html' title='haiku - dark'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-9215396383675576579</id><published>2010-07-23T14:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T16:00:05.816-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>My Beauty  - Undead</title><content type='html'>I am everything – not dead&lt;br /&gt;element of fire – a body with&lt;br /&gt;leaves over earth and sand&lt;br /&gt;over love, over peace that begs&lt;br /&gt;if words have candles like this - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not dead&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fire standing on its feet&lt;br /&gt;each think and to breathe&lt;br /&gt;my beauty sleeps undead&lt;br /&gt;at first, to stay, up to up  - then red&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should stand and be left - &lt;br /&gt;my beauty sleeps undead&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-9215396383675576579?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/9215396383675576579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/9215396383675576579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-beauty-undead.html' title='My Beauty  - Undead'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-2789020715780381673</id><published>2010-07-13T17:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-13T17:15:04.828-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>innocence of child</title><content type='html'>twas, weakest beauty – white pages&lt;br /&gt;lasting, beauty – taken by ages&lt;br /&gt;white wings angels, in candles – tonight, as I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beauty, vital, full of grace&lt;br /&gt;simple sound lasting birds lace&lt;br /&gt;life  -  a hymns innocence, in-white fields&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-2789020715780381673?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2789020715780381673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/2789020715780381673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/innocence-of-child.html' title='innocence of child'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3862111106284043136</id><published>2010-07-12T15:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T15:34:10.036-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>reflection</title><content type='html'>flowers, mouth of ivy&lt;br /&gt;sounds sinking night, lily&lt;br /&gt;two springs who knew belly lilacs&lt;br /&gt;purple among fine tidals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I - at waters light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3862111106284043136?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3862111106284043136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3862111106284043136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/reflection.html' title='reflection'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-4638223751254607116</id><published>2010-07-12T15:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T15:17:48.526-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>love..of this</title><content type='html'>the wind, one above flight,   free voice&lt;br /&gt;waves,  of wind upon your waist&lt;br /&gt;- yours, in the wind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;desires  - free evenings,  wings     &lt;br /&gt;  moon dozing in curiosity   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-4638223751254607116?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4638223751254607116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/4638223751254607116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/wings.html' title='love..of this'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1951156290937369212</id><published>2010-07-10T15:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T15:21:06.880-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Madame Grace</title><content type='html'>As a mother, a touching leaf -&lt;br /&gt;through a river, never cold -&lt;br /&gt;dropping skin off, one dove deep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;walks through heaven, but she as God -&lt;br /&gt;through a heart not like rock -&lt;br /&gt;takes my hand, we begin -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;greatest roots, now a garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1951156290937369212?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1951156290937369212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1951156290937369212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/madame-grace.html' title='Madame Grace'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3496349163863953584</id><published>2010-07-10T15:17:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T15:30:05.035-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>deciduous love</title><content type='html'>tinkerbell -  leaves moon its night;&lt;br /&gt;when cloud beside  - chariot night;&lt;br /&gt;waves consume - first a star, wind in night;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;draws in flowers - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;quiet as above -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;night hibiscus lifts to moon;&lt;br /&gt;purple wisteria tinkerbell fleets to moon,&lt;br /&gt; whips and spurs, deciduous  - love to flowers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3496349163863953584?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3496349163863953584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3496349163863953584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/deciduous-love.html' title='deciduous love'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-6332770062238616719</id><published>2010-07-10T15:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T15:23:19.951-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>Bird-Like</title><content type='html'>bird, liquor’s sorrow -&lt;br /&gt;chirp, by hint and hand -&lt;br /&gt;has turned by fleeting peaks -&lt;br /&gt;sweet, begin -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-6332770062238616719?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6332770062238616719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/6332770062238616719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/bird-like.html' title='Bird-Like'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-1534913573104664259</id><published>2010-07-06T19:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-06T19:58:47.308-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>To S:  Her Appetite Has Fallen For Me</title><content type='html'>a gamet of stars,&lt;br /&gt;muddle through shots and freezes,&lt;br /&gt;flashes of light and in breezes -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so gathers by night, so gathers by night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;every action in the brightness&lt;br /&gt;heaven’s posture and mellow lightness&lt;br /&gt;set is an argent friend – silence&lt;br /&gt;the rod of night wipes and brushes the silver spoon in the mouth of the sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the catch of attention, in the catch of attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a breeze utters so slow,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;soft as flat fleets the sky, soft as down, the onlook of original eyes&lt;br /&gt;soft as weakest night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;too suddenly,&lt;br /&gt;shows its eyes and rolls in emotion&lt;br /&gt;drinks up wax - from the sky in devotion&lt;br /&gt;eyes be kind, to part, let dreams drive, stars keep alive&lt;br /&gt;shooting arrows strains in shots of momentous Eros&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the night, her appetite, has fallen for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-1534913573104664259?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1534913573104664259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/1534913573104664259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-s-her-appetite-has-fallen-for-me.html' title='To S:  Her Appetite Has Fallen For Me'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655907652464226558.post-3237934271768211105</id><published>2010-07-01T17:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T17:24:21.123-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Free Verse Poem by Laverne Pacquire'/><title type='text'>unforgetting sea</title><content type='html'>I. tears might – full range, doves white&lt;br /&gt;reach from full wind blue&lt;br /&gt;sad falling tears in between&lt;br /&gt;beauty from the moon’s eyes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. and the midnight affect upon the sea&lt;br /&gt;almost heaven as flowers plumed flesh&lt;br /&gt;as doubly said – white breathless downy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. a thought of beauty, herself&lt;br /&gt;at once wings float the night&lt;br /&gt;lunation adhering to innocence left at seaside&lt;br /&gt;first feelings, first sea from sea-knocking love&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV.  all turns to fade, at first&lt;br /&gt;to unmake a final, listen to &lt;br /&gt;set of waves on shelves begun&lt;br /&gt;into the antigone sunrise breaking waves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V.  on the (water) within bounds of reason&lt;br /&gt;VI.  tears fold easy, eyes see beyond the open &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copyright 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2655907652464226558-3237934271768211105?l=poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3237934271768211105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2655907652464226558/posts/default/3237934271768211105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poetryandwatertogo.blogspot.com/2010/07/unforgetting-sea.html' title='unforgetting sea'/><author><name>Laverne Pacquire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00521795181320877778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
