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Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
Topic: Describe a January -- either a particular instance of the month, or some other January entirely.
Form: Any
Line Requirement: At least 8
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1/23
It was
summer
somewhere,
and that thought
helped as we began
to shovel our way out
from three feet of snow,
with more still coming down.
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In primary school
there was a French lad.
Janvier Poisson
got on with everyone.
In high school
we learnt French.
Poor bastard
never stood a chance.
wae aye man ye radgie
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Ice gargoyles whisper snowflakes,
up high in powdery trees.
Softening pinkenned ears,
weakening aching knees.
The cold so stiff and brittle,
it wouldn’t hurt to lie a little,
and let the snowflakes
fall onto me.
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Four hundred seventy five
Days after celebrating
New years eve, Albert Hoffman
consumed lysergic acid
diethylamide, he then
rode home on his bicycle
Now isn't that way better
than Hitler's birthday?
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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Hitler = bad
marijuana = bad
marijuana = hitler
Vote to ban april 20th
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Wolfmonth in Cuttown,
ice in the creeks, cluttering the river,
hunters come back empty handed
sour faced, exhausted,
huddling by the watch-fire
as darkness moves in to blanket
another hungry night.
They lay down around the fire,
fall into a happy dream of meat and milk
and early morning, midsummer couplings.
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J22
January, ossuary of
resolutions bad solutions for
character traits acquired hates
frozen out and chosen out before
fireside desire-side love.
I said give me a chance another dance
masks off please no more disease
but virus led her to retire us
in residual individual ease
and tired wired looks askance.
Non-practicing atheist
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San Gennaro
In a sealed ampoule, his blood
gels and liquefies and gels again
seemingly at will. A miracle?
Popes have knelt before it,
kissed it, and in great glass boxes
gems and silver busts are kept
in honor of the saint
but the church refuses to claim
anything more than his holy life, his martyrdom,
and that it's his blood in the ampoule.
