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Poetry Friday: Yes! Yes! Yes!

Contributed by: Tabitha Dial, YourHub.com   on 7/12/2006

Yes! Yes! Yes, oh hell yes!

That's what I was thinking Tuesday or Monday, when I was reunited with my Spoken Word Revolution CD, lovingly burned from the one I borrowed from the library this spring.

I was putting my books in their new homes in the new apartment when I saw my copy of the 2006 Poet's Market. What did I find bookmarking the page that has information on one of the two publications I'm waiting to hear back from (I submitted poetry to them in early February. They have both taken a month longer than the 3 months for a response that's pledged in Poet's Market. Could be a good thing. I know one publication is backlogged and the other has a Web site telling me it could be six months before submissions get responses, so I wait and think, "Wow... that poetry's not that good and I'm writing better stuff now and I need homes for them so where can I send them?")?

My copy. My glorious copy... of Spoken Word. I was scared I had lost it.

It's been a fine reunion. Something to listen to while cooking (and sometimes napping-- have you ever napped while Frank O'Hara read his poetry? It's awesome. Wrote some interesting poetry when I woke up from that nap.).

Just the other day I wrote a parody of the poem I'm about to share, which is one of the first ones on the Spoken Word Revolution CD. Who knows if mine will ever be ready for public consumption. But it was a great exercise and this poem, by Marvin Bell, is, I think, one I might have to memorize.

More of Marvin Bell's poetry and a nice friendly little bio can be read here.

To Dorothy

You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let a weed grow by the mulberry
and a mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
of a windy night, it brushes the wall
and sweeps away the day till we sleep.

A child said it, and it seemed true:
"Things that are lost are all equal."
But it isn't true. If I lost you,
the air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow.
Someone would pull the weed, my flower.
The quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you,
I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.


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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial
posted on 6/21/2006 @ 8:19:31 AM
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Still need to see that. Thanks for the reminder, Steve!
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Submitted By: Steve Shultz
posted on 6/20/2006 @ 2:59:41 PM
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Did you see 'Slam' yet? I bet you would appreciate that movie. It stars Saul Williams.
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Tabitha Dial

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Tabitha Dial has posted 194 blog entries and 816 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Tabitha Dial's average blog rating is 4.96.
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