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Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Pentameter
© 2010 Mark Pearce
I rowed a boat along the dusty plane.
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Trust is shaken
Trust is shaken
© 2010 Mark Pearce
Rumbles and shakes.
Rumbles and shakes.
It's not just the buildings
But the world that breaks.
The lives that change,
The friends that go,
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Oooey-Gooey Butter Cake
Oooey-Gooey Butter Cake
© 2010 Mark Pearce
It’s so darn moist
It’s hardly baked.
It’s Oooey-Gooey Butter Cake.
I’d run a mile.
Jump in a lake.
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Montserrat Poetry Festival
The 2010 Montserrat Poetry Festival takes place on Sunday afternoon, May 23rd at Montserrat Vineyards in Monserrat, Missouri, USA. Here is the line-up. All times listed are CDT.
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Spillage
Spillage
© 2010 Mark Pearce
My thoughts are not interesting anymore.
Not thoughts at all, as I can tell.
Just spillage.
One would expect in a downpour
I picked up a rock
I picked up a rock
© 2010 Mark Pearce
I picked up a rock.
It wasn’t just any rock.
It was a magic rock.
And it was magic because
It inspired this verse.
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Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
© 2010 Mark Pearce
Chiggers and white socks
do not mix.
'Round here
the chigger bloom
occurs the same time
blackberries ripen.
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Haiku Mid-Afternoon Snack
Haiku Mid-Afternoon Snack
© 2010 Mark Pearce
A golden window
frames the world – a butterfly
lights for the artist.
The wind blows. Blossoms
fall. Fallen petals create
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Travelogue
Travelogue
© 2010 Mark Pearce
There be a rusty river
running through my town.
It turns the sandy beaches
to a rusty brown.
It scrapes the piers and pylons
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The Answer
The Answer
© 2010 Mark Pearce
William Shakespeare,
that smart sum-a-bitch;
The American Idol
of Elizabethan Theatre.
Hell.
There wasn’t even
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Greatest Dream
Greatest Dream
© 2010 Mark Pearce
My greatest dream –
to be paid
one million dollars
for a poem.
“That poem is
so wonderful,
here is
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Montserrat (Missouri) Poetry Festival
Re: Submission period open for Montserrat Poetry Festival
Sub. Deadline: January 30, 2010
Event Date: May 23, 2010
Write "Love" on All Your Bottles
There is a science
Of studying the crystalization of water.
Bottles of water labeled "Hope"
And "Love" and "Joy"
Produce ice crystals of
Amazing complexity and symmetry.
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There was a day
There was a day
Mark Pearce (c) 2009
There was a day
When the sun didn’t sing
And the Earth didn’t turn
And the stars didn’t blink
And the moon didn’t wax
Riches
Riches
Mark Pearce (c) 2009
Fifteen shovels
And no dirt.
Thousands of kisses
But none from you.
I have so much.
I have nothing.
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