Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

Gethsemane

Posted: 16th November 2009 by ~m in Forever, God, Life, Personal, Poetry, Sad, Time, Truth, blood, dancing, dark, questions
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Deep inside this garden of souls lies the bones of a lifetime drowning in half-truths,
Of long and slowly forgotten days that were sadly beyond repair,
Of nights not unlike the darkest side of the moon
A few insignificant touches of the brush would be all that it took,
to make life go on as she thought that it [...]

Die

Posted: 6th April 2009 by ~m in Beer, Bengal cats, Blogging, Blues Brothers, Books, Cats, Christmas, Cigars, Classic Literature, Creative, Denis Leary, Dreams, Family, Food, Football, Friends, God, Guinness, Holidays, Humor, Jazz music, Just For Fun, Lewis Black, Life, Love, Memoir, Michel Camilo, Mingus, Music, Old Days, Personal, Poetry, Reading, Red Sox, Sad, Smoking, Stars, Truth, Wordpress, chances, comedians, dark, fast food, fathers and daughters, piano, pizza, prayer, sexy, twins, wishes, women, wordpress templates, writers, writing
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I began reading the new Natalie Goldberg book  ‘Old Friend from Far Away’ a few days ago.
It’s a book custom-tailored for writers of memoir.
So far the book is quite good (like all of her books).
Page 14 has a prompt that I’ve decided to turn into a post.
The chapter is quite short:
“Die”
Tell me what you will [...]

WinterBlue (redux)

Posted: 28th January 2009 by ~m in Cool Sites, Creative, Friends, God, Internet, Irish, Just For Fun, Love, Personal, Poetry, hero, the Cosmos, writing
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The picture above is a favorite poem I wrote that I pasted into Wordle.
I found the site through Kat, a poet/writer and wonderful new blogging friend.
She ‘Wordled’ a poem she’d written and I so loved the image it gave me.
Wondering how many readers here know what poem I Wordled . . .
Any guesses?
btw- Pamela did [...]

Scribblers

Posted: 19th January 2009 by ~m in Blogging, Blogroll, Creative, Friends, Internet, Just For Fun, Life, Love, Mondays, Personal, Poetry, Politics, Truth, Uncategorized, Wordpress, chances, technology, women, writers, writing
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I was given this award a few months ago by Annie, a writer I truly admire (and a dear friend).
She gave me the award saying this; “Michael at Smoke & Mirrors because his landscape is beautiful and touching, albeit often sad, and so very real that his words can touch as no others can.”
I have [...]

Ghosts of M

Posted: 17th November 2008 by ~m in Blogging, Just For Fun, Love, Mondays, Personal, Poetry, Reading, Truth, writing
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If this is your first time visiting here you may want to click on the picture above.
On the ‘Ghosts‘ page you will find writing that holds special meaning for me.
It’s a good indicator as to the overall content of the blog as well.
For some reason I blew the page away and just realized it the [...]

You

Posted: 13th October 2008 by ~m in Angels, Family, God, Life, Love, Mondays, Old Days, Personal, Poetry, Truth, amazing, anniversaries, chances, flowers, prayer, women
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In about three weeks my wife and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage.
It just doesn’t make sense that I make a whole spectacle of it in one day, seeing we’ve been together and
so incredibly strong for 25 years.
These days, I’m truly amazed after reading the ‘legals’ in the newspaper with these assholes that get [...]

Godspeak

Posted: 13th October 2008 by ~m in Life, Personal, Poetry, Sacred, Truth, prayer, the Cosmos, writing
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found this on the Jonathan Carroll website/blog.
written by 20th century German poet Rainer Maria von Rilke::
God Speaks to Each of Us
God speaks to each of us before we are,
Before he’s formed us then, in cloudy speech,
But only then, he speaks these words to each
And silently walks with us from the dark:
Driven by your senses, [...]

Darkroom

Posted: 30th September 2008 by ~m in Angels, Dreams, God, Life, Old Days, Or not, Personal, Poetry, Sacred, Sad, Truth, blues, chances, dark, storms, the Cosmos, weird, writing
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the echoes of goodbye cross a yawning chasm of fog and thought find me sitting in this Darkroom, the pictures of my life, languid and swirling above me
familiar fingers of blacklight penetrate me, violating my inner walls of thought, a fortress once impervious yet fragile, yes, once like me
galaxies of sotto voce secrets, skeletons in [...]

Midnight Angel

Posted: 17th September 2008 by ~m in Angels, Blogging, Dreams, Family, Friends, God, Insomnia, Internet, Just For Fun, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Poetry, Sacred, Sad, Truth, blues, chances, prayer, storms, women, writing
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A flutter of wings
in a world washed grey
closing tired eyes
slowly slip away
a fight against The will
learned tolerance to the pain
incomprehensible ruin
terminal drops of rain
the lack of understanding
invisible hands of a ticking clock
solitary hours moving away
shadows lost to the infinite dark
a moment of hope will surely find her
a millisecond of brilliant white light
a midnight angel to [...]

Fresh

Posted: 29th July 2008 by ~m in Angels, Blogging, Friends, Life, Personal, Poetry, Truth, Wordpress, hot, twins, writing
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I’ve been busy updating my “pages” and doing some sorely needed blog maintenance.
The Ghosts and Poetry pages have been updated.
I’ve also posted a short story I wrote 6 years ago.
Just click on one of the corresponding tabs above to get there.
Thanks to Moe for all her help and guidance when I was absolutely freaking [...]

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