[stylist] Poem - "Antoinette"

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Bill,

Thank you for posting. I too enjoy your poetry.

I think one of the reasons I and others like Chris connect to your
poetry when we usually don't feel much when reading poetry is because
you have a unique voice, almost Beat-like. It's not archaic language,
though full of vivid imagery and descriptive language.

This poem in particular is quite vivid. I have instant images in my head
when reading it.

Do you follow a particular poetry format? I like your phrasing and how
you structure the lines and stanzas. I've studied poetry but not enough
to recognize most formats just by reading them. I really enjoy the flow
of your poetry and can totally see you reading this at a coffee house or
something, smile.

Bridgit

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Hey Peeps,

Here's a poem I wrote this summer, recovered this morning after some 
hard drive archaeology.  I think it has legs; your mileage may vary, ha.


--Bill


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For fifteen years

it's been a hard life, poverty rife

and replete with disease.

It's not complaint, I'm just

speaking up. IN this country,

we scrub heaven's streets

with wire brushes and eat

our dolor like cake.

The movie house helps, and the Web,

and the cheap greasy eats which

will kill us all grinning.

Most days, I hardly bitch.

Cold unhoped for water

spills tapwise, filling my

cups, faithful as falls.

I void in toilets,

in peaceful, clean, unhoped for

waters, always granted.

Unhoped for too, these graces,

by billions who squat, and bear

their stench in public streets:

filthy, betrayed, and naked as fire.


















-- 
"Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."

           --Jane Siberry

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