My favorite monster is Frankenstein. I remember watching the movie Monster Squad when I was younger. I loved the part when the little boy says, "I kicked Frankenstein in the nards, Frankenstein doesn't have any nards."

The Water Flows

My life is confusing,but amusing.
A laugh, a cry, a smile, and a goodbye!
Everything comes and everything goes.
The day passes as the wind blows.

My life is amusing, but confusing.
A laugh, a cry, a smile, and a goodbye!
Everything goes, it's just the way the water flows.

My body is a mystery, but different.
A smile, and a fear.
Everything comes and everything goes,
thats just the way the wind blows.

The days pass, and the wind blows and more fears flow.
A final cry, and a final goodbye!
Love never wins,
In a world of sins.

The day passes, a flower grows, one more petal to that beautiful rose.
A final raindrop and a final whilt to die.
No one likes to say goodbye!
No one knows just exactly why,
But its something that makes me cry.


What inspired me was life and my husband. Sometime you just feel as if nothing you do is right.
Challenges I faced was I think coming up with what to write. After that it was easy.
I overcome this by thinking of things I need to get off my chest. I love to write poetry. I use to write it all the time.

LISTEN

Here I am
Lying here broken
On the cold wet ground

I speak
No one can hear me
I am here
Listen to me

Does my voice matter?
Im down on the ground

Im not weak
I need to be HEARD!

Pierre Joris

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submissions in July 2009. The magazine's address is English Department, University of Richmond, VA 23173.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Pierre Joris, from VERSE

from the new issue of Verse (Volume 26, Numbers 1-3)

Pierre Joris

from meditations on the 40 stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj

29. Regrets for things lost (iftiqad)

but regret will not bring it back.
Nothing left to do but turn your

back on it. Tell yourself when you
know where something is

then it is not lost, even though
that something lie at the

bottom of the ocean. Nothing
ever is lost, & that may be

the only thing that is
real cause for regret.