Dan Tompsett

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10 January 2022 - 1:37am

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From the poem Bitch Bitch Bitch

If you don't want BIRDS

to eat your APRICOTS

don't GROW them

in the AIR

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From the poem 'Class':

We are a match made in heaven.

I wonder if we would be cheaper

made in China.

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~Readings in the Wild~

Ravens cry poems for other ravens,

but the wolves also listen.

Together they prey

on those not into poetry

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I see Venus

is drunk again this morning.

A-totter on her orbit,

white, wine-stained dress,

ankle length and out of place

in the Blue Room.

The bartender

looks up at her from the sports page:

"It's not still dark, he says,

it's just not light, yet.

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~Oops Mondavi~

Stupid styrofoam cup

can't stand up to wine pour

fall down on poem

make it red.

27 February 2022 - 2:45am

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From his poem "Island" "If

From his poem "Island"

"If your smile

was a butterfly

I would capture it

in the delicate net of my mind,

then let it go

and watch it flutter,

flower to flower,

and away"

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From the poem "Sisters":

several beautiful messages in this poem..

one of which is that the tears of joy and the tears of sorrow both

water flowers

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From a different poem:

The flames

of freedom

burn in the

crematoriums

twenty-four/

seven '.

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from the poem 'This Won't Be Done Quietly'

April is rackety
with chirped and warbled come-ons.
The barkered pitch

of the loudmouth meadowlark
trails a busy tumbleweed,
mum as it begets,

helped along
by its soft-spoken midwife,
the wind.

19 February 2022 - 7:17pm

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'Because sight isn't needed

The poem "This Flower For The Blind"

'Because sight isn't needed to appreciate thorns

or to inhale the petal's bouquet,

there will be roses for the blind.'

https://www.postpoems.org/authors/owlcrkbrg/poem/1086000#comment-530636

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From the poem "Thick"

A single moth
flits to fan
the front porch lamp

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From his poem "River"

Rivers speak in rocks, not tongues,

and never lie.

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From the movie "Hot As Hell In LA"

'It was so hot that day, an entire field of corn started popping. White popcorn flying everywhere. When a small herd of cattle saw it they thought it was snow, and froze to death.'

'The Prince of Darkness does not appreciate humor

"I asked her if she smoked after sex. Se said "I don't know. I never looked."

16 January 2022 - 10:28pm

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Ballad of the Miss Vonnda Lee

Ballad of the Miss Vonnda Lee.

by Dan Tompsett

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The fisherman welcomed the rising sun as he

set his lines in the sea.

With hopes that a little luck with the tuna would be running for

him and his boat, the Miss Vonnda Lee.

The ocean was calm as he steered for the deep.

A westerly breeze whispering softly.

"We'll plug the hold before we sleep!" he vowed to himself

and his Miss Vonnda Lee.

All at once the baited lines stretched tight. Every hook

held its struggling bounty

The fisherman pulled and gaffed all day until dark

called an end to the bite that blessed the Miss Vonnda Lee.

While the fisherman put the last fish in ice he felt the

wind turn southerly.

As he scanned the sky he heard an ominous sigh

in the rigging of the Miss Vonnda Lee.

The fisherman at once set a course for land

in a thousand fathoms was no place to be

as the wind reached gale and the waves did stand

above the mast of the Miss Vonnda Lee.

With nine hundred fathoms still beneath him the ocean made its claim as

it took him down to her cold, dark, realm a final vision to the fisherman came.

He saw his young sister in a beautiful garden of wild flowers and

blossoming herbs. And who would know why of all the faces he'd known

the last one he'd see was hers.

And who would know why at that very same moment in time

a young woman had painted a canvas in her garden by the sea

a scene with a man she had known all her life was smiling and

waving good-bye from the deck of the Miss Vonnda Lee.

24 January 2022 - 3:15am

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The poem Nests So Shallow

~Nests So Shallow~

The killdeer eggs were crushed, today.
Tractor tires ran them over.
Mom frets and peeps
then moves on.
There is no need for her wounded wing act.
The deed is done.
Dad comes home and finds the mess.
Checks out his tail feathers with his beak.
There's rain in the air.

apologies to Dan Tompsett for not reproducing the original spacing

26 February 2022 - 9:54am

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'the horse in your pasture.

'the horse
in your pasture.
Fish
in your pond.
Cow
in your freezer.

from his poem "Peck Cheek Suckle Neck"

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From his poem 'Good Ol Days'

When everyone lived in caves

with little chance of burning,

firemen were always free

to save kittens stuck in trees.

From 'And so the flies' poem

thunder-gray gulls

lift away like smoke

From the poem "California Transplant"

'downtown paradesdowntown
of drummed-up noise and convertibled queens
where equined cops and tricycled clowns stood guard'

27 February 2022 - 2:58am

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From the poem "Back to the

From the poem "Back to the Flies"

I found one had drowned in your half-empty wineglass.
Its soaked wings lost their buzz,
its eyes, drunk-blind and red. I left it
for the busboy to put to rest down the drain.

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he looked

back at me over his shoulder. He saw
the sun go down directly behind my head

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from the poem 'This Won't Be Done Quietly'

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