tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19372364736477285852012-02-16T01:54:28.368-08:00The Poetry Popehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454271761180502499noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937236473647728585.post-39957461439313044772010-11-04T23:55:00.000-07:002010-11-04T23:55:22.391-07:00The pope's tenure at Hanks has ended and though it was nice drinking beer on Thursday night and getting a head start on the weekend, well, Hank's didn't catch on so exuberantly as might have been hoped.&nbsp; Looking for another format somewhere!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1937236473647728585-3995746143931304477?l=poetrypope.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Poetry Popehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454271761180502499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937236473647728585.post-52987050353129299542010-10-30T00:35:00.001-07:002010-10-30T00:35:49.293-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IbczBLLwI6Q/TMvKtRom3rI/AAAAAAAAABo/K61cDsGuUfE/s1600/popeishpic+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IbczBLLwI6Q/TMvIAr0wXlI/AAAAAAAAABc/E6ryLh05cRA/s1600/fhs70+phil2+-tb+edt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" nx="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IbczBLLwI6Q/TMvIAr0wXlI/AAAAAAAAABc/E6ryLh05cRA/s320/fhs70+phil2+-tb+edt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1937236473647728585-3470614783495235131?l=poetrypope.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Poetry Popehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454271761180502499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937236473647728585.post-5889148954958605672010-10-20T00:24:00.001-07:002010-10-20T00:24:27.087-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A Birthday again</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In the nightclub shadows</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In front of a strawberry cake</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They ate fluff with sweet frosting </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Celebrating years that dissolve like sugar in the mouth</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Souls whose flour is bleached </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Singing an Auld Ang Syne birthday song.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I wish my birthday cake to be heavy </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dense as a health food roll</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dripping with pounds of honey </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Like baklava</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For the sweet richness of life</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That is almost too much to bear</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I’d fashioned it in a dome of humor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A bozo like gum drop</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Painted with bright pink frosting </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To withstand inequity and human cruelty</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">No written clichés would be scribbled on this cake </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Nor would it be displayed like a Barbie doll in a glass case</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A pagan priestess would present it</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">With a sputnik of awry candles</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For all the years </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Colliding their heat upon each other</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dripping a wax skin of wrinkles and sunspots</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We would sing in haunting minor chords</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A preamble for my and everyone’s’ walk to the end</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Then I and my friends,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">If there are any</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Would eat it like Holy Communion</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1937236473647728585-588914895495860567?l=poetrypope.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Poetry Popehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454271761180502499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937236473647728585.post-43039330748449798122010-09-09T16:36:00.000-07:002010-09-09T16:36:49.975-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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