The Poet
The Poet
Out of the fear rises bravery.
Loneliness radiates outward.
Getting lost beckons rescue.
Isolation bares the soul, and
the survivors pick through the bone pile,
looking for scraps of meat
to salvage one last meal, huddling
in the back of the cave.
The bone scratches at rocks,
leaving a million-year impression.
© Michael Domino 2014
Poetry is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.
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| many lives | 0 | 06/12/2014 |
| naked in front of the moon | 0 | 06/11/2014 |
| Pity the bum | 2 | 06/09/2014 |
| A Poem | 1 | 06/07/2014 |
| what - green snow? | 1 | 05/30/2014 |
| cowboys of new york | 0 | 05/28/2014 |
| A Night at the Movies | 1 | 05/21/2014 |
| The Case of the Missing Moustache | 0 | 05/21/2014 |
| a simple man | 0 | 05/16/2014 |
| The Perfect Banana | 0 | 05/10/2014 |
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| Real War | 6 | 09/09/2009 |
| naked in front of the moon | 5 | 09/09/2009 |
| the 4th of war | 1 | 09/08/2009 |
| cliff's elbow | 3 | 09/08/2009 |
| conversation with the moon | 11 | 09/02/2009 |
| the world | 6 | 09/02/2009 |
| three short poems about nothing | 2 | 09/02/2009 |
| silence | 13 | 08/31/2009 |
| Keeping a Happy Mind is Like Walking a Tight Rope | 6 | 08/31/2009 |
| im tired | 2 | 08/31/2009 |
| Big Foot Discovered | 1 | 08/31/2009 |
| the living female form | 6 | 08/30/2009 |
| The Sink | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Safe | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| the run-away | 3 | 08/30/2009 |
| Nothing | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Orders for Heaven | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Lobster Bibs | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| kerouac’s cave | 6 | 08/29/2009 |
| My Two Feet | 3 | 08/29/2009 |
| My Two Feet | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| i i i | 9 | 08/15/2009 |
| Jupiter Sky | 5 | 08/12/2009 |
| acceptable death count ? | 3 | 08/11/2009 |
| screaming signs | 3 | 08/11/2009 |
| East End | 2 | 08/11/2009 |
| Wardrobe | 2 | 08/10/2009 |
| Surfing | 1 | 08/10/2009 |
| handcuffed | 7 | 08/08/2009 |
| dedication in the sun | 2 | 08/08/2009 |
| asylum alley | 7 | 08/08/2009 |
| Holding Hands | 5 | 08/07/2009 |
| Art | 2 | 08/05/2009 |
| Stuck in the 60's | 5 | 07/16/2009 |
| Jack is dead | 3 | 07/15/2009 |
| poetry hangover | 7 | 07/15/2009 |
| shut eye therapy | 3 | 07/15/2009 |
| underbelly - don't look | 1 | 07/14/2009 |
| shuv your oil | 0 | 07/14/2009 |
| The Marlin's Eye | 2 | 07/13/2009 |
| Shopping mall on a monday afternoon | 0 | 07/13/2009 |
| a green wagon | 3 | 07/12/2009 |
| naked water | 3 | 07/12/2009 |
| the psych-cottage | 5 | 07/12/2009 |
| to hell with the news | 1 | 07/12/2009 |
| for a variety or reasons | 2 | 07/11/2009 |
| my wife scolds me | 4 | 07/10/2009 |
| Nakedness | 1 | 07/09/2009 |
| loss | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| me and my key board | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| hows bizness ? | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| Powerless | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| hair cut | 0 | 07/08/2009 |
| normal | 0 | 07/08/2009 |
| sleeping with the sun | 0 | 07/07/2009 |
| too many ways | 4 | 07/05/2009 |
| The Gold Watch | 3 | 07/04/2009 |
| headless turtles | 4 | 07/03/2009 |
| headless turtles | 2 | 07/03/2009 |
| Faces in Coffins | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| dry dog food | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| do | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| change | 2 | 07/02/2009 |
| Country | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| Morning | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| winter | 1 | 07/02/2009 |
| The Pump | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| a burned little girl | 2 | 07/01/2009 |
| Florida | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Time and 2 other Poems | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Three Poems | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Electric Night | 3 | 06/30/2009 |
| NASCAR | 0 | 06/30/2009 |
| hair harmony | 2 | 06/29/2009 |
| YMCA Bowery | 3 | 06/28/2009 |
| rainbow over the east side | 11 | 06/28/2009 |
| no mo woiken | 20 | 06/28/2009 |
| Slainte | 5 | 06/28/2009 |
| Celebrity Death | 28 | 06/27/2009 |
| Manhattan Snow | 14 | 06/27/2009 |
| cement shoes | 14 | 06/25/2009 |
| Hard Core | 22 | 07/16/2009 |
| Africa | 13 | 06/22/2009 |
| hard | 10 | 06/21/2009 |
| not ashaned to admit | 25 | 06/21/2009 |
| rank | 7 | 06/20/2009 |
| Surfing | 14 | 06/20/2009 |
| War of the Seasons | 12 | 06/20/2009 |
| fog | 14 | 06/13/2009 |
| nothing | 5 | 06/08/2009 |
| education and defense of newspapers | 12 | 06/07/2009 |
| excercise | 9 | 06/05/2009 |
| Little | 30 | 06/04/2009 |
| dog n lights | 19 | 06/04/2009 |
| Casino | 28 | 07/09/2009 |
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