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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 02:10 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 3/21/09
"Advice for a Stegosaurus"

Never mind the asteroid,
the hot throat of the volcano,
a sun that daily drops into the void.

Comb the drying riverbed for drink.
Strut your bird-hipped body.
Practice a lizard grin. Don’t think.

Stretch out your tail. Walk, as you must,
in a slow deliberate gait.
Don't look back, Dinosaur. Dust is dust.

You'll leave your bones, your fossil feet
and armored eye-lids.
Put your chin to the wind. Eat what you eat.

~Jessica Goodheart
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 02:29 AM
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1. My dear BlueIris!
This is a rather unusual time for you to be posting...

And even an odder time for me to be responding!

This is an interesting poem...

The Stegosaurus.

I like the descriptive phrasing, and the sense of the planet then...

Thank you!

:hi:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:10 AM
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2. I was afraid I'd be too busy to post it at a later time today.
Better to get it up now, than not at all.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 08:43 AM
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3. I see an analogy here.
I have a sneaking suspicion. Very nicely done. Thank you for posting it.
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Chorophyll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 01:44 PM
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4. Good advice for stegosauruses...
...and others. Or is it? I'm not sure. Hmmm. :)
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 02:05 PM
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5. Nice
Not enough Stegosaurus poems, I say.

:hi:

RL
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 10:21 PM
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6. Hi, Retro.
I'm so happy people liked this one.
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