Hello! this is my first time doing “Excerpt Monday,” a scheme that my good friends on the Divas came up with to show off some of your work every first monday of the month. So, without further ado, here is my contrabution.

Tea Break.

Poetry should be a musical
thing, like music should be
physical. A complicated
dance, a flair of perfection,
a concise blending of two
worlds. A triumph of wit
but with a songlike sound,
an imagining of epic
proportions with a haunted
melody, or a joyful burble
of noises joined together
through the nonsense of language.

It’s just a pity my orchestra is on a tea break.

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This is one of my favourite poems (that i’ve written) because it is so unintentionally good. I wrote it in a Poetry class in University because i couldn’t think of a poem to write. I think it’s one of my best ones now

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Primal Thrill

Graceful but deadly. Pacing back and forth, a fluid motion. Grunts and roars of frustration hang in the air. One thick sheet of glass between predator and possible prey. One looks mournful, the other fascinated. Endlessly marking the perimeter of his diminutive kingdom.

This is no great lion of the Serengeti, but a captured force, held in the frozen lands of a zoo far from home. Where people pay to act like paparazzi and look on meekly, denying his misery.

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I wrote this poem after a trip to a zoo not far from where i live. It was quite the experience for me as i got to be up close and personal with these amazing lions, literally seperated by that thin sheet of glass mentioned in the poem. i was so deeply affected by it that i had to write a poem. This style is called a “prose poem” but you could equally call it flash fiction. the only difference is the poetic inflection (or so i was taught )

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The Museum

Marbled floor and vaulted ceilings,
brass handled doors too heavy to move.
The constant murmur of voices
surge and ebb like the sea. Flocks
of school children run and gawk,
as music swells while coffee cups clink.

There are many things to see here,
Like a Meteorite polished by the touch
of many small fingers,
and the bones of a mighty mammoth
- a spectre of the past.
And a gallery of priceless art,
staring into an empty room.

The bones of our ancestors,
the rough cut gems of the earth,
the icons of worship,
they all reside in this temple of antiquity.
The only flash of modern life resides
with the visitors themselves
as they wearily make their way out of the past
And into the modern light of day.

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Anyone who knows me well knows that i spend a LOT of time in my local museum. It is one of my favourite places to go and think, and to go and research things. There are so many amazing things that people just don’t even think about in a museum. I wrote this poem to reflect that and hopefully i’ve done it right. Too many people my age have no iterest in the past, which is a shame because it is what shapes our futures.

Thank you for visiting and i hope you enjoyed my poetry! after the Jump is the links to the other participants of this amazing venture so do me a favour and go visit a few.

So, to kick it off, your hosts: Mel/Alexia Reed, Urban Fantasy (R)andBria Quinlan, Rom Com (PG) Joining us this week: AJ O’Donovan, Poetry (PG13)Stephanie Draven, Paranormal Romance (PG 13)Heather S.Ingemar, Dark Fantasy/Poetry (PG13)Babette James, Fantasy Romance (PG 13)Cynthia Justlin, Romantic Suspense (PG 13)Kaige, Historical Romance (PG 13)Julia Knight, Fantasy Romance (PG13)Ansha Kotyk, Middle Grade Adventure (PG13)AdelleLaudan, Contemporary Romance (PG 13)Jeannie Lin, Historical Romance (PG 13)RF Long, YA Paranormal (PG13)Caitlynn Lowe, Epic Fantasy (PG13)Shawntelle Madison, Paranormal Romance (PG 13)Crista McHugh, Contemporary Erotic Romance (PG 13)Bria Quinlan, Rom Com (PG)Leigh Royals, Historical Romance (PG 13)Megan S., Paranormal (PG13)Dara Sorensen, Historical Paranormal (PG 13)Bethanne Strasser, Historical Romance (PG13) Melissa Aires, Futuristic Romance (R)Melissa Blue, Contemporary Romance (R)Jax Cassidy, Contemporary (R)Christina DeLorenzo, Furturistic Sci-Fi (R)Maya Doyle, Parnormal Romance (R)Ginny Glass, Paranormal (R)Amber Green, Romantic Suspense (R)Cate Hart, Paranormal YA (R)Kinsey W. Holley, Erotic Romance (R)Ali Katz, Erotic Paranormal Romance (R)Aislinn Kerry, Fantasy (R)Inez Kelly, Fantasy Romance (R)Cherrie Lynn, Contemporary Erotic Romance (R)Mel/Alexia Reed, Urban Fantasy (R)Rebecca Savage, Romantic Suspense (R)Fae Sutherland, Contemporary Erotic Romance (R) Stephanie Adkins, Paranormal Erotic Romance (NC 17)Evie Byrne, Erotic Historical Romance (NC17)Ella Drake, Erotic Contemporary (NC17)Dawn Montgomery, Erotic Paranormal Romance (NC17)Lauren Murphy, Erotic Romance (NC 17)Kim Knox, Erotic Paranormal Romance (NC17)Emily Ryan-Davis, Historical Western Romance (NC17)Kirsten Saell, Erotic Fantasy Romance (NC 17)Jeanne St. James, Contemporary Romance (NC 17)

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