PERMISSIONS: To view the blog, post on it, and comment on posts, you must be invited. I will send you an email invitation to join the blog, and then you must follow the instructions to join up and begin posting. You can't join the blog without first creating a Google account.

POSTING: Post your poems by clicking "New Post" at the top right of the page. Paste your poem into the window.

LABELING: Then label the post with the assignment name (i.e., "confessional poem," "sonnet," etc.), your name (i.e., "Tony Barnstone," etc.), and the week (i.e., "week one," "week two," but not "week 1"--spell out your numbers). If you post a poem in week two that is due in week three, label it "week three." When you begin to type in a label, the program will fill it in for you, so your post will be labeled with the rest of the poems in the same category.

COMMENTING: Afterwards, you can "comment" on the posts of your classmates. Post "group one" and "group two" one-page critical responses as "comments" on the posted poems, but also print out copies for me and for the poet and give them to us in class.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

You Got a Hold on Me

The trees of green are all I see and hit.
So dark the smoke has made the room I sit
In circle with my love and long time friend
oh Spence your hair was crazy even then.

When lit you laugh and I drift in as well
So strong I feel the presence of your smell.
No fight she gives, a slut to those who roll,
Ignite with flame the greeness in the bowl.

She looks at me and gives a chipped tooth smile,
I sit and contemplate our love a while.
A sparkle off the imperfection shines,
to catch by glimpse and hold it fast in mind.

So when I hear your name a loud I smile,
your loves my first and has been for awhile.


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