http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com A JustJessi Blog! Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:45:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out my new blog Purging Poet. http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/04/18/new-blog/ Moving at a standstill stop and continue on Look but fail to see beneath what covers hide yet plainly show Masks unveil to deceive the eyes A facade intricately woven make-believe twined with reality Simply complex Truth never revealed lost within a facade Fools believe but me you won't deceive http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/04/07/facade/ I skipped posting my poem yesterday I know so today you get two! She Wants She wants to be beautiful a floating dream feet never touching the ground She wants to be perfect beauty and grace bone and strength A vision so alluring you must look away She wants to be this but she is me http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/04/07/she-wants/ April is national poetry month yay!  I know I'm late getting started on this but every day this month I am going to challenge myself to write a poem and I suggest you do it too!  If you would like to submit some work to be posted on my site ... http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/04/05/national-poetry-month/ You say she's fallen no longer pure and pristine A woman long before you were ready to deem her so You say she's fallen not the way you taught her to be She was to be better after all perfection doesn't cause grief You say she's fallen given in to unholy sin Unthinkable So wrong and completely against the way she was supposed to ... http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/03/26/fallen/  Langston Hughes is a celebrated American Poet whom I could easily call one of the best poets of all time.  Born in 1902, Hughes grew up with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas whose first husband participated in abolitionist John Brown's raid of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859.  Hughes' ... http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/03/24/featured-poet-langston-hughes/ http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/03/23/it-doesnt-have-to-rhyme/ Writer’s Block A modern notion an imposter take a deep breath retreat to the confines of your dreams a phenomenon involving inspiration and creativity the first step in freeing your imagination There are common causes but no lack of meaning believing, questioning, challenging what doesn’t exist living above mediocre words http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/03/19/writers-block-the-poem/ I'm having a serious case of writer's block...its resulted in a lot of cartoon surfing.  This one had me rolling...but maybe its just me. http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/03/19/writers-block/   The Lively Leprechaun by Betsy Franco I caught a lively leprechaun With stubble on his face. He promised loads of buried gold And led me to this place. But when I let him loose to dig, He leaped and led a chase. That lively laughing leprechaun Had left without a trace!   http://purgingthrupoetry.today.com/2009/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day/