https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-549-week-of-nbsp-08-20-07 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:07:25 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5579-question-for-new-users https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5579-question-for-new-users There have been a lot of new folk signing up in the last couple of months, but almost all have posted nothing. I would invite -- or rather, beg -- all new people to give us some reasons for this silence. Is the site too difficult to navigate? Does it not have what you're looking for? Do you not like the kind of comments here? Are you unhappy with the standard of poetry? PLEASE. Give us feedback, without it we have no direction. That goes for older members who aren't posting as well -- be as honest as you like. ... more Leanne Questions Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:00:39 GMT /section-365-questions#comments 48 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5638-death-in-the-afternoon https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5638-death-in-the-afternoon She revered words.But onlyin inkwrittenon the pages of booksby men(and women)who were just tryingto make senseof it all. The spoken were understood. But resounded empty, devoid of truth or intention. Impressed by their own sincerity but never quite believing it. Take the words as you would your grand gestures. Square me the circle. Fetch me the moon. Hand me death in the afternoon. word junkie Poetry Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:00:40 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5638 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5638 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5638 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5616-for-want-of-a-summer-day https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5616-for-want-of-a-summer-day Draft 1 It's been cold lately anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5616 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5616 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5616 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5640-ixion-s-wheel https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5640-ixion-s-wheel tetheredto Ixion's wheelspinning...fiery-wingedthrough cosmosin chaosstellar pinballdazed and burntcravingOrpheus' lyre word junkie Poetry Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5640 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5640 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5640 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5657-last-call-for-contest-entries https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5657-last-call-for-contest-entries Sent on Aug. 24 2007 at 05:34 pm to "all" anstey Archived letters Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-98-archived-letters#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5657 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5657 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5657 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5655-monkey-misery-for-kenyan-women-villagers https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5655-monkey-misery-for-kenyan-women-villagers A troop of vervet monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis anstey Open Forum For Discussion Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-546-open-forum-for-discussion#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5655 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5655 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5655 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5611-ode-to-a-poet-who-thinks-he-s-great https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5611-ode-to-a-poet-who-thinks-he-s-great Draft 2 anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5611 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5611 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5611 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4535-order-your-copy-of-the-inaugural-issue-of-shakespeare-s-monkey-revue https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4535-order-your-copy-of-the-inaugural-issue-of-shakespeare-s-monkey-revue We're proud to present our SM Revue debut, shipping now! Tracey Covers Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-1-covers#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4535 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4535 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4535 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5625-shakespeare-s-monkeys https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5625-shakespeare-s-monkeys Sent on Aug. 23 2007 at 11:41 pm GMT to "all" anstey Archived letters Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-98-archived-letters#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5625 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5625 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5625 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5641-summer-exhibition https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5641-summer-exhibition The art show of the summer.Artists waiting in lineweighed down by artworksuplifted by dreams.Black Capped adjudicators siton chairs fashioned from temperamental criteria.Value commands a price tag.Merit equals money.But those selling are pleased:even an artist has to make a living.Yet it's those who lie brokenon a bed of unseen canvasescondemned by fickle consensuswho compel me to say something.But as I'm so disgustedI can only vomitand scratch out the words in it. Then submit it next year for consideration. word junkie Poetry Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5641 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5641 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5641 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5642-the-passers-by https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5642-the-passers-by Peace was clamoured forAs the assortment of vagabondsShambled into townRearranging their disenchantmentIn a chaotic perfection behind them.The crowds lined the streetsCheering silentlyAs the laboured walk of afflicted endeavourPermitted them to glideAs if they had been born on wheels.As only paradox can do.And if there had been a wise man amidst themHe would have joined that line.But as it was the town looked on,And immobilized by flimsy hubris,Watched peace spill out unchallengedAs a few young children ran behindAnd tugged playfully at its coat tails word junkie Poetry Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5642 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5642 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5642 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5610-what-i-thought-when-my-cousin-said-hello https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5610-what-i-thought-when-my-cousin-said-hello draft 1.1 anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5610 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5610 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5610 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5582-velvet https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5582-velvet   Velvet pillows and candle light cannot soften the edges of good buys or steal your eyes as they slice through skin Halfing a heart for you to step over as you exit one step closer to oblivion a peace   For me to breathe softly upon the candle that shadowed us creeping into each other fanning the flame   Splashing hot wax to dry cold hard on soft plush velvet no one else will ever No, how yielding it once was. EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Mon, 19 May 2008 18:07:56 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5582 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5582 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5582 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5648-poem-for-my-41st-birthday-after-bukowski https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5648-poem-for-my-41st-birthday-after-bukowski Waking...Cloisteredin atheist seclusionwith coffeeand books -a dim bulb in your headand stretch marksveinedand knowing what it's likenot to have a room. ...of course, they're out there making money: teachers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, all those who mistake knowledge for wisdom who think they know better than you when all you know is that you know nothing or the nearest approximation. And you turn over to your left side so that the sun blinds you and you can't see vacancy on your right. word junkie Poetry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:31:51 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5648 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5648 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5648 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5614-when-i-m-forty-seven https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5614-when-i-m-forty-seven   It was your smile.... open and true as a cloudless sky, inviting me to sing with you the sacred song of cardinals. And like a curious child, I followed your smile into the depths of azure light, where you held me, unashamed. For all was taken once more as the seas emptied themselves, then filled - then emptied again, pouring seasons into an abyss. Yet still, you sit with me - sculpting words slowly, gently, as a gentle man; an honest man  telling me....I am yours.   Kat Kat's poetry Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:45:42 GMT /section-427-kat-s-poetry#comments 9 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5614 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5614 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5614 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5659-sex-and-poetry https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5659-sex-and-poetry Love. It came and went too fast to breed contempt but long enough to autograph my memory and leave a heart both cracked and weeping. So, what now? With what am I to fill the days? What's left but sex and poetry. word junkie Poetry Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:45:45 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5659 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5659 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5659 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5645-what-a-let-down https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5645-what-a-let-down After floating in balmy darknessfor nine monthsin gravid contentmentsqueezed through some crushing tunnelfor twelve hoursthen blinking out lights andgulping down foreign airvoices blast my newborn earsand someone smacks meabout the rearonly to sit around for forty yearswaiting for something to happenI find lifesuch a disappointment word junkie Poetry Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:43:55 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5645 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5645 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5645 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5656-french-silk https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5656-french-silk It's very high school. But I guess that's what I like about it desde debajo Desde Debajo Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:30:31 GMT /section-392-desde-debajo#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5656 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5656 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5656 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5646-what-do-they-do https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5646-what-do-they-do What do they do?When their words, desiccated by neglect,lie strewn and obsoleteunfit for usesentenced to non-sentence.What do they do?When their unrealized picturescorrode the backs of their eyelidsan anguish-etched kaleidoscopecondemned to a life-sentence.What do they do?When their music shouts and deafens thembut those around who touch the silencewonder why they scream.How can they make themselves known?Or more importantly...How can they hide themselves? word junkie Poetry Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:56:28 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5646 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5646 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5646 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5660-unpoemed https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5660-unpoemed unmarked unwritten untitled unpoemed unlived word junkie Poetry Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:40:41 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5660 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5660 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5660