The APW Group Poem
Now that you've added your lines to these 20 collaborations, sharpen your pencils and dust off that iPad and add your line to this poem-in-progress.
Please read the title and first line from this poem the message of crazy horse by Lucille Clifton, and then follow your intuition. The subsequent lines have been written and added by APW guests. Once you have read through to the end of the poem, add your own line.
If the most recently added line ends with a period, please begin your line with a capital letter. If no period appears at the end of the most recently added line, you may add your line and end it with either a period, a question mark, or no punctuation at all.
Please add only one brief line. When you have added your line, hit the BACK button on your browser TWICE, and then click RELOAD or REFRESH on your browser to view the line you have just added.
i would sit in the center of the world,
close together with you around that fire
Ken Rasmussen
USA - Wed May 12 03:19:52 2010
of an eight-hour work day.
Joshua Gray
USA - Sat Jul 17 13:13:33 2010
Come home and break bread
Carol
USA - Thu Aug 12 18:24:53 2010
until the cobalt rays of dawn peek over Sutter Hill.
Debbie R.
USA - Thu Aug 19 15:24:35 2010
Our ghosts collide with wondering boys' feet treading in mist
dc
USA - Sat Nov 6 19:33:32 2010
the boundary stones we held in life.
Andy
USA - Fri Dec 10 19:50:16 2010
I am a work in progress that the gods will bless
junniebug
USA - Thu Dec 23 19:27:41 2010
and in you I must confess
Frankie
USA - Sun Jan 23 11:00:10 2011
I touched your lips but I didn't inhale.
Beverly
USA - Tue Jan 25 22:30:38 2011
The sweet aroma of love, for I was afraid
Frankie
USA - Wed Jan 26 17:40:10 2011
to let you have control over my heart and soul.
Frankie
USA - Fri Jan 28 20:56:28 2011
Scorched by the fire, swept up
Mary-Elizabeth
USA - Sat Mar 12 05:55:42 2011
and whirled, sparks filled my firefly gaze.
Milyn
USA - Thu Mar 31 07:59:45 2011
Is it with you I will grow old and have love fill all my days?
Robin
USA - Fri Apr 15 09:43:13 2011
Or is with another yet unknown to me in this time or place?
Kait Skyler
USA - Fri Apr 29 22:40:08 2011
Or will all be obliterated again, like you promised
V Calvez
USA - Mon May 2 23:46:19 2011
your fortuitous words lay upon the ground, a cover for history's sticky sweet stain of truth nestled between slumbering apocalyptic giants
Syyd Raven
USA - Thu Jun 2 16:20:14 2011
Who dreamed of when they were small
Anton Dex
Wales - Wed Jun 15 15:36:25 2011
and able to feel the universe unfolding inside themselves.
Frank
USA - Tue Aug 16 23:34:33 2011
I pluck an ember from your hair
Paulette
USA - Tue Nov 1 04:52:31 2011
Remembering the last time you shed light
DeeAitch
\UK - Mon Nov 7 02:21:41 2011