1. |
Christmas Coal
00:51
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Christmas coal —-
an old ember's glow.
I won't throw gas on
to make a fire,
I'm old, Father Christmas,
that's not my desire.
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2. |
Causing a disturbance...
00:37
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Causing a disturbance...
on this bus
Inspired by a real sign on a Denver bus.
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3. |
Rainbow Chaser
00:37
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I've always been a rainbow chaser
ever since I was a boy.
Every storm I'd wait and see
where the rainbow would deploy.
One end usually chose the garden,
but that one never interested me.
The pot of gold, as you all know,
is always at the other end.
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4. |
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It feels like a Rachmaninoff morning --
that edge of tragedy and redemption.
...
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5. |
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When a master dies --
in old age --
there is no grief.
Only quiet, soaring curves and light,
And the soft tinkling of bells at twilight.
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6. |
Laptop to Laptop
00:30
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Two twenty-somethings sitting, intimately,
in a coffee shop -- their laptops touching ...
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7. |
Merika, Merika
02:30
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O Beautiful for spacious skies,
And genetically modified grain;
Strip mining tears off mountain tops,
While landfills dot the plain ...
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8. |
Echoes
00:38
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Echoes ...
That's what these poems are,
just echoes.
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9. |
Firedrake!
01:45
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[A fiery dragon or a fiery meteor. Also (colloq.),
a shooting start that spans the arc of heaven.]
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10. |
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We are always
on the fringes.
Love and Death.
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11. |
Garden of Thorns
01:29
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Wrapped in wires,
windings of transformers,
computer networks;
taught by liars,
priests, politicians
and movie stars ...
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12. |
Peace on Earth?
01:57
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Will there ever be
Peace on Earth?
Good will toward men?
Or women or kids?
Is Christianity on the skids?
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13. |
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Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse.
The mouse had ate poison,
— it was dead.
The kids — they'd all
gone up to bed ...
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K1 Denver, Colorado
K1 (aka Chris Kermiet) has had several careers in his lifetime: as a jazz performer and arranger, a rock drummer and record producer, a traditional dance caller and teacher (contras, squares, English Country Dance), and as a composer (primarily electronic and choral music). He's been writing poems since his early 20's, and has been putting them online, one per month, for the last 7 years. ... more
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