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2015 Poem​-​of​-​the​-​Months + Special Bonus Track!

by K1 (aka Chris Kermiet)

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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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Causing a disturbance... on this bus Inspired by a real sign on a Denver bus.
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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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It feels like a Rachmaninoff morning -- that edge of tragedy and redemption. ...
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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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Two twenty-somethings sitting, intimately, in a coffee shop -- their laptops touching ...
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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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Echoes 00:38
Echoes ... That's what these poems are, just echoes.
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Firedrake! 01:45
[A fiery dragon or a fiery meteor. Also (colloq.), a shooting start that spans the arc of heaven.]
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We are always on the fringes. Love and Death.
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Wrapped in wires, windings of transformers, computer networks; taught by liars, priests, politicians and movie stars ...
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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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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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released September 9, 2016

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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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