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Poetry

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

1991

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The Puppets / The Death Of Sun And Moon, Lale Heine-Koehn, Janet P. Reedman Oct 1991

The Puppets / The Death Of Sun And Moon, Lale Heine-Koehn, Janet P. Reedman

The Mythic Circle

The Puppets: The woman behind me is cutting a tree to crush me and if it must, his hand, holding mine. The Death of Sun and Moon: The Moon stood in the shroud of night, a crone who waned and sank billowing pale deathlight


Childhood's End, K. V. Skene Oct 1991

Childhood's End, K. V. Skene

The Mythic Circle

Each yesterday Ended when, quite magically, The streetlights blinked, and once again Bewitched the night.


Confessions Of A Dragon Lady / Windbound, K. V. Skene Oct 1991

Confessions Of A Dragon Lady / Windbound, K. V. Skene

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Confessions of A Dragon Lady: Before I knew the wisdom of this world I felt the ebb and flow of secret tides. Windbound: Back of the North Wind, Under a pallid sun, all life Is permafrosted.


The Man Of An Uncertain Address, Lala Heine-Koehn Oct 1991

The Man Of An Uncertain Address, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were my neighbours at rate time. We used to chat across the fence, discuss the weather due the next day, sometimes our dual problems.


Exile And Mending, David Sparenberg Oct 1991

Exile And Mending, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

Peace to you, Shulammite maiden! Waiting tears at the heart of hope.


Eleventh Hour / Autumn Cleaning, Gwenyth E. Hood Oct 1991

Eleventh Hour / Autumn Cleaning, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

Eleventh Hour: / climbed down the dark and jagged path leading on, down down, in the shadowed lands. Autumn Cleaning: The autumn wind is sighing in the branches to lift dead leaves and carry to the ground


Brides Of Sealmen / Rites Of Union, Janet P. Reedman, David Sparenberg Oct 1991

Brides Of Sealmen / Rites Of Union, Janet P. Reedman, David Sparenberg

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Brides of Sealmen: Loneliness breeds strange fancies in girls grown too old for love Rites of Union: Am I b ut one rhythm? Are my rhythms not multiple as air's motions?


Il-Lyran's Song For Midsummer, Sarah Beach Oct 1991

Il-Lyran's Song For Midsummer, Sarah Beach

The Mythic Circle

Light lay soft in dreaming gloom. Darkness then did roam and drift.


The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn Oct 1991

The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn

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A trumpet wakes her from her sleep. The long wailing notes disturb the heavy folds o f her bed curtains


To Christopher Columbus, Gwenyth E. Hood Oct 1991

To Christopher Columbus, Gwenyth E. Hood

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I wonder at the fervor of your passion, Your dreams o f glory, gold and splendid wealth


On The Walls / Hero To His Captive Elfbride / Asphodel, Janet P. Reedman Oct 1991

On The Walls / Hero To His Captive Elfbride / Asphodel, Janet P. Reedman

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On the Walls: Under the shade of shattered walls, Remembered lives blow like dreams Hero to His Captive Elfbride: Dawn's light glitters on faded mountain tarn Asphodel: Caught in the shadows the keep cast


One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst

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One Sunday My Son: One Sunday my son ran into the orchard behind the house. Cassandra: You have heard the children cry from the water below the rock: the earth red with blood from the feast of the father.


Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst

The Mythic Circle

Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward: In the waiting room my wife rests her pain on my shoulder; the broken bones are hidden below the surface of her skin. Reluctant Spring: This spring the birds fly low above the trees; their new green skin not yet able to hide the bones of branches.


Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich

The Mythic Circle

Who waits by the seashore, there on the rocks, grey and cold and forlorn?


Sean's Retort, Howard Tessler Mar 1991

Sean's Retort, Howard Tessler

The Mythic Circle

I hunt to fill my table; to sate my hunger.


Olde Ballade, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Olde Ballade, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

Come, listen to the Story Olde Of two Cities and a Friar Bolde


The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst

The Mythic Circle

I recognized first the old limp as you walked over the horizon on the road which disappears directly to the left of the sun


The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian Mar 1991

The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian

The Mythic Circle

The Dream She Never Told You: Colors dark and somber from a world buried deep in secrets and lore. The River of Glass: dream rocks in the lonely river black rocks smooth the water’s ripple in a mixture of reflection Wooden Masks: i felt the wake of wooden masks, and wept for city lights through swaying branches, raised


Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

The Cherry spread her blossoms in the fall White and dainty among the golden leaves, Before the deep-red-ivy coated wall


Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman Mar 1991

Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman

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Red Hawk Song: I admit that I love you. My heart sings strongly through the fires of my body. Mount Lowe 1978: Ruins rambled, too well sifted Higher: Watching the crows' realm, treetop mopers amidst cloud erasers of the blue.


The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

The man who loves the earth whose love is genuine


Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

I grasp in my hands today the tail feather of a hawk


Sonnet From A Dark Tower, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Sonnet From A Dark Tower, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

I dreamed a dream of dancing silver water that called a distant kingdom to my mind


Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich

The Mythic Circle

Merlin's Winter: Your season is over now. The Lady of the Lake has closed her villas for the winter Eurydice In The Real World: Orpheus crept unseen into his afterlife through the early dark Walking On Water: Sunset bleeds across the sky, stains my fingers saffron and peaches.


Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky Mar 1991

Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky

The Mythic Circle

Now and Then: Birds, there in the air and fish, there in the sea then, as now, as then are really one for me Wind, Maybe: Didn’t hear anything, last night Once Upon: ONCE UPON a late night, easy chair, living room, Pheasant Glen


Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian Mar 1991

Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian

The Mythic Circle

he mumbled low, hidden in past footsteps, beaming through the tom branches needling his head