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Lee, 1973

6/16/2015

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Still struggling, but here's a new Granny poem.

Lee, 1973

Still clouds in a blue sky
moving trees become a metaphor
the poetry inside the book
eclipsed by her handwriting
upper-right-inside-front-cover
Lee, 1973
did she leaf through backwards
and at random, as I tend to,
begging Adrienne Rich
for inspiration, reading poems
somewhere in Africa
in some big empty house
on some wide windy plain
or was she in Iowa by then
daunted by our grocery stores
beginning a new life
with a husband she didn’t love…
when I visit her now
she remembers nothing
but we can still look up together
and she can still tell me
about clouds.
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Muse Wanted, Apply Within

6/8/2015

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So I'm in that stuck place now, where my life feels stuck and it's just the same themes sifting around in my head on repeat.  And since I've written all those poems already nothing interesting is coming up.  It's all such lame dross no matter how much inspiration I force feed in and how diligently I try to write myself out.  And this blog is part of it. It is making me more critical.  The fact that I've put some strong work out there publicly makes me re-read everything with sharper eyes because I want new stuff to stand up to the so-carefully curated old stuff... which is a good thing.  But I've been here before.  Just have to wait for the next inspiration or life wave to hit and my brain output will stop boring me...

Wind Poem


Feeling low and writing awful poems
out in the waning summer afternoon,
a sun patch pressing my denim knee,
my hair’s a messy cloud
the wind keeps sifting through
soothed by it, I drink my tea...
sometimes the wind is better
at writing poetry than me.

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    Heather Lee Rogers

    I write and perform poetry.  I have been published on many websites and print publications at various times throughout my life. I live in NYC where I also create as an actor. Acting projects make me forget that I'm a poet for long stretches of time.  But I mean to work on that here: I'll be posting old poems, new poems, and everything in between. Thanks for visiting.  Enjoy!

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