alfie lee writing

  week's picks
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  46 - picture by my bedside

139 - Pirate copy

141 - November Morning

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  new

340 - i drop my cup and it breaks

339 - let's

338 - a trying case

337 - i find myself in a vacuum

336 - free me from my cell

335 - out west

334 - i can live without air

333 - matter

332 - unwrapping a present

331 - excellence

330 - i make my own fish from parts and pasts

329 - echo though she loved him so

328 - of trees of stands

327 - january

326 - disaster's own

325 - david hockney why
         did you paint the shadows but not their leaves

324 - you write poetry like a girl whatever
         that means

323 - naruto

322 - stop stop

321 - the dead leaves

320 - hash brag

319 - meagre, middling, mediocre your talents are

318 - jogging, my memory recalls, as a

317 - be

316 - elton comes on the radio in the cab at 4am to JFK

315 - because i almost crashed into a deer bigger than my car on the highway

314 - yet another needlessly complicated and extravagant demonstration of a
         hackneyed hollow point

313 - strawman

312 - woods and the trees

311 - a realist poem (alert to its own impulses)

310 - well

309 - sparrow, true

308 - the level playing field

307 - emasculate conception

306 - woke up thinking

305 - i nominate you for this challenge

304 - 100 degrees

303 - to air is human

302 - counting cards

301 - i see what you mean

300 - energy and articulation

299 - art bruised

298 - mine

297 - my heart

296 - sweets

295 - what you mean

294 - the living will set free

293 - rain drops

292 - i want you so bad that i'll

291 - empathy is a muscle

290 - it is written

289 - what ifs

288 - the horse ducks

287 - ahuman affair

286 - rise & shine

285 - pansy

284 - traffic

283 - atlas

282 - the king of sri lanka

281 - one day perhaps

280 - the rain storms

279 - sacrament

278 - diamonds are

277 - state of mine

276 - on the dhole

275 - thar she blows

274 - oh joy

273 - i cast my mom into the sea

272 - within

271 - running up that hill

270 - pawn

269 - new love

268 - suddenly every thing spills      over the rim

267 - sail

266 - broken

265 - park lake

264 - golden

263 - life hacks

262 - Honeysuckle

261 - hijacker

260 - ersatz

259 - the fire rose

258 - i don't wanna fight i only wanna fuck

257 - &

256 - cabinet of charlatans

255 - buffalo

254 - i stop mid run to catch my breath and see

253 - displace

252 - currents

251 - the jackals

250 - Editing

249 - approaches

248 - order

247 - hope and anchor

246 - Love Struck

245 - In the bargaining

244 - Lost

243 - Retreat

242 - glimpse

241 - opal

240 - are

239 - falling off the edge of the earth

238 - Artificial intelligence

237 - pez

236 - way off

235 - #lovewins

234 - perfect sense

233 - value

232 - circadian

231 - iAm

230 - a song yet

229 - do not trust

228 - What is this you are making, alfie?

227 - somewhere

226 - the ample girl of leisure arrives at a milestone

225 - I killed an insect without thought today

224 - Let me tell you

223 - leaving "it all" behind

222 - as i am

221 - stent

220 - grand pa radox

219 - no longer

218 - index

217 - rita's stable

216 - potemkin village idiot

215 - hood

214 - another way of telling

213 - gloves

212 - i put it to you

211 - how is it

210 - Dry eyes

209 - Palimpsest

208 - in the end

207 - see sickness

206 - simply put somethings can never be

205 - pearl

204 - Exercise

203 - betta

202 - situ

201 - Fall

200 - We Are Struck

199 - What i am

198 - from the desert of my mouth

197 - movement, tilt and grain

196 - Flight

195 - aubade (mother and son on a morning school run)

194 - four feet to infinity

193 - Covering Creeley's The Flower

192 - Stardust

191 - something fierce

190 - lazarus

189 - jacks

188 - LEWD SONG

187 - if words should finally point to the real then to ginnie

186 - Auckland

185 - ride

184 - windows

183 - "the effect produced on the first reading is something like terror"

182 - for a few minutes this morning

181 - stream of consciousness

180 - only scratching the surface of an itch you cant

179 - any true state meant

178 - laid to rest

177 - how to build relationships

176 - like.  I  survived  Hugo.

175 - Limau Garden

174 - the girl   thedog   the beach

173 - another round

172 - persona

171 - out of time

170 - cave

169 - volcanic

168 - the last thing

167 - sold out

166 - every season

165 - everyone's having a go
         at it so will i

164 - Why

163 - A break

162 - While you were sleeping

161 - rising

160 - the wish

159 - This time

158 - the source of denial

157 - wind

156 - a thought

155 - shooting star

154 - titanic

153 - The body breaks

152 - Missionary

151 - to whom it may concern

150 - paradise

149 - mundane. mediocre. meaningless.

148 - cold shoulder

147 - messiah

146 - B/W

145 - twelve things you learn about yourself on facebook

144 - stock

143 - Anthropocene

142 - tabled

141 - November Morning

140 - as surely you turn bourgeois

139 - Pirate copy

138 - What lies

137 - Course and if act

136 - The city of children

135 - Strength

134 - derail

133 - i think i'm falling in love

132 - Measure

131 - Reclamation

130 - Tiger

129 - something i have to tell you

128 - When you meet the one you just know

127 - Uncanny valley

126 - The last man

125 - Skirmish

124 - Waiting for my pants to dry

123 - and most can't it for i of

122 - Counsel

121 - #instapoem

120 - This must be the place

119 - ear infection

118 - Accomplished

117 - Father son

116 - Petroglyphs

115 - i close my eyes and count to ten

114 - In a tangle

113 - Feral

112 - Grasshoppers

111 - Medicine Man

110 - Cheem

109 - Equation

108 - Bull

107 - Ping Pong

106 - Selfie

105 - a real poem

104 - she loves NY but her heart baby...

103 - Tectonic

102 - Voyage

101 - saturdays

100 - blossom and bud

  99 - Morally erect

  98 - A day at sea

  97 - paracetamol

  96 - chord

  95 - Sub marine

  94 - risen

  93 - pov

  92 - offers you can't refuse to

  91 - making a scene

  90 - creature

  89 - a kestrel

  88 - regression to the means

  87 - Minefuck

  86 - personal computing

  85 - didact

  84 - impossible bottle

  83 - van brunt street

  82 - reverse engineering

  81 - the end of something

  80 - written on the wall

  79 - almost drowning out on the ocean

  78 - very

  77 - here to here

  76 - Concrete poem

  75 - Just

  74 - The Museum of Natural History

  73 - this space between us

  72 - Batu Caves

  71 - defeat

  70 - fluid dynamics

  69 - a poem is not an x-ray you

  68 - Tears

  67 - This poem needs something

  66 - Give them a meter they'll take a rhyme

  65 - What could be sadder than Martin losing his memory?

  64 - Turducken

  63 - If i'm not me then who the hell am i?

  62 - The Seven Pillars of the World

  61 - Promise

  60 - O Diana!

  59 - Out of this world

  58 - find yourself in a world where values you hold dear are become laughable

  57 - Making it now

  56 - Harking back to a past you never had

  55 - Another song

  54 - Documentary

  53 - hello ginnie

  52 - the thing

  51 - am put at

  50 - prospect of/a drowning

  49 - malice hurts

  48 - point of a rival

  47 - wreck

  46 - picture by my bedside

  45 - There is no room for fat people in pictures of love-making

  44 - 41/46

  43 - g.k.

  42 - R&R

  41 - photo of my mother her head to one side

  40 - sometimes this place gets so hot you just want to give up

  39 - chiangmai afternoon

  38 - long distance

  37 - Early morning in a hotel room at a seaside resort

  36 - FOG

  35 - a dream come true for

  34 - saturday nite

  33 - Gilbert

  32 - A boy laments the loss of his girl…

  31 - river

  30 - stole

  29 - In sooth

  28 - Pornography

  27 - offday

  26 - the last stand

  25 - trick of the write

  24 - observation post

  23 - Cast away

  22 - The Age

  21 - Street opera

  20 - drive

  19 - Profile Pictures

  18 - wild deer

  17 - Regarding The Funeral

  16 - archipelago

  15 - Like This

  14 - lost

  13 - breaking up

  12 - committing

  11 - the end of all that

  10 - i am a man

    9 - Politicking

    8 - prospect park improper haiku

    7 - chain reaction

    6 - i'm in Singapore on account of my mom being ill

    5 - the waiting room

    4 - easy does it

    3 - Resolution

    2 - Like Friction. Waves

    1 - i have decided at my age to run the marathon