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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Dark Cat / Will Dockery
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:05:27 +0000
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Faraway Star wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> One of my earlier poems, posted to rec.arts.poems in May of 1999:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.poems/YY4TeuoZwEc/4FsCVBN5HLMJ
>>
>> Dark Cat
>> by Will Dockery
>>
>>
>> Don't think
>> I'll play this game anymore.
>> I've seen beauty
>> beauty is behind a closed door.
>> She glitters and gleams
>> but she is not what she seems.
>> To find beauty
>> I must look inside.
>> Take down
>> what I see on the outside
>> and hide it in my memory.
>> These treasures I can keep with me
>> a page of words.
>> Love is just a joke
>> life is absurd
>> learn to laugh at the visions
>> flow through the transitions.
>> It all will pass
>> nothing's made to last,
>> the more you hold it
>> the faster it fades away.
>> Like the last rays of light,
>> on a winter's day.
>>
>> -Will Dockery
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> -For more poems, type
>> http://www.deja.com/
>> into your browser's "Location" window. Press your "return" key.
>> Click on "Power Search" in the middle of the screen.
>> Find the box labelled "Main Archive".
>> Change "Main Archive" to "Complete Archive".
>>
>> Next, do you see a blank box labelled "Power Search" ?
>> Type in: roll...@earthlink.net in the blank box on the screen
>> that has "Power Search" written next to it.
>> Click on "find" (the button to the right of the box).
>>
>> -Or search using: roll...@idt.net or opb...@yahoo.com
>>
>> Dark Cat is copyright 1999 by Will Dockery
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The 1980s and 1990s poetry slam and rap styles are absolutely considered
> "old school" now, for one example:
>
> https://lithub.com/how-did-an-architect-of-the-slam-poetry-scene-become-its-public-enemy-no-1/

Thanks again for the nod, Zod.

😊