The Way it Rolls

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The Way it Rolls

February 23, 2012 at 10:21 am · Filed under reading, video and tagged: Poetry, reading, River Urke, video

Some of you might know of the poetry slam The River ~ Journal hosted after Christmas or the one on Valentines Day. Some of you might know we opened the new Literary Lounge to be the House of Slams. Well on Friday we host the first Skit Slam – a Video Free for All contest. Interested? click here Tell your friends too. :)

The Way it Rolls

Thunder rolls against days
bound in an endless quest
to change the unwritten laws
that govern the way
a day will tick by unnoticed

jiggling loose the human oddity
to forget the important
in the mist of the mundane
normality of everyday
opening a gap to question
the priorities of living

the day to day decisions
that conquer the individual
leaving the creative spirit
hungry and numb.

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Pete Armetta wrote @ February 23, 2012 at 10:27 am

Too short, great filming and you’re quite the spoken word Poetess.

River wrote @ February 23, 2012 at 10:32 am

Thanks Pete. Did I leave you hanging. Its a short and nit si sweet poem. Oh the filming- the Icam.

Pete Armetta wrote @ February 23, 2012 at 10:34 am

You totally left me hanging, I couldn’t believe it was over. As a fan of shorts that DROP you, I appreciated it.

Sherry Blue Sky wrote @ February 23, 2012 at 1:37 pm

Fantastic, kiddo! I am attempting to post about your Literary Lounge but am having Horrible Blogger Woes. Argh. Hopefully will resolve them somehow today.

Roberta West wrote @ February 23, 2012 at 6:43 pm

Well read poem, and I liked the visuals too! Very abstract.

smiling at you

Tai

Steve E wrote @ March 20, 2012 at 9:19 pm

My ‘creative spirit’–when hungry and numb–needs only to come here and read and revel in the choices available for filling the emptiness.

I must be new here–expected poems about the ‘river’ on which I lived and of which I am fond. (Houseboat…well, in truth, a shanty boat with engine!)

River wrote @ March 21, 2012 at 12:21 am

Thank you Steve. I lived by the Mississippi once and would go down to the river and daydream I lived on one of the houseboats.

Steve E wrote @ March 21, 2012 at 2:02 am

Lived on my houseboat 3 years, small galley, toilet, 60 hp Willys Engine w 2/1 reduction gear, 30′ length, 12 ton all-wood scow (flat bottom. Slow but powerful. A LOAD of wild escapades during that time, …BUT the happiest 3 years of my life.

You brought me bunches of memories tonight, simply because your name is ‘River’. THANK YOU! PEACE!

brian miller wrote @ March 20, 2012 at 10:04 pm

def would love to see this expanded….and you make the words dance…just slammed last night to rather large crowd…was a blast….

River wrote @ March 21, 2012 at 12:24 am

Thank you Brian. Maybe I will expand it. You are the second to say it was short, but….we will see. It sounds like you had a good time. I’m actually reading this poem at an open mic on Sunday.

charlesmashburn wrote @ March 21, 2012 at 10:13 am

Love the poem; deep thoughts, yet simple, too. I like the short and to-the-point poems! Nicely done!
http://charleslmashburn.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/a-promis-comes/

wolfsrosebud wrote @ March 21, 2012 at 10:43 am

truly… one day at a time

Jannie Funster wrote @ March 21, 2012 at 11:00 am

It’s hard to get out of the hungry and numb spot sometimes, indeed. Those days I turn to sticking the old nose to the laptop of poems, and hope something comes up.

rewriting the laws of days ticking by, tho? harder to do!

nice to meet you via dVerse.

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The Way it Rolls

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