Dennis Ryan Poems

March 27,2006

Poems always exist behind poems
whether we realize it or not,
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Friday afternoon March 29,2019 at 12: 11 p.m.

It seems natural to sense
something or someone missing,
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April 29,2005

'I understand what Carolin [Emcke] meant about victims of violence and trauma experiencing solitude.'
- Svetlana Alexievich during an interview on Book tv, C-Span 2, recorded April 25,2005
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Friday night March 2,2012; revised Tuesday, May 24,2016

Art comes from everywhere, is beautiful, inspiring,
thoughit can neither sustain nor save us. It need not,
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Friday, July 15, Sunday, July 17, and Wednesday, July 20,2022

"It is very difficult to find the beginning."
--Philippe Claudel, Les Âmes grises
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Sunday morning, September 18,2022 at 12: 25 a.m.

A street light, early morning, just prior to dawn,
close by our home; then Venus and Mars shining
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Tuesday morning, May 22,2018; title to poem slightly revised on Wednesday morning, October 11, 2023 at 5: 48 a.m.

"It is only that this warmth and movement are like
The warmth and movement of a woman."
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Composed on Tuesday morning, March 13,2012 after watching Darren Aronofsky's film THE FOUNTAIN; revised Monday afternoon, July 26,2021 and Thursday morning, May 25, 2023 at 7: 28 a.m.

"A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth,
But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence."
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Saturday morning, April 29, 2023; Sunday morning, April 30, 2023s; Tuesday morning, May 30, 2023 at 9: 06 a.m.; Sunday morning, October 8, 2023 at 5: 42 a.m.

"She ate her food with relish … While she was still eating,
she looked over at Port and saw that he was already asleep.
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Thursday, April 11,2019 at 3: 06 p.m.; revised on Monday night,
September 26 at 9: 45 p.m.

Freedom or necessity—every situation dictates
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