Poetess Says Thank You

If you wish to sit back and relax, feel free to relieve your eyes and listen to the audio version of my thank you instead.

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Recently I have had the pleasure of being featured by several kind individuals on their blogs, websites, or Twitter feeds.  As personally delighted as I feel - these gestures do not just strike me as honors but as acts of friendship. The relationships that I have struck up since I started this blog have been the best part of the experience thusfar. I don't see my readers or those I converse with as just a following, even if I do someday gain what is considered a true "following" - you all are something more dear than that.  Allow me to take this moment to thank some great individuals among those that I consider very lucky to know now.

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Education is a Commodity

Don't forget to listen to a reading of the poem and discover the backstory behind the topics toward the end!

TRENDING TOPICS JULY 19, 2011 1:25 PM PDT

No longer are lines of
literature littered with
liberating gold ‒

The tin heart of industry

Beats,
       Beats,
             Beats,

For more profits to lay
the path of a new
yellow brick road ‒

One that leads to no Oz
but a planet whose
core jingles with cents ‒

Not the sense to educate
our sons and daughters,

But bury them
knee deep in greed’s
waste ‒

Knees plugged to
the ground scrubbing
the floors just as

Cinderella
did ‒

Taking each step with
glass slippers that give
pain rather than

A prince ‒

Undulating Nonstop, Business

Continues to prick with
its needle sharp hands,

Our Future ‒

A mere toy,
a carefree hobby,
in the

Politician’s Grasp.

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Background Info:

Here's the backstory behind some of the topics so you can understand certain references in the poem...

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Trending Poetry Redesigned: One Line at a Time

Wow, I cannot believe I have maintained this blog since April.  When I first began this project it was truly meant to be something small and personal.  Ever since I began I have been connecting with so many great bloggers and have received some generous feedback regarding my poetry.  This only means one thing - it is time to grow and reach for even greater heights.

In order to really give this blog the love that it deserves, I have completely redesigned every aspect of it.  Even the header now features a bird that is more towards impressionistic rather than cartoonish.  For sentimental value I have kept my old blue bird on the static pages of the blog.  My header obviously is not the only thing that changed...

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Soul of My Words

Hello readers of Trending Poetry!  Today I decided to offer you something different.  For the past week I have been gathering random videos of places, objects, or things in my home that caught my attention.  It was not before long how I realized each told a story about the soul behind my words.

I put a montage together of all of them and created this video poem entitled “Soul of My Words.”  While it is not embracing my typical format of being based on Twitter trends, I figured this change of pace, just this once would not hurt :).  Enjoy.



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