Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK: December 2009

Happy New Year 2010

Happy New Year to all my wonderful and loyal readers whom support me each and every day. I hope your New Year 2010 is blessed with health, happiness, prosperity and love.

I will take off New Year's Day to celebrate with family, but will be right back with you after that! Have a safe and joyous evening whatever you do. Thank you for the many, incredibly beautiful poems you have penned to grace this site last year!

V. Mahfood

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Don't Go There With Your Open Heart

please don't go there with your open heart if day
should close within on how you've sought for glory
my faith resides in how your inner fray
will leave you for how often you have prayed

so if your deepest thoughts have been the borer
of mournfulness to sadden you with gray
ensuingly as you tell me your story
please don't go there with your open heart if day

should live and die an unrecalled galore
and if it seems as if shadows remain
i'll try to lead your mind from all the horror
through every night until your doubt is slain

while as I whisper from where I still quarry
may this meet you faithfully halfway
to drain your pain from every dream of worry
please don't go there with your open heart today

Robert Anderson

"When you learn to love, you also need to learn how to let go.”
~Rodel Natividad Casio~

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Word Scramble Fun: Unscramble the following word. The first letter is given as a hint. The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

Y T R E I N E T

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Yesterday's word was: FRIENDSHIP
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Scared

Windswept meadows delivering promise,
Pewter blades have no effect,
Overpowered by sheer beauty,
Was more that he could expect.
Eyes gaze at themselves,
Sauntering off into the blue,
Withholding all that is good,
Remembering all that was true.
Drifting slowly into a fairy tale,
Sparrow breaks the silence,
Living in the moment,
Thunder now heard in the distance.
Tumblers coming to the forefront,
Time seems to stand still,
Lights flash with horror,
Spine starts to tingle, body starts to chill.

Mike
Poetry in Motion

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Word Scramble Fun: Unscramble the following word. The first letter is given as a hint. The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

N D R E S I F H P I

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Yesterday's word was: APROPOS
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You Are The River

For my friend Ilya Kaminsky

The first time I heard you read
I was stunned by the baritone
Of voices emanating from your
Throat
I had never heard the sky
Talk before
I had never heard trees
Cry
But there you were tall
As a mountain
Words water-falling
I was stunned I tell you
I had never heard such a voice
Never seen such passion crest with words
Mere words became objects of nature
Mere words made decisions to become larger
Than life
They loomed they bucked they screamed forgiveness
To all mankind errors
You were the river carrying all this
I was left full in this wake by a man deafened by the pox
Who could hear more than anyone before him.

Larry Jaffe
© 2009 lgjaffe

Jaffe is an internationally known and an award winning writer, author and poet. Whether he is writing on technical subjects or social issues, he clearly writes from the heart with great clarity and understanding. Jaffe impacts audiences and readers with a rich emotional range, masterfully crafted. Read More at: Larry Jaffe.

"Believe in the goodness of life. Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew. Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude. Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies. Believe in the laughter of children".
~J. Lockwood Huie

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S P O A R O P

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Yesterday's word was: STACCATO
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Terzanelle in B flat minor

Impromptu intermezzo,
evening music fills the air
from Italianate terrazzo

for the lonesome millionaire,
a bittersweet reflection...
Sorrowful music fills the air

as smarting from rejection,
he asks will music mend his solitude,
in pitiful reflection.

Deserted man in pensive mood,
trying to forget, asks
will music mend his solitude,

bring back la belle Annette?
Still fretting for his vanished love,
attempting to forget

that he's bereft of
impromptu intermezzo,
still regretting his lost love
in his millionaire palazzo.

Vivienne Blake

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."
~Andres Segovia

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O S C A T A C T

S _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season

Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season to all our poetic friends at Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK. May your New Year be filled with good health, a brighter prosperity, and a renewed energy to tackle an exciting 2010.

This site gives us so much pleasure in posting your poetry submissions. We have been awed, amazed and humbled at the beautiful writings that have been submitted by an incredibly talented public.

Thank you for your friendship, support, comments and following. They are the sweet things that create a special love and affinity of this blog. We are all comrades with pens in hand.

Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK will be taking off a couple day for reflection on December 24th and 25th, but we look forward to chatting and working with you again on our return on December 26th!

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Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK is a division of Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers, and is updated often. The easiest way to enjoy the selections from talented fellow poets is to select E-mail or RSS Reader. Also, come follow us on Twitter. We look forward to sharing your own beautiful poetry with the world.

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Support Our President

"What has he done for us lately?" is the question of choice, as heard from
the screams in alabama to the whispers in illinois, "we don't want health
reform!" Is seen on the banners, and heard from the scanners of the
voices who suffer

It's only been almost a year since he made his transition, yet complaints
of the economy still being in the same position, by ignorant minded
people overnight change is expected, but since it's not detected, our
president by some is no longer respected, and falls further down the
cracks of the ones who never accepted

"What have you done for us lately?" is the question of choice, that is
heard from the screams of your outspoken voice, he works on his plan, as
he does the best he can, your people are dying over the border, but he's
extending helping hands, but please don't forget, he's only just a man!

Bush was better! Obama, he sucks!, the economy was bad, but now it's all
messed up! I hear the complaints, but where's the support? Did you
people forget that we only voted for a man? A man who stands tall, and
does the best that he can! who strives for the best, and works hard on
his job, and who cares for the people, but the people are snobs!

The ones who are quick to criticize his name, when things are going
wrong they throw him into the flames, those are the kind who don't
represent change, some who stand behind war, and the ones who lied,
failing to realize that his dreams for our nation have not died, in fact
they're still alive, slowly but surely progression is being paved, only
a matter of time until lives are being saved

but it's ok cause if you're not for him now, then you weren't for him then,
but the ones who are for him, it would be a shame for you to change,
cause the reasons for this economy are not his to blame, he's only doing
the best that he can in the position that he was given, and if he's
wrong for that, then I hope he's forgiven

Jason Rivers
Poetry of Jason LaMorris Rivers

"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip".
~Caskie Stinnett

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Word Scramble Fun: Unscramble the following word. The first letter is given as a hint. The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

I L O A I P C L T

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Yesterday's word was: FELICITY

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Vain Calligraphy

A cottage ruined but still proud,
High up on this green hill stands,
By the lone pine I seek shade,
Below the same grey scree expands.

I have over filled my heart,
With the lake’s deep blue waters,
To let loose these feelings that ache,
Climbed again on this hill’s shoulders.

I began to scribe my words of love,
Across the page of light blue sky,
Oh! What a vain calligraphy!
In tumbling strokes the letters fly.

With arms thrashing as all lines lost,
Clear water scrawled in air,
Gone now like some invisible ink,
Nothing worthy is left there.

Her future draws her to the east,
There Nature pulls her to its breast,
What chance of a backward look?
When she no longer faces west.

Now sitting on a rough stone,
With cold wind tugging each regret,
I am hoping for one thing alone,
Just one magic eastern sunset.

Fergus Carty

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time".
~Robert Browning

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C L I Y F E I T

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Yesterday's word was: SEASONAL
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Christmas

We’re not sending cards this year
The postage is far too dear.
With presents home-made
we’re beating the crunch.
Home-made sweets
are the best of the bunch,
and poems for the grandkids,
but I have a hunch
that they’d rather have consoles
and ipods
and pizzas for lunch,
than turkey and sprouts
and Gran’s Christmas pud.
If I were their age,
I know I would.

Vivienne Blake
France

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."
~Laura Ingalls Wilder

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E S N S O A L A

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Previous word was: PLATONIC
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Weekly Coffee Table GUEST BOOK Review: 12/15-12/18/09

Welcome to the Weekly Coffee Table GUEST BOOK Review in tribute to those friends who have laid out their hearts on this guest site this week. I am astonished by the talents of so many writers whose words have moved and affected my week, just as I hope they did yours. Enjoy a refreshing review of this week's poems.
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December 15, 2009

Snow on Sunday Morn
By: V. Mahfood

December 16, 2009

Trust Is
By: Missy Lynn

December 17, 2009

Christmas Magic
By: Pierce Hacking

December 18, 2009

Dancing Rainbow
By: Fergus Carty

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"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

~Charles Dickens

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C O P I N A L T

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Yesterday's word was: SIBILANT

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Christmas Magic

Christmas Magic
Snow is falling, the sleigh bells are ringing.
Children are laughing and playing outside.
They all wonder what Santa is bringing.
The joy and fun take us all for a ride.
The magic of Christmastime fills the air.
The innocent wishes overtake us.
Childish delight is expressed in a flare.
The general happiness is a plus.
Dreams of love and warmth fill our hearts with joy.
We wait, anticipating Christmas fun.
We all love our new abundance of toys,
The girls get their dolls, the boys get their guns.
Worldwide praise is given to God above.
The magic spreads harmony, peace, and love.

Pierce Hacking
Catharsis of Pierce

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
~Charles Dickens

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E F Z I D R N E

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Yesterday's word was: CHERUBIC

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