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    Venturing Doubts: Poems
    Venturing Doubts: Poems
    Venturing Doubts: Poems
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    Venturing Doubts: Poems

    By Robert E. Rhodes

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    For most of us, poetry is a form of noise that poets make because they can. Like birds, poets are more active in the spring. Like dogs, poets growl if you get too close to their easy chairs, but respond well to any show of affection. Poets are not even-tempered creatures, but are nicer after a few drinks. They expect too much of their wives and too little of their children. I am at liberty to tell you all of this because I am a special breed of poet whose noises are pure music . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 18, 2013
    ISBN9781491714201
    Venturing Doubts: Poems
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    Robert E. Rhodes

    Robert Rhodes has been an educator, a managing editor of a publishing company, a translator and a director of a museum. He was born in the Great Smokies, graduated from the University of Florida and has an MA and PhD from the University of New Mexico. He is married, has five children, lives in Santa Fe, writes poems and walks his little dog.

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      Venturing Doubts - Robert E. Rhodes

      Contents

      Venturing Doubts

      Thoreau

      Nirvana

      Letting Go

      Bush’s Great Society

      The Sight of You

      Sandia

      Dandelions

      Vestiges

      A Found Child’s Poem

      Visiting Huerta in Mexico

      Easter Procession

      Freestore Girl

      Poem for an Old Friend

      Bird Song

      Darwin’s Nose

      Spring Mood

      Love Sonnet

      One Who Taught

      Tracking the Wild Mole

      Watching Eagles Fly

      Tubby Hubby’s Wicked Ways

      Sunflowers

      Making the Grade

      Haiku

      Consequence

      Redacted Haiku

      Coming of Age

      Birthday Poem

      José Finds Jesus

      Mimi Hears Her Name

      Night Readings

      A Frenzy of Flies

      Alone with Words

      Kelp

      How the Jury Finds

      Caritas

      DISCOURSE ON WOMEN

      Peace Pilgrim

      Breakfast Etiquette

      Words of Love

      Roots Old in the Earth

      History Happens While We Sleep

      Willing Bears

      Café Society

      Night Life

      Ants Con Coronas

      Her Eyes Were Blue-Gray

      Among the Survivors

      Spring Tanka

      Letting in the Cat

      Under the Arcade

      The Visit

      What’s Not to Believe

      A Touching Tale

      The River Collects

      Travel Plans

      Mankind Sits Naked

      Disturbing the Bones

      Being Blind

      Old Man’s Lament

      Holding to Account

      Nostalgia

      Mimi Rising

      The Ballad of Bobby Gene, His Two Uncles and the Creature Bent On Blood

      That Time of Morning

      Final Notice

      Pumping Oil

      Heaven’s Duplicity

      Presently So

      Self Portrait

      The Thing Denied

      Progress Report

      Travel Advisory

      Office of Popular Verse

      Winter

      Free Stuff

      Flay the Aging Flesh

      National Poetry Day as It Once Happened

      Ghost Light

      Venturing Doubts

      Across the bridges burnt in my escape

      A doubt that comes in constant changing shape

      Is that I’ve left behind unjustified

      A venturing urge I might have better tried.

      Neglected in my hurried try for shore

      To drown awhile and trust the water more,

      Found land too soon to spend more time at sea

      And planting flags made no discovery

      Vague lands where doubt is more divine

      And thought itself the capital of wine

      With cause divorced by law from all that’s real

      And difference an absolute ideal

      Where poets write on walls iambic truth

      And every sayer’s guaranteed his sooth,

      Where wise are wise in simple sympathy

      And torches burn to mark this mystery

      But all such ventures end for me in stress

      With a terrible urging

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