Stuttering

shutters when you exercise the word
close open close open
they stutter and begin to make a panid
of its blinds. What are you doing, asks
the window? I am winnowing. I am peeping
to the slits of the rainbow. The colors dance
like a wild flower under a heavy rain,
drunk, and groggy to the syrup of
saps of this tree and that. Shrubs and
blurbs, gather and gargle. Heavy stuff.
I vomit you and you rise from the
slime of my breath. You face me and
things come back again like a welcome.
So it is you. You love me. You love me
again and again. Here you are. Here
i am. I am carpentering for words, from
some pieces of puzzles. That crap. Why
stutter like an autistic savant? All you have
to do is hold my hand. The world becomes
a safe bridge deck. Two strangers their

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

quote by Geoffrey Rush
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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

quote by Laurie Anderson
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When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

quote by Adam Sandler
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

quote by Patrick Campbell
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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

quote by Jean Rostand
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

quote by John Calvin
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Herr Hitler

Hitler, the Man Who Created Israel.

I have just looked at some picture of Hitler as a young soldier,
he wears a grey uniform walks in a grey street and buildings
are grey. It appears he and his contemporaries lived at a time
before colours were invented.
Looking at his youthful indistinct feature, there is absolutely
nothing about this man, the painter of pretty postcard, that
he had in him so much hate and a gift of oratory to go with it.
yes he brought colour ok, mostly blood red.
A movie about a stammering king has won an Oscar, I can’t
but think if Hitler had a bad stammer he would be laughed
off the stage and reduced to painting, say, houses; and Israel
would still be a Zionist’s dream.

poem by Oskar Hansen
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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

quote by Kurt Masur
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Charitable Speech

Beliefs stagger and make me stammer
For my eyes foretell the virtues of my heart;
Patient lines consider the ones who still applaud,
An audience studies the speech of charity.

poem by Naveed Akram
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I often heard grandmother mutter
That she once set men's hearts aflutter.
Her demeanour, so sweet,
And her figure, petite,
Caused eloquent suitors to stutter!

limerick by Dawn Ferrett
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

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Owl

The owl in the barn
behind the house
is a bird of much cortesia
who, though he stutters,
never spoke an errant word
to anybody that inquired.

'Who? ' he'll sigh
endlessly or 'I
would tell you if I knew, my dear-'
a fine reply.

Then down he drops
in to feast on mice
that drift too near, that stir the leaves
detected by his perfect ears, his ochre eyes

poem by Morgan Michaels
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An undernourished rusty nail and a giant ball hammer

'Please give me a mild beat brother
As I have a slight head ache since in the morning.'
Nail begged.
'I am sorry my dear
As this ruthless carpenter
Forced me to hit hard.'
Hammer stammered.

*To the poorest who struggle with life day & night.

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Trickle, Stutter, Pluck

Trickle my waxen moon

A vertical line stood
Underneath a starbeam
A trail of perfidious gilt
An obdurate lynch
Inveigling in its silence
And intimidating
My hapless stance
I teeter in the ensnare
Of a spider's web
Cloyed by superfluous
Legs and eyes
And abundant demands
Impale and crucify
Me before I oust
Myself in this
Labyrinthine vexation

Stutter as you oscillate

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poem by Norman Santos
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Abstemia

In Mystic
Argot
often Confounded with Farrago

If aught that stumbles in my speech
Or stutters in my pen,
Or, claiming tribute, each to each,
Rise, not to fall again,
Let something lowlier far, for me,
Through evanescent shades--
Than which my spirit might not be
Nourished in fitful ecstasy
Not less to know but more to see
Where that great Bliss pervades.

poem by Gelett Burgess
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This Poem Like My Life/ Cannot Say What It Truly Means

THIS POEM LIKE MY LIFE/ CANNOT SAY WHAT IT TRULY MEANS

This poem like my life
Cannot say what it truly means-
It does not know how to end -
It is not even sure where it is now-
This poem like my life
Stutters and stumbles on
Waiting for some sudden salvation
Which will never come-
And simply goes on and on
Until somehow
It will be interrupted
and undone.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Once Bitten Twice Shy

The legacy of hurt
Transcends the bleeding heart
To the apprehension of step
In the forlorn shadows of pain
As lips gone bitter
By the taste of rejection
Stutters in footpaths of destiny
A wounded soldier bearing a flickering torch
In the murky battlefields of love
As the procreation of love stolen
Metamorphoses the leaping heart
To a restless craven
Once bitten, twice shy

poem by Dilantha Gunawardana
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Poem about Poetry - Off the Cuff

you do not have to be
too disturbed by
yourself or audience
just do it off the cuff
like the morning birds
that blast away their songs
in the forests without a care
on their tall pulpits, two bare
feet clawing onto branches
the best poems are those
coming right from the heart
in scyn with spirit and moment
the pauses, the stammers or
stutterings leaves that fall from
a tree of inspirations and thoughts

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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I Am Clumsy When I Love

I am not smooth and fine
Like other girls
With floating steps
Bitten lips and perfect curls

I am clumsy when I love
My words spatter you with the wrong thing
Or my lips crash into each other in a full on stammer
Or my legs find places to wobble and gravity again is king

Those other girls walk up to you
With words whispery and rehearsed
And you catch me rolling my eyes over here
Hand on my hip-lips pursed

Others protect a cloud full of feelings
Secrets well hidden and never seen
While you just have to look at my flushed cheeks
For I neglected to give my thoughts better security

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