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  • *** Alpha ***************
    • Rasmus K. Robot
      • La nonna conosce una spia di Wuhan
      • Seasonings
  • **** Delta *****************
    • French
      • C'est une anecdote pour Pâques
    • Italian
      • La Nonna Americana Conosce una Spia di Wuhan
      • Per Vestirsi Per La Battaglia
  • ********************* Zeta ***
    • A funny thing happened on the way to a translation
    • Cytokine Storm
    • Temp Arrangement
    • When the Herd Hears
    • Wuhan Girl
  • A Mérges-mérgező Miklos és Arpad
  • aa Butterfly GIF
  • Absurd Rain
  • After
  • After I'm Gone
  • After September 11th
  • Aftermath
  • Ain't
  • Ako ay naghahanap para sa iyo
  • Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, (Guest Author)
  • Alice in Wunderkinderland with a Hedgehog
  • Alice's Euro Dream
  • All Season Blues With Red Pepper
  • Aloofoe
  • Amazon Books
  • Ambiguity
  • Amendment And Declaration of Client 9
  • An Empty Sky
  • An Undefined Drop in the Ocean
  • Animation: All Season Blues
  • Another
  • Ants Go Wild
  • April Is Poetry Month
  • Arrogant Malt
  • as if
  • As Sweet As A Tiger
  • Atheist (The Last)
  • Au Delà Du Vent De Poussière
  • Autonomous Evil Of China
  • Avian Translation
  • ふぐ
  • धुऑं या वायु निकालने वाला मत्स्य
  • അവന്റെ ടാങ്കിന് പൂക്കളുമായി
  • Backward Train
  • Baking Apples
  • Bearing Witness Bearing Burdens
  • Beck
  • Being Where We Sing
  • Beobachtet der Hund Schau mir zu
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Placemat
  • Beyond The Dust Storm
  • Birds on Keyboard
  • Bitter Cold, The
  • Bittersweet
  • Blog That Would Destroy the World, The
  • Blossom
  • Blubber
  • Blue Sheep In Bhutan
  • Brain Wash Makes Soap So Pure Like Rain
  • Brainwash Every Child For Us
  • Breaking Sickness
  • Bridge, A
  • Broken Dark Things
  • Burial In Bits Of Memory
  • Buried
  • Burma Beneath Mount Myanmar
  • Buttercup Babe
  • Butterflies Can Surf
  • Butterfly
  • Buzzard Warning
  • By The Rules
  • C'est Étrange Comment Certaines Traductions Me Donnent le Blues
  • Cacti And Rose
  • Caesar
  • cake
  • Camel
  • Candid End
  • Canine Thunder
  • Caponata
  • Carnegie
  • Carving A Dream
  • Cat Wine
  • Chalk
  • Che cos'è l'amore?
  • Cheerful News
  • Cherished Spring
  • Cherries
  • Cherry Pie Dark Memories
  • Chicken Cutlets
  • Chicken Feed
  • Chile Has Been Lifted Up
  • Circulating Images
  • Cleaning
  • Clear Revenge, A
  • Climbing to the Top
  • Cold Endings
  • Cold Volcano
  • color
  • Color of an Explosion, The
  • Come Cry With Me
  • Come Fall
  • Come Posso Avere l'Amore di Juliet
  • Come To Tehran
  • Come Un Tornado
  • Comment Puis-je Avoir l'Amour de Juliette
  • Connections
  • Constellation
  • Constipated Life (The)
  • contest
  • Cook Book
  • Cooking Gyros For Swat Valley
  • Could It Be You Love Me?
  • Coup of the Rain , The
  • Coups de Pluie de Mercredi
  • Court Jester
  • Crashing
  • Cried On Again
  • Crooked Crown, The
  • Curls
  • Cute
  • Dahlia
  • Dance Me
  • Dark Barbecue
  • Dark Goose
  • Dates and Figs
  • Day Trader
  • Day, A
  • De vrije dichter zet zich in voor vers couplet
  • Dead Renters
  • Death by Acacizg
  • Death To Coal And West Virginia
  • Deep Analysis and World Affairs
  • Der Bergsteiger auf dem Berg
  • Deus Ex Machina
  • Dignity
  • Dimples In Sand
  • Dog Day Trader Under The Moonlight In New York
  • Don't Be Dry
  • Don't Make No Damn Treaty
  • Double-Elite Speak
  • Dove
  • down
  • Dreams
  • Dress of Battle(The)
  • Drop Apart
  • Drowning Memories
  • Drying Off
  • Dying Child's Lament
  • Eating Cat
  • Eating Tornadoes
  • Eating Tornados
  • Eclipsed
  • Elaborate Loquacious Verbosity in Cacophony Like Noise in a Crowd
  • Elle d'elle-même
  • Embouteillées Comme du Soda
  • Emergency
  • Employment of Nations (The)
  • Empty Is The Sky
  • End of the World
  • End of the World, The
  • Endorphove
  • Eu Caco
  • Every Sentence Runs Out
  • Expensive Speech
  • Extraterrestrial PaintCoin, The
  • Extravasate
  • Extravasation In The Field
  • Eyes on April 1
  • Face Recognition
  • Falling of the Green
  • Fannie Mae Fleeced A Little Lamb
  • Fans of the Tiger
  • Farerne ved oversættelse med en computer
  • Fasting
  • Fat January
  • Fault Circle
  • Fauxpocalypse Deux
  • Feather
  • Feather Wind
  • Feathers of You, The
  • Fen
  • Fen and Petals
  • Fickleness
  • Fiction
  • Final
  • Fire of the New Bhutan
  • First Born To Evil In Iran
  • Fish Watching the Paint Dry
  • Fishing For an Idea
  • Flakes In April
  • Fleshing Out the Text
  • Flight Club in Yellow
  • Flood In Central Park
  • Flu Bird
  • Fluffy Is The Day
  • Flying Scatteredness
  • Flying with a Sail
  • Foamy Dream
  • For The Music of Love I Walk
  • For Useni And Morgan Zimbabwe Cries
  • Freeze, The
  • Frizz of My Hair (The)
  • From the Loneliest Person on Earth
  • From The Sidelines
  • Funerals May Be Cant
  • Gantelets
  • Gas Station Owner
  • geico
    • "It's so easy a caveman could do it."
  • Gentle
  • Ghost Who Loves War(a)
  • Giraffe
  • Gist-Mill Reporter
  • Goddess of Hurricane Irene , The
  • Going Off
  • Gondala
  • Good Dry Luck
  • Graduating From School
  • Guessing
  • Guy On A Hot Tin Tile
  • Hack Witch Studies Reaction Formation by "Hilda"
  • Half Full
  • Halloween
  • Hang On Sloopy
  • Happy Losar
  • Harangue
  • Harangue Pie
  • Have You Reached Me At Last
  • Having a Taste
  • he mea nui kia kitea i te wa o taku aroha
  • Healing For Natalya Estemirova
  • Hell No I'm Not Going To Edit This Much
  • Helping Her Cross the River
  • Herd
  • Hey It's Me
  • Hippopotamus College
  • Historic News Again From NASA
  • Homing Pigeon
  • How Could You Say Hello
  • How Many Ways Do I Love You
  • How To Write A Poem
  • Huh Oh
  • Hurricane Irene
  • I Can Hear The Humming Bird
  • I Can Hear the Hummingbird
  • I Don't Want To Know
  • I Hate Poetry
  • I Have The Blues
  • I Love the River
  • I miei pensieri sono imbottigliati
  • I suppose
  • I Want My Thousand Words
  • I Want To Feel As If I Ever Mattered
  • I Want to Fell As If I Ever Mattered
  • I Will Not Thank A Sunny Day
  • I Wonder If
  • I'll Have A Billion Dollars Tomorrow
  • I'm Really Tired
  • Icebergs
  • If I Could Rest
  • If I Were Young
  • If I Would Kiss Your Day
  • If The World Were a Flat
  • If We Were A Storm
  • If You're Going Off
  • Imaginary Songs
  • Impatience for the Inheritance
  • In A Posh Elevator
  • In Place
  • In Season There Is An Onion
  • In Situ
  • In Theory I Don't Exist
  • Indigenous Confession
  • Ink Doesn't Laugh Anymore
  • Insane Ashes
  • Iranian Declaration Of Independence (prose)
  • It Can Never Be
  • It Hurts So Bad
  • It Only Takes a Word To Conquer
  • J'ai le Blues et J'ai le Cafard
  • J'essaierais
  • Jack Cafferty
  • Je Me Demande Si
  • Je Suis Entre les Lignes
  • Jeune Bourgeon
  • Joke, The
  • Jumping
  • Junk Thought
  • Ka pa mai koe ki aku whakaaro ki te huna o te whakamaori (Maori)
  • Kaore e taea e au te whakawhiti i te tuhinga o taku aroha (Maori)
  • Kei te rapu ahau ia koe
  • Khamenei
  • Kids Ask Too Much
  • Kiss Me
  • Knives Upon the Table, The
  • Ko oku whakaaro kua pakaru
  • Ko te wahi e huna ai koe i ou whakaaro me to aroha he tawhiti
  • La 'Schwa' de Vivre
  • La Livraison Est La Raison d'Être
  • La Nostra Fuga
  • La Pluie Absurde
  • La poesia del robot da una poesia di Sofia
  • Laborr Day
  • Labyrinthine Ostrich Dances
  • Lachrymal Nights
  • Lachrymose
  • Lachrymose Redux
  • LANGUAGE POLICE by Monica Zir guest author
  • Large Hadron Collider
  • Large Haldron Collider
  • Laryngitis
  • Last Atheist (The)
  • Last Time
  • Laugh of the Night (The)
  • Laughing
  • Le Lièvre Livre un Canard
  • Le Saule Pleureur Chante
  • Leaf From Autumn, A
  • Leap
  • LEFTOVERS with gif animation
  • Legend Baby
  • Les Fêtes de Vacances Ont Passé
  • Libya
  • Licit
  • Lies, The
  • Lightly Dark
  • Lightning
  • Lightning Strikes Many in the Same Place
  • linguistics
  • Little Martyr
  • Long Lane
  • Losing Our Shirt
  • lost
  • Lost Canon of Douglas Gilbert, The
  • Love Collection
  • Love Torn And Claus Collection
  • Loving Me Is Sublime
  • Lub Paj Tawg Paj
  • Lures of Pollen, The
  • Maintaining A Wall
  • Malice Came Slowly
  • Mamihlapinatapai
  • Many Cousins Of Complicity(The)
  • Many Days
  • Many Kinds of Onions
  • Maori to French to English to Maori to English Um Uh Or Something
  • Marching Into A Wall
  • Mario Gómez In The Mine With God and Friends
  • Matlaging Epler
  • Meadow of Doom
  • Media and the Weather(the)
  • Mer De Neda
  • meteor
  • Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Oz
  • Mi Chiedo Se
  • Midnight
  • Mild Death (A)
  • Milking the Moo Grass
  • Mind of Us , The
  • Missing Sadly
  • MONICA ZIR guest author
  • Moo Grass Is Green
  • morning
  • Morning Glory
  • Mother Speaks Out (A)
  • Mountain Man
  • Mrs. Claus Hates Sonnets
  • Multibed Down
  • Mum Is Not the Word
  • Muscle Love Tree
  • My Child Is Coming Home
  • My Fair Particle
  • My Last Laugh
  • My Last Song
  • My Love Is An Atheist
  • My Poem For Mommy Steno
  • My Son The Scholar From Zimbabwe
  • Nested
  • New Year Is Far
  • New Year Jump
  • Nightmares
  • No Cats Will Dog Me
  • No Knowing No
  • No Money No Tampons
  • Nobody Forever
  • Noise
  • Not Loved
  • Notch
  • nothing
  • Nothing Special
  • Nouvel An Chinois 新年
  • Now is Now
  • Nowhere To Linger Anymore
  • Ntxhua Khaub Ncaws
  • Nujxameu
  • Obscure Poem
  • Ode to an Olive
  • Ode to Sloopy
  • Of Flying Collection
  • Of Ink
  • Off the Wall
  • Old Ladies Detective Club(Prose)
  • Olympia/Arlen/Susan
  • Olympics in China
  • On Being Cheerful
  • On Being Done
  • On Being Famously Powerful
  • On Sand and Steps
  • On The Cookie Of The Moment
  • One Pass Mountain Without Snow
  • Only a Dream
  • Only Crush Me 2
  • Only One
  • Opportunity
  • Ordinary Grave, An
  • Our Escape
  • Pain Grillé
  • Paper Splinters
  • Partial Laughing
  • Peach
  • Pens Lost In Digital Snow
  • Periods In Red
  • Perp Walk With A Psychiatrist
  • Persian Girl Away In Ireland
  • Pesce Palla
  • Phantom Petunia
  • Piano with Birds
  • Pining Resin
  • Plainly I Have Arrived
  • Planting
  • Playing Around
  • Poésie Intellectuelle Écrite par Mon Mentalement Avancé Chat
  • Poesia del Robot
  • Poet Laureate To The World
  • Poetry Month
  • Potato Chips
  • Practice Deli (Carnegie)
  • Prayer for Sick Purple Finches
  • Promise
  • prose
  • Puffer Poisson
  • Pufferfish
  • Pull Off
  • puzzle
  • Q POEM ET. AL.
  • Qods Day Undone
  • Quantum Hippie
  • Quickly the Day Passes
  • Quirky from Afar
  • Quirky Perfect
  • Rain You Much
  • Rainbow
  • Rainy
  • Rally In Tehran(prose) by Iranian Protester on Twitter
  • Reading
  • Reading Alabama
  • Reading Dregs
  • Reading In The Circle Square
  • Reading Orange Leaves
  • Reading Palms
  • Remember Me
  • Remembering
  • Remembering Nothing
  • Renoncule
  • Revolutions
    • If I Could Rest
  • Rhinoceros Under Us
  • riding
  • Riding Reveries
  • River Sobs
  • Robin Williams
  • Rock
  • Romance of Magic, A
  • Royal Canaries
  • Rubble
  • Run-on Sentence
  • Running
  • Running On Lemons
  • Running With Struthious Feather
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Sage
  • Sail Salient
  • Sample of Santa Claus , A
  • sandwich
  • Sans Portefeuille
  • Sauntering
  • Save Me
  • Save the Beck
  • Saving Shakespeare
  • Saving The World for Me
  • Sax Piano Bird
  • Sax Piano Bird (Ref)
  • Scratching Sounds
  • Scream
  • Sea Of Neda
  • Season After Winter
  • Seaweed
  • Seaweed with animation
  • Secret Limerick
  • Secrets of the Smile
  • Seeing Me
  • Separation
  • Shadow
  • She Could Be Queen
  • She Does a Painting in the Hallway
  • She Is A Backward Mountain Who Writes Letters
  • She's Breaking Up With Santa Claus
  • She's Into Breathing
  • Shiver
  • Short-short Story Contest
  • Silly Dreams
  • Simple Baiser
  • sing
  • Sing Me
  • Singing
  • Singing Mountain
  • Singing To The Empty Void
  • Sink (The)
  • Sitting On Flowers
  • Six Weeks
  • Skull by "Diane"*
  • Sky And Wood Collection
  • Sky Truth
  • slashing edits
  • Sloopy
  • Small Thing, A
  • Small Understanding, A
  • Snippet
  • Snobs Who Killed Poetry(prose polemic)
  • Snow Brain
  • So Good to Die Young
  • So I Die Anyway And It Seems Like a Logical Idea
  • So Much Poetry Is Death
  • soda
  • Some Secret Sadness
  • Sometimes I Don't Want You
  • Son
  • Sorry
  • Soufflé
  • Space Rocks
  • Spaghetti
  • Speaking
  • Speaking Into The Air
  • Speaking Of Forty Days
  • Spiders Running Wild
  • Spinach
  • Spiral Dreams
  • Splash
  • Splash Me In The Delta
  • Statues
  • Still Rapid
  • Sting of Love. The
  • Storm Damage
  • Straw Man's False Stay
  • Strawflowers
  • Sunrise
  • Sunrise Symphony
  • Super Bowl
  • Supreme Leader Is Still Kicking (The)
  • Swallow Me
  • Swatting Flies In Pakistan
  • swine flu
  • Synonym
  • Syria and the Little One Watch Meetings in Paris
  • Take Me Kindly
  • Tall Hello
  • Tame Tale
  • TB
  • Tea
  • Tell Me
  • Tell Me Why She Dies
  • Telling The News In Iran
  • Texting
  • Tha An Cèic Thuit
  • The "the"
  • The Adventures of You
  • the bitter cold
  • The Coup of the Rain
  • The Delivery Is Their Raison d'Être
  • The Flavors of the Broth
  • The Lamb Is Evil
  • The Last Atheist
  • The Sink
  • Them Apples
  • There Are No Tears In The Desert
  • There Can Never Be A Peace
  • They Are Taking My Baby
  • Thinking Of You
  • Throbbing In Crevices
  • Tibet Is Detached
  • Tibet Is Not In Peru
  • Timid Whistling On Mars
  • To Cave Is To Die
  • To Conquer Is To Float
  • To Hide-and-go-seek My Maori Friend
  • To Pen Or Not Stupendous
  • To Table An Oak
  • Toast and Cake
  • Toast of the Morning
  • Tomato Buds
  • Torn By Love
  • Toxic Masculinity
  • Train Platform
  • Trees And Dandelions Collection
  • Trends
  • Trivial
  • Trivial Things
  • Truffle Troubles
  • Trust Is In the Eyes of the Crier
  • Tuning the Eclipse
  • Turn of the Song(The)
  • Twirl, The
  • Twist
  • Ugly Flowers
  • Ukraine Is On a Crazy Plane
  • Ultra Short B Poem
  • Ultra Short C poem
  • Ultra Short Poem
  • Umbrellas Fail
  • Uncategorized
  • Under The Bed
  • Une extravagance de l'amour in English
  • Unicorn
  • Unknown Beck
  • Unseemly To Crash The World Economy
  • Utcoozhoo Says
    • HL 001
  • گریه بید می خواند
  • Vignette of the Missing
  • Vinteren Har Et Herlig Hjerte
  • Virtue of a Flower, The
  • Vision
  • Voler Avec une Voile
  • Vous Créez des Excuses Si Élaborées
  • Wait On Me
  • Waiting
  • Waiting For A Song
  • Waiting For My Chariot
  • Waiting for the Moon
  • Waiting In The Pool
  • Waking in Emptiness
  • Walking Home
  • Walking In Smiles
  • Walking Like A Savage
  • Walking Near The River
  • Walking Near The River (gif) picture
  • Walking Near the River GIF
  • Walking With Doug
  • Wall Street
  • Washing Windows
  • Watching Kindness
  • Waving Hello
  • We Are Glowing
  • We Marauding Rebels are Caesar
  • Wednesday's Thunderstom
  • Weeping Willow Sings(The)
  • Well-Wishing Coins in the Fountain
  • What I Want
  • What Must Have Been
  • What Used To Be In New York City
  • What Was
  • What Would Love Be
  • Whatever
  • When An Ayatollah Is A Farsi Farce Cobbler
  • When Cats Chat
  • When Daydreams Fall Asleep
  • When Leaves Are Afloat
  • When Nightmares Fade
  • When Storms Cry Out — with picture
  • When Storms Cry Out Cry In
  • When the Day Seems Light
  • When the Humming Bird Hums
  • When the Meadow Speaks
  • Where ?
  • Where Do Dragons In Bhutan Hunt?
  • Where Is Damascus?
  • Where Sound Glows
  • Where You Were
  • Which Morning Shall I Remember
  • Whisper Message
  • White Gloves
  • Who Is Human
  • Who Is The Moon
  • Who Would Be Chen Guang For The Glory of China
  • Who Wrote That
  • why
  • Why Can't Deer Dance?
  • wild
  • Wild Hair
  • Wilted Dreams
  • Wind (In The)
  • Window Dressing
  • With A Limp
  • Wood Would Know
  • Word Chewing
  • Word Problem
  • Worry Dance,The
  • Wounded in Time
  • Wrapping Up A Rap
  • Wrecking Waves
  • Writing On Paper
  • Writing You
  • Wrong Timing
  • Year of the Rooster
  • You And Your Damn Global Warming Theories
  • You Are the Way
  • You Can Not Leave Me
  • You Can Put Lipstick on a Higgs Boson
  • You Don't Dance
  • You Don't Have To Love Me
  • you in me
  • You Promised Me Death Large Haldron Collider
  • You Say You Are Dead
  • Young Eye
  • Young Typos
  • Your Laugh At Christmas
  • Your PInk Camera
  • Z-Various
  • Zawmb'yee I love You
  • Zimbabwe Collection
  • Zimbabwe Cries
  • Zuccotti Park
  • Zuccotti Park Photos
  • zzzx Bitly
  • 开花 (Flowering) derived from "Blossom"
  • زما غوره ماشوم

aa 2019+

  • MY INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT by Chloë
  • Rearrangement test

Linguistics

  • Momentum Analogies in Utd'mbts (a first tentative beginning)
  • Peer Force Analogies
  • The Goal Space of Utd'mbts
  • The Linguistics and Etymology of Epoch II Z24A Texts from The Sacred Ofuye
  • The Linguistics and Etymology of Epoch II Z24A Texts from The Sacred Ofuye (Part 02)

***** Mystery Links

  • De vrije dichter zet zich in voor vers couplet
  • Rasmus K. Robot
  • She Does a Painting in the Hallway

Archives

Category: The Delivery Is Their Raison d’Être

The Delivery Is Their Raison d’Être (Draft 1)

The Delivery Is Their Raison d’Être

He delivers his book of love
to her on her doorstep.

I deliver myself to you, he sings,
and I present me as a present for you
to be present now in us because
our adventure is in the ink of the stars

— Douglas Gilbert

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