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It's A Crafty Work!
Poetry is so very special
it has such an illuminating effect
grabbing one's heart so clear
inspiring one to fully select
It's craft leaves many options
indeed one can adopt various styles
so much scope to experiment
for the pen to flow...
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Categories:
art, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Is There ---Memory
without language
Joy
without pain
Sight
without prescience
Deed
without claim
Truth
without compromise
Faith
without prayer
Grace
without blessing
Love
— never shared
(The New Room: May, 2024)
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Categories:
words,
Form: Rhyme
Consuming FireLicking my wounds.
Recovering from the pain.
Is it supposed to
feel this way?
Empty, cold, and dejected.
Ashamed of not enjoying it.
Radiating heat filling me up
from my pelvic floor.
Somehow, I am wanting more.
More of the pain
without it there’s
no...
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Categories:
words, addiction, body, dark, drug,
Form: Prose
Palindrome LimerickMiss, I am totally on the level
Civic duty to call out the devil
My bad deed radar is strong
Also a good eye for wrong
Madam, in misfortune I don't revel...
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Categories:
words,
Form: Limerick
Word Wars
Thick clouds of unanswered questions
eclipse the clear light thought to be seen.
Bewildered by election commentary again,
our ears quit as media opine.
Hearers' lack of response yields understanding,
'twas a vacant struggle just to be heard.
Hardened clay...
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Categories:
11th grade, war, words,
Form: Free verse
Power of Words
Written: May 10, 2024
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Cosmic candor will be suitable
beyond our sight, providing...
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Categories:
analogy, words,
Form: Free verse
Dazzling Sunrise, Come QuicklyIf this increasing darkness conveys a fear not chided,
as ghostly shadows conspicuously confer mystery:
do I hide or firmly resist being threatened
by their miserable aspect of susceptibility?
Anxiety builds fret inside first slowly, then rapidly?
I squeeze and...
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Categories:
words, anxiety, dream, emotions, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Doppler Vision, A Compounded RiddleDreams, do we imagine!?
or imagined for us?~ not really ours
man’s daily/nightly flighty escapes –
perhaps mystically inspired? Projections of a
superior curtain-wizard: His/its contrived illusions,
erudite brothers propose, the mind
a carnival trickster -- a phenomenal liar:...
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Categories:
words, fantasy, feelings, humanity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Paradox vastnessParadoxes
Are stories with
Apparent
Responses of
Rejection..or of
An immediate
Resonance
Burning borders
And a vastness
Which cannot be
Explained...
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Categories:
beauty, music, self, words,
Form: Light Verse
mind's eyenot grounding mentality
in bounds of reality
vows turn unverifiable
truth becoming pliable
judgments unreliable
when the working of our brain
leads toward being less sane
few usually agree
about structure of life's key
existence is that which is
beyond schemes in sales pitches
theories...
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Categories:
words, judgement, life, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry PolicePeople should be warned, people should get wise,
Or else they might find, a nasty surprise,
Early hours, Tuesday, sirens broke the peace,
That was the sound of Poetry Police,
Rushing to the door, I asked “what’s my...
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Categories:
words, books, judgement, poems, poetry,
Form: Couplet
as homilyresults may vary
when words pursue their quarry
people turn wary
simple is better
even in Dear John letter
feelings unfetter
angry verbs go rogue
no matter how softly spoke
estrangements invoke
lurking cold as ice
gray emptiness can entice
psyche pays the price
assessing regret
of what...
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Categories:
words, allegory, anxiety, change, confusion,
Form: Haiku
Paradoxes-dismissal and resonanceParadoxes
Are stories with
Responses of
Disbelief..or a
Certain immediate
And quiet resonance
Which cannot be
Explained..
Nevertheless...
...
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Categories:
words, cheer up, i am,
Form: Light Verse
Cheshire MusingProse and its narrative
the lazy alternative
Words most abundant
meaning defined
Declarative function
it reads codependent
As poets but smile
— with language refined
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May, 2024)
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Categories:
words,
Form: Rhyme
Epitaph-Unraveled Words
trickling streams enlist fingers stroke
translating silent stares script air bubbles
soul skirmishes dying and breath twitches
her amort jabs shatter blind eyes
soft breaths linger aphonic sighs
surfboarding alongside rocky creeks
you wish to...
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Categories:
silence, words,
Form: Free verse
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