Easter 2025Sometimes I ask myself if Jesus could speak to the people of today. What would he say and do? With all the senseless killings and a lunatic running the White House, could he still want to give up his life for us? The answer is Yes, for I believe he came to do what...
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Categories:
character, deep, faith, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
The Storm KingThe Storm uttered his vengeful voice
Breathing threats on all mortals below.
With power he showed his flashing bolts
And shook the earth with his mighty hands.
The trees cried loudly as they were rent.
The rivers drank more than they could bear.
Creatures hid in quivering protest
As the storm’s soldiers marched quickly by.
When he passed there came...
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Categories:
life, rain, storm,
Form: Blank verse
The seeming power of beliefsBeliefs
Attachments to thoughts
Reinforce a separate identity &
Things are taken personally..
Which is a story of
An appearance of the
Impersonal......
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Categories:
appreciation, words,
Form: Blank verse
Climbing up the Fire Escape in SummerWe used to climb up the round metal fire escape at Columbus School
This was Chariton Iowa, where no one saw or cared
A summer morning was the perfect time to do this
Before the sun heated the tube up, making it unbearable on our bare feet...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
Monty Hall
The sky didn’t open—you did.
That’s what He said.
And suddenly, silence stopped pretending it was empty.
Eyes locked to an alien like it was trendy—
But the alien was memory, dressed in something friendly.
A silent scream’s polka-dotted bow tie is world-endly.
He offered me a mirror wrapped in a question gently.
It read:
“If you’ll let me? Lay still and let...
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Categories:
desire,
Form: Blank verse
Nothing betweenBetween
There is no
Between
Which is
The point..
Nothing
Appears as
What is not
Between......
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Categories:
words,
Form: Blank verse
The Competition They were snowy white with streaks of hot flesh
From Holland, of course, hybrids with a fancy name
We other tulips felt plain and boring next to them
Where were they being planted? I stretched to see.
Sighing in relief when I saw they were in the next bed.
It was bad enough I had to share with the morning...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Memento On The Moon
We left our Nation's sign up on the Moon,
with footprints clear, and flag still standing tall.
A stepping stone to future times in space?
Or wars to claim the Moon- never to share?
Our footprints live- these years have not erased
the glory of that day we etched its sand.
Some have placed flags- but not by human hands,
and...
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Categories:
fate, moon, war,
Form: Blank verse
Two hours away and I'm here in LimboBeing in a state of mixed emotions is always a job for the educated and lonely
Each time I heard her voice in writing or in voice, my attention was for her
Sometimes a state of silence is needed and at other times the when the Virgo (I) become silent then it is a different feeling
We feel...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Blank verse
Saying Goodbye to a Former FriendAfter a long time, I have finally felt the need to let you go!
It was rather hard to see you after so many years!
You claimed that you fell in love with me!
Well, your chances were used up!
When we were in high school you rejected me for the prom!
When my family had a birthday dinner for...
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Categories:
feelings, friendship, hurt, relationship,
Form: Blank verse
FlickerI’m gonna be honest.
I can’t explain psyche anymore.
Let’s lay down the law.
My last flicker of delusion.
The sky will open up for me.
And water the metaphor
And let me cook. With fruit.
My light only flickers.
Light and sound
Truth and potential
Dual Wave Paradigm
Another flicker of delusion.
Bananas are yellow and we peel them
Sea lions hunt tuna like a woman walking...
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Categories:
birth, emotions, fruit, fun,
Form: Blank verse
God Made Me A DoorMaybe one day,
when silence is loud enough to hear,
we’ll open the door
instead of stacking bodies.
They ask, “Where’s God?”
when the blood hits the floor—
as if He hadn’t carved
light into every corner before.
But truth is,
He built the door.
And we locked it.
Stacked our fears like bricks
and blocked it—
then cried
when no light shined through.
This was never a flaw in...
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Categories:
anger, anxiety, dark, god,
Form: Blank verse
Foreign ExchangeI planned futures with you,
but your happiness came first.
When anger calls, you shut off
I must stay composed,
must communicate,
must hold it all together.
Smile. Talk nice.
The bare minimum is not enough.
Imagine giving your life
to someone who would build with you,
then leave when joy runs dry.
Words once meant something.
Vows weren’t meant to break.
I could climb mountains,
cross oceans,
fly the...
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Categories:
betrayal, courage, history, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
Hanging By a ThreadBeneath fate's shadowed edge, I take my stand,
A moment granted by design's own hand.
The blade above me poised, a guillotine,
My neck upon the board, awaiting fall.
While others drift through life's unchallenged stream,
Letting time pass without a second thought,
I cannot share their luxury of ease.
If days were numbered, hours slipping by,
Would actions shift to meet the...
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Categories:
allusion, betrayal, change, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Four for the RoadFour for the Road..!!
The seeker
Is seeking a story
Bringing relief
Without dissolving
The story...
It
All comes back
To nothing
A word
A seeming something
Which is and is not
It...
It
Can appear
Prescriptive or
Descriptive
But always
Empty...
Purpose
In life is
A story arising
Identifying me
With a unique
Purpose......
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Categories:
absence, cheer up, peace,
Form: Blank verse
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