Reflections In A Cemetery
...Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst
unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill
holy water--maybe thickened dew—just
to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries,
while an insolent breeze fails...
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Categories:
abrasions, bereavement, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Descent And Ascent
...I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth fin...
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Categories:
abrasions, conflict, freedom, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
CANVASS OF OUR LIVES
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Some people paint with their words,
Creating images with contrast and flow
That lift the hearts of others,
Inspiring both their spirit and soul.
Some paint with their life’s work,
Their c...
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Categories:
abrasions, feelings, inspiration, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
skipper
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you …
skipped me
like a polished little stone …
you couldn’t pitch me away like any sparingly
normal human being would
(to save me the abrasions to my ego)
but threw me decidedly parallel t...
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Categories:
abrasions, analogy, break up,
Form: Free verse
The Ought of Autumn
...It ought to light up my being
With the color and passion
Of its crisp, browning magic
It ought to bring the sounds
Of fire crackle, warm abrasions
And unlimited clinks to hearths
Of every size ...
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Categories:
abrasions, analogy, appreciation, autumn, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Outlook
...when I last looked
snow sprawled in
like an embrace from a foreign world
outdoor walk suspended
by squabbles of sleeted wet
unappealing chords
of ice pellets that stand hair on edge
to coat a ...
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Categories:
abrasions, environment, february, march, snow,
Form: Free verse
50 Shades 0f Blood
...1..A rusty door-nail leaks a drying crust.
2..The taint of copper pennies.
3.Salt licking the scars of the unhealed.
4..A sunset burning dry corn.
5.Eyes bruised by anger.
6.Lips cut by stinging...
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Categories:
abrasions, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Billowing Purple Fire
...apocalyptic abrasions tear
across earth and sea and sky
crepuscular beast of no moon
reveals and unreveals
ambiguous forms of vapor
from crack and crevice emergant
close-mouthed appari...
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Categories:
abrasions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Slumbering Seeds
...a cog in the wheel and a log on the fire
of dreams I hallucinate unless the days
are visions of sleepless delusions of truth
its real and surreal when nights close in
I used to be a kni...
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Categories:
abrasions, bridal shower,
Form: Free verse
In the Darken Spiral Tunnel-
...The corners the cornerstone of the spectrum is none;
The validity of the spiral quantum some;
Virtual highways run;
Horizontal pathways spun;
Caveat abrasions;
Baptismal conversions;
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Categories:
abrasions, adventure, analogy, anniversary, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Completing Alignment
...all she ever wanted to be was one with herself
and yet here she was disunited and fragmented
seeking what seemed out of harmonious reach
heart choked in a stranglehold of noosed reason
razor wi...
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Categories:
abrasions, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Homebound From Far
...her mind drifted over the alluvial landscape
covered a few sink holes and seeped quick sand
from a life built on dense sediment and erosion
she had never asked for much but now she was fir...
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Categories:
abrasions, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Tender Is the Day After
...Scratches and abrasions sensate,
stalking, doxing, ghosting drones
have pinched, clawed, and marked.
I remember the sharp edges of yesterday
but cannot recall the moments
when the bumps and b...
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Categories:
abrasions, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dyadic
...A thesis, ascertained through abrasions of
decubitus ulcerations of existences austerity.
The colluded effect of unbeknownst
certainty.
Preluding the path of non precluding.
Additioned to...
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Categories:
abrasions, change, community, history, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
About Pain
...About Pain
What is pain, how does it hurt?
Do you know, would you know?
Life begins with pain, for...
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Categories:
abrasions, anger, betrayal, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse
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