WE SEE LONDON DAY 4
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After I woke up and went out to our little balcony to write…
a ladybug landed on my computer and decided there to stay
As she traversed the perimeter of my computer…
I knew it was going to be gr...
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Categories:
abut, travel,
Form: Rhyme
I SEE LONDON I SEE FRANCE
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Every day we’re making memories…we’re out in the world having fun…
and every day, if I am lucky, I write a few lines about one…
But with our suitcases and passports packed…and armed with Google...
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Categories:
abut, family, travel,
Form: Rhyme
A Mother's Pain
...Two mothers who never met were connected by tragedy, murder and death.
They gave birth to two different offspring that in one moment would alter both women’s lives.
Violet did her best to raise ...
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Categories:
abut, angst, care, grief, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Courtship Encumbered
...Nestled is the slender twisting trail canyon between timeless steep
aspiring mountains and meditative sopheric sea waters
The frail road deepens into lofty thickness further from the harsh...
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Categories:
abut, deep, desire, journey,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Where Tides once Gossiped
...Where tides once gossiped for many an hour
about what lovers share; like grapes gone sour,
the strong opinions o’ friends will minds devour.
A reputation guarded against smut
and smiles that’s...
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Categories:
abut, emotions, imagery, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
SHADOW DANCING
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One of the joys of walking in the darkness…before the early light of day
is getting to walk among the shadows as the come out to play.
When the moon is bright she sheds her light and our whole ...
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Categories:
abut, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Getting Older
...As I was leaving the doctor’s office he was dictating notes about our meeting…
I eavesdropped…because I can….
He said he’d just finished up a conference with a delightful 70 year old man.
I was ...
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Categories:
abut, age,
Form: Rhyme
My One New Year's Resolution
...Covid, political divides, natural disasters…carnage in Ukraine…
hunger, oppression, bigotry…agony and pain.
I imagine for some people the best thing they can say abut 2022
Is that they have surv...
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Categories:
abut, new years day,
Form: Rhyme
A Lament In the Streets
...Longing of the heart, of the mind
Curiosity is killing, step by step
The moon and the stars-Insomniac
Who will end these queries
I hear them talk abut their sire's
"my father this, my father tha...
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Categories:
abut, abortion, childhood, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Selenophile
...He's above the earth, far away from my touch
Hanging in her arms of the sky
-Staring at me
A dream of eternal shone in our eyes
My love, unheard as a whisper
The vast horizon lave in his shine...
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Categories:
abut, fantasy, love, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Eccentric Mints - 150 Varieties
...1. Abolish Mints
2. Abut Mints
3. Accomplish Mints
4. Accouter Mints
5. Acknowledge Mints
6. Ada Mints
7. Adjust Mints
8. Admonish Mints
9. Adorn Mints
10. Advance Mints
11. Advertise Mints...
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Categories:
abut, humor, word play,
Form: List
My Day
...Nature looks weary abut the boom gate
Like a faithful prostitute dun for her pay
With hand on cheek, the other wave way
By ageless sky con beloving gaze
And Sam to Delilah, a giant betrayed
I...
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Categories:
abut, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Read All Abut It
...Read all about it
Our days seem filled with death and destruction
While hate and war go hand in hand
With what?
Politics and past deeds?
Religion? Tribal ties?
Races go head to head
W...
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Categories:
abut, future,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
...When your reflection, wearing nothing but
the dusty light, splashed out of the mirror,
I clearly understood that skies abut
inferno, that Elysium is nearer
than what is written in the books, that...
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Categories:
abut, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Intellectual Architects
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Voltaire just Kant angle cut it
Beauvoir broad side view
abut the narrow Rousseau
gender Thoreau thought causeway
As Sarte Marx the entrance unlit —
Avicena chapiters atop da Vinci ...
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Categories:
abut, imagery, silly, smart, surreal,
Form: Vogon Poetry
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