Poetry I've Written
...I see myself in lines of poetry I've written
flying and crawling, laughing and bawling,
winning and losing, breathing and dying ~
as a river current meandering where I choose to go
moo...
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Categories:
accost, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Sheep
..."Are you lost?" asked the sheep
in the front
(not the one who'd gone to sleep).
I'd gone to get some air and walk...
a strange question -
to hear this stray creature talk!
"I'm a man and kn...
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Categories:
accost, animal, art,
Form: Rhyme
It's Open Season
...Mysterious displacement of matters where
Spring forgets like fumbling fingers in blossoms
arresting visions lingering colossal
~jewels rule pastimes
Then Summer...
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Categories:
accost, autumn, lost, spring, summer,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Fight
...It will cold smack you in the face
No regard, no respect, just a hard, straight right
Now you're confused and staggered so you look to plead your case
But no one cares so you better learn how to ...
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Categories:
accost, anti bullying, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Limerence
...You would think the obsession was a profession
the way it worked on them day & night
Their poker face came in handy hiding deep emotions
but what the eyes spoke just wasn't right
Compulsively wa...
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Categories:
accost, introspection, philosophy, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
MY SONG HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOU
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In between the blues and my searching soul
I found you
reaching for faraway snowy mountains
but falling for snowflakes
Snowflakes dissipate too soon as we all know and
faraway stars no mat...
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Categories:
accost, love,
Form: Free verse
Hidden Blessings
...Some try to break you because they're broken
as they don't know of any better
So many ill words have been clearly spoken
& you'll watch them eat every letter
This can be seen as food for our star...
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Categories:
accost, journey, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
RESOLUTELY RESOLUTE
...As the present year slides slowly into slumber
I shall strive, next year, to things somewhat less dumber
Than wearing my galoshes in the summer
I shall, in fact, walk barefoot on the beach
And ...
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Categories:
accost, humor, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Had They Committed the Bum
...The actor was acting up
whilst falling down,
then tumbling
like Jack and Jill,
watering his career
with the director’s tears.
Those tears they turned the reel
into a real mistake
that kille...
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Categories:
accost, angst, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Front Teeth Will Be Lost
...Let me tell you what it will cost,
If you try to Richard accost:
Two of your front teeth shall be lost,
Straight two artificial teeth cost...
Interest in flashing arch smiles lost,
From time t...
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Categories:
accost, anger, conflict, cry, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Rich For a Day
...A man with no more than a hole in his pocket
The clothes on his back and a picture in a locket
Propped up some cardboard in a dim alleyway
When a stranger came up with something to say
He wore a...
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Categories:
accost, appreciation, life, society,
Form: Couplet
Just Another Case of the Tail Waggin the Horse
...It's the residue from the gunshot that you aimed right for my heart. See it ricocheted, backfired, meaning another false start…
A reissue of rhetoric accost the poet's you adore, so if acceptance...
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Categories:
accost, break up, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
Jealousy Leaves a Bitter Taste
...Jealousy leaves a bitter taste in one’s mouth
Like a persimmon plucked before the first frost,
The consequence is sarcastic, mean words spit out
At immeasurable cost.
As for me, yes, ...
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Categories:
accost, how i feel, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
All About Fear
...Fear hampers success and innovation,
Many health problems, fear a causation
With fear our happiness we restrain
Out of fear we endure persisting pain.
All have some fear or another
They give ago...
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Categories:
accost, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Wolves Among the Lambs
...There are those engaged in pedagogy
To facilitate the drip... drip... drip
Of poison to accost a child's ear.
Maneuvering with glee and juicy decadence...
Sequestering all they say and hear.
F...
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Categories:
accost, anger, child abuse, education,
Form: Rhyme
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