Esoteric Euphoria
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In vivacious luminous
landscape of luring longing,
desire sculpts dream,
spreads spectrum of ardor
in sapphire sky,
fervor floats on cloud,
shaping sensual crave,
charismatic....
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Categories:
adroitly, analogy, desire, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Animated Absence
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My hibernating heart,
frozen in arctic horizon,
wakes up enlivened
in dazzling dawn,
the yearning brush soaks
the sunburst colors,
paints a Monet garden
of blooming lavender love,
unf...
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Categories:
adroitly, analogy, hope, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Where Are We All Going
...Where are we all going
his daily appeal
it’s not really knowing
the pace and uncertainty
that has him agog
we’re moving so fast
bubbling and roiling in a tumultuous fog
with ubiquitous...
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Categories:
adroitly, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Value of Reading
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"The Value of Reading"
messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?
"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late
when it...
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Categories:
adroitly, betrayal, books, death, loss,
Form: Narrative
Unwritten Absence
...My heart enfolded the hued horizon of dazzling dawn,
the yearning brush soaked the sunburst colors,
painted a Monet garden blooming with my love,
unfurled the facsimile of your floral face...
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Categories:
adroitly, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Through the Keyhole
...Deceit of sun when rays are still but porous;
unwelcome thief, afford my dream more seconds.
Some dappled shadows flit through mystic keyhole;
alight upon pellucid remnant image.
I stifle yawn as...
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Categories:
adroitly, dream, fantasy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
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"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"
There are rumours
about me, some
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart
shaped planchettes
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Categories:
adroitly, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
The Cost of War Through Peace
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"The Cost of War through Peace"
She had spent
some elaborate
time
with snakes,
learning
their ways,
yet in the very
back of her mind,
in her memories,
she re...
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Categories:
adroitly, light, love, mother daughter,
Form: Narrative
Sight Unseen
...Immaculate perception
its vision so pure
Beyond all deception
adroitly demurred
A birth without legacy
an orphan unnamed
Judgment abandoned
—redemption proclaimed
(Dreamsleep: September, 20...
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Categories:
adroitly, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Mail Lady
...The van jolts its way into our street.
She hops about in her animated cage
from dashboard to counter
adroitly cardsharping the world.
To her is given a great dispensing,
deftly she sorts
the ...
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Categories:
adroitly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Veiled Rebecca
...The Veiled Rebecca
The neoclassical Italian sculptor Giovani Belzoni created The Veiled Rebecca in 1863. It depicts the biblical character Rebecca, wife of Isaac (son of Abraham ) who veiled hers...
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Categories:
adroitly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Captivate
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We look outward, here upon earth
Ego anchored, devoid of mirth
Fleeting joy that’s mirrored by pain
Bound head to foot by desire’s chain
Caught in a web, our heart did weave
Time’s...
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Categories:
adroitly, god, love, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Circa October 7th 2020 Papa Passed Away
...Professed paean pronounced
and adroitly produced
upon spirit of deceased
named Boyce Brandon Harris.
First year anniversary since
cremains distributed across four winds
his soul remains alive...
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Categories:
adroitly, absence, death, eulogy, father
Form: Free verse
Thick Skinned - What It Feels Like For a Girl
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“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl”
When you speak
it’s as if stars cascade
out of your mouth
galaxies you produce
musical incantations
that I listen ...
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Categories:
adroitly, abuse, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Laugh Or Cry - Our Choice
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Nimble desires inimical
Conscience sounds a warning alarm
Free will adroitly pulse disarms
Nestled in bliss ineffable
Discord within and all around
Soul presence within body si...
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Categories:
adroitly, life, muse, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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