Robertson's
...The heat haze from the fire
was joining that of the sweltering day
as the man added another item to the fire
from his late father's detritus.
Stuff left ov...
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Categories:
air conditioned, discrimination, father daughter, father
Form: Free verse
She tells me
...Apparently,
I was a naughty boy
At three,
Disappearing in a shopping centre,
Lost for what felt like hours.
Legend has it,
The infant siren song caught air-conditioned wind
And led the sear...
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Categories:
air conditioned, child, childhood, humorous, memory,
Form: Free verse
Heatwave
...We stepped carelessly outside
one hot August day,
to see the seething summer sun
and her wrath on us she lay.
The sweltering heat
it struck us first,
and sent us hunting for shade
dizzy with...
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Categories:
air conditioned, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Bengaluru Now, I Witness You!
...Silicon city
That pulsates,
Both day and night,
The Tech Capital
And the sky, veiled
With urban haze
And dense, sprawling cityscape.
Grey city of its
Gridlocked roads
Surrounded by
Toweri...
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Categories:
air conditioned, anxiety, appreciation, city, life,
Form: Free verse
Parched Earth-2 Forms
...1. Form: Free Verse/Theme: Indulgence
Singing those praises in church,
I see a vision of a parched earth.
Geosmin scent ascends;
or descends. Transference
between reality and surreality.
My...
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Categories:
air conditioned, hope, longing, rain, weather,
Form: Free verse
MY LUCKY SHIRT
...
I have this lucky shirt…I feel the luck in this shirt is strong…
I’ve worn it many times and every time I wear it…luck has come along.
I wore it on the first leg of our trip to North Carolina.
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Categories:
air conditioned, humor,
Form: Rhyme
In Memory of Pocket Knives
...
On those long days
when it was too hot to ride
or run, a boy would find
an island of cool beneath
a tree and sit there
with his pocket knife
to whittle away time
and a piece of wood.
A goo...
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Categories:
air conditioned, childhood, creation, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
January 4th, 2007
...I turned ten two days ago,
I blew out the candles with a heavy sigh.
You were born today,
Still.
Your lips inherited
The reddest hue of cardinal feathers,
Your rice paper skin
Pale and soft...
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Categories:
air conditioned, baby, brother, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Texas
...There’s not much to love in the land of
72 ounce steaks
Air-conditioned grace droning over
AR-15 soaked Saturdays
Remembering is not the problem these days
Rather it is forgetting that
Childr...
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Categories:
air conditioned, america, child, hate, home,
Form: Free verse
Crossing a Continent At Night
...Down a runway skybound
to cross a continent,
see from a window
a city fall away
with bright beads
strung along a coast,
then turning inland,
clumped townships
shrinking to solitary lights...
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Categories:
air conditioned, flying, night,
Form: Free verse
Love Language
...My love for language is the best
Yet my love for her goes far mile than that.
She lightens my heart with her smile
Even when in the nighttime, I see through her heart.
She is that- subsisting
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Categories:
air conditioned, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I Love You, Daddy
...I Love You, Daddy
( Previous title has been changed!)
Golly! I do miss Daddy and the luxury of the Cadillac Fleetwod Car Series!
My Dad would only buy these till he di...
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Categories:
air conditioned, appreciation, childhood, father daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
No Summer Heat Tonight
...He did not feel the hot summer heat,
For at night the boat was his retreat.
A lissom breeze gave him a great treat.
Smell, the fresh air was fragrant and sweet.
His lass slept quietly at her...
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Categories:
air conditioned, boat, sea,
Form: Monorhyme
Iced Tea
...The heat is so oppressive, I’m tempted to agree
Hell couldn’t be any hotter indeed, so I shall flee
To the arctic regions of my air-conditioned home
Becoming a sad recluse like a disconcer...
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Categories:
air conditioned, july, summer, sun, weather,
Form: Light Verse
To Build a Special Roof For You
...(My late father was a construction worker.Remember him on Father's Day.)
The construction workers with
Sweating foreheads
Dry throats
Burning skins
Blinding eyes
Struggle to build
An air-con...
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Categories:
air conditioned, devotion, sun, work,
Form: Free verse
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