I'm an Onion
...Hi!
Who am I?
I'm an onion, allegorically,
Speaking strictly metaphorically.
You may see I have a human form -
To the "human" definition I conform,
But, for our purposes today,
I'm an onion....
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Categories:
allegorically, i am, identity, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Allegorically Speaking
...King Kong vs Moby Dick would make a good flick
King of the jungle vs. King of the sea
How exciting that would be
Moby swimming to that island
King Kong diving into the sea
Turns out it was all ...
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Categories:
allegorically, allegory,
Form: Free verse
To and In the Nature of Awareness Grace
...TO AND IN THE NATURE OF AWARENESS GRACE
A fall morning drive presents an interesting ride.
Looking out into he roadside forest palisade,
Eyes fall upon two age-old stoic trees still clothed
I...
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Categories:
allegorically, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, life,
Form: Prose
Goosebumped In Early Fall
...Whew, today’s unexpected chilled wind
Made a mockery out of both spring
And fall in their changing off the guard-like
Waning and waxing in the rhythmic circadian
Nature of Nature’s revolving canv...
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Categories:
allegorically, allegory, cool, imagery, irony,
Form: Prose Poetry
Of Allegorical Echoers
...(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)
We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the sh...
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Categories:
allegorically, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose
Versatility
...Versatility, versatility,
I have no problem with that,
But my versatility's
Not virtuosity,
Those two don't go tit-for-tat.
It's a true revelation
When my inspiration
Comes seemingly out of ...
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Categories:
allegorically, me, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Allegorically
...hyenas don’t laugh
for nothing…
wrinkled elephant skin
is grayed with preserving
purpose unseen…
the surviving strength
of fire ants—who though not
born black—have a pretty
good idea of w...
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Categories:
allegorically, allegory, analogy, animal, black
Form: Free verse
On a Happy Blessed Day
...In the evening of this beautiful sunshine day
I took a cooling-off walk through the park.
There I saw buoyant ducks and little ducklings
Watching a bullfrog sitting on his lily pad throne;
His pu...
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Categories:
allegorically, allegory, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Knight In the Panther's Skin
...THE KNIGHT IN THE PANTHER’S SKIN
Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160-1250), often called simply Rustaveli, was a Georgian poet who is generally considered to be the preeminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age...
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Categories:
allegorically, hero, love, star, stars,
Form: Epic
In This Land of Hope
...Weaving the labyrinth of the tyranny of time,
let not the chartered task waiting ashore
become a victim of the rising tides of apathy
between our temple pillars of faith and hope.
Rather, in ...
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Categories:
allegorically, america, conflict, metaphor, patriotic,
Form: Political Verse
Rushing Away and To
...Rushing away from the Devils hair hoisting heave
Rushing to Gods downy laced embrace, searching as astray and bereaved.
Rushing away from your most tenebrous night-frights.
Rushing to your c...
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Categories:
allegorically, world,
Form: Couplet
Alliteration Allegorically
...TO PONDER POSSIBILITIES
AND POSTULATE PROBABILITIES
SOCIALLY SIMMERED SO SARCASTICALLY
TO SANCTIMONIOUS UNCERTAINTIES
THEN RENDERING A RECIPE RANDOMLY
INTO IRRATIONAL IMPOSSIBILITY
MIXED TO ...
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Categories:
allegorically, conflict, confusion, judgement, philosophy,
Form: Alliteration
The Sun Will Shine On Your Face
...Suspended improbably on shoulders
Hunched by years of glacial attrition
And threaded through a forest of boulders:
The path that holds the key to my mission
I speak allegorically, because
This t...
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Categories:
allegorically, friendship, hope, life, love
Form: Sonnet
Evening With the Neighbors
...Allegorically tangled
with pink braids and lips that sparkle with blue paint
deeply connected to nature
while waxing the house plant's leaves
to a green, clean shine...
Perhaps that's me today.
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Categories:
allegorically, people, social, house, house,
Form: Free verse