Reptile by Birth
...Into the abyss
I look in to see
Peeking over, to discern
Her looking up at me.
Reptile cold and slithe,
I slither through the dewy blades,
And writhley race across the glade.
A lumping cr...
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Categories:
amnion, animal, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries
hoisted on ...
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Categories:
amnion, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Snowman
...A snowman
Watches from his globe
Eager to please, you
Longing to belong
Fearful of blending
into your background
Waiting
He watches
You come and go
In your great big world
It’s indulgen...
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Categories:
amnion, absence, deep, longing, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Camelot
...
O Bactrian, my champion,
the burdens you must bear.
Unwanted eyes and forceful tries,
to scale the heights up there.
No dromedary would you be,
were I to cut a lump from thee.
Since f...
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Categories:
amnion, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Making Art With the Universe
...Introspection
suspends in dark blue amnion
as rainwater blooms a reflection pool
an oasis of energy for contemplative embryo;
in stillness I grow.. my pulse a flowing stream of raindrops
my ...
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Categories:
amnion, growth, introspection, love, self,
Form: Free verse
The Reptilian Anthropocene
...
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lap...
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Categories:
amnion, horror, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Angel In the Amnion
...In this dream I held a doll, yet an empty shell
Your soul filled it with life; I felt the quickening
The next week mom felt your tiny wings fluttering
Unforeseen test results turned our heaven t...
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Categories:
amnion, baby, father daughter, fear,
Form: Quatrain
My First Step
...Wobbly I stood and wobbly I remain -
The sole of my Soul untested and untried
Not trusting the firmament on which its stability stands.
So I must reach.
For a kind hand, a rock to ...
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Categories:
amnion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Dellad800 - a Riddle
...Your warmth is like a womb's amnion ambience
Your light is supreme reassurance
Your manna is my sustenance.
I trust in thee implicitly
I am elated with your glee
I am awed by the power of your...
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Categories:
amnion, girlfriend,
Form: Terza Rima
Flesh and Bones
...Signs versus shadows in city
of reasons burst amnion.
White cranes manipulate black clouds,
smudge the nomenclature.
I want to become deaf
in grazing blasts. Young lovers
dance on machetes; nifty wo...
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Categories:
amnion, art,
Form: ABC
Bites
...One wardrobe malfunction
was a blast, a kill;
undressing imagination.
I was ready for an ambush.
Like boa’s grip, entwined, strangulating,
hardly breathing. I am in blue water
like a humpback whale;...
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Categories:
amnion, art,
Form: ABC
Matter of Fact Disciples.
...Jesus Christ was here ,
in another womb, holy and viable,
He trusted His mother without fear
Unlike his unloved, unborn disciples.
Oh you, little ones, who are one of these,
The essence of inn...
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Categories:
amnion, brother, family, forgiveness, life,
Form: Free verse
Bites
...One wardrobe malfunction
was a blast, a kill;
undressing imagination.
I was ready for an ambush.
Like boa’s grip, entwined, strangulating,
hardly breathing. I am in blue water
like a humpback...
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Categories:
amnion, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Flesh and Bones
...Signs versus shadows in city
of reasons burst amnion.
White cranes manipulate black clouds,
smudge the nomenclature.
I want to become deaf
in grazing blasts. Young lovers
dance on machetes; n...
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Categories:
amnion, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?