Counting Sheep Silently
...Don’t you ever wonder and wander in your sleep?
I dream of you and I just want to weep like a creep
I’m stumbling in the deep until the hill’s too steep
Can you hear my moans and groans, oh godly ...
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Categories:
amounting, angst, appreciation, sleep,
Form: Lyric
He Lived Till He Died
...This is an obvious thing to say
well of course this is always the case
you are alive till the day you die
so certain for all the human race
Now let us ponder this for awhile
behind these words...
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Categories:
amounting, death, life, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Happier Than Rich
...Step inside
See for yourself
I've nothing here to hide
Or worthy of you stealing
My clothes are old and full of
holes so to are my socks and undies
My bread is moulded milk soured
i...
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Categories:
amounting, happiness,
Form: Free verse
High In Heaven At Last
...In Heaven at Last
When I wanted to be safe and calm
God had held me in His huge palm,
Always knew I am so safe and sound;
Way I felt when He had been around.
Things I always wanted Him to he...
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Categories:
amounting, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Stuff
...It came to me
upon reflection
Life is one
great big collection
Starting with a
teddy bear
and ending with
a gasp of air
The time between
those points is rough
accumulating
all this stu...
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Categories:
amounting, humor, life, perspective, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Its Name Is Far Out
...a new dwarf planet...
announced only this past year...
"hello...distance here...
eleven...billion...
miles away...orbiting now...
just off to one side...
gravity well...yes...
twenty two b...
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Categories:
amounting, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Story of Health Theory
...They say society's heart
is changed by story
and not by theory.
But what is history
if not also a theory about evidence
for healthy and pathological stories?
Experiences,
narratives,
parabl...
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Categories:
amounting, earth, education, environment, history,
Form: Political Verse
Passionate Poverty
...Poverty seems like a repellent stuck on the poor
Whose only fault lies in owning no property or asset to parade
Among wealth admirers and worshippers to whom poverty seems dour
In contexts where o...
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Categories:
amounting, poems,
Form: Free verse
Summer Love
...At day's end a retreating sun banished
Awestruck we witness its closing farewell
Silently the last veil of hue vanished
Our woes amounting to mere bagatelle
Nightfall air transfixed as if by a ...
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Categories:
amounting, devotion, love, magic, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Back To Bed
... "You stir the peak of my night holding my vision in sight. The blue of your eye roams in my midnight sky"
She entered and grabbed my soul
light danced across the oaken floor ...
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Categories:
amounting, love,
Form: Free verse
Nebulae - Stellar Nurseries
...In the vastness of space,
Emptiness is vague,
Where miracles take place,
A disposition to create,
It starts with a molecule,
Then a few into clumps,
Growing in momentum,
To an uncountable su...
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Categories:
amounting, life,
Form: Rhyme
Salem
...Situated in an embroided spacious field.
Attracting fortunes,wealth and by honey filled.
Land moistured in peace and grace forlorn.
End of strife,struggle,sickness; Goodness un-turn.
Made for all...
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Categories:
amounting, allusion,
Form: Acrostic
To Friend Or Not To Friend
...to friend or not to friend, that is not the question
I'll be damned but I'm game
These facts cannot be left unstated
whether it is right to suffer
the lingering stings of speculative mom...
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Categories:
amounting, confusion, crush, introspection, poets,
Form: Ode
Volkswagon
...I sit in the chair, nervous and accepting of the fate I have created. I have earned the right to be here, through careful planning and methodical artistry. How is it my fault if they fell for my anti...
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Categories:
amounting, confidence, death, goodbye, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Amounting To Thousand Thrill
...A-mounting to thousand thrill,
L-arge is the size of mirth;
M-oment of fun remains,
A-s well as the joy of birth.
M-orn of September fourth
A-nother smile is in your face;
L-aughter of th...
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Categories:
amounting, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
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