The movers and Shakespearers
...No comfort for the stickler, sticking literary fixtures depicting conflicting inklings to their minds as perfect pictures.
With one stroke of my pen the standards rose again and damned be lesser men...
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Categories:
anachronistic, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
In a world where time flows like a river that forgets its bed
...In a world where time flows like a river that forgets its bed,
poets remain forever outside of time, a kind of travelers through the labyrinth
of thought, with eyes open to dreams that others have ...
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Categories:
anachronistic, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the shadow of time, the soul finds solace
...In the shadow of time, the soul finds solace,
We wonder why the years lay down in silence,
Why we remain closed, like birds refusing flight,
Seeking hidden meaning in the language of flowers towar...
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Categories:
anachronistic, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Woman in the Portrait
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A woman hangs on my parlor wall
Perched Precariously in her picture frame,
A garish feather placed upon the hat upon her head
Her dress, a ruby red, ruby red.
Cobwebs kiss her ivory face-
Spid...
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Categories:
anachronistic, death, scary, woman,
Form: Free verse
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
...Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils...
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Categories:
anachronistic, appreciation, bird, earth, february,
Form: Rhyme
It's too late, beloved, for our dream shattered
...It's too late, beloved, for our dream shattered,
Under the night sky, chimeras have us buried,
Intoxicated with illusions, wrapped in cigarette perfume,
On deserted streets, we are shadows of drea...
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Categories:
anachronistic, lost love,
Form: Free verse
On Poems I Cannot Understand
...Poems come in all shapes and sizes
Forms and formats, types, and themes
Comes a question that invariably arises
What about mere consciousness streams?
Must all poems have rhythm and...
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Categories:
anachronistic, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Anachronistic Utterances
...It is said that the world is quite strong.
When we both agreed, we were wrong.
But systemic risk leads to a spare call.
And it makes life hazy, as we shall.
When weak surfeit ful...
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Categories:
anachronistic, analogy, character, encouraging, truth,
Form: Free verse
I Discovered Miscellaneous Meaningless Hodgepodge
...I discovered miscellaneous meaningless hodgepodge...
dating back circa: Age of computer antiquity
mine signature worthless gibberish
found Earthling dumbfounded
for further waste of time inquir...
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Categories:
anachronistic, absence, adventure, character, dream,
Form: Free verse
Pleasant Spring Like Day February 17th, 2022 Part Two
...Decreased dissension
grudgingly did abate
unclouded protests trumpet
Trump to abdicate
irrefutable proof generates
activist voices to accumulate
linkedin over Green Party
blessedly to admini...
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Categories:
anachronistic, abuse, angst, april, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Today August 29th 2021 Sluggishness Dogs Yours Truly
...Today August 29th, 2021 sluggishness dogs yours truly
Forecasting to thunderous applause
fast as greased lightning draws
upon futuristic atmospheric gewgaws
hot air emanates out these slackened...
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Categories:
anachronistic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Attached
...Local used bookshop, an easy energy
comforting shelves crowded with tracks of wisdom,
literature, philosophy, religion, the sciences
even graphic novels, saucy and weighty
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Categories:
anachronistic, books, change, introspection, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Pleasant Spring Like Day January 12th, 2020
...Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
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Categories:
anachronistic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Secret
...In life things change -
Tables eventually turn.
Emotions spark up
And friendships burn up
As relationships break down
As chains would rust,
But secrets break apart
Bonds rooted in trust.
It...
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Categories:
anachronistic, appreciation, blue, boy, break
Form: Free verse
Last Names
...Last Names
by Edmund Siejka
Whenever I meet someone
At a party, a restaurant or in line at a store
And the conversation turns to last names
I respond politely
When they ask
What nationality...
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Categories:
anachronistic, life,
Form: Narrative
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