As Clean as a Whistle
...As Clean as a Whistle
The park is a dance of colour
as leaves pirouette and waltz
around brazen, undressed trees.
November, and the sun sits weakly
even rather streakily in the sky
while I fo...
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announces, dog,
Form: Free verse
I spy an angel from heaven
...I need the guarantee
of this remedy,
mentally be free
of my jealousy.
Ecstasy
escape to heavens,
Heavenly,
Read the guide carefully.
I wish to be seventy
and spread the density,
An ange...
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announces, abuse, bullying, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Compassion for all Living Creatures
...But not the interminably hopeless daddy longlegs
some say cellar spiders also know as the cranefly
lurking amidst the shower curtain then
flapping wildly all around my hat
just not first thing on...
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announces, flying, insect, morning,
Form: Free verse
SUNSET ON A MOUNTAIN TOP
...
We think we have the best of both worlds…
we get to watch the sun set over the ocean…
watch as into the water it slowly drops…
And we also get to watch it set…into the horizon
from on a mountai...
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announces, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Minimal pomp and circumstance
...
lily of the valley
divine cluster of bells
charisma on a stem
its perfume awakens nature
and announces spring's
long awaited homecoming
AP: Honorable Mention 2025...
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announces, flower, spring,
Form: Free verse
thorns in the glass
...“there are thorns in the glass”
the baby exclaims
as she points, points, points
to the mirror of life,
yet no one listens,
and she is ignored.
“there are thorns in the glass”
the child cries...
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Categories:
announces, society,
Form: Narrative
Ode to Dad
...
I wish your heart had not been broken, your spirit crushed, so much unspoken.
One day, I’ll walk again by your side.
We’ll amble through the countryside.
To watch the fish jump in the stream....
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announces, dad, memory, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
THE RUMOR
...RUMORS USUALLY BEGAN BY SOMEONE SO FIXATED ON ANOTHER PERSONS LIFE IT COULD BEGAN ON THE SCHOOL YARD SOMETHING AS SMALL AS BEING JEALOUS THAT YOUR CLASSMATE HAS A SHINING NEW INK PEN WITH A BIG PINK ...
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announces, allah,
Form: Naat
HALLS OF AMENTI 2
...HALLS OF AMENTI 2
Doom dark in the
Halls of Amenti
whole families are
dropped down drains
covers shut tight
no pink flamingos
not a single orange
tree in sight
They grope along hol...
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announces, 12th grade, change, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Channelling a King
...Channelling a King
(A regal voice whispers)
Oh Here
She Comes
Oh Here
She Comes
Oh Blessed Be
Oh Blessed be
Tonight the Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood
Appears on her white ...
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Categories:
announces, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
The Ends
...The gifts of life, upon me have been heaped,
but, one by one, I say goodbye, and they end,
as time's unseen agent mercilessly reaps,
and life's pilot announces "time to descend".
Goodbye to ...
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Categories:
announces, age, death, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
12 Minutes
...A TV drones on
Background noise
Riffing on a trash can
Moments
Without moment
Motionless predators
Devouring their prey
Popcorn
Stuck between the teeth
A reminder of joy’s
Transient cheese ...
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Categories:
announces, nonsense, time,
Form: Free verse
A living hellish nightmare
...A living hellish nightmare...
only just began early today
November 6th, 2024,
when my eyes frightfully espied
glaring headlines bespoke horror
conjured, portended and yielded
worse fate than...
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announces, america, angst, animal, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
HAPPENINGS On TIME
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afternoon says bye
night announces its arrival
roses sway on branch...
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Categories:
announces, allusion, imagery, poetry,
Form: Haiku
The impostor
...The perfect convict, without a name, without thoughts, destined to obey in a universe that weighs my mortal soul on the scale of immortality, I was born to die at the silent demand of my parents who ...
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Categories:
announces, death, emotions, fate, heaven,
Form: Free verse
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