Confusing Fusions
...What's my point?
I often ask
too seldom
Where's my circle?
Good days are right
as bad feel wrong dark night
And what's our peak communication point?
Where were we when I last remembered?
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Categories:
antitheses, earth, health, integrity, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Puncture Kit
...at the entrance to the drive-in church the road divides deceptively
the sign signals divisive directions but mediates midway at midnight
Saviour salvation spirit ...
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Categories:
antitheses, assonance,
Form: Alliteration
Songs of Suppression
...Celebratory stories of devotion to depression
are told not only in absence of light,
hiding,
but also in excess of dark,
fearing.
And yet we share an even less spoken silence
blanching out
i...
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Categories:
antitheses, culture, depression, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Beginnings Know Only Beginnings
...Beginnings Know Only Beginnings
by Odin Roark
Start
Go
Begin
Proceed
So many ways nature uses language
Yet a species of intellectual wealth
Decides t...
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Categories:
antitheses, life,
Form: Free verse
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part One
...Part One
“Apart from its popular conception of transmigration, (which is) sometimes almost humouristic, Manimekhalai offers a documentary contribution of immense value, under an easily accessible fo...
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Categories:
antitheses, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Boys
...There were boys in my life
From the time I was 13
There were boys
Secreted away in journals
Like some sort of forbidden candy
To be written about and savored
In a fantasy world all my own
And...
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Categories:
antitheses, girlfriend-boyfriendme, old, love, me,
Form: I do not know?
#'s
...Numbers transfigure into another skin
How I hate the countless ways
Of meaningless days
Day by day I peer through the haze
Hoping to find some calculation
A hand to navigate
Numbers seem to agi...
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Categories:
antitheses, science
Form: I do not know?