In The Chill By My Windowsill I Sit Alone
...Oh! How I despise dawn’s blushing optimism
and dried hydrangea blooms sepia skinned and papery thin.
Humdrum hands beat doldrums drum.
Why won’t the summer solstice light this darkness?
A gnawi...
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Categories:
armful, grief, introspection, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
The Obsidian Plague of Midnights
...In Spring there’s friendship that’s lasted through the Winter,
all those cold nights of salted drops and quilts of snow.
The obsidian plague of midnights, melancholic drapes,
but all the while the...
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Categories:
armful, friend, grief,
Form: Haibun
The Live-in -- Part 2 of 3
...She here elbowed past me stomping, pausing not (although me whomping
With her wildly swinging handbag – five kilograms, if not more).
Cackling brusquely in a lather, that I should her baggage gathe...
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Categories:
armful, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Scattered
...Inside a library of things uncountable,
clippings, extracts, jottings, and snippets
gather words out of nothing.
Mind dust wafts.
A woman approaches with an armful
of my early, roughly cobbled...
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Categories:
armful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The First One
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We'll have to choose, dear,
we shall choose not between the colors of the sky or
the earth,
religion and God,
We must pick it up, dear; we must
pick
not the stars of the night, ...
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Categories:
armful, character, courage, future, love,
Form: Free verse
Phone
...Powerful tool –
Harmful at school,
Or great device?
Not always nice;
Each one: think twice....
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Categories:
armful, introspection, people, perspective, school,
Form: Acrostic
Way Out the Maze
...4/4/21
(Chorus)
These days
Difficult to explain
It's not charades
Been truly feeling strange
Close and far from grass blades
Seeking a way out the maze
Not sure if my soul can be saved
Or ...
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Categories:
armful, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Reading of Things
...Inside an old library of things uncountable
clippings, extracts, jottings, and snippets.
‘things’
nothing can be
excluded
yes the air is musty, thickly clothed,
muffled and club fingered, ...
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Categories:
armful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Sham of My Humanity
...Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your poppy shed its last sepa...
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Categories:
armful, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Open Dictionary
...at dawn i hug an armful of words - open dictionary.
i toss them in the air like confetti confectionary.
like sherbert they’re my own flavor’d dialect creamery.
i t a l i c s and ...
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Categories:
armful, imagery, words,
Form: Verse
The Dawn of An Early Night
...The dawn of an early night hoping life can be right for the fight of life at night from the beginning to the end of all sins to comprehend the measure for life to tend for the hearts of brave men. Th...
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Categories:
armful, adventure, anxiety, autumn, bible,
Form: Ballade
Summer's Binge
...Late summer is a challenge for me.
Every year I’m overwhelmed with desire,
when passing fruit stands, vegetable stands,
and even farm wagons on front lawns,
overflowing with fresh produce.
I s...
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Categories:
armful, august, food, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Morning Has Come
...Morning has come, new day is here
Predicaments of all sorts are what lie ahead…
Morning has come, I don’t have fear
Sentiments aren’t manifesting into utter dread…
Morning has come, I have ...
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Categories:
armful, angst, appreciation, encouraging, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Snowflake
...The Snowflake
Sit quietly
And pretend
There's a roaring fire
In the fireplace
The snow
Silently builds
Against the north side
Of the house.
Smell
The smoke?
Listen
To the wind...
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Categories:
armful, memory, snow, wind, winter,
Form: Free verse
Ofps: Orders For Protection, Divorce's Pre-Emptive Scorch-The-Earth Weapon
...Burden of proof lies squarely on the accused’s name;
The filer can exaggerate and overstate any imagined claim.
In Minnesota, Judges are forced to approve nearly every filing,
Driven by soci...
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Categories:
armful, abuse, divorce, evil, family,
Form: Rhyme
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