Categories:
arteries, earth, imagery, muse,
Form: Haiku
In the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable
In the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable,
Deeper than the caves where forebears painted bison and dreams with blood and burning charcoal,
While the instinct of survival dances through our cells like a shaman drunk on life.
We are the children of a magnificent illusion weaving its
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Categories:
arteries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
arteries
I wish you weren't apart of me
Traces of you flowing through my arteries
Deprived of essentials like a commodity
Wish you were someone who fought hard for me
Take it all, at least what's left
You've burnt this candle from both ends
See the light through the plight
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Categories:
arteries, 12th grade, absence, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Spiritual Arteries
I was a negative teen, not depressed -
My diary declared I was.
A complainer indeed, no one stopped me;
Only a sociology teacher
gave me some definitions to ponder.
I was a listener back then -
the friend not the one that needed advice
yet. But
no one heard me; I was cut off
from the world. Sheltered
is what my aunts said.
Seemed shameful,
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Categories:
arteries, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Chardened Arteries
Who knew it would be in the cards
that I’d be preparing Swiss chard.
Saute’d in extra-virgin,
you’ll avoid the heart surgeon,
but it tastes much better with lard!
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Categories:
arteries, food, health, heart, silly,
Form: Limerick
Singing Shining Diamond Sky Arteries
Singing shining Diamond sky arteries
Dripping lifeblood our blue planet
Nurturer of all beating hearts
Mirror of the oceans in the skies
Singing shining Diamond sky arteries
Pulsing with translucent silver grey sunshine
Cloaker of shining winning days on their way
Painter of future smiles, futures happy play
Singing shining Diamond sky arteries
Cleanse us
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Categories:
arteries, adventure, allegory, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Lifeline
Blood no longer flows
Through the stented arteries
Pacemaker discharging
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Categories:
arteries, life,
Form: Haiku