Einstein
...Once there was a young boy
who did not learn at the same pace
who did not race in the same
predictable race – while his peers
played with fish and ball – grew,
traditional degrees from short to ...
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Categories:
artfully, art, eulogy, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
discordant notes
...This morning we jogged early
I was back in my flat by six-thirty
From my tenth floor view of the Charles River basin,
The morning was incandescently flushed by the peach-colored sun.
The transpar...
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Categories:
artfully, humor, leaving, morning, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Whatever You Want It To Be
...Your golden calf
speaks artfully in my ear
marketing its millions of worshipers-
whispers of temptation to be like you-
If all life produces are idolators
from the gold calves they adore...
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Categories:
artfully, introspection, perspective, philosophy, society,
Form: Free verse
Age hasn't softened me
...Age hasn’t softened me
Weakened me a bit, perhaps
I speak of a truth I’ve earned
Cherish the right to speak it
Often to the trees and stars
Sometimes cursing those in cars
I ponder often the ...
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Categories:
artfully, truth,
Form: Free verse
Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
appli...
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Categories:
artfully, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise Over the Sea
...Morning sunrise breathed light in filagree
burnishing colorful waves across the sea
It delicately wove golden threads of lace
in dawn's sky while it warmed my face
I smiled at the sea's lumin...
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Categories:
artfully, morning, sea, sun,
Form: Couplet
Psychedelic
...
Passion purple poppies now the world spins
Smokey Sativa surrounds the air breathed within
Yellows, blues, and reds are popping everywhere
Color changing cosmos are...
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Categories:
artfully, allusion, beauty, color, drug,
Form: Acrostic
Autumn Leaves
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Summer falls into Autumn's falling leaves, a color contrast of reds, yellows, browns, oranges, and purples in the breeze
All falling floating down from the trees to replenish the earths soil i...
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Categories:
artfully, autumn, beautiful, color, tree,
Form: Free verse
MINDSCAPES made manifest
...landscapes
inside
the mindseye
thoughts
pictured
in
reresentations
topographcal
terrains
in prospect
elaborate
exotics
artfully
engineered
in
ostensible
outlooks
...
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Categories:
artfully, art, introspection,
Form: Ekphrasis
Unconscious Bias
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Unconscious bias can upset one's heart
if kin or friends might shun your written art-
to look upon good poetry as play-
negating words that might uplift their day.
Some th...
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Categories:
artfully, fate, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Couplet
lulls
...It was 64ºf and overcast this morning when Lisa and I started our 5-mile jog to the Harbor and back. We always start our semesters this way. We’re emotionally ready for fall weather and hopefully, a ...
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Categories:
artfully, friendship, humor, morning, school,
Form: Free verse
Kalimba Notes Drift Out
...Kalimba notes drift out
To my delighted ear
As if the Matobo plains
Were conveyed from afar.
The tines - reverberating -
Complete an ethereal bar.
Each bar - artfully plucked -
Speaks kindly t...
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Categories:
artfully, africa, heart, music,
Form: Rhyme
Happy shiny tummy courtesy I REM ember in place of stipend
...Happy shiny tummy courtesy...I REM ember in place of stipend
An appetizer, essentially an
out of this world guacamole
quasi Neptune salad,
regarding self taught cook
earning prized counterpart...
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Categories:
artfully, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Dance of Dances
...The dance of dances is the one,
You dance with heart and soul,
Like making up your own steps,
In a life-affirming whole.
Nobody hears the music,
In the manner that you do,
Your partner is the...
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Categories:
artfully, dance, joy,
Form: Rhyme
CHANCE POEM 060524 enigma
...too grand
running
around
turned
to
absolute
sounds
recalled
secrets
painstakinly
plotted
&artfully
arranged
regularly
contiued
motivates
thin...
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Categories:
artfully, word play,
Form: Other
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