To Grow Peace
...To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-...
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Categories:
aspirating, adventure, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Decaying Headstone
...
Mossy vines camouflage decaying headstone
Thus hidden and fallen into disrepair
Foliage ever swallow so it cowers
Deeply weatherworn lettering embraced there
Threads of pier...
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Categories:
aspirating, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Zurich In Winter
...A gust of icy air blasts
the cold into my bones,
tugging at my knees with
hollow, aspirating groans,
making numb my cheeks,
whirling 'round my waist;
pulling at me thither-ward
down cobb...
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Categories:
aspirating, travel, winter,
Form: Quatrain
Virtual Life Metrics
...I spend time with a friend
well, a pseudo-friend
an acquaintance of sorts
no, I guess he'd be a friend,
****, who knows
one of those types you never really share your heart
that authentic...
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Categories:
aspirating, friend, world,
Form: Free verse
Lost Love Deliria - Part 1
...AWAKENING
Sleep and slumber, dreams of wonder... weaving,
morning’s vacuum broke the spell
Pitted pillow, note of parting... leaving,
“from your friend, a fond farewell”
Sunrise throbbing, twi...
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Categories:
aspirating, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Weep
...Weep
When will you cry?
Will you cry when they kill all your dreams
or when the sun stops
setting? Or when you cannot have kids,
or when they cancel your wedding? Will it bring
you to tears ...
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Categories:
aspirating, life, money,
Form: Free verse