Lords of the Lattice
...Beneath the hum of unseen wires,
A shadow grows, its reach aspires.
No fields of earth, no rivers free,
Yet lords of code claim sovereignty.
Their towers rise, not stone but light,
A lattice s...
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Categories:
aspires, power, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
Cupid's Aim
...Yes, Justice aspires to be blind,
But Cupid is not far behind.
His aim is so loose,
A moose and a goose
Once found that their stars were aligned....
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Categories:
aspires, allegory, animal, bird, funny,
Form: Limerick
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories:
aspires, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Dreamer and the dreamed
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The dream that a dreamer dreams is his whim
as the dreamer the one he dreamed is him
both the hero and the rival in a play
he can break the trance even overly grim.
Manifestation of our suppr...
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Categories:
aspires, dream,
Form: Rubaiyat
How long is the end?
...I screamed loud, the scare from my diagnosis,
My streams of tears filled seven hundred oceans.
The doctor spoke bleakly of the prognosis,
His face lay bare, devoid of all emotions.
Now anguish ...
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Categories:
aspires, cancer, death, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
In This Moment
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Resting against his shoulder,
Where I feel blessed by my soul’s respite,
With a wonderful that can’t be spoken
My heart assumes you will just know
What it is to feel like this –
Yet, if you...
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Categories:
aspires, appreciation, happy, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Jesus In Me
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I want to write
Hope into a life,
Smiles that never sigh,
Gentle that abides,
A music that aspires to write…
Joy into a song,
Gentling the wind,
Coloring the heart gold,
Arising t...
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Categories:
aspires, appreciation, blessing, christian, hope,
Form: Free verse
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...
who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linke...
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Categories:
aspires, anger, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
On the Edge of a Wintery Night
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Falling, falling, falling
Always calling – softly, breathless,
On wings of flakes, so quiet,
Silence drifting, hallucinating,
Dreaming of the moments,
When heartfelt prayers are answered…
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Categories:
aspires, appreciation, god, joy, snow,
Form: Free verse
The Empty Pea Pod: Rimbaud et Verlaine
...pact fusion hath brewed
welds cauldron spewed spit fiery
sparse talents biformed renowned
oddity affair
ardent youth pose statuesque
fragile innards touch grotesque
bursts end aggression
sever...
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Categories:
aspires, analogy, conflict, dark, fate,
Form: Sedoka
YOU CURED MY LUSTS
...What a beaut!
My mind silently, hopefully aspires,
As you made me terribly perspire,
I am now having troubles to respire.
What a healing!
As my heart cried for your uncommon love,
I was heale...
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Categories:
aspires, appreciation, care, emotions, friendship
Form: Rhyme
Weeping Pages
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
Weeping, like a willows graceful waft, pleasing
Even the heart will melt in the doubtful ...
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Categories:
aspires, appreciation, hope, muse, nature,
Form: Terzanelle
Slipping Ember
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Written: June 07, 2024
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Mistakes stain death
we cannot deny our heritage
some may address an illness
whilst considering restrai...
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Categories:
aspires, bereavement, courage, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Heart of Desire
...Countless desires breed in my heart,
Countless aspirations take wing
from the soul of my mind;
Each aspiration has a spirit of its own
Each aspiration rides on
the wings of dream raring to soa...
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Categories:
aspires, desire,
Form: Free verse
Heart Gentle, Eye Mindful
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Ezekiel 11:19 “And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:”
The pages turn...
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Categories:
aspires, blessing, encouraging, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
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