The Secret Drawer
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This Time Last Month
A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.
Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn...
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Categories:
atlases, business, family, sad,
Form: Rhyme
My Book Engagement
...Book-engagement to me is indeed a God-granted privilege…
Exposing me, through printed words, to realities I acknowledge
Imparting knowledge and wisdom since pre-school to post-college
Deli...
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Categories:
atlases, bible, books, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Tea Stains and Tears
...Words After New Year
The words are dwindling now
but they will come again
in time, towards this year
with the purity of silk strewn
through a ring.
I will wait for the words
because unlike ...
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Categories:
atlases, angst,
Form: Free verse
Is It the Devil In Me
...Is It The Devil In Me
The devil in me
says take it.
Take the pen and be master
of your destiny.
I fear the walls are thin
between us
and you can see
my transparent
sinewy motives
like t...
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Categories:
atlases, angst,
Form: Free verse
Whims
...A hot tongue, voodooed soul.
Determined, a small and nameless bird.
My teeth, my teeth too shy for bones,
My words too old for stones.
My spine lights for batten eye,
a half-shoulder caramelling...
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Categories:
atlases, adventure, humor, love, nonsense,
Form: I do not know?
She Steps As Rose
...For V.R.S.
A bend, a pirouette--a flower's dance
reflects in his shadowed eyes, and in her
thorned steps, the atrophying force rooted and redoubling.
Promise me, he breathes behind a teacup
while s...
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Categories:
atlases, grandmother, winter,
Form: Free verse
Tom's Tidbits
...Cinqo De Mayo...When a Brooklyn thug target shoots at a floating jar of Hellman's.
Dutch- Where do they come from? I've looked at atlases dozens of times, and
can't find a country called Dutch,...
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Categories:
atlases, confusion, funny, imagination, on
Form: Burlesque