That Robin
...Female, I felt! Chirped differently than on other days!
As though crying and screaming in many ways
It might not be owing to the change of weather, I know.
Nor, due to the drizzles, visited its ne...
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Categories:
backtracked, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Dora Gouws, Into God's Hands
...I
Dora was 82 this year
My onetime neighbor
Three years back
I was new again
From USA, I backtracked
She inspired me about Africa again
II
Jesus, she loved Thee well
We pray, shalom, live ...
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Categories:
backtracked, age, appreciation, death of
Form: Free verse
Peter, Paul and a Sangoma
...Peter and Paul since grade two were great friends,
They often used to go away with girlfriends for weekends.
This time flew to South Africa on their own
They were excited, they had never flown.
T...
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Categories:
backtracked, friend,
Form: Free verse
Snow Globe
...12/29/20
"Snow Globe"
Respect the virtuoso
You don't or you know so
Life can be peligroso
People going loco
Humans addicted to chocolate aka cocoa
And the other kind of coco (cocaine)
On ...
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Categories:
backtracked, dark, deep, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
This Is No Fable
...I was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.
The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight,
With blossoms and ...
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Categories:
backtracked, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet
In Your Face
...There it is, the facts!
Some passed foolish words or acts,
a picture presence of a thousand words
looking back without grace to be restored;
what you said or what you did
no one can e...
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Categories:
backtracked, confusion, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Flashback To Fridays
...Flashback to Fridays when I was a wanted guest
a common companion strolling the riverside
with more than just the moon willing to chat
where words resonated with hand-cut diamonds
lighting up my ...
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Categories:
backtracked, lost,
Form: Free verse
The Hunt
...Form = Free Range Verse
The Hunt
Mans desire to hunt
Testing skills from the beginning of time
I had outfitted myself the day before
With camouflage, and all the tools of the trade
The exci...
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Categories:
backtracked, animal, humorous, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
...The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
for Fleur Adcock (b. February 10, 1934)
The hall was packed full, and the audie...
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Categories:
backtracked, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Kaos In -Part 2-
...Humorous Humors and tumorous assumers and crazy-fascinated consumers spend their money with wings on luxuries of the heart, going topsy-turvy over pleasures and expensive firs
Throw away past pleas...
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Categories:
backtracked, crazy, deep,
Form: Free verse
Oh My Numb Cranium
...Why did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?
Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon
Do...
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Categories:
backtracked, deep,
Form: Lyric
The Odium of Sodium
...Like a Phoenix, I rise up from the ashes of my past
Your beautiful tune mended the Earth with exquisite mirth
Like a runner, I'm running forward to the finish line oh so fast
You're a butterfly...
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Categories:
backtracked, betrayal, crazy, dark, deep,
Form: Verse
For You
...There's someone I need to write to…someone i take for granted.
Someone who knows who they are and some others can't stand it.
I mailed a few letter yet she hasn't replied back.
I think its been to...
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Categories:
backtracked, beauty, change, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Searching
...I meandered through the muddy Mekong
Searched in sultry sexy Saigon
Ravished in the Cat Thien Rain forest
Yet I still could not find you
I found myself haunted in Hong Kong
Caught up in the ca...
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Categories:
backtracked, places, poems, poetry, travel,
Form: Light Verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-One
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-One
Meantime the Faithful gathered for prayer sans delusions
His Holiness excused himself for the usual ablutions --
The Commandant backtracked to an ...
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Categories:
backtracked, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
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