To Rekindle Liberty's Flame
...A leader looks forward
He doesn't look back
Makes tough decisions
Rarely backtracks
He's not always right
And he's sometimes unwise
Yet he admits his mistakes
He deals not in lies
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Categories:
backtracks, america, inspirational, integrity, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight Twixt Twins
...Memories fade slowly
Flickering with spurts of afterglow
The bad and ugly quick to go
The good crystallize, glint and twinkle
Before fading like embers to ash, in fire out.
Dawn is twilight pl...
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Categories:
backtracks, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Turning To Turquoise
...Verse 1: My destiny...
My dignity...
Is all gone since you left me with nothing to lose
I'm willing to let go of this grudge in my heart...cut loose the noose
That's around my neck
Give me your...
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Categories:
backtracks, deep,
Form: Lyric
Anew
...To our commitment I already got myself engaged
Though you redoubtably say I’ve changed,
You think I no longer care
Or do you no longer see me still standing there?
With every backtracks I l...
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Categories:
backtracks, analogy, love, moving on,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Intenstinal Gratitude
...The “forthcoming” backtracks on dilly-dallied whispers.
They place verbal down payments on layaway,
Incomplete soul mates
Running on muted slow dances
Blanketing their pain
“Oh, how I ...
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Categories:
backtracks, conflict, confusion, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Peter Pan Nightmares On Chatham Avenue
...out of sync the wheel
squeaks, too many little
brown mice with big mice ears
have chewed my bearings
a sunbeam sits on my
dislocated shoulder
and the cat's in the cradle
sleeping with the ...
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Categories:
backtracks, fantasy, imagination
Form: I do not know?
Moved Along
...Neap tide rising by minutes
swirls me in upset sand
gritty
irritating
chaffing
catches in creases
of furrowed brow.
Washed up fodder
gifted from the sea
adds to my h...
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Categories:
backtracks, introspection, life, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse