A QUINTESSENTIAL NOTE TO YOU
...Create your lines,
Both soft and strong
Make them intuitive
(yet not too long!)
The spectators require
The reader needs!
Tactile verses …
Responsive languor..Yet with speed.
If you aim to ple...
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Categories:
ballista, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
A Murder Most Foul
...I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
Then my Heart did ask me with fright.
Wh...
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Categories:
ballista, autumn, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Narrative
Battering Ram and Soda Bread
...73 Exhumed Creative Engineers Tear Chubby Soliferrum and biscotti
93 Diseased Stewardesses Smack Bemused Ballista and tea cake
83 Gorged Piano Teachers Teach Damp Axe and éclair...
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Categories:
ballista, political, prayer, pride, truth,
Form: Free verse
Colossi
...Qi and phi,
Murder and hijinx.
Averting worth to silence the clink.
Yet it is there; impaled through the chink in my armor made of kinks.
I'm a topological quantum knot; if my thoughts were anymo...
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Categories:
ballista, allegory, analogy, courage, death,
Form: Epitaph
Jerusalem, the Jugular -2
...It was not uncommon to discover a missing Brother Legionary
castrated, and decapitated
with a headless eagle carved upon his chest,
don't speak to me of morals and mercy
for I have seen and dealt...
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Categories:
ballista, history,
Form: Epic
A Narrow Escape In the Coffee Shop
...In the coffee shop
A mistimed twist
By the barista
Caused a hissing
Coffee jet to
Ballista towards
My sister and I
Worried it would
Hit her wrist and
Give her a blister,
But fortunately
It missed her...
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Categories:
ballista, humor, humorous, silly,
Form: Free verse
My Own Nemesis (Part 1)
...Down deep with
is where it lies,
burning and churning
in the purple blackness.
Until it hears the latch click,
then the world
finds out
what's in store.
With its release
the whol...
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Categories:
ballista, angst, depression, imagination, time,
Form: Bio