Ode to a Journalist
...You made up your mind to view the world
With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre,
Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled
Man and beast...
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Categories:
baluster, dedication, eulogy, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Trial
...The barrister had always been a liberal thinker
An uprising star with roaming genes of a tinker
In the court-room she never took of her guard
But in real life she had become a nude poet and ...
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Categories:
baluster, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Pause For a Replay
...1. A satellite on me is so superfluous
b’cos even without it, you’ll see my flaws
my new adulthood on your eyes is a sty
as my every late night makes you pray and cry
anytime my rebellion faces y...
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Categories:
baluster, daughter, father daughter, life,
Form: Lyric
The Forgotten
...The Forgotten ?
To live with this conscious contusion
and forget how babies cry
Become so untouched by horror
commonplace a communion with nothing
Care less for hunger
and wish the lacera...
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Categories:
baluster, future,
Form: Free verse
My Mom
...How fortunate to know
a chairwomen who sings.
One scrupulous in nature and
conductor of our being.
We the railings.
She the baluster.
For we know where we stand with her
ascending or des...
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Categories:
baluster, allegory, mother, visionary,
Form: I do not know?