External Storms
...External Storms
Listen close, the winds whisper low,
A symphony of sorrow's ebb and glow.
Thunder rumbles, a beast awakening,
Heaven's own heartbeat, in warning speaking.
Pressure builds, unsee...
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Categories:
banded, confusion, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
In stars above
...In the fireflies in the sky above,
Gases collide with grace—no gaslighting~
They weave star-carpets that shimmer and wink,
God’s lanterns flaring to soften our darkness.
A fusion of hydrogen an...
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Categories:
banded, fire, rainbow, snow, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ordinary days Beautiful recirculation of my life
...Wakey, wakey!
The buzz from my advanced THRITY THREE TEN seem to yell
Opened windows slapped aging mango leaves on my face
Monday already? Morning already?
Granny’s creaking chair again!
Sav...
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Categories:
banded, africa, beautiful, family, morning,
Form: Free verse
Back In My Day
...Whenever I would go to my mother,
Regardless of the bother,
Prices of sweets, housing, jobs,
Dangers on the street, or other bits and bobs,
She would give me advice so bold,
Befor...
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Categories:
banded, age, death, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
regrets of yesteryear
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we stood alone
that's how hunger works
we craved attention
a little praise
when i think back
we could have banded
we could have been strong
but we didn't
Posted on March 4, 2025...
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Categories:
banded, children, longing, sad, youth,
Form: Free verse
I miss writing about birds
...silenced canaries
sexed and banded and wings clipped~
cagey politics...
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Categories:
banded, america, bird, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
...Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though...
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Categories:
banded, cry, environment, fire, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Choirs for Tomorrow
...Choirs For Tomorrow
I must feed
tough as tough semiprecious form of
quartz with banded colouring to
the backyard fungi with gills on
the bottom of
their cap, and then
mark history by
p...
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Categories:
banded, humor,
Form: Free verse
New Home in the Southwest
...A lean coyote chases a hare through
heat of desert winds. His swift doe
darts past my boots. They've managed
to escape, this time. He'll lead the chase
away another day.
I pause to watch the s...
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Categories:
banded, animal,
Form: Free verse
THE LAKOTA AND THE MORNING STAR
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This being Native American Heritage month I salute the indigenous people
whose knowledge and principles I wish we’d done more to embrace…
instead of doing everything in our power…their culture an...
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Categories:
banded, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Harvest of Resilience
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A golden butter melting on warm toast,
tasting of home, a soft gasp wrapped
in sweet memories, a heart held lightly
by rays of summer sun, unbuttoning a gray,
crying sky that on...
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Categories:
banded, analogy, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dance of the banded peacock
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Pouncing across the white pinwheel flowers,
dancing to the delightful tunes of breeze,
Blue beauty performed an air show for hours;
For a few moments, my sorrows she seized
Displaying a kalei...
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Categories:
banded, beautiful, beauty, butterfly, hope,
Form: Sonnet
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...
despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories:
banded, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
He Sails at The Top
...He sets up His mast upon His raft.
He sailed the tops and groves of the trees in granting
There He goes through the forest, soaring His craft
He provides energy to the wild as the swift wind pass...
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Categories:
banded, god, imagery, inspirational, nature,
Form: Imagism
Festive Moments
...Time to tour the best Christmas-decorated places in town
With a map in hand of all the beautifully lit-up houses to be found
Despite the amount of time to set up and to take down the people have gi...
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Categories:
banded, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
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