Shadow Man
...A shadow falls across
the path he’s yet to walk;
like the one that follows;
torments, bedevils, then
all the lightness swallows.
A shadow falls across
his thoughts each day he wakes;
ebbed b...
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Categories:
bedevils, mental health, poverty, society,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Date With Dracula
...Carriage drawn by four black steeds
Zombie coachman no blood to bleed
He is employed by Dracula
Who calls him fondly Tarantula.
Tonight he's on deadly mission
His masters suffering mal...
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Categories:
bedevils, horror,
Form: Couplet
Breach of Confidentiality Induces Asphyxiation Part Deux
...Comeuppance generated
desire to kill self awoke
resolution to make amends
bedevils this bloke
who deservedly receives just desserts
invisible hand doth choke
living daylights, hence
nightmare ...
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Categories:
bedevils, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
To Wear a Mask That Is the Question
...To wear or not wear a mask that is the question found poems
To wear or not wear a mask
Is the question
That bedevils the world
From Brazil to the White House
Ohio and Texas
The call has g...
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Categories:
bedevils, allah, america, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
I Know, You Know
...Every mother is a woman,
But not every woman is a mother.
Womanhood is by virtue of the sculptor's mould,
But Motherhood is a sweet-bitter Journey for special trekkers.
So I knew a man who was a ...
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Categories:
bedevils, beauty, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Lyric
Eliminate Disorder For Good
...Ensnared in greed’s deadlock
Where I can’t open the lock
To the barn in which kindness stock
That humankind in its hour of need
Longs to free its soul from the greed
That frustrates the compas...
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Categories:
bedevils, poems,
Form: Free verse
Puny Pin In a Sin Tin
...Hang in the den
When lions roam in wait
To snatch your serenity from Eden
Where the Devil’s threat
Roams to pounce
On the dignity you espouse
In more bounce per ounce
To rouse and arouse
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Categories:
bedevils, poems,
Form: Free verse
Shades of Gray Grief
...Man of melancholy - memories ashen and shadow gray,
heart harrowed, solicits solace from her psychic energy.
An offering, his woebegone weeping wildflower bouquet,
teardrops titian, sorrow scintil...
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Categories:
bedevils, bereavement, death, grave, grief,
Form: Pantoum
A Food Addict
...A food fan sees a delicious cake
but not the caterpillar it is
A drunkard sees the nice beer
but not the poison in it
An adulterer sees the woman
but not the ring in her hands
An amorous ...
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Categories:
bedevils, allusion, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Confetti
...This compliment to this glory
Confetti! Confetti ! Confetti !
The prime of adulation
The resume of a new epoch
Sentiment of joy, prime of hope.
To this reality betrothed itself to humanity
Con...
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Categories:
bedevils, divorce, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Language of Poetry
...Prose coming down verse knocking verse everywhere
Without a hair to care around
Cars parked on Boulevard drive never learned
Can't propel myself dispite my write
Flowers in the wind
Nourishi...
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Categories:
bedevils, flower, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Free Cee Singed and Signed By Satan
...SINGED AND SIGNED BY SATAN
Hell follows me wherever I go
Flames singe me from far below
Satan has spawned a thousand tears
A devil who has led me for too many years
I feel the devilish heat...
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Categories:
bedevils, angst, me, me,
Form: Quatrain
The Writer
...Do youlike what i've written
are you thus faily smitten
with the meter and pace
not too slow, nor a race
does it travel to your liking
are the pauses so striking
you forget where you are
on th...
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Categories:
bedevils, philosophy, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
B
...Beware!
Because befriending beasts
Besets bad boys.
Being bad beguiles beautiful brides
But being bold bedevils bimbos
Brave bigots beseeches beliefs
But being a barging bard is being brief...
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Categories:
bedevils, art, on writing and
Form: I do not know?