One Breath
...Complex topics
simple rhymes
Truth untangled
darkness shines
Terse in format
long on tone
Silence Christened
sin bemoans
Complex topics
simple rhymes
Said but once
forever chime
One br...
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Categories:
bemoans, freedom, voice, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Tall Man
...The tall man cannot see,
He has lost his sense of smell
He is my best friend
Who's life could be a life of hell
He is seldom miserable
And doesn't complain about his fate
He is a man of compass...
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Categories:
bemoans, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Simply Beyond Help
...Zounds!
longing for a
merciful descent into
the terminal ground
where smoky eyes
semi-watch
streams of
semi-(dis)information
exhaled from
smoking brains
on a mission
to search &
decons...
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Categories:
bemoans, dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
...Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn *****S...
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Categories:
bemoans, abuse, america, angst, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Souls Cry
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Essence melancholic bemoans, echoing soul’s doleful cry
When clamors of unrequited love, earnestly amplify,
Bruised yearnings of deep desires, as lovelorn heart sighs,
For the longings of shatte...
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Categories:
bemoans, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
In the kingdom of forgetfulness you've left me, dear friends of old
...In the kingdom of forgetfulness you've left me, dear friends of old,
But in my soul I bear no grudge, just an undying flame, bold,
You've planted in me the seed of longing, in the endless wasteland...
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Categories:
bemoans, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Prune juice as effective emetic
...Prune juice as effective emetic
Brainstorming yields casting
the following plumbline
netting genetic, italic, kinetic,
magnetic, opportunistic, quixotic,
synchronistic, and universalistic r...
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Categories:
bemoans, age, analogy, angst, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Organ Grinder
...The silence stream cascades in the alien alley,
sonata of stillness resonates in the concrete,
dances with the music of the barrel organ,
his weathered calloused fingers produce.
The nostalgic ...
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Categories:
bemoans, music,
Form: Free verse
The Price
...I wish
I were a cold, cold lifeless stone
when crushed by a careless trudging foot
no pain bemoans.
I wish
I were a nebulous cloud
the playful wind bungles round around
now lady-like floats
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Categories:
bemoans, growth, hope, humanity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Anthology
...Trouble, trouble stirs the wind
ghastly ghosts rise and ascend
warty toads croak
vile spells are spoke
witches’ covens evil intend
Burbling, gurgling cauldron hot
with purple vein, red bloo...
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Categories:
bemoans, celebration, funny, giggle, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not Live
...Ruing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially withdrawn *****Sapiens)
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Categories:
bemoans, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Temporal Dilettante Journalist
...Temporal Dilettante Journalist
David J Walker
no-thing need not name the nameless
breaks the morning in disguise
shakes the shame and wakes the shameless
quench tormented turbid eyes
the...
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Categories:
bemoans, allegory, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Say Goodbye
...There is a PLACE where my story began that became most difficult
to understand and left a bitter TASTE, an ugly TRACE that was hard to ERASE. Most of its people were loving, but it was a cruel place...
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Categories:
bemoans, home,
Form: Rhyme
Chasing the Light
...Orphaned by the distant wind
as darkness bathes the dawn
My wings have flown beyond my sight
to catch the cygnet swan
A brother to the foreign soil
lost father to the man
Hearing wisps of memor...
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Categories:
bemoans, light,
Form: Rhyme
Leaving Home
...My heart went on a roam to explore
A place far away across the fence bar.
To seize the moment of an open door
Adventure felt free when traveling far.
With turmoil war, work inspired the mind,
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Categories:
bemoans, adventure, irony, journey, leaving,
Form: Free verse
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