My Heart's Hedera
...My heart's hedera [†]
Like two paragraphs
It breaks [selah]
between you and I
It breaks [selah]
and aches just to look at you
It breaks [selah]
when we fight
And you leave for ...
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Categories:
bereaves, christian, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Let The Lilies And The Roses Flourish
...For crying out loud, the flowers are gorgeous,
Fresh, happy, young, alive, and vivacious.
Regrettably, we, humans, cut their lives short,
From time to time, from events to events.
For God’s sak...
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Categories:
bereaves, autumn, beautiful, celebration, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Last Hurrah
...Autumn brings colors to uplift "summer's soul"
"washing withered" greens with bright patina;
the eyesight delight which brightens and abets,
with "fiery fusion...
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Categories:
bereaves, autumn, summer, tribute,
Form: Verse
Amid the Jagged Shadows
..."Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs;”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
,
I stand amidst the stillness of the graveyard and b...
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Categories:
bereaves, death, rose,
Form: Sonnet
Let the Flowers Flourish
...For crying out loud, the flowers are gorgeous,
Fresh, happy, young, alive, and vivacious.
Regrettably, we, humans, cut their lives short,
From time to time, from events to events.
For God’s ...
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Categories:
bereaves, feelings, flower, happy, heart,
Form: Rhyme
In Stillness
..."Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " Samuel Taylor..
I stand amidst the stillness of the graveyard and browse
My unbearable anguish like drooping flowers surge,
Amid the...
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Categories:
bereaves, death, grave, silence,
Form: Sonnet
Lamentations 1
...How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces, has now become a slave.
Bitterly she weeps...
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Categories:
bereaves, abuse, anger, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Time
...i repudiate this clock on the wall
each moment frozen of time
lashes back in internal strokes
against my weary soul
its ticking erupts
like thunderous echoes
within the confines
of my tortur...
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Categories:
bereaves, fear, time,
Form: Free verse
Falls Coming
...FALLS COMING
Falls coming sometimes when the leaves fall;
I envision them as colored paper shredded;
Wind is blowing cascading march to the breeze;
Quietly awaits the robin as it sees the bra...
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Categories:
bereaves, analogy, appreciation, autumn, how
Form: Free verse
Six-Word Couplet Series
...Compensation
Necessity lends wings
weaving silver strings.
Ways of the world
Not yet wise
learn to surmise.
Gamble
Roll the dice
pay the price.<...
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Categories:
bereaves, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Tyrants of the Ruling Sun
...Tyrants of the Ruling Sun
Let the universe swallow my slaving soul
As the sorrows surround the sinking shoal
The light lingers before it falls on my face
Edacious echoes engulfed wi...
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Categories:
bereaves, depression, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Alliteration
Fire and Ice
...The whispers of indifference
dispel the glory of the hour
when tender moments meant so much
and roses blossomed on the bower.
we frolicked as the days grew long,
rejoicing in the innocence,
the yout...
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Categories:
bereaves, sad, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Fire and Ice
...The whispers of indifference
dispel the glory of the hour
when tender moments meant so much
and roses blossomed on the bower.
we frolicked as the days grew long,
rejoicing in the innocence,
the yout...
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Categories:
bereaves, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Course Correction
...You have apologized to the world
Now apologize to me
For I did not give a swine my pearl
Nor put sugar in the sea
What this house on old foundations
The thinking group domain
What is a beginn...
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Categories:
bereaves, anniversary, black african american,
Form: Verse
Human Wreckage (Part 5)
...I am left with the human wreckage of my life,
My baggage of bones and clutter, spectres and desire
To slaver around and haunt me until it ends.
To look back is pain, to look forward is fear and to...
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Categories:
bereaves, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Blank verse
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