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Premium Member Fig Leaf
...On the shadowed banks of river they sat together
Adulating setting sun quivering in rippling currents
Where golden filaments shimmered on blue water
Forming and breaking ephemeral circular motions......

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Categories: memorializing, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Myself In Urban Chaos
...Here I go again, focused on myself.
Remembering, analyzing,
Memorializing tragedy.
Thinking, endless thinking.
Suicides, death of grandmas, past loves.
Pining about passions and losses.
The con......

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Categories: memorializing, angst, change, city, depression,
Form: Free verse
At Gettysburg
...Unyielding stone, the furniture
au naturel, no dress lace tablecloth
concealing ants scavenging our picnic lunch. Loathe
are we to flick them while they steal our cheese and crackers.

Siblings ......

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Categories: memorializing, america, conflict, memorial, war,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Sage Tidings
...Deluged with the nostalgic era of you,
Your lush verdant scent lining 
Wistful sentiments upon idle reflections 
Scattered in fragments and fine dustings, as 
I acquaint myself with futile intric......

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Categories: memorializing, death, grandparents, life, love,
Form: Free verse
The King's Wife - Te Arri Vahine
...The King's Wife - Te Arri Vahine

Gauguin’s painting of “The King’s Wife,”
immortalized a goddess of Tahiti, Pacific paradise.
Mesmerizing mahogany muse memorializing his canvas,
she’s a ......

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Categories: memorializing, art, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
The Social Ladder
...Avarice breeds contempt,
disrupting equilibrium.

Forgotten graces; haughty imps jubilate, 
keenly listening, memorializing news 
of people quietly receding.

Slippery transgressions ultimatel......

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Categories: memorializing, corruption, jealousy, life, power,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member Festering Wound
...On the banks of river folks gathered solemnly
Where in repose lay the body of his father;
Dry dead-wood was stacked in layers they built,
Fire was crackling, burning, heads were bowing,
Memoriali......

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Categories: memorializing, angst, death, memory, poverty,
Form: Free verse
168 Empty Chairs
...
On the morning of April 19, 1995, 
Terror was heard through the Oklahoma sky.
 
At 9:02 A.M. the explosion did occur, 
And the blue common day turned into a blur.
 
A memorial was bui......

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Categories: memorializing, history, placeslonely, , memorial,
Form: Personification
Outsider
...I really did place a plastic bubble
Resting on a rooftop of tar and trouble
Suffocating the air from a pink, perfumed bug
In agony over that final hug
Memorializing with retrowishes
Replaying si......

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Categories: memorializing, break up, emotions, first
Form: Rhyme
Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Uno
...the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast 
     in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin, when counting 
     the last three......

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Categories: memorializing, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
Chieftains of the Land
...The dim past houses warriors of yesterday
whose  lachrymose trail of tears 
continue to whet the sympathy of one diehard
dilettante commissar born and bred
upon the soil those indigenous Tribes 
......

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Categories: memorializing, angst, death, loss, native
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Unity Is The Key
...Black Americans marching on the street
protest white cops on a black killing spree.
And many will likely be gassed or beat;
to unlock change; unity is the key.

The racist hounds of hell......

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Categories: memorializing, 10th grade, america, anger,
Form: Sonnet
Mother's Day
...Mother's day 
A day for reflection 
A day for rejoicing 
A day of thanksgiving 

Mother's day 
A day of understanding 
A day of appreciating 
A day of acknowledging 

Mother's day 
A day m......

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Categories: memorializing, mom, , memorial,
Form:
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
...Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday 
during month of May
can be traced back 
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting prec......

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Categories: memorializing, absence, anniversary, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
...Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf

in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse to expatiate po......

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Categories: memorializing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry