Best Vicinity Poems

...In the land of finite, measurable calculus of existence,
You are a silhouette of mystique, esoteric obscurity,
A symbol ambiguous, living among realm of precision, 
Unreachable to quotidian and si......

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My head feels like it's being squeezed in a vise. Eardrums must have blown out from the explosion since I hear absolutely nothing, not even my own breath. Slowly rising to my feet I survey the dama......

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...Written: September 24, 2023
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I care, I search, for the spark of divinity,
That resides within every soul's vicinity.
In the ......

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...Winds were among first to notice
Fragrant air blowing fresh breeze 
Stemming from your pristine vicinity
Extolling prospects of your visit,

Announced by the birds in flight
Message circulated ......

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It’s a smooth and tasty way to get high.
Try my distillation of mash made from corn and rye.
I make it from my family’s secret recipe.
The only one who knows about it is me.
The stuff comes ......

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...Ain't it wild the things that have passed?
The things we thought would change,
the things we thought weren't gonna last?

(remember picnics on the park grass?
that was awesome)

Movies with fr......

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...Standing at the edge of forever
as one thought leads to hell
for I stare at the empty never
the other to a heavenly dwell

I must choose before the eyes of infinity
my soul torn bet......

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...Off to Nain, Jesus, his disciples and the crowd.
See the gate! Approach the fate of Nain.

Coming out of the gate, a widow, and a crowd.
Her only son was being carried out of Na......

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...War leaves scars. They are emotional. They are physical. They are spiritual.

My brother had proposed to my sister-in-law on Valentine's Day, and so it was on that fateful day, 12 years later that ......

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...Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the cloud,” in the lush mesa of the magn......

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...Theme for collaboration suggested by Tim Smith


Two enormous old toads crossed the road
On Tom’s back lounged Thomasina toad
Both are ugly and warty
Thomasina’s so naughty
......

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...I: in the 70s

At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched on Thursday nights.
Her look was that o......

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...I'd have loved to see the bluebirds fly
above the white chalk-cliffs of Dover--
and as they were blithely soaring over,
immersed in thought I'd lie
in calm repose upon that beach,
admiring their......

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...retweets of alarm -

owls in the vicinity . . .

chick-a-dee-dee-dee



Jan. 18, 2021
for Tania Kitchin's A Cardinal, Blue Jay, Or Chickadee Haiku Poetry Contest

(had to totally change th......

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...Asian Epicurean Quest

At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
  
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude......

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