The Road
...I started toddling at seven months,
Walking the roads as from twelve
Shaping my feet from sands and mud upon bumps
Frequenting the paths to hell and into which I delve
From the spittle of the s...
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Categories:
bifurcated, life,
Form: Rhyme
Rosemary's Wedding
...This Sunday,
Before noon,
In my community church,
Wedding bells ring?
Rosemary,
Daughter of our land,
Weds!
Grand invitations
With ancestral R.S.V.P.
To be spoken with flutes,
Dressed i...
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Categories:
bifurcated, social, society, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Jaywalking
...This is when the old and the young,
beasts and confraternal drunks
damn the consequences of death
lying porous on crossroads upon
bifurcated paths, fractured junctions
and ceremonial cul-de-sacs...
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Categories:
bifurcated, car, city, travel, urban,
Form: Free verse
cha-cha twinz
....
cha cha cha
shuffle
flirtatious
cha-chaz
and in the passionate
grip
uv the music
i m...
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Categories:
bifurcated, beautiful, blessing, passion,
Form: Carpe Diem
DUAL VOICES: INK AND CHALK
...I am a tempest of words, aching to burst forth.
(Years of structured lessons simmer beneath my skin.)
The most important thing is that I'm drowning in metaphors.
Being a poet shapes reality, an...
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Categories:
bifurcated, teacher, writing,
Form: Narrative
In the veils of dusk, where whispers merge with shadows
...In the veils of dusk, where whispers merge with shadows,
My dear lover, do not seek a soul like mine.
Seek someone more radiant, or a spirit akin to yours,
But not someone who bears the unseen sha...
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Categories:
bifurcated, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences through...
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Categories:
bifurcated, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
At night, when I remember our love once more
...At night, when I remember our love once more,
Us, stained by the shadow that glides in, trembling beneath the gentle star,
Held tight in embrace, like two nomads under the infinite vault of pigment...
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Categories:
bifurcated, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
The Orchard's Bounty
...Written: September 24, 2023
Apple Picking Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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In a farm adorn...
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Categories:
bifurcated, analogy, appreciation, beauty, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive di...
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Categories:
bifurcated, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Happenstance
...What happens is a bifurcated
fork, with fate's twin prongs.
You can prick with it,
or can be pricked by it.
The choice is yours!
Is that happenstance,
a chance happening?
Or did you make
the ...
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Categories:
bifurcated, change, fate,
Form: Free verse
Mindfullness Class
...OK, mindful class,
past time to reopen our nurturing nests,
our nutritional mouths
and good-natured ears
and fertile reverse reserves
of not Lose/Lose
EarthMother Health-Wealth Care.
First,
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Categories:
bifurcated, appreciation, education, health, humanity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throu...
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Categories:
bifurcated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
New Moon
...apple cores bifurcated
maggoty realms
spilled over
long stems bled
a sluggish
green insemination
toward evening
small apes gathered
to scream at the
new moon
there were bones
to be s...
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Categories:
bifurcated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Times They Are Changing
...Some friends say I do not understand
The new age we are purportedly living in
The tell me even language has changed
Frankly, I don’t know where to begin.
It seems my statistics are wa...
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Categories:
bifurcated, change, perspective,
Form: Free verse
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