A Palm Reading
...The chimp stretches its arm,
a small hand, palm up under my chin,
fingers and thumb supple,
a pink-pawed sharing.
It’s a palmistry offering,
if only I had the skill to read it.
There is a lif...
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Categories:
bifurcates, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Besotted Legs and Trampled Shadows
...Daddy comes everyday when the twilight
Bifurcates the light into shadows
Like a miscreant, grasshopper
Intrudes into the cracks of walls
Mom became a vociferous loudspeaker
Alcohol staggers insi...
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Categories:
bifurcates, addiction, anger, betrayal, death,
Form: Free verse
Escape Route In Backstreets
...I haven’t walked for long
on the backstreets of my mind.
In the twilight hour i see now
the fading memory lane meander
to meet the dim pavement deserted
where our footsteps once echoed
with the...
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Categories:
bifurcates, memory,
Form: Free verse
Border
...A river carries me through noon,
Bifurcates,
There are two rivers,
One heads north
The other west.
Is one life,
The other death?
I spin a coin,
The last I’ve left....
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Categories:
bifurcates, angst, boat, fate, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Bifurcation
...blind path bifurcates
time arrow cleaves paired footprints...
shadows unmingle
June 13, 2019
Brian Strand Contest A Strand (1071)...
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Categories:
bifurcates, conflict, lost love,
Form: Senryu
Apartheid V Spiritual Integrity
...The frontal lobe of Earth's spoken history
bifurcates like Earth's revolving molten axis
co-arising dervish dance
to YangSun's radiant light.
So too my SoulCare
between Left and Right frontal ...
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Categories:
bifurcates, creation, culture, earth, education,
Form: Political Verse
Heartbroken
...Here comes an incomplete love story,
A boy, a girl and walls of infinity.
The boy gave a random click on a name,
The name which he thought would give his love a frame.
The girl accepted his hello...
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Categories:
bifurcates, depression, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Small Gifts: Contributing To Other's Happiness
...For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its ...
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Categories:
bifurcates, giving, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Birth of a River
...BIRTH OF A RIVER (b)
Have the vision,
to climb the mountain top.
You have the strength,
to navigate life.
Through planes, valleys,
ravines and rugged path.
The treacherous slope,
of the m...
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Categories:
bifurcates, inspirational,
Form: Free verse