From my window seat
...“This is a familiar route and one of the most common ones (at least to my seasoned eyes; you may find it beautiful)” — overheard.
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A day like any other,
but also
a day like no ...
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Categories:
birdless, car, feelings, freedom, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Birdless Morning
...It’s a birdless situation in the trees today
Birds have changed the location to stay
Could it be they can’t find any food
If they doubt the spring, its no good
Buds are opening the sun shines on ...
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Categories:
birdless, bird, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Raised by Trauma
...My body is an ear.
Absorbing whispers meant for others' mouths that only close to wait to shove out more sound.
In other directions.
Towards another mouth.
Mouths who vomit sounds for the ...
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Categories:
birdless, abuse, age, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
From the Earth's Depths
...Written: September 24, 2023
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In the dawn-like haze—a shriek was heard,
An echo so shrewd, yet birdless, oddly slurred
I...
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Categories:
birdless, analogy, angst, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
A Cause and Effects
...*Image of Ashes Volcanoes Eruptions by Pixabay.
A Cause and Effects
Richter scale gets dynamic
Seismic activity is registering
Voluminous debris goes errant
Birdless skies turn smok...
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Categories:
birdless, change, men, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
My Religion Is Dying
...plastic seas sick and
dissipating birdless skies
swaddle ash and dust
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Categories:
birdless, bereavement, bird, earth, environment,
Form: Haiku
Moment By Myself
...Under this asphalt sky
i sit pondering life
enjoying these quiet hours of the night
by myself
no unwanted guests
to throw me off my thoughts
I sit for hours
then miraculously
the dawn brea...
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Categories:
birdless, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Birdless Sky
...I never know which way to turn per se
Enhanced emotions flooding to the top
My lifestyle once was simpler than it's now
Gone are those years of equilibrium
Shades of the night now ...
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Categories:
birdless, analogy, introspection, world, writing,
Form: Blank verse
Two Swallows
...I want a day of full repose
With only Nature within sight,
For only then I truly might
Attain the peace which she bestows.
A while ago, two swallows came
To raise their younglings in a nest
B...
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Categories:
birdless, bird, depression, loss, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun Is There To Rise
...Door arrives door disappears
Door deprives door shares
Had doors been toward one way only
Life would have lost its lustre
With one hand life provides
With the other life robs us
Life sometime...
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Categories:
birdless, allusion, beauty, courage, hope,
Form: Free verse
My Dear, My Love, My Lie
...Alas, in the entirety of my composition I see, I feel, now, a part missing whose shape is strange, a form which nothing, without and within, might fill;
It is you, My Dear, whoever, wherever you...
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Categories:
birdless, dark, feelings, girl, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Frosty Day In the City
...FROSTY DAY IN THE CITY
Wetless day, birdless trees,
Witless denizens of metropolis
Long await the bus into
The delights of Manchester.
Townless bus waiters -
Their earphones are e...
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Categories:
birdless, urban,
Form: Free verse
Frosty Farewell
...In this season of dry winter
Cold winds dusty streets dry surface
Leafless willows barren fields birdless trees,
I can’t offer you!
A fragrant rose or a leafy twig of unripe almonds
Or raw fru...
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Categories:
birdless, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Two - Faced Treachery
...TWO-FACED TREACHERY
January is the warmest month. Her loss grips my heart,
Her treachery is colder than two-faced Janus:
My innocent youth feels old and lost
As the cold and frost grip...
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Categories:
birdless, allegory, heart, heart, hope,
Form: Personification
Night
...If you would only look out,
you would see the star-studded sky and a
swooning sickle moon, and down below
a fleet of quiet snails sailing gently over
lawns scented with newly cut grass.
Y...
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Categories:
birdless, depressionnight, lost, lost, night,
Form: Free verse
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