The Wrong Train
...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories:
blackens, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse
A Tortured Poet
... Written on April 19th 2025 for Sara Jama's The Chaos in my Heart Contest
I am wrapped in darkness, crippled by the chaos in my heart.
Swallowing tangled foxgloves of regret, I spiral....
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Categories:
blackens, dark, deep, loss, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wobbly Hands True Strength
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Written: April 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them." by Rumi
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Categories:
blackens, appreciation, life,
Form: Rhyme
Scene From A Hill
...The twilight brings a gentle breeze
that rustles the leaves above me
where I sit on a hill overlooking a vast meadow
of purple asters and flowering orange butterfly weeds
I'll wait here to watc...
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Categories:
blackens, nature,
Form: Imagism
A Choice of Colors
...A Choice of Colors
For Mom 2024
It is a conspiracy of years
that pulls down the leaves
dries the creek beds
blackens a leg.
It must be cheerfully
countenanced
but the fear and rage
overwhe...
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Categories:
blackens, death, mother son,
Form: Free verse
A Sailor's Prayer
...Oh mighty mistral winds
Fill my sails and take me home
This voyage never ends
Over countless seas I roam
On this ship I'm but a slave
Still I struggle and I try
I fight each giant wave
As ...
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Categories:
blackens, sea, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Serial Keeler
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Foreboding of a tempestuous storm,
it blackens as it draws near,
a cumulonimbus in towering form,
extending to the troposphere,
So cast off mooring and slacken the line,
break free whil...
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Categories:
blackens, break up, divorce, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Is the Remedy
...i life
Reflections in the mirror increase resentment.
Tarnished heart pursues vengeful contentment
Disillusioned, you hide in fictitious make believe,
possessed by demons who purblind and ...
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Categories:
blackens, angst, emotions, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Listen To Your Heart
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Selfishness fills the soul with fear
Breaks the heart with a gentle tear
Ego evokes the nature’s lure
Peace with God is the only cure
Pride destroys all the heart’s best dreams
P...
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Categories:
blackens, appreciation, confidence, courage, heart,
Form: Kyrielle
Life Is a Term Lease
...This wreath is in your eidetic memory, yet you should live.
Can you receive my lament, which is almost to happen?
There is no garland as I plummet, rattled by the sieve.
Died with you,...
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Categories:
blackens, analogy, grave, life,
Form: Rhyme
Never Shut Down Your Mind -1
...If you turn off the lights in your mind
your inner sky blackens,
which breaks interaction between
your inner and outer world
then the worst of the worst happens...
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Categories:
blackens, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Love Alone Real
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Love alone real; that’s the road we take
Non-judgmental eye, embraces each soul
Bliss throbs beat in our heart; we are awake
The divine elixir, makes us feel whole
Life a game of ...
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Categories:
blackens, forgiveness, love,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Degradation
...The crumbling of humanity is developing.
Burglary, deception, and hubris are ubiquitous.
Money is being earned by cheating.
These areas are known to be perilous.
The vast majo...
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Categories:
blackens, analogy, anxiety, bereavement, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Blackens Embraces Saturn's Kiss At Eves Night-
...Morning comes shuns the light:
The solar sun shines ever bright;
Those the clouds wash away;
Brightness turns yellow hues to gray;
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Evening comes tonight;
Moon shines smiles br...
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Categories:
blackens, analogy, appreciation, environment, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn
...Leaves beyond scarlet and orange,
Now sienna, umbre, and ochre,
Drift into piles against the fence
As autumn reaches to winter,
And frost blackens the last greens
Left in the barren waste of ga...
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Categories:
blackens, autumn, emotions, happiness, senses,
Form: Free verse
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