Along With The Thunder
...in the corner
of a blanched bungalow
sits a self-portrait:
loose bantu knots
the color of volcanic ash
her living nightmare
it was so much-
stampeding rain
wild winds
the icon of tr...
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Categories:
blanched, culture, depression, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
The Slip-ins
...
"The Slip-ins"
Why should I continue to write
these feathery songs,
these blanched banjo tomes,
these wilting poésies
of a lost little life ever circling
like a me...
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Categories:
blanched, muse,
Form: Free verse
Sleepy Daydream
...I have been floating these days,
in between thoughts,
in between words.
I have been grateful,
and sick to my stomach at the unfairness
of it all.
Constellations strung together by invisib...
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Categories:
blanched, art, deep, imagery, introspection,
Form: Free verse
LYRIC WORDS
...The wispy withered woman at her wake
Was a bent blanched bloom, yet without mistake
Her lyric words march to our drumming hearts,
To each body, mind and soul love impart.
Her memory shines in the...
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Categories:
blanched, death, grandchild, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Aureate Dreams
...
Flood of anonymous agony
inundates the debris of hope,
weed-webbed wasteland
of receding reverie
erodes in delirium
within turbulent essence,
wreckage of life piles up,
unl...
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Categories:
blanched, analogy, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
The Nightly Shadow
...The shadow in the night beckons.
I slowly rise from my warm and cosy bed
Only to follow the urge that drives me mad
Into spectral half-fledged woodland,
That spreads beyond my lonely tower.
W...
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Categories:
blanched, dream, fear, night,
Form: Free verse
Television News Reporter
...Cinnabar remittance ailerons squall federal cobblestones. Lank alpine squint modest. Nectarine grimace, cloys toothsome.
Coiffure chain rod composure anemic, primogeniture Swedish cotton murk optics...
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Categories:
blanched, cat,
Form: Free verse
The Hound of Sleep
...I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep,
Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon ...
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Categories:
blanched, blessing, deep, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
In the Bleak Midwinter
...In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
- Excerpt fr...
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Categories:
blanched, grief, lost love,
Form: Haibun
Blanched Veils There and Above
...Blanched veils there and above
Hold it in stony repose
Throughout time's continuum
And blustering air flows.
Earth granted an ovation -
Nodding its magnificence -
But bigger still is...
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Categories:
blanched, inspiration, mountains, snow,
Form: Rhyme
RISING
...Rising
I rise to see the rising of our sun, ‘tho only
To begin with, a fat quarter of her,
For she is in great part hidden,
Blocked by a line of trees. She comes…
A spark of flame
Inchin...
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Categories:
blanched, day, imagery, moon, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Utopia
..." Imagine a place where there is beauty, bliss and plentifulness for all. It is nothing short of utopia. Though we are far from realizing it, isn't it thrilling to imagine a version of the world diff...
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Categories:
blanched, beauty, fantasy, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Inner Sanctum
...Growing out of childish pranks,
With the storm and stress of turbulent teens,
I locked within my mind’s cupboard,
A portrait vaguely sketched, but never finished.
Rough it was, though...
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Categories:
blanched, appreciation, best friend, growing
Form: Free verse
My Fractured Identity
...After years of aimless wanderings,
Leaving behind the cities of midnight revels,
And the fevered journey in metro rails,
I am back at the land of my people.
Wherever I went, under w...
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Categories:
blanched, betrayal, devotion, heartbroken, hope,
Form: Free verse
Songs of Nature COS No 14: ABBA
...Sole say I, What wouldst be the reasoning?
Murmurs, her head swerves about, hesitates,
nibbles green herbs with care then elevates.
Cautious white doe, quaint sight a wandering.
Alert nose takes ...
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Categories:
blanched, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
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