By The Streetlamp
...the saltiness of my tears
drips upon my lips and tongue
after rolling down my face
from the blandness of our love
that was a savored passion
until the dawn of heartbreak
when our portions of lo...
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Categories:
blandness, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
spring into it
...Spring semester has started.
We’re all immersed in the ritual of change
and totally committed to that descent into madness
to the relentless drabness, the flatness, the blandness
for the hours, d...
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Categories:
blandness, endurance, engagement, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Whisper of Youth
...Whispers of Youth
Dusty boxes, like forgotten books, Hold chapters of quantum leaps— My first steps, tiny and determined, Leading to a world of wonders.
Goat’s milk, flavored with Grenada nutme...
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Categories:
blandness, adventure, america, angst, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?
looking for words
...Looking for words.
Pink and blue billows on the poetic sky drip of eager words
Alas, towards dawn, a westerly wind blew cleared the sky
In the morning blank screen lit up when the sun shone.
Bu...
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Categories:
blandness, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Axe traffic, snails in Wales'
...Its ludicrous in wales today, ideology holds the maddest
Sway.' A twenty mile an hour plan, for every motoring
Woman and Man.? And every bus? and taxi too? A lunacy
A type of zoo.' Thats how i vie...
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Categories:
blandness, december, education, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Recursa Absurda
...Straight lines, sepia
The suppression of unwanted thoughts
Like time spent in sensory deprivation
Time spent in a droning room
Under sterile light hums, practically drooling
The vacuum of ...
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Categories:
blandness, absence, depression, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse
Barren Landscape
...The barren landscape it once was
Now has craters and paths
The blandness it once held
Now has colors across the land
Th...
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Categories:
blandness, analogy, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Looking For Words
...Looking for words.
Pink and blue billows on the poetic sky drip of eager words
Alas, towards dawn, a westerly wind blew cleared the sky
In the morning blank screen lit up when the sun shone.
Bu...
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Categories:
blandness, absence, blessing, emotions,
Form: Bio
The Ides of March
...Upon a sullied slate sky
of alabaster and aquamarine,
floats a formidable flotilla
of charcoal-colored clouds.
And on this mild, melancholy
mid-March day;
they dawdle, dribbling drops o...
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Categories:
blandness, anxiety, april, beauty, change,
Form: Alliteration
Place of Respite
...Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head.” Matthew 8:20 NIV
PLACE OF RESPITE
Cheek-tinge of pink daw...
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Categories:
blandness, bird, christian, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Enigmatic Bruise
...In your eyes
huge vacuum
sleazy
step forward, says.
implore forgiveness
You strive for blandness.
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Categories:
blandness, anxiety, cry, depression, imagery,
Form: Verse
The Dog Is Talking
...the numbers were in and it didn't look pretty
you people surrender your minds so easily
they dumb you down and you know it
they dumb you down and you let them
but it wasn’t coercion either
basic...
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Categories:
blandness, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Human Art
...There is an art to being human
And we are all horrid forgeries
Hollow, pretending at goodness
Rabid with the illusion of stillness
Inhuman, All
There is an art to being human
And we are c...
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Categories:
blandness, humanity, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Recherche Poetic Themes Stock In Trade of Yours Truly
...Recherché poetic themes stock in trade of yours truly
No surprise, rhyme nor reason,
I tease out extraordinary threads,
sometimes deliberately writing
about current calendar day or season
fo...
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Categories:
blandness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Marvelous Herbs
..."In all things of nature there is somethings of the marvelous." Aristotle
Marvelous Herbs
Herbs -
Nature’s
Marvelous
Gift of flavor -
Brightens the blandness
Of the ordinary -
Savory g...
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Categories:
blandness, life, nature,
Form: Etheree
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