Upbeat Day Ahead
...I hail each bronze, red, and blue coloured dawn,
as pulsing heart mould torch flame of bliss,
to gaze across some awestruck mint sprig lawn,
that golden birthright never goes amiss
Ey...
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Categories:
blind alley, birth, blessing, celebration, cheer
Form: Quatrain
DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist
...DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist
"Are you my enemy, if you’re not my friend?
Alternative exit without exit should be posted dead end
When “Google” tells you turn right...
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Categories:
blind alley, allusion, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dead End Street
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In the languishing life’s listless landscape,
the paved path along convolute contours of uncertainty,
winds undefined to the fading fringe of time future,
beyond the perception of the...
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Categories:
blind alley, dark, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Witching Hour Minstrel Part Two
...Whatever happened to the twelve o ‘clock rambler,
nocturnal venturesome brushstroke sort,
they face whirlwind snowfall, freezing ice,
while others brazenly squirm,
not for stoic diarist this thre...
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Categories:
blind alley, character, city, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Derodidymus - You So Sweet a Thing
...Ancient Derodidymus – You So Sweet A Thing
Derodidymus – an ancient symbol in the form of a
two-headed dragon that’s in a fight forever in one
single body. Yes, for sure . . .
“A Two-Headed M...
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Categories:
blind alley, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Witching Hour Minstrel
...Whatever happened to the twelve o ‘clock rambler,
nocturnal venturesome brushstroke sort,
they paint sound and city pastel,
never at a loss for inspiration,
weather neither bar nor barrier,
in ...
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Categories:
blind alley, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Cul De Sac
...his mind had entered a state of confusion
numb blank and befuddled on one hand
with walls in front
and verges closing in behind
enclosed in a mixture of discomfort
and pressure to move
stan...
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Categories:
blind alley, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Cul-De-Sac
...In spirited life’s changing vibrant landscape,
the paved path along the contours of uncertainty,
winds to the undefined time future,
beyond the perception time present.
Desire takes sh...
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Categories:
blind alley, analogy, god, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Fear Is a Liar
...Fear, a liar that can delude or mislead you.
It tells you that you are cursed and doomed.
Have courage to stop and look at Fear in the face!
It comes, like hooded serpents from dark ...
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Categories:
blind alley, allusion, angst, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Ataraxis
...Beset it seems on every side
Invasions perturbations in our lives
By order or by decree
Or by slight of propaganda
These troublesome entries are constantly knocking
And the no escape from it com...
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Categories:
blind alley, peace, people, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Lane Change
...dead end street …
mostly elderly when we came
always quiet …
empty nests side-by-side
aching for spring
but winter came instead
(the winter of life)
friends … good people -
town folk who rai...
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Categories:
blind alley, analogy, appreciation, change, history,
Form: Free verse
A Time To Savour
...What be of love if one was purged of thee
To claim a life of constant misery,
To wander lost a blind alley not free
Turned from once a flower to shrubbery?
When dusted away the shadows from time
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Categories:
blind alley, love, tribute,
Form: Sonnet
Brokered Finale
...In your parched desert land
As the pendulum swings
And your friends are all gone
Still you’re moving right along
Like it doesn’t mean a thing
In your parched desert land
Thinking life’s unfo...
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Categories:
blind alley, pride, rude,
Form: Rhyme
The Silent Smile-Mty
...THE SILENT SMILE
The air chaotic in cacophony,
my breath-starved lone life
writhes in stifling agony,
I suffer mute in the strife.
At the fall of gloomy night
when...
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Categories:
blind alley, depression, imagery, life, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Bond Together Until Doomed
...Voyage to the land where there is no pain
For I am navigating by water
That stirs deep into the everlasting wind
Make way I am diving straight into the world
For I am cruising on the water beneat...
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Categories:
blind alley, anxiety, bereavement, emotions, grief,
Form: Blank verse
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