Inside cell of 16
...By 11, I thought I'd have it down by 15,
But by 16 and a sour sunday morn,
And daisy chains foiled into the moor,
And hands that tighten but ne'er lighten,
Hands that strangle, stitch, and liven...
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Categories:
blotting, absence, abuse, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
The Spell of Clouds
...Look at the clouds in the sky above
Puffy, vaporous, fluffy stuff,
Ephemeral, illusionary, ever-changing
A moving mass, reshaping before our eyes.
Billowing blotches spreading like
ink on blotti...
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Categories:
blotting, allusion, emotions, introspection, memory,
Form: Free verse
Under Surreal and Abnormal Disgraceful Skies
...Under Surreal Abnormal & Disgraceful Skies..
Spraying like mad to poison you high up and out of range, to push the enforced illusion of totally insane climate change..
But if we take a glimpsin...
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Categories:
blotting, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
Wringing Out the Rain
...A squirrel got into the homestead,
it picked a lock with a dry thorn.
The smell of dank fur clung.
We carried small talk above our heads.
Nothing put away but still dangles.
Denim droops, snag...
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Categories:
blotting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025
...Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025...
but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine days later (due the math and inform me of any ...
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Categories:
blotting, absence, angel, anger, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Photographs Fixed Fade
...Photographs fixed in fixative curse memories to fade,
As they are too true and static, starkly black and white.
Recalling a snap-shot, not how you want your memories made.
Each scene fixed in time...
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Categories:
blotting, image, memory, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
In the quietness of dusk, when shadows stretch long over the fields of memory
...In the quietness of dusk, when shadows stretch long over the fields of memory,
Memories rise like reflected ghosts, wandering through the labyrinth of thoughts,
Taking me back to the times of child...
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Categories:
blotting, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Still stunned with disbelief
...Still stunned with disbelief...
that our apartment unit B44
received thumbs up
meaning that we passed
the grueling, and harrowing yearly inspection
three days ago - May 28th, 2024.
About a ...
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Categories:
blotting, angel, anxiety, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Just A Carpenter
...??Wisdom of Solomon 13:11 KJVAAE??
[11] Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought ...
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Categories:
blotting, faith,
Form: Free verse
I AM poetry
...Come..
fly with me
beyond,beyond
imagination
Capture..
emotion's
aurora
from the firmanent
Watch..
images descend
...
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Categories:
blotting, word play, words,
Form: Bio
In Memory of Backyards
...
Back then,
backyards were big enough
to nurture a growing soul
and provide a space
for the earth to play out
its seasons in full rehearsal.
There were wide tracks
of grass, trees to climb...
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Categories:
blotting, childhood, growth, home, in
Form: Free verse
Unlocking the Answers
...In the beginning quasars burst forth, primal stars born
Ionised light suffused, a cosmic primeval dawn
Later man came along, looked west, awestruck by the sun
One morn an eclipse came to pass, b...
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Categories:
blotting, creation, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Tritina
Lord God, You Are My Building Enforcer
...September 18 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Mark 13-14
Key Verse – Mark 13:1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of s...
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Categories:
blotting, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
R Is For Retrospective
...R is for RETROSPECTIVE
A poem is never merely still born,
it has its creator's eyes,ears and nose
Yet,unique it lives a life of its own
independent,well able to stand alone
On others it can,i...
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Categories:
blotting, life, poetry,
Form: Bio
A Sea Drenched Mist
...Today, all is landscaped by mist.
North, South, East, and West
all are one floating sea.
The hedgerows are reefs,
a familiar tree-line
seems like a gray cliff face.
My own fac...
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Categories:
blotting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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