tenaciously clings
...the blurs
the blurs
the samples of frustration
smeared frost colored
images
frrom the foggy window
the blurs
the blurs
them there in vision
a couple simply loving
blurred by
the images thr...
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Categories:
blurs, marriage, music,
Form: Ballade
Flies
...Flies love figs, oaks, elms, and willows; we know.
They play hide-and-seek with leaves tinged with snow.
In their purblind fondness, our hearts get sparked?
Do they flee from us because we're croo...
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Categories:
blurs, animal, flying, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Person Who No Longer Exists
...They said,
"just live."
But they never spoke of the ache
that lingers in the marrow—
of the fog that swallows names,
moments,
whole years.
I keep hoping the blurs
will soften into memory,
...
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Categories:
blurs, anxiety, depression, identity, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Bell Tower That Leaned In
...I. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and myrrh—
Li...
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Categories:
blurs, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
In stars above
...
Humming in hemlock heartbeats ~
along the shorelines
which once swallowed the sun
in their searing shadows ~
I see those smoking seawaves
swirling upon my skin,
as the silhouettes
of d...
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Categories:
blurs, deep, emotions, imagery, moon,
Form: Free verse
Igor needs a bigger lab XV
...See the novel anti-Trump signs
Protestor created designs
Don can't compromise
And blurs truth with lies
But we author all the best lines...
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Categories:
blurs, art, history, horror, humanity,
Form: Limerick
MUSEUM OF WOUNDS
...I sort the silence and the sighs,
The dreams lost in old goodbyes,
They fill the drawers of my days,
And leave wind blowing through my haze.
I keep the pain I never voiced,
The hopes that died w...
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Categories:
blurs, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fulcrum of a Rose
...
When the raspberry horizon
is curled up,
shaping caramel-lilac lips
of the cashmere kismet,
singing in a choir of cherry chivalry
and honey-glazed fireflies ~
those snowy stars...
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Categories:
blurs, deep, emotions, life, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
She Trusted the Stars
...
She placed her dreams in starshine's bright design
where she believed the galaxy would guard them
from incidents and accidents that might shard them.
She trusted stars to lifelong harmoniz...
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Categories:
blurs, betrayal, cry, depression, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
still caught in May
...May is the season of Rain
droplets of soft note
tapping rhythm into my coat
tip— tap. tip— tap.
she walks with me and starlight
for a silent talk midnight
May is the s...
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Categories:
blurs, break up, cry, lost,
Form: Rhyme
A Last Whisper to Us
...Even when the sky is cracked and grey,
Adoring arms can’t hold what’s meant to part.
Ghosts of your voice dissolve into the day,
Left behind, a hollowed aching heart.
Oceans of grief drown the ...
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Categories:
blurs, grief,
Form: Rhyme
My June Jewel
...I d r
e a
m away
from the golden-laced drapes,
tracing smoke-veiled cloudscapes,
reminiscing rainbow reveries,
raining with musical laughter,
mirroring the sun within
my maternal...
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Categories:
blurs, child, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Tympani Tenebrous
...Tympani, beat tremendous!
Like thunder roll above!
Dark matter a-tenebrous;
Knowest thou of love?
Ah, young master. In good time!
Riddles, rivers, rhyme!
Griddle, fiddle, sugar, slime.
Cover...
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Categories:
blurs, dedication, destiny, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
The Kiss, 1907 by Gustav Klimt
...f e e l me
like sonnets of sunrise
infused with
clementine cadence
as I am the golden essence
in your floral skyline
a hazel rose
quenched amidst the quiescence
of dulcet devo...
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Categories:
blurs, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Persistence of Memory Painting by Salvador Dali - Collaboration with Dilly Dally
...Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue
Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine
Cause me to choke on putrid saliva.
Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison.
Distorted bir...
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Categories:
blurs, art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
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