Ten for Glenn
...Sing is what Glenn Hughes does
what is the rare truth
tonight I will play Glenn Hughes on repeat
The Voice of Rock
His songs touch my soul
Music is the Healer
it is our words upon his lips we s...
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Categories:
body of work, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Glenn Hughes Reprise
...
To love an artist
is to go without saying
his body of work is Golden
Glenn Hughes, the Voice of Rock
has blessed us with 50 years
of musical masterpieces
When you are down and l...
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Categories:
body of work, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Well
...
"Well"
Well,
I’m way too romantic
aren’t I?
Tattoo’d poetry
on a tongue
not
speaking
on a body of work
spent unspent
love let loose
on a deep
Fren...
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Categories:
body of work, dark, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Temple
...Your body of work
My temple
I've come to worship
Fingers grazing lightly across the ink spilled pages
your beautiful soul laid out before me
Your minds a flowered field I find myself running ...
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Categories:
body of work, art,
Form: Free verse
Serpentine
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"Serpentine"
Give a woman enough rope
and She’ll show you
what hanging’s worth
the life coiled around
a body of work
could be misconstrued
serpentine
She...
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Categories:
body of work, muse, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Dark Dark Red Roses
...I remember when
love spoken plainly
conveyed all manner
of hidden agendas
hands instead of
tap dancing keys
unlocked
a body of work
stroked skin melting into
sultry deep pink summer sati...
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Categories:
body of work, muse, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Ground Level Entry
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"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary ne...
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Categories:
body of work, muse,
Form: Narrative
Because In My Mind You'Re a Sunday Drive
...Let me be consumed by you
Your song, your soul, your body of work that reads like a road map towards some vague destination
A place in my heart now void of its contempt
This is a long drive for so...
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Categories:
body of work, crush, first love,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Moves But Mind
...Outside and elsewhere
existence is a leaf on a deep blue river;
a long night has set it free to bob and tumble
as an upturned mirror caught in the gray rays
of an obscure sun.
I listen to the ...
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Categories:
body of work, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Notes On a Wrist
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"Notes on a Wrist"
the pulse felt
under nibs
of fingertips
translates a life
the semicolan
stretches like
the devil
hungers
it can
wait a long time
eternall...
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Categories:
body of work, journey, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Begin Again Beings
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"The Begin Again Beings"
A family of swords
the world under their feet
to all that is fallen in the
darkened passages beneath,
slipped on crushed pearls of tears
rivule...
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Categories:
body of work, journey, muse, strength,
Form: Narrative
The Payload
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"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
...
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Categories:
body of work, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Kaleidoscope
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"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the...
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Categories:
body of work, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Tell It Like It Is
...It lacks every rhyme or reason
To bake a cake and not serve it
It takes away the season
And leaves a bad taste to sit
Here's a baker opening shop
Who's a few slices short of a loaf
Abruptly b...
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Categories:
body of work, absence, analogy, angst, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising
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“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”
Lavender seduces symmetry
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable
a swollen tangerine sky
m...
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Categories:
body of work, muse,
Form: Romanticism
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