Alexa down!
...Alexa down!
She, the brainchild of Rohit Prasad -
India-born person who breathed life
into Alexa, and lead technology side
of project almost from its inception.
Amazon Alexa Echo
a marvel o...
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Categories:
boggle, addiction, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Turning the Hourglass
...Time limits boggle my mind
with stressful thoughts of "hurry up,"
and "don't dawdle."
It makes me anxiously annoyed
to be pressured into completing
whatever the task.
I want to keep turning ...
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Categories:
boggle, time,
Form: Free verse
I Am Your Child
...I am your child
Your flesh and blood
I don't ask for much
Just your love
When I have questions
I want to come to you
And get the answers I seek
That I hope are truthful, too
There will be...
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Categories:
boggle, encouraging, heart, love, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
The lunacy of language
...The words still come
Gather
Vying for attention
Silently shouting
Choose me, choose me
I am the subtle variation
The thoughtful import
You seek
NO…choose me
I am the hook
That will reel t...
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Categories:
boggle, humor, language, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Where Are We All Heading?
...
I have very few gripes to tell you about
But one major one is people who concentrate
On what's wrong with the world
Instead of concentrating on all the good things
That have come our ...
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Categories:
boggle, celebration, future,
Form: Free verse
Boggles the Mind
...Paradox
Boggles the mind..
The boggling is
Fixed in illusory
Separation..so
There is no mind
To boggle..but
This story may
Resonate as
Freedom......
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Categories:
boggle, absence, happiness, song, words,
Form: Light Verse
Boggle
...Blow down the snozzle
this windy wild world
is nowt but a hornswoggle.
Giddy are the blue birds
in head and heart,
blithered are the bush-beating
snit-shifters.
A good day to die and live ...
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Categories:
boggle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Travesty of Trump
...I have lived through times of economic depression
Seen my country triumph over Japanese aggression,
Observed the demise of Russian communism
And seen great strides in undoing systemic ...
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Categories:
boggle, america, political, social, success,
Form: Couplet
A Convenient Excuse
...I have come to a bitter conclusion
I’m not writing what editors want,
My rejections are coming in profusion
It’s clear I am not a poetry savant.
I fear my muse is sabotaging me
With insignif...
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Categories:
boggle, muse, poems, writing,
Form: Light Verse
The Nebulous Plague
...What an unusual pragmatism conundrum.
We drum in our kids a sense of quantum.
Then, a few days later, we express our pain,
When we gaze on persons with the same stain.
We maintai...
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Categories:
boggle, allusion, change, character, childhood,
Form: Sonnet
How I'Ll Remember You
...Your 6’4” frame hunched over
in dedicated concentration
late into the evening as you worked
Sometimes on work-related things but more
often happily lost in the depths of a hobby
Tinkering with ...
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Categories:
boggle, appreciation, beautiful, bereavement, dad,
Form: Free verse
Star Ships
...Star Ships
A star ship soars through gloaming skies faster than warp speed as it appears to disappear from sight leaving only traces of light in disbelieving blinking eyes that search the s...
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Categories:
boggle, ocean, sky,
Form: Haibun
No Success Comes Without Struggle
...No successes come without a struggle
A pity to wallow in life’s sorrow
To focus on our problems and trouble
Dims potential for better tomorrows
Seek th...
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Categories:
boggle, life, success,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Man's Inhumanity
...The inhumanity of Man is really quite atrocious.
He thinks himself intelligent, he thinks himself precocious.
And yet his acts of selfishness show inately he's unkind.
His sudden acts of cruelty c...
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Categories:
boggle, animal, bullying, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond Explanation
...Are we really here alone, what do you believe?
Is there life after death, why is that so hard to conceive?
This Universe is very big, there could be some others.
Maybe we were just dropped off by ...
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Categories:
boggle, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
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