Bookmark
lavender ribbons
from your hair
lay against
the pages
I love to read
so much
and as I turned
the pages
the smell
of your hair
makes me
love the words
even more
as I envision
our last touch.
Such was ours a
bittersweet
journey
which was so
impossible
for me to
disembark
because my darling
for me you were
a romance story
but for you I wasn't
even
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Categories:
bookmark, depression, loss, love, love
Form: Rhyme
A Life Bookmark Collection Poem
peace is needed today
i drive to a quiet place
people are taking a back seat today
i turn on some rare 60s and 70s afrobeat
i need to calm down and recharge
i need the medicinal assistance of a place where i can just breathe and take in
normalcy has me so numb right now
here i am
the robins and the
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Categories:
bookmark, peace, recovery from, stress,
Form: Free verse
A Little Yellow Bookmark
One wonderful trait about being human is the ability to reminisce…
to remember people, places, things and moments
that have happened…that we miss.
Take our house for instance
its floors and walls and ceiling are lined
with a myriad of memories our children left behind.
Floating in the air…they wait…and we would be remiss
If we didn’t stop and catch a
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Categories:
bookmark, memory, remember,
Form: Verse
Heart Shaped Bookmark
A heart shaped bookmark
Marked blank page waiting for words
For unknown reasons
Lost in the mist of the night
Found in the pristine morning
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Categories:
bookmark, lost love,
Form: Tanka
Bookmark
And there began our oral history.
Removed from text, living and breathing.
Passed back and forth between lips.
I myself a promise, her oath.
The anxious lump that hesitates in the back of the throat.
The inner most of courage exchanged in deep sigh.
Finding it impossible to hold on to my own words.
I hold on to hers, and it
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Categories:
bookmark, black african american, books,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
bookmark, absence,
Form: Haiku
Bookmark
A bookmark separates the future
From the part that’s passed.
The pages that it’s stuck between
Remind us what came last.
Each day we live’s a bookmark then;
We know what’s come before
But what comes next may bring us
Brand-new vistas to explore…
Or maybe not. No way to tell
What’s waiting in the wings.
We turn the page, the bookmark moves,
No matter what
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Categories:
bookmark, life,
Form: Rhyme
Learning To Move the Bookmark
my back hurting
i go straight to the bed and lay on my stomach
i escape to a world that i have been so long accustomed to
then out of nowhere, i feel a pair of warm, soft hands begin to massage my back
i turn to look at the face connected to the unusually caring hands
then i remember
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Categories:
bookmark, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Haiku 74 - Haiku 75- About a Bookmark
From between pages
the forgotten petal falls
Her scent still lingers
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
a pressed rose
in between pages
his fading scent
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Categories:
bookmark, absence,
Form: Haiku
There Is No Bookmark Mighty Enough
there is indeed a place in my heart
cordoned off for only you
though you left me seeing black,
my love for you remained infinitely intact
as a result, there is no comprehension of a covenant
for no one comes close to the flawless fusion in which you so elegantly possess
knowing this, i intentionally retrace my steps everytime i think
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Categories:
bookmark, death, dedication, loss,
Form: Free verse
Untitled #26 / Joseph the Christ Figure Giraffe Bookmark
Joseph the Christ figure giraffe bookmark
wooly resents that penultimate comment
and tells me whut
“ALL NEW MATERIAL. CONFORMS”
Of what does he speak? What madness?
“TO TOY SAFETY REGULATIONS”
The turning phrase!
A thousand old Buddhas stand speechless!
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Categories:
bookmark, confusion, faith, imagination, introspection,
Form: Ode