Communion With The Self
...Communion With The Self
Communion with the elements of the self that went missing
Reunion with the moments left on the shelf while reminiscing
Confusion that surrounds good health and ...
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Categories:
briskly, life,
Form: Rhyme
Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was ra...
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Categories:
briskly, art, conflict, death, flower,
Form: Lyric
Hey Lady You Know
...{based on a classic joke}
A lady briskly walked one day,
To work, not far, just blocks away.
She passed a shop with parrots near,
When suddenly, she paused to hear--
"Hey lady!" squawked the...
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Categories:
briskly, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Storm
...Night fells suddenly sending rays of hope in the sky as
anxious hearts make music with their flute and the violin with its tender strings bring back memories of my youth. It is the part of me that ...
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Categories:
briskly, beautiful, business, community, culture,
Form: Prose
My Youth
...I walk briskly on the pathway of truth
Searching desperately for my youth
I want to know how I got here
For some people act as if they don’t care
The light from the sun burns deeply in the
Groun...
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Categories:
briskly, absence, baby, books, community,
Form: Narrative
Spring
...Spring has sprung
Songbirds echoing calls
Welcoming the new season
Warmth and growing buds
Snow melted briskly
And though brown
Soon green will flood
A carpet of ambience
Fresh and clean ...
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Categories:
briskly, spring,
Form: Free verse
Arthur Rimbaud translations of Antico, Reve Pour l'hiver and Dawn
...Arthur Rimbaud Translations of Antico (“Ancient” or “Antique”), Rêvé Pour l'hiver (“Winter Dream”), and Dawn
Antico (“Ancient” or “Antique”)
by Arthur Rimbaud
loose translation/interpretatio...
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Categories:
briskly, body, dream, flower, heart,
Form: Free verse
Cry No More
...Cry no more, dear mockingbird
Please cry no more for me
For I must leave you, dear mockingbird
And briskly take my leave
I know you will miss me, dear mockingbird
And I will miss you too
But sh...
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Categories:
briskly, cheer up, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Wait For Me by the Tree
...Run! The city is going up in flame; run! The whole world is getting insane; run! it is not a game; grab your bag and run, leave that place and come, meet me at the foot of the hill and guard your fa...
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Categories:
briskly, america, business, change, cheer
Form: Narrative
Cross The line
...I am standing behind the line to show you that life is divine
I am standing behind the line with one single goal in mind;
I want to live. My sorrows are so deep and sometimes I feel like a lost she...
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Categories:
briskly, beach, change, creation, deep,
Form: Prose
Somewhere On Foot Part Two
...“Oh please don’t worry.
I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.”
There must be a compass without a point surrounding me
“Looking for directions.
The town you’re seek...
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Categories:
briskly, beautiful, character, deep, environment,
Form: Prose
The Two Halves of my Life
...Today we took a lovely walk
On quiet country roads,
Where the autumn trees surround
The rural one of our abodes.
A hundred miles later,
We strode briskly, I should note,
From our main home, a...
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Categories:
briskly, appreciation, home,
Form: Rhyme
Blindsided
...There is a part of me that you cannot see, you have to rewind the clock to the sixty degree angle, and keep your eyes on the circles in front of you and walk briskly with your head focus on the strai...
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Categories:
briskly, america, best friend, business,
Form: Narrative
Unknown Soldiers
...We walked briskly across the traveled path
And stumbled upon something peculiar in the dark
We didn’t stop to look around,
Night was hunkering down upon us and we were
All in a hurry to catch the...
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Categories:
briskly, africa, america, business, courage,
Form: Narrative
This world
...For hundreds of years, I've been alone,
Alone in this cold world,
Filled with misery and brutality,
With every century that passes by,
The world seems to get worse
I sit under a tree,
Thinkin...
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Categories:
briskly, sad, world,
Form: Free verse
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