Speed Limits
...They pose with the austere stares of
Loving, friendly ghosts —tall, gaunt and lissome,
With big, rounded head.
Draped in weathered robes of care,
They are the only guardian spirits we see.
They ...
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Categories:
broiling, society,
Form: Free verse
Rage
...The seething waters took them.
I rage,
rage against the deluge,
an unmoored,
unrestrained rage.
I rage for the innocents,
a rage that drowns all else
except more broiling,
more roiling wave...
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Categories:
broiling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lao Tzu: English Translations I
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I
An unbending tree
breaks easily.
—Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Nothing is weaker or gentler than water,
yet nothing can prevai...
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Categories:
broiling, fish, heaven, men, sea,
Form: Free verse
Float
...My drinks enticing and sweet
On a chair in the middle of the street
My little floaters been dinged
Roiling waves the edges singed
The wood alive with roiling flame
Waters pulsing like a broiling...
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Categories:
broiling, abuse, addiction, imagery, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Storm Comes at Midnight
...The storm comes at midnight
It will be quite a sight if I’m right
Preceding it barely a sight will make many angry and scared
The sight could be anything
…
Ha! Yes, even to those prepared
… You...
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Categories:
broiling, storm,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
To Katie
...There’s a tugging in my chest
It leads me straight to you
Bubbling, broiling love and luck
Of pink and golden hue
A kind and sweethearted soul
Deserves the world anew
And when she talks, my h...
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Categories:
broiling, girl, girlfriend, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Two Old Gods
...
Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscross...
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Categories:
broiling, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Granite Chrysalis
...Jigsaw girl was a supreme pleaser
her pieces imperfectly placed by "the others".
Always the first to acknowledge the last to be noticed.
Nobody cared enough to really get to know her.
One "oth...
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Categories:
broiling, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost and the Romance of the Nighthag By Fd Ravenskraft
...The Ghost and the Romance of
Nighthags
by FD F.D. Ravenskraft
as I sleep, I'm seeing her weep
but in an angry release choking me to my deceased
the madness of being hovering over me
I see th...
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Categories:
broiling, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Paying the Price
...Today Russia has begun a war broiling in Putin’s sick fantasy
Ukraine people gird themselves for bombs and deaths, many deaths
Can the USA, NATO swoop in and stop the invasion?
Maybe yes maybe ...
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Categories:
broiling, angst, conflict, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
Keeper of the Flame
...Keeper of my faith’s flame
I seek, oh God, Your revival fire…
make my spiritual endeavors ablaze
kindling love against apathy’s coldness
as you nourish me with sizzling blessings’ bounty...
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Categories:
broiling, blessing, christian, faith, fire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Celebration of Las Animas
...Celebration of Las Animas
The shadows know
When I shout into the void
Of obsession’s chaos that swallows even darkness,
Fractured light in jaundiced eyes,
Where withering blasts of winter hibe...
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Categories:
broiling, life,
Form: Free verse
Kismat
...Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
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Categories:
broiling, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Verse
Come On
...Ideas are slapping me in the gut today.
I shove one, another falls, one urges me to play.
I bite them and smash them and slash them to bits.
They keep coming back, not caring if I scream or have f...
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Categories:
broiling, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Smell of Rain That Impregnates Freedom
...Neither this torrential rain have the will to stop
Nor the monsoon sky have the will to lit up this darkness!
God only knows what happened to the firmament,
That breaking and exploding on us ...
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Categories:
broiling, conflict, courage, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
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