Art As Activism II
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Art As Activism II
Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking
or splashing through...
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Categories:
brusquely, earth, environment, pollution, youth,
Form: Free verse
The Live-in -- Part 2 of 3
...She here elbowed past me stomping, pausing not (although me whomping
With her wildly swinging handbag – five kilograms, if not more).
Cackling brusquely in a lather, that I should her baggage gathe...
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Categories:
brusquely, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Broken Heart
...Did you hear me call?
I stood on the portico
Repeatedly called your name,
You had turned away
Before I was calling you,
You turned fast, walked away.
I shall not call you --
You have brusq...
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Categories:
brusquely, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Sedoka
Serendipity Soup
...Take a pot, heat it hot.
Scratch it dry.
Scrape up any brown, dry left-over bits.
Check the sides as well.
Sniff the seance of conjured smells.
Imbibe the well-up of wafting aromas.
OK, now, dr...
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Categories:
brusquely, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Swifts
...I saw the swifts again today,
High on the wing and weaving the crags to the clouds.
I watched them last from my Fall lawn,
Flickering between fantasy and truth,
And whistling their secrets to t...
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Categories:
brusquely, animal, inspirational, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Time Zips By At Lightspeed
...Before scant opportunity
to make amends totally tubular slips away,
I (one generic doubting thomas)
reach out across cyberspace without delay
jumpstarting and kickstarting reflections
linkedin w...
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Categories:
brusquely, absence, adventure, autumn, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
5778
..."5778 ????? ?????????"
Russia Russia, ever
fluffier things
about Russia Russia
including no excuse
how Trump
rushes after those
who oppose him
so brusquely
on Rosh Hashanah....
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Categories:
brusquely, america, assonance, betrayal, celebrity,
Form: Political Verse
Cupid - Not a Love Story
...(Bruscamente - brusquely)
Cupid! Wingèd cherub warrior
Pluck this arrow from my heart!
Pierce one more compliant with your
Sweet love potion’s little dart!
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Categories:
brusquely, lost love, love, love
Form: Sonnet
An Excercise In Alliteration
...The garrulous, Greek grape gatherers,
Joined joyously with jocund japes,
The olive pickers and Ostrich plucker’s,
Celebrating the seasons success in song.
The querulous quiver of musical quaver...
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Categories:
brusquely, allusion, humorous,
Form: Alliteration
Super Colorful Brawl At the Bowling Green
...Super colourful brawl at the bowling green
You should have seen the BLUE today,
Down at the bowling GREEN?
It happened when Old Man MAUVE mistook
What the WHITE ball was meant to mean.
And M...
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Categories:
brusquely, color, funny, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Winter Wonder
...What a magical lofty display
In the snowflakes gentle interplay
Now that winter has brusquely arrived.
Teasing tiny squirrels have contrived
Endearing secret places to hide
Rounded precious a...
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Categories:
brusquely, snow, winter,
Form: Acrostic
Bipolar
...BIPOLAR
Buoyant joyful spirits
but a garb, tormented
binary mind, prey to
betraying, grave mood swings.
Brazeness doth give way
brusquely to despondence;
blues to sadly, hold sway.
Date Au...
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Categories:
brusquely, betrayal, blue, cinco de
Form: Verse
Tatyana's Revenge
...She stared out the bleak window,
the countryside boredom engulfs her thoughts.
He stared out the bleak window,
the countryside boredom engulfs his thoughts.
Two similar souls, lives so different, in ...
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Categories:
brusquely, angst, daughter, faith, family,
Form: Quintain (English)
Like An Oyster
...Like an oyster
Left now only
with a belt of pearls
I peel and palm each lustering orb
whilst whispering your names
reverently,
till the call of dawn
and this….
after invading your , s...
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Categories:
brusquely, dedication, inspirational, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Scorpion
...Fierce thoughts,back and red
Waits the dark quiet creature
Everywhere and out-of-sense
Stays and waits the sting of death.
In the desert sick with heat
Where burnt sand and dust does reek,
Lu...
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Categories:
brusquely, animalsdark, dark, red,
Form: I do not know?
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