World Stages of a Disease
...As psoriasis; old scoros is'
With vulgarity; of method-biz
Darkening all hearkening
Bloated out ego-cankering
Blood money his diocease!...
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Categories:
cankering, allegory, allusion, conflict, education,
Form: Limerick
Round the Corner
...Lightly do the carefree cries of kids carry on the wind
As they cavort in the quad during recess.
It is in such moments their trails of glory find expression
While I struggle to remember vestiges ...
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Categories:
cankering, anxiety, hope, sad,
Form: Free verse
Parable of Wretched Malcontent
...Not content with just penurious loaves
Wretched pauper for richer diet strove
Seeking treasure from a wealthier trove
Delicate crumbs from hearty stoves;
Pungent fruit from well-stocked groves
Poach...
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Categories:
cankering, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Jaded Valentine
...Roses were glazed red
My fertile heart to woo
Cankering jealousy did spread
Bright petals now jaundiced hue
Violets were silted blue
Noble ambitions to thread
Blossoms with intemperate juices did st...
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Categories:
cankering, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Ambiguous Desire
...Mongrel, I smell you miles away
Returning through the dingy dark
From rummaging waste and decay
Till you putrid like them, can mark
A skunk's trail home. What germ you breed
Now to infect my pure des...
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Categories:
cankering, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Harbor of Incontinence
...In loves harbor moored in the dock of regression
and anchored in the quicksand of incontinence
as briny waves of inconstancy wash over my jaded bough
scouring my white-washed deck over and over
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Categories:
cankering, lost love, social
Form: Free verse
Forecast Ii
...Storm clouds gather over the sea, omens
Tell of a coming agony
Young lovers stay, O hear me, maidens
Most in marriage long to be free
The world's social order in disarray
Engines faster the extr...
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Categories:
cankering, visionary
Form: Verse
Rhymes
...I want set fire
To white paper
Make black char into pale pictures of ash
To burn desire
Till the vapor
Like broken scintillations as sunlight crash
Though I dream, yet
Still I hunger
Still ...
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Categories:
cankering, angst, art, black african
Form: Rhyme
Social Camera
...Across the street and down the lane
The long line curves around again
And men shivering in the wintry rain
Tell adversity's avarice in each refrain
This is the worst of time the best is gone
Thi...
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Categories:
cankering, depression, history, natural disastersnight,
Form: Verse
Divorce ...(To Rg)
...My entire history is not as it should be
I am always now a proximal potential
Twisted into whirlwinds by latent agony
And you the cause of fate's differential
Of mass and fortune, of virtue
Slim...
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Categories:
cankering, angst, life, love, me,
Form: Verse
I Am a Maroon
...I am a Maroon
Flesh and blood and everything
My spirit cries against the toxic air
Of cities, and broken moon
Perched on skyscrapers
Surveying ruin
Blowing with greasy scraps of paper
Through ...
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Categories:
cankering, allegory
Form: Free verse
Capitalism Dilemma
...Clawed eyes bleeding the red acid of tears
Anguished hearts with piper's music in their ears
Pleasures throves of greed and selfishness
Indicts our vision of the citadel's shining
Towards a bette...
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Categories:
cankering, political
Form: Acrostic
Suicidal Note
...There on the shore, before the ocean,
I talked with God- devoid of motion
Like windless, cloudy night I stood
Becoming One with ease and solitude.
In lack of anger and of morbid noise-
Possessed...
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Categories:
cankering, confusion, death, lost love,
Form: Epitaph