The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
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“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
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Categories:
capriciousness, muse,
Form: Narrative
T Woodys Flower
...the azure flower, a lone sentinel,
stands tall amidst the scorched earth.
the tornado's wild caress,
a whirling dervish of destruction,
unleashes its fury upon the field,
devouring the vi...
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Categories:
capriciousness, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Boat Is As Weathered As His Face
...the boat is as weathered as his face
it is his life, his treasure
steering the prow to sea hours before dawn
and in that darkness, the nets are set
small talk meanders the ponga
time to catch up...
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Categories:
capriciousness, culture, fishing, life, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Sase
...Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
Horrid tin on wet paper. Coastal fragments of an empire twilight. Nonsense to corners in a deck along the warped cabin. Would you be silent for a moment? Afraid it ...
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Categories:
capriciousness, friendship,
Form: Prose
Very Fine Imagery
...I was touring the lovely countryside, once on a golden Saturday,
Lost within the raptures, of languid summertime's scenic display.
And I came into the vicinity, of a beautiful historic old home,
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Categories:
capriciousness, adventure, fantasy, house, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Amor Fati
...That you are,
In the shades of a bulwark
Twilit by weakness when I demur,
You’re that (!) – Amor fati,
In the refusal of capriciousness,
As I create what I create.
I’m your pain,
And your...
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Categories:
capriciousness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Goebbel Voices
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In the lush beer gardens of New Berlin,
fräulein Democracy dalmatian died
giving birth to a litter of surrogate lies
Fourth Reich Vandals with mongrel desires,
now on a demolition bl...
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Categories:
capriciousness, evil, history, holocaust, wisdom,
Form: Tristich
Peacock Song
...Secret lover
greeting morning
from flowering
window
a song
opening day
like peacock fan
lilies and roses
sparkling
ripping
from night
its equalizing
veil
uncurtaining
dawn's
new day
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Categories:
capriciousness, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Two Little Sparks
...Two little sparks
enlightening the dark
(tidal waves tugging on the heart)
One named Amelia, the other Aurora:
Completing the scenery --- fauna and flora.
But Borealis, she has no stake in t...
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Categories:
capriciousness, adventure, character, child, cute
Form: Ode
Be Well My Porcelain Daughter
...Three eyes to see,
With no tongue to speak,
Confined to glass rooms of mournful reminiscing,
Bereft of purpose in her scientific boutique,
Isolated by the thunder that shook her stone cabin,
Obl...
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Categories:
capriciousness, death, father daughter, love,
Form: Rhyme
Angel Dust
...He finds me when I try to sleep,
He’s even in my dreams,
Lulling me into sweet assurance,
Then tearing me at the seams,
I don’t live where you do,
I live inside my head,
My sense of trepidat...
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Categories:
capriciousness, anxiety, depression, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Angel
...from remote distances sounds the cry of hope
I hear your voice straight through all the despair
as a guide that leads near capriciousness
you show your balance in dance gestures
before my face y...
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Categories:
capriciousness, love,
Form: Light Verse
Fallen From Grace To Rise With New Love
...How you I would like to tell
that I you find exquisite
and would move the stars
to make our fates agree.
How I live alone, predestined
to fall from women's grace
and to rise again with new love...
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Categories:
capriciousness, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Holy Hope
...Bags Of Rice
In my Courtyard
The One I Struggled Lost to the capriciousness
The nest of the fuddle Nightingale-
A Suspicious Saying of the sage.
So sonorous is this Whistle
That passes by
IF ...
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Categories:
capriciousness, adventure, art, confusion, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Labyrinthine Simplicities
...Don’t misconceive my mercy for weakness
Exponent to impuissance that bestows
Ascertain verity of Uniqueness
Appreciate my pose of apropos
Strength my forte led by capriciousness
I once shattered and...
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Categories:
capriciousness, childhood, dedication, people,
Form: Sonnet
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