TransplanT
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Aided by the wind,
entities take flight like prismatic colors-
talismanning chanced direction
"of watering misfit eye",
looking for a new place
to touchdown and...
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Categories:
carom, angel,
Form: Rhyme
The Cinder of Ella of the Cedars
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Wood Nymph, wraps white
gossamer legs in hello, as branch shakes
in obvious "ka_ching"!
'Oh wait till you see what she does next",
tattles the tree, in an excited a...
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Categories:
carom, april, art,
Form: Rhyme
Kwik-E-Mart
...Altiloquent in behavior
Quick to carom
Unabashedly pawky
A labyrinthine of misadventure
Like living in Greenland
Hardly felt warmth
Got the oil-
Wanted nothing more
Silenced your weapon
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Categories:
carom, black love, change,
Form: Alliteration
The Night Drinks Us In
...The city’s streaming lights are
incandescent veins,
you and I a runaway fizz of champagne.
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Categories:
carom, city, drink, imagery, light,
Form: Free verse
Games
...Each day is like a different game
Few are like chess,
they need tactics to win.
Few are like a carom match,
they need perfect aiming.
Few are like a tennis tournament,
they need concentration.
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Categories:
carom, inspiration, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Imagism
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
...My childhood friend, my blood brother
We did a lot of fun things together
Playing carom, table tennis and skating
You were the dull school boy
My eyes were always pained
To see you struggle thr...
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Categories:
carom, brother,
Form: Free verse
I Wish I Weren'T a Frog
...I WISH I WEREN’T A FROG
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I wish I were a frog sunning myself on a lily pad
No cares or worries to drive me mad or sad
I’ll play it cool, wait for insects out on the fly
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Categories:
carom, allusion, funny, humorous, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Days
...Golden days
Reminisce those golden days left far behind,
little joys lived to most, recalls the mind,
Aiming sky high and free as birds,
Cherished life, simple were our words,
Childh...
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Categories:
carom, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Indian Stuffed Paranthas: No Counting
...crisp hot paranthas stuffed with
mashed boiled potatoes,
spiced with ginger and carom
topped with white butter
and pickle of choice
finger lick
treat!
Date: 9.11.2014...
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Categories:
carom, food,
Form: Epulaeryu
Frayed Plume
...she got on about three stops after I did
I was sure she was conversant in ballet
by the way she danced up the steps
and delicately deposited her passage
into the device next to the driver
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Categories:
carom, life, lost love, for
Form: Light Verse
Trillergy
...Faint away Ry Cooder
as the candle flame danced
reddish green and the wick crackled
Cassiopeia together
through the night screen
crooned Diana Krall
and a dying moon
three white bir...
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Categories:
carom, allegory, imagination, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Light Verse
The Foyer of the Heart
...The Foyer Of The Heart
In the center there’s
a hollow
small, enclosed,
oval like a locket
called the foyer
of the heart.
There the bullets
carom while
the widow,
room to room...
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Categories:
carom, loss
Form: Free verse
Conception
...Conception
There
In seconds words birth
A phrase laboring me to pen
Anticipation of a perfect offspring
Contraction squint the mind for me
That shudders a intent, until
It flops on the page,...
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Categories:
carom, artme,
Form: Free verse
Mind Games
...random thoughts carom from shuttered sights
in geometric harmonies of cacophony colors
reverberating drum rolls kaleidoscopically spinning
through theoretical manoeuvres of polished possibilities...
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Categories:
carom, life, love, wife,
Form: Bio
Cream No Sugar
...Hidden in musty dusty folds of ragged thoughts I've sought to hide
Unbidden and driven by emotions chained in dungeons deep and wide
Bursting free from no sensation breaking into concentration
T...
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Categories:
carom, life, on work and
Form: I do not know?
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