Creation Story, From the Tongue Outward
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In the beginning, there was salt.
It hung in the air like unfinished scripture,
gathered in the throat of the sea,
waited for a mouth dumb enough
to mistake thirst for an invitation.
Then...
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Categories:
cartilage, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My Incubus
...Pounding at the resonant head
of my chest—he of hunger
latches his fangs just beneath my jaw—
not to sever silence, but to pummel poison.
Tissue parts with wet reluctance,
he with need more th...
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Categories:
cartilage, anxiety, change, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Clairsentience
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Our experience between my fingers,
your cartilage scares;
The ocean and the approaching sea band
— another pass for
both our same reflexes.
We touch with halo ring in prayer....
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Categories:
cartilage, angst, devotion, innocence, love,
Form: Sijo
Churning Chyme Vogon Poetry
...If stars could see the sun~
slurping the grunglethorp grains
from sweat-soaked streams,
purging puddles of blurmorgris,
you’d hear the phazephonyx symphony
of my intestines churning chyme
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Categories:
cartilage, absence, riddle,
Form: Vogon Poetry
What a Wonderful World
...What a wonder this world holds,
If only you grasp it, if only it unfolds.
Look from the heavens to the earth below,
Your debt to parents will forever grow.
God needs but a single drop, ...
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Categories:
cartilage, god,
Form: Kyrielle
Holding on to the God rail
...There are times in life where you may think life is not fair just because to you things are not working out the way you want them to. During that time you may not be able to fully understand the proc...
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Categories:
cartilage, change, encouraging, god, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
MY Capt'n
...TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All s...
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Categories:
cartilage, appreciation, character, destiny, father
Form: Chant Royal
Verisimilitude
...Strange, after living so long apart
the things that resurrect the memory of your touch;
a vanilla-scented candle, the taste of Turkish coffee;
or the way flower petals graze my skin so softly;
th...
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Categories:
cartilage, imagination, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Versed Be Mine-
...Come list with me
Cartilage speak softly
Unto me
Your voice touches me
Radiantly speak
Sweets actions
Tell me your passion
Verse love me
With all your word
Speak to me bea...
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Categories:
cartilage, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, how
Form: Rhyme
Fallen
...swollen fluid-filled cavities bruised blue
broken tendons bones and cartilage too
blacken eyes wide and starry misty dew
sunken chest deflated lungs motionless
upon the yielding ground, thee now ...
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Categories:
cartilage, bereavement, death, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Update
...New update, November 15, 2022
Caleb saw the orthopedic surgeon today. He said that he did not break his femur, but the patella(kneecap) dislocated but went back in place, there is...
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Categories:
cartilage, health,
Form: Other
CHOOSE ME
...CHOOSE ME
If You choose my porous bones
to shatter into a
hundred pieces, dissolve
each atom of my cartilage
I will surrender, hands aloft
So that U my Lord and Mistress can
fo...
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Categories:
cartilage, allegory, beautiful, change, color,
Form: Free verse
The Forests Are My Bones
...Flesh is land I may say; seas are blood-floods; forests are bones;
Physic and spirit of nature, has zones of sand and stones:
Bones support the body to stand, bend, slide, glide, walk and run,
Wit...
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Categories:
cartilage, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Human Bloom
...a child collapsed cold in the garden
talisman waved with the wind
violently close to a pardoning-
hardening, molding the kin to her seam inter-winged
horribly marbling volatile harmony
azure...
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Categories:
cartilage, beauty, birth, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Shark
...skeleton cartilage
seven gill slits on head
supreme power symbol
stalks prey up to six miles
sense of smell amazing
species are small or large
sudden seashore scary
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Categories:
cartilage, animal, ocean,
Form: Pleiades
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