Some Sounds Remind Of
...clatter-claws scratching drum skins.
Pigeons are the worst. Rose bushes sit quietly all summer
then only after they have lost their heads
do they squeak and squawk all night.
Dry joints crunch do...
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Categories:
cartilages, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Some Sounds Remind of Knuckles Cracking
...Clatter claws cascade downward into listening drums.
Pigeons are the worst. Rose bushes sit quietly all summer
then only after they have lost their heads
do they scratch and squark nightly.
To...
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Categories:
cartilages, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Turn of Events
...she placed her ragged comfort blanket in the exhausted tumble dryer
to dry her tears shed during nightmares spinning terror and cold dreams
requested safe passage from the Goddess of laundry an...
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Categories:
cartilages, analogy,
Form: Free verse
False Teeth
...First hosting angels with God and son
Then I'd become a glimmer in my father's eye
Met my mother then I arrived
A babe with NO teeth
At age of three I have some bones
Cartilages harden made of m...
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Categories:
cartilages, birth, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse
My Words Do Not Match Yours
...Insignificant,
My proses are nothing without you-
but scribbles, through and through
I dream a dark weary blur
of letters, a phrases, going by in a flur-
Even that; my thoughts seeming s...
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Categories:
cartilages, angst, beauty, creation, growth,
Form: Free verse
My Words Do Not Match Yours- Part 1
...Insignificant,
My proses are nothing without you-
but scribbles, through and through
I dream a dark weary blur
of letters, a phrases, going by in a flur-
Even that; my thoughts seeming s...
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Categories:
cartilages, allusion, appreciation, writing,
Form: Free verse