Does the Universe Retain All the Knowledge of Every Civilization That Ever Existed
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In the black throat of space, words spiral,
Charred syllables drifting like moths to no flame.
Every book, every prayer, every curse
Finds its way into the bone-dust of stars.
I dream of arch...
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Categories:
catalogued, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Eden
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She collects souls to be their shepherd,
to keep them — and their short lives — safe.
All moments, catalogued
in the chaos and cosmos.
She watches them thrive.
Her curiosity appears as w...
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Categories:
catalogued, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Ersatz Docent in the I Am Museum
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Welcome.
I'm the one they left behind.
An alter ego of sorts—
just the keeper, the inventory clerk,
interim ghost.
New items arrive every day—
spat out from my boss's pockets,
sometimes st...
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Categories:
catalogued, metaphor, self,
Form: Free verse
Childhood Trauma That Creates a Serial Killer
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A bedroom door that never locked,
Footsteps heavy like thunderclocks,
Mother's wine glass, cracked and red,
Words that bruised more than fists ever did.
A closet full of whispered screams,
A...
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Categories:
catalogued, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Grackle
...An ornithologist of renown
studied every bird in town.
Indeed this vaunted scholar of worth
catalogued each tweeting thing on EARTH.
Quickly and thoroughly he dispatched
all those creatures that...
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Categories:
catalogued, bird, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Oak Creek Canyon Echo
...I want to write dirty and convoluted,
connected and wet
And in the mess of my words
Feel the stain run down
Over the nice clean ordered objective, detached
From the structure you claim to know...
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Categories:
catalogued, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Eclipse of Sun
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Eclipse of Sun is quite a sight
since for a while day looks like night
when moon moves ‘twixt the Earth and Sun
and over light the dark has won
or seemingly in visioned sleight.
That syzy...
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Categories:
catalogued, earth, humanity, moon, perspective,
Form: Rondeau
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS - Shiny New Books
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Every year government allots humongous amount of money to schools for buying new books. Alas! bought, catalogued..library decorated with shiny books! End of the year, many of those books are not ev...
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Categories:
catalogued, books, children,
Form: Prose
Preservationist
...Preserve it for history.
Restore it the way it should be.
Ecosystems must be protected well.
Store microorganisms in a liquid nitrogen cell.
Every item catalogu...
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Categories:
catalogued, rainforest,
Form: Acrostic
Chronicle a Freed Verse
...CHRONICLR
a romantic
advance
insisted
.discerned
catalogued
unstated
an elegant
treatise
formal
& artificial
intricately
disposed
in
a natural
circumstance
partial
& unce...
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Categories:
catalogued, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Interview With An Artwork
...Most of the day,
Alone on this wall we stay;
When the doors open wide
Shy colleagues ,behind curtains hide;
On view for all for free see
Our lives, on show for all to see;
On the seat ,over th...
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Categories:
catalogued, art,
Form: Rhyme
Monster Poem
...[They lived in terror. A dark cloud seeping inside souls tearing love
and kindness away]
I am lost for words to describe the agony of my reflection inflicted upon me; the beast born by a mad sc...
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Categories:
catalogued, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Worst of Humankind - Part 2
...Now you’re turning to the south
To save your battered face,
To claim some sort of victory
By flattening the place.
If soldiers cannot win your war
You’ll bomb and you will shell:
Blow everyth...
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Categories:
catalogued, anger, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Debate
...After enduring their egocentricity for centuries…Gaia could no longer wait…so she summoned every entity on the planet…to listen to the debate.
“The humans think they are more important than all of...
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Categories:
catalogued, earth, earth day,
Form: Rhyme
A Civil War Battlefield
...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away
don't know where the hell they are
after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories:
catalogued, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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