Poetry
...Some scribblings that pass for poetry
Yes they bear style and symmetry
But very wordy and message thin
And however much you listen keen
There’s little or nothing to be drawn
Not a mind thrill...
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Categories:
cheapening, god, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Back With the Hand Break Off
...Being older than I once was, inevitably places have changed,
yet where I was born now looks like an alien city to me,
it’s now a tourist destination for the ever rootless.
Back then people were da...
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Categories:
cheapening, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back With the Handbrake Off
...The world does not look now
like a place that I once belonged to.
Opening an atlas
the maps looks like nowhere I have ever been.
I pass through different windows now,
white rabbits lead the ...
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Categories:
cheapening, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Feelings Harboured
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Busily flicking possibilities, swarmed faces swum
Fishes flipped fast before the following
Murky harbour deep, screen swallowing
Clear impression of traits innate to individual ones
Flas...
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Categories:
cheapening, abuse, allusion, angst, emotions,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Skin Bigot
...It seems these days, across the land,
that the Klan has somehow got a tan.
Somehow, instead of being free,
folk now take pride in their bigotry.
They say their skin defines their life,
even di...
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Categories:
cheapening, evil, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Always Wanting More
...What cruel trick is hope;
to juggle joy with pain?
And abandon the heart;
when the tears fall like rain.
Disenchanted with Fate;
Faith offers no escape.
When love stretches to fit,
w...
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Categories:
cheapening, emotions, feelings, introspection, life,
Form: Quatrain