The Guide
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(A lone voice whispers)
What a year to be alive to see poetry still thrives
Want some new readers?
Well, I asked this once when I was institutionalised
Before in The Great In-Between
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Categories:
chloroform, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Meandering
...Do you believe in aliens?
I do.
Not the type that are green
with big black eyes and tentacles,
But the ones that are just like you and me
They sit imprisoned in classrooms
And worry about blea...
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Categories:
chloroform, feelings, imagination, night, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
He wanders through the neon nights, an artist out of place
...He wanders through the neon nights, an artist out of place,
Unfit for this life tethered by chains, this era devoid of grace.
A time of empty haste, progress but an illusory facade,
A life starvin...
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Categories:
chloroform, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Unassailable Purity
...When accidental
auroras stroll along
the pale highlights of
camouflaging corpses
and death blossoms
in vulturous hearts of
dreadful puppets,
she always holds
pixie dusts of
strawberry s...
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Categories:
chloroform, angst, courage, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Dormant Decession
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I'm an ashen dove,
fading in zephyr
of wine valleys,
saturating in fog
upon enchanting hills,
draped in
grape-green silk,
where fantasies of forest,
sprout cynthia moon
of a...
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Categories:
chloroform, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse
No One Stops the Storm
...There’s a storm and it is raging.
It crackles deadly light.
There’s a hurricane-a-waging
A war we can not fight
There’s a powerful wind-a-roaring
Gusting money as quick as can be
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Categories:
chloroform, corruption, dark, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Discontinue
...Absolute toxin; I placed within you;
Through to the bone; past the sinew;
I could not allow this to continue,
A blessing it is to discontinue,
My scent was laced heavy with chloroform;
Weather t...
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Categories:
chloroform, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Leaving This World For Good
...Leaving this World for Good (IFL)
Back from a second surgical treatment
Lasting several frightful ho...
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Categories:
chloroform, feelings, pain, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Smart Phone Magician
...Yesterday I ran a short errand.
On the sidewalk (no bus stop) stood a millennial.
Dressed only in the chill of morning.
Hypnotized by that "smart phone" magician.
Perhaps conversing with a face ...
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Categories:
chloroform, absence, youth,
Form: Free verse
Smooth As Key-Lime Pie
...Rainbow Surplus suppressing it’s limelight on the wonders of thy guillotine. Eat a planet with betadine. Horoscopes orders. The empire shines bright on double d’s. Who’s to say Peter hasn’t squandere...
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Categories:
chloroform, cat, child abuse, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Volcano
...volcano
Huge explosives of nascent hydrogen
twelve hundred square feet explosive house
in companionship of a gentle woman loaded with gelatin
in liquid nitroglycerin's warm touch
sweet mouth ...
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Categories:
chloroform, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Appointment With Our Inner Self
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Meet and greet master of our form
Night and day, as we be so breathed
Consciousness feels magnetism warm
Our ego transient, soon deceased
Search for source of inspiration
Meet a...
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Categories:
chloroform, spiritual,
Form: Quatern
Prometheus Bound
...Prometheus bound, but not denied
The better part of food is fried
Fresh or fridge, it's all the same
Smarter people light a flame
Prometheus bound, hear me cry
Someone's got a fish to fry
Eat...
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Categories:
chloroform, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Our Doggie Needs Chloroform
...Hey we're having a thunderstorm
As usual, our doggie needs chloroform
A real scaredy-cat
A kinda handicap
She's under a chair being quite alarmed...
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Categories:
chloroform, storm,
Form: Limerick
An Infant's Bitter Cry
...What did you see in me uncle?
How could you even hold me tight?
I was born just a few months ago
My tender body still didn't grow.
I slept by the side of my mom
You have shown her the smell of...
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Categories:
chloroform, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
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