You Enter These Words
...Named by someone else's mouth,
you enter words,
they become your horses,
you ride them,
then a time comes when they ride you,
you become their hoof-beats.
Your name was always
that which c...
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Categories:
christens, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Showing Him Someone Cares
...she christens the lake where her lover’s body was found
they say suicide, she thinks murder.
no one will convince her otherwise.
there are sides of him you did not know, his mother said.
maybe th...
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Categories:
christens, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Muse of Creation
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Resting on the mountains,
Suggesting joy and laughter,
Reflecting grace, stirring up…
Happiness that erases every doubt,
Silences every worry and fear,
Reminds the heart to be than...
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Categories:
christens, autumn, inspiration, muse, peace,
Form: Free verse
Wing a Little Wink
...Dew christens morning grass underneath my feet
Chilled senses in the mist, fill of something sweet
Sun teases its reveal, tempting me to pause
Palms in a flurried rush...
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Categories:
christens, happy, life, love, nature,
Form: Couplet
He Fills Me With Wonder
...He silences the vulgar roar
Of loneliness and fear
He gentles all the stormy wars
Between sin and my spirit
He christens my heart’s kiss
With inspiration so tender
He sprinkles kindness, humili...
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Categories:
christens, god, inspirational, jesus, joy,
Form: Free verse
Depth of Field
...Development laps at emaciated canvas
Exponential images whisper a thousand words
Chemical dip shifts generic into candid
Graphic effigy given vigour by a brief submerge
Slippery minutes expan...
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Categories:
christens, beautiful, birth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Libby Was Christened
...Cicada shell needed discarding, fast
Desperately ready for what she will become
Stepping rapidly out of her pitchy past
Towards freshness, her chance to succumb
Wavered mirage solidified as s...
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Categories:
christens, adventure, beautiful, blessing, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
True For People
...I can record that voice,
When the radio can’t catch a wave,
convert it to Morse code and send it to infinity
and somewhere on the other side of the earth,
Someone christens this joke as some ...
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Categories:
christens, africa, myth, peace, people,
Form: Free verse
Seagulls and Scarecrows
...I, a salty scarecrow, roam the shoreline
The moon melts soft like butter on the reach
Squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
While dropping clams to s...
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Categories:
christens, appreciation, bird, morning, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Invitation To a Garden Wedding
...Invitation to a Garden Wedding
What temple of praise is it that we raise?
A Sunday church of sermons and duty
for souls whose altar craze may lose its blaze?
That which is of Love could lose it...
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Categories:
christens, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Encapsulate An Emotion
...Popcorn pops!
The bag swells with golden steam. I stop
the microwave to top off papa's favorite bowl.
Salt christens the glistening treat
and I retreat into the family room twilight
as papa pu...
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Categories:
christens, family, father,
Form: I do not know?
Dope
...Dope- that word still tastes foreign in my mouth. It bites at my ears every time I hear that word somehow sounding even more bitter when it rolls off my own tongue. I can feel each letter tumble off ...
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Categories:
christens, addiction,
Form: I do not know?
History Sees a Man
...The cross is a symbol
of abject suffering
and base brutality,
lacking humanity.
Jesus nailed to the cross,
is a vile depiction of
cruelty and torture
causing anguish and death.
I ...
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Categories:
christens, bible, christian, faith, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
The Inward
...The maze is
Inside.
Navigation here is like trying
To take a dump
After having too much
White rice.
You get further in
Only to pique
Frustrated
In cramps,
Un-amused.
Perhaps… aft...
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Categories:
christens, absence, angst,
Form: Narrative
Blossoms and Bubbles
...Effervescent laughter blows over vales
then falls soft to glaze new blooms posed genteel.
Gracious stems lift smiles to foamed skies surreal,
riding on sunrays of shimmery sails.
Splendid d...
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Categories:
christens, dream, flower, joy, love,
Form: Sonnet
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