The kind of poet I am
..."A Kind of Poet I Am":
A kind of poet I am, with words that flow free
A weaver of dreams, a painter of sea
My verses are whispers, of secrets untold
A symphony of emotions, young and old
My ...
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Categories:
chronicler, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Maybe among so many barricades that protect my heart
...Maybe among so many barricades that protect my heart,
I was born to be read once and then locked away for eternity.
To be just a fleeting glance, a passing shadow, never the one that turns heads.
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Categories:
chronicler, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
An Aria At Sunset
...Now that you are here,
take in the sunset
and the flare of wings
catching gold
in sweeping turns down
to water creased with waves
and the foam wind blown
to shore. And here,
the vision of her...
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Categories:
chronicler, sunset,
Form: Free verse
The Art of a Dying Man
...The Art of a Dying Man
David J Walker
The dam was broken and
The man trying to save it
Worked alone
As we watched
through the lens
of an iPhone
hoping to capture
the moment of co...
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Categories:
chronicler, allegory, family,
Form: Rhyme
Memphis Belle
...I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof the...
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Categories:
chronicler, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
What Else Is There For Me
...WHAT ELSE IS THERE FOR ME
what else is there for me
to write about?
when many thoughts;
have been passed on down
and presented in the past,
not unlike message sticks,
and beating drums,
f...
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Categories:
chronicler, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Scratch Paper of the Composer
...Scratch paper of the composer
Is employed for creating song;
It is useful or functional
To correct the words that go wrong.
Scratch paper of the keen author
Is always there for nifty note;
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Categories:
chronicler, poems,
Form: Quatrain
A Ditty To a Poet From the City
...Here is a little ditty
To a poet from the City
She writes of common things
Yet makes the routine sing
Her style is perfect rhyme
Its beat is mighty fine
A chronicler of daily events...
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Categories:
chronicler, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Rivalry's Children
...It was the time when art was king,
Of artists whose praises we all sing.
Great minds there were in the Renaissance,
Through eons , unsurpassed, with little advance.
Greatness was embodied in t...
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Categories:
chronicler, art, history, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Chronicler of Events and Emotions
...Chronicler of Events and Emotions
As a Poet and as a Writer . . .
I’m a Chronicler of Events and Emotions;
I watch, observe, and record all that I see.
It’s truly enough to absorb and understa...
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Categories:
chronicler, allegory, imagery, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Didactic
Chronicler of History
...Chronicler of History
History goes back as you might guess
Through vast tracks of time out there to be cataloged and measured
And a couple minutes more, before the universe was born
It discover...
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Categories:
chronicler, adventure, age, celebrity, character,
Form: Didactic
God's Big List
...When I was little I believed God
to be a chronicler of sorts.
Documenting each and every sin
in a big book, high up on the shelf.
Come Judgement he would ask your name,
and run his finger down the li...
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Categories:
chronicler, bible, childhood, faith, growing
Form: Rhyme
Friday, the 13th
...FRIDAY, THE 13TH, IS IT AN ANATHEMA?
I, in the bad old days
When medicine derives
Its worth and effectiveness
In the wack-wack days
The herbal and their prayers used to drive away evil spirits.
Our...
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Categories:
chronicler, people
Form: Narrative
A Chronicler of Outdoors
...My perspective is of pristine settings,
A vantage of raw beauty.
Articulated in a naturalistic way,
With great tenacity and duty.
I’m an interpreter of what is sensed,
The author of m...
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Categories:
chronicler, on writing and words
Form: Quatrain
Claude Mckay
...Countee Cullen knew you, and you nectared him
Lambent voice when Harlem was wrapped in night
Artist and rebel, African singer of Grecian hymn
Umbilical to Jamaica, nightingale in Nietzschean fligh...
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Categories:
chronicler, art
Form: Acrostic
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