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At Age Seventeen*** At Age Seventeen ***
At 17, the wooden heels of my boots echoed
My audacious immaturity along my entire way
exploring
Manhattan’s south-end area. Its long blocks, I routed
For the reason...
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Categories:
angst, christian, city, environment,
Form: Narrative
I DANCE WITH SHADOWS - Yclept SonnetWhen dappled shadows flit through darkened backstreets,
and whispers rendezvous with one another,
the usual bright spirits take a backseat.
They nurture remnants of rebounds which smother.
When cadence of sweet trilling of dawn chorus
unwelcome thief: give...
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Categories:
analogy, city, dream, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
The Pigeon LadyThe pigeon lady makes her rounds
At seven in the morn.
About her feeding habits,
I must say that I am torn.
Along the promenade, which runs
Adjacent to the river,
She scatters seed which pigeons
Know each day that she’ll deliver.
They...
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Categories:
bird, city,
Form: Rhyme
IncenseIn the Real Estate section,
A question arose
About incense within your abode.
Certain buildings have rules
That prohibit its use
And the writer was set to explode.
If some candles are lit
For the Sabbath by some,
Why can’t she light her...
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Categories:
city, home,
Form: Rhyme
ThunderOn a dark day like this
Normally, everyone wants to finish work quickly
And its human nature to want to go home
The woman was looking up at the sky
she was looking for a dragon's nest
Four seasons passing...
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Categories:
city, cry,
Form: Free verse
Coexistence city of increasing fervor
heavy with sealed glass windows
in vaulted towers
sky-high protection
from the steady spew of cars
urban sidewalks in the
private grayness of fall
where sparrows
in a small
rush of flutter
(like a jailbreak)
peck at specks of
discarded...
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Categories:
autumn, bird, city, environment,
Form: Imagism
Mister Robin goes to workIn his navy blue coat with cap
& donning a smart auburn vest
Mr. Robin flew off in a hurry--
leaving the Missus to nest :)...
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Categories:
bird, blue, city, flying,
Form: Couplet
A Psychic Behind Enemy LinesBehind Enemy Lines
Behind
I followed through doors and passage ways , roofs and small runways ...The boy with a glint in his eye, he took me up , high high to the very top , a...
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Categories:
city, africa, analogy, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
platcher formplatcher farm
what’s platcher?
double sinner
standard
a number 1 city
did you think less...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Free verse
DARK CITY
Boredom awaits you
Throughout the years
When you get up to the hill,
There is fear that invades
The little child who walk up.
You would be afraid for your-self.
That's normal you are in the devil's regn
In an hell...
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Categories:
city, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse
This City Is Now HomeI photographed a fake vase of roses
While I stood on a sidewalk doing poses.
I was patiently waiting for a bus home,
Then I realized home can be found wherever I roam.
...
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Categories:
city, home,
Form: Quatrain
CALIFORINACalifornia's destruction was bad
It was the worst they'd ever had
Out of character for them
They were twisted just like a limb
Angels meet Karma makes it sad...
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Categories:
city, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Paris, My Heart's DesireParis, oh city of light
I yearn to visit, to see the sights
The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre at night
To wander the streets, and dine with delight
The Seine river, flowing so true
I long to sit and watch...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, city, dream,
Form: Rhyme
FlorenceNamed as a flowering city;
By a strange happenstance.
For of new ideas, buzzing round
Twas then pollinated.
Which seeded this other glory
Time's renaissance.
Among all the epochs, the one
Lily; highest rated....
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Categories:
city,
Form: Rhyme
reasonI start walking
and shake off at the same time
shake off
painstakingly
each person
ties in eternal darkness
they prepare and self-cultivate
continuous scrutiny of life and death
candlestick lamp,In a cathedral space
light or extinguish fire,distorted
Sorrow echoes from
a distant grave,smells...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Free verse
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