Nature in a Mischievous Mood
...Nature in a Mischievous Mood
Early Sunday morning;
nature rattling at the front door!
I accept its clamorous invitation
stepping out with nothing more
in tow than an upturned collar..
and a...
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Categories:
clamorous, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse
Eagle Rock Reverie
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Written: August 06, 2025
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The traffic roars as wounded gulls.
metal beats skated over the asphalt waves,
each honk a fractured praye...
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Categories:
clamorous, bird,
Form: Free verse
Nebulous Horizon
...I gaze beyond the phasing face
of the nebulous horizon,
searching in clamorous silence
for a hypnotic glimpse
of your poetic sparks ~ lost,
placed within the kohl-dust
of dreariness dr...
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Categories:
clamorous, angst, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, circa 1832
...your love ~ my muse
your voice ~ my prose
s l i
p
s and sails in the sky ~
stroking the silhouette
of
snow-kissed mountains,
m...
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Categories:
clamorous, humanity, life, muse,
Form: Ekphrasis
Melancholy Atomic 1945 , Salvador Dali
...The sky is a Luciferian estuary
rolling and roaring in crimson flames,
a twisted design of detonated debris,
like splitting sighs
from internal implosions,
raining fragments of the past:
matc...
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Categories:
clamorous, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis
Isn't it Sad To Seek Unfairness?
...Do we allow the compelling mind to control our unwilling steps?
Do they obey or deviate from the path smeared with insecurities?
Isn't it sad to seek unfairness instead of much desirable closeness?...
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Categories:
clamorous, anger, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Etched in Stone
...I gaze out my glass doors,
engrossed in
the clamorous cadence
of screeching stillness,
emitting electric tones
of love etched in stones,
and fervent flares of fireflies,
stolen from the ri...
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Categories:
clamorous, emotions, romance,
Form: Free verse
chamomile clemency
...f o r g i v e n e s s
is the window
to unknot the twigs of tainted trees,
where cuffed anklets
around the star-struck skin of
seraphic silhouettes
feel the suppressed sighs
of the ice-moon...
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Categories:
clamorous, forgiveness, friend,
Form: Free verse
Where Tides once Gossiped
...Where tides once gossiped for many an hour
about what lovers share; like grapes gone sour,
the strong opinions o’ friends will minds devour.
A reputation guarded against smut
and smiles that’s...
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Categories:
clamorous, emotions, imagery, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Shanquella's Sanpaku Tale
...Eyes! Doleful and lonely as they quietly penetrate my soul
In their silence, I can hear clamorous rumblings of a tale that pleads to be told
Far-reaching and clamorous are these eyes
So much...
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Categories:
clamorous, angst, betrayal, bullying, dark,
Form: Elegy
Love Has Endured Timeless Ages
...Love has endured timeless ages,
it has been spoken with sweet
and intense words:
but to understand it,
we must truly feel it!
Live can be magic,
love can be tragic;
who is willing to proclaim ...
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Categories:
clamorous, age, devotion, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
unhappy with her writing
...Silence of the night split open
Consternated by a clamorous crack
Nettie stared at the paper
Took out an eraser
Evening’s still quiet was horrified
By the fortissimo of thunder
No good.
She ...
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Categories:
clamorous, writing,
Form: Free verse
Mind Chatter
...Its noisy din in silent rooms
Leaves orphaned thoughts and focus doomed.
Its silent clatter BECOMES SO LOUD
Your thoughts get lost in clamorous clouds.
It melts your mind and drowns your dreams...
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Categories:
clamorous, anxiety, extended metaphor, how
Form: Rhyme
The Inner Voice
...Written 2 January 2024
Submitted to No. 1272 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
The Inner Voice
If a...
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Categories:
clamorous, allegory, humanity, inspirational, men,
Form: Quatrain
BELLS
...Sleep lifted its gossamer veil from my eyes this morn
before dawn's roseate beams of light had been born.
Silence reigned as the world around me still slept.
I watched a cat in the garden as it st...
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Categories:
clamorous, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
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