Rust
...I am a ruined house
With a rusty fence,
So many phantoms reside resting recklessly,
A clock on the mantelpiece that won't work. It's stuck staring at me,
Tick………,
The wallpaper is crumbling an...
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Categories:
clatters, heartbreak, heartbroken, love, love
Form: Free verse
Happiness in Memoriam
...There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
—Aeschylus
Happiness in Memoriam
Each neuron tingles with happiness, in unnerving vise.
Presently, the squeeze...
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Categories:
clatters, grief,
Form: Sijo
Not going far in my car
...pitter patter drips drops and plops
blathers blatters splatters sploshes and drips
bitter twitter twatters and twaddles, flips and flops
chitter chatter babbles clapt...
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Categories:
clatters, car,
Form: Rhyme
ON A MATTER OF PEACE
...ON A MATTER OF PEACE
Cock a doodle doo, good morning to you.
That rooster’s woken me again.
And pitter patter goes the rain,
Beating on the window pane.
Tick tock, tick tock
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Categories:
clatters, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Raining in Summer
...Placed third in:
Raining in Summer Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress
Raining in Summer
With a bright shining sum...
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Categories:
clatters, appreciation, rain, spiritual, stress,
Form: Quatrain
Wabi-Sabi
...
Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.
Dreadful a...
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Categories:
clatters, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Another Love Poem
...
I'm not writing another
All the words have since been said
Besides, it's dark and it's cosy
As I lie alone in bed
I'll magic up a subject..
Let the words just tumble out
Be proactively ca...
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Categories:
clatters, february, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Else Matters
...In the quiet dark, where tears fall free,
There's a place inside, just you and me.
No more pain, no worldly clatters,
In this empty space, nothing else matters.
Lost in a void, no joy, no light...
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Categories:
clatters, appreciation, beautiful, betrayal, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Roggenwolf
...A familiar dawn of dull and sunless sky
the inconstant rattle of unlocked door, which
plays a backbeat to the buzz of dying fly.
A breath of wind blows a high, discordant pitch;
wildly rings a wi...
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Categories:
clatters, loss,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux
...Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux
Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly
ricocheting axon to neuron
induci...
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Categories:
clatters, absence, allah, angel, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Each Passing Clouds
...The sailing ships above my head,
unimageable shapes navigating through,
as I walk the lonely stretch of the beach.
Memories stir chapters of the past.
I always wondered what my life would have ...
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Categories:
clatters, memory,
Form: Free verse
Listen, Listen Do
...The flop and flurry of wide, woozy wings
clatters over dawn hedgerows.
Claws scrabble, feathers flounce.
An ounce of twitters rebounds
into raucous sound.
Here a rowdy cackle,
here a coddled ...
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Categories:
clatters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Writer
...Fancy that...
Being able to spend the whole morning
Writing a poem!
My mother's hands
Were etched in a network of tiny cracks.
Salt of the earth, the doctor said.
She thought it meant he lov...
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Categories:
clatters, hurt, mother, poetess, sad
Form: Free verse
Enduring a Monsoon
...I was awakened by the sounds of clatters and thumps
as a whoosh of breeze made my window blinds thud.
I rose with a groan and felt the rise of goose bumps...
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Categories:
clatters, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Short Breaths, Long Breaths
...I sit breathing, feel the breaths in and out,
know the breaths long and short, wish the peace
for heaven and earth, wish for soothing seasons
of rain and wind, and wish for all to have
enough ...
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Categories:
clatters, beautiful, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
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