ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
...ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
Oh, what designs can one possess
Lending succour to those with naught
Such desperate need one must confess
And how hard one must have fought
When courtesy has no more cur...
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Categories:
coherency, anxiety, journey, sympathy,
Form: Ode
Naught Meant To Be
...GIFY: By Tokyo Mega Plex
Naught Meant To Be
"I used to know you as the best, but now I don't remember your name?"
--Anonymous quote
Best friends who imagined were inseparable,
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Categories:
coherency, conflict, fate, friendship, lost,
Form: Rhyme
They Ask Me Why I Did It
...The burden of holding it
in my arms
weighed me down to nothing.
I had not felt like myself for months,
and no one noticed my morning breath
at midnight or my late-night schnapps
scented ...
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Categories:
coherency, baby,
Form: Free verse
A Depressed Soul
...Knees against a forehead
Eyes hiding with no one searching
Feet chilled by the warmth of a tile
Anger ballooning, despair puncturing
Passive by nature, tortured by sutures.
Drops flow to flood...
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Categories:
coherency, deep, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Vagabond Poet
...I live the life of a vagabond poet
now approaching my winter years.
A time for reflection
through introspection
of my true heart's desires.
A time when challen...
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Categories:
coherency, age, introspection, poets,
Form: Free verse
Come On, What Do You Believe
...C’mon, What Do You Believe?
I am not a Christian atheist and never was,
Although I did adopt it sometimes to get by,
‘Cos my parents objected to my articulation,
Smooth, fluent, of the bibl...
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Categories:
coherency, abuse, caregiving, child abuse,
Form: Verse
Practicing Positive Psychology
...Today we hear Positive Psychology is hot.
To not agree is to be both negative,
and a snot;
too cognitively dissonant
arrogant
and dino-snore-a-lot.
When your loved one tells you,
for the tho...
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Categories:
coherency, appreciation, integrity, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Resonant Rails
...The direct sensing of information may sometimes be deceptive and illusory due to such factors as coincidence, congruence, or the time-and-angle distortions of perspective. For instance, the parallel ...
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Categories:
coherency, heart, nature, perspective, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Tinsletown Usa
...poverty stricken rally,
swing low sweet chariots...
no one to take me home
middle class no more, low verses the rich,
win to lose,
never win win..
too bad for the nation,
too bad for the world,
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Categories:
coherency, life, class, class, universe,
Form: Free verse
Only Half of a Soul
...I glanced over at him
and my face burned at his exotic gaze
I wanted to be with him, if only in his arms for a moment
knowing it was turning into a flat out sexual stare
I could still not bare to lo...
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Categories:
coherency, fantasy, passion,
Form: Free verse
I Know How It Feels To Die
...I know how it feels to die
For lungs to be emptied of air
Fighting in vain to save myself
Screaming in my mind its not fair
I know what death feels like
Detached and completely surreal
In the f...
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Categories:
coherency, deathdeath, death,
Form: Rhyme
Decorating
...Decorating
“But what is real? If you mean those impulses and signals sent by your senses
and which are then interpreted by your brain. Then the real can be anything
your mind desires.”
Mo...
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Categories:
coherency, caregiving, childhood, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Desperation
...Desperate I cling to my last nerve of sanity
Desolate I feel submerged in autonomy
Unable to cope my senses grasp for exposure
Incapable of coherency I reach for a bolster
Vindicated by lifes cru...
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Categories:
coherency, angst, sad,
Form: Blank verse
Rant
...considering the inanity of writing a poem
without any idea of a subject
to write about has not deterred me
from blindly filling the first sentence with words of little or no value.
Now that...
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Categories:
coherency, life, natural disasters, work,
Form: Bio
Popinjay
...Incessant talk that bores you to death.
Nothing of value can be lifted from the conversation.
Screaming inside, wondering how long will the torture last?
Like nails on a chalkboard you can not esc...
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Categories:
coherency, angst, introspection, people,
Form: Free verse
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