I Will Marry Her
...Collin has loved Erin since first grade
When he could not tie his shoe
So, she got down on one knee
And tied it for him
With ginger hair and the bluest eyes
She gave him a wink and a gentle pa...
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Categories:
collin, true love,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Black Hunger
...Two vagabonds
With a dozen of dogs
Around the half eaten bread
A boy and a girl
With the school bag and pink smile
The beggar boy and the pigeons look blank
Her boyfriend Collin
Has sent ...
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Categories:
collin, confidence, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Doomsday Clock 2 Minutes To Midnight
...It is now eleven at night
She waltzes into my tense bedroom
The owl looks with its eyes of light
Disappears the threatening doomsday gloom
About an hour or so ago
Collin from the Sub-a...
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Categories:
collin, anxiety, fate, fear, life,
Form: Rhyme
Fear
...It's true
Bunking its task
in the blue sky
Golden sunshine
Lies down morose
In sorrow
Laying its head on the tree trunk
Looking pale
It surprises me
As I see it smeared
With ashes of fear
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Categories:
collin, anger, anxiety, confusion, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Reunion
...In the beginning it is just a lovely cloud
Collin comes across her in the coffee house
One of his friends calls his attention
Look, your mom is here, let’s go elsewhere
A descent of birds...
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Categories:
collin, anxiety, beauty, joy, mother,
Form: Free verse
The Loneliest Man
...how quiet it must have been
for you, michael collins...
how calm it must have seemed
for you, michael collins...
how tranquil you must have felt
up there alone
with no one on the radio,
except...
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Categories:
collin, celebrity, loneliness, memory, night,
Form: Free verse
In a Perfect World
...So many sick rivers
Of pain, shock and shiver
Flow from longstanding wounds
Of soul-chopping depression that surround
Many islands next to you and me
As a consequence of the malady
Our develop...
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Categories:
collin, care, environment, home, hope,
Form: Free verse
For Taylor
...We've got anchors
1,200 miles away but we're mirror opposites
anchors to hold us down from floating away
or anchors to hold fast with a sinking ship
we've taken on water for sure
but that doesn'...
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Categories:
collin, dad, daughter, death, devotion,
Form: Prose Poetry
For Collin
...I can see him in you, you know
that might be the scariest thing
Even your voice is his
and I could listen for days
I'd tell you all about him
the stride from the mound
the shot from the top o...
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Categories:
collin, missing you, pain, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Puzzlebox
...a poem is a puzzlebox open and shut
with a chimeraean key. and fay-like
are the enterings it delves, where
a moment is all had. now
and then clinking to the sides. turn
slowly. it will change as if t...
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Categories:
collin, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
To Collin
...You are the sun on my darkest day,
You are my joy, my love, my pain.
You are the smile that dries my tears,
You are the calm that melts my fears.
You are the blue that is my sky,
The peaceful ...
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Categories:
collin, son
Form: Rhyme