love’s last press
...
silly dream …
but it’s mine nonetheless
wait …
wait for it …
I’ll wait for it now and ever
to feel that press
the press of sweet tenderness
that melting mouth that met mine all
those achi...
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Categories:
compasses, analogy, death, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of Elsewhere 'Part One'
...Letters from Borrowed Ground
'Part One'
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To: Myself (Three Years Ago)
Date: Every Night
Status: Never Finished
Focus: Warning
Dear Dreamer,
Tonight, I dig up buried footsteps...
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Categories:
compasses, political,
Form: Free verse
my soul in foreign lands, forgotten 2
...
A soul's etched cartography
compasses spins a needle frantic
above a parchment of skin.
A map…
Each line a river I've drowned in,
blood I waded and divide
each faded scar
a language s...
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Categories:
compasses, allegory, art, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 2
..."What is my role?" I asked.
"You are part of the crew," he said, not the captain as I was told.
"But I know maps! I read compasses!" I pleaded.
He thundered, "Don’t you see? Your existence is your...
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Categories:
compasses, anger, betrayal, conflict, extended
Form: Rhyme
My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 1
...I dream of far shores where my name was meant to be carved.
I aspire to climb mountains where my flag was to be raised.
I imagine a distant land where a song calls me home.
So many ambitions—yet m...
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Categories:
compasses, anger, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
flight 19
...five torpedo bombers
known as Flight 19
disappeared in December of 1945
over the Bermuda Triangle
an ominous mystical zone
recorded precarious by Christopher Columbus
when his compasses began a...
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Categories:
compasses, scary,
Form: Free verse
Revival
...Children of the macrocosmic implosion
grow the seeds of bioluminescent oxytocin
Symbiotic by design, the prana and the potion
That dihydrogen monoxide flow of all word spoken
Existential kintsugi...
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Categories:
compasses, blessing, creation, destiny, i
Form: Rhyme
Making your mind Up
...n Dublin’s grand theatre, where dreams alight,
A hush fell over the expectant crowd that night.
Bucks Fizz stepped forth, hearts aflutter,
Their song, a secret spell, ready to utter.
The melody...
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Categories:
compasses, family,
Form: Rhyme
Controversy
...On the loom of existence, our saga unfolds,
Lives woven in controversy; a story is told.
A symphony of chaos, a dance of extremes,
A canvas painted with a myriad of dreams.
In life’s maze of...
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Categories:
compasses, conflict, divorce, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Will We?
...Will humanity ever get it right and learn from the repeated wrongs?
Or have our moral compasses been lost forever and too far gone?
Has empathy, compassion and integrity been replaced?
With ...
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Categories:
compasses, america, anxiety, change, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet the Spiritual Heart
...The joy is flowing through your veins
The blood speaks life in your breathing it explains
The life flowing through you living energy
Spirit truths first then it's physical identit...
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Categories:
compasses, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Formless 2
...A dank cavern
Unlit torches on the walls
Some light easier than others
You bring a compass
Drawing you through the inky darkness
You sense little with just yourself
Armed with recognition...
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Categories:
compasses, education,
Form: Free verse
Between the Compasses
...Visitors on a planet
Near the outskirts of uncounted stars,
We experience time in expanding space.
We grow and develop,
and in wisdom
Come to know the questions of eternity.
Deep within ...
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Categories:
compasses, bible, community, earth, faith,
Form: Free verse
Rapido
...
"Rapido"
walks on water fast
salty trinity
soul heeling
a pearl reflects wisdom
on indigo see, the mirror mapped
dancing with diamonds
the light shows
charac...
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Categories:
compasses, blue, endurance, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Shipwreckers
...THE SHIPWRICKERS:
The passengers don't feel okay with the rider,
As the journey don't seem so right.
Some are feeling very worried,
As it's been bad from the genesis of this lap,
Straight down...
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Categories:
compasses, corruption, journey, leadership, life,
Form: Personification
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