Dreamtime: Secret Garden
...
alone...
in a vast meadow,
silently counting ruby explosions
of rare, lion's tooth orchids;
Hidden under tiny royal cloaks
of elliptical emerald leaf canopies,
so beautiful....
I'm ...
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Categories:
concisely, analogy, appreciation, garden,
Form: Free verse
Cell Phone
...So much that I did not know existed,
That I could easily have lived without,
Here in my hand so concisely listed.
I’m sure I need it all, without a doubt.
This here device I keep in my pocket
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Categories:
concisely, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
The Beauty of Words
...These words, here before me,
Carry meanings, so free.
That phrase, over there,
Evokes images, so rare.
This sentence, so precise,
Paints a picture, concisely.
Those expressions, beyond,
Stir...
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Categories:
concisely, appreciation, celebration, joy, words,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom to Taste and See
...Our green campus favorite
MuseSpeech Teacher
always hosted outside seminars
at noon,
Sharp!
And served chocolates
while mentoring
Her systemic theology
"Doesn't get on well
with academic...
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Categories:
concisely, beauty, health, heaven, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Our Place in the Sun
...I was an eminent, solar physicist, like the blushing rose, craving renown.
Each butterscotch morning I drove to work, and toiled until red sundown.
The observatory was the place I loved, keeping ...
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Categories:
concisely, fantasy, imagery, leaving, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
concisely, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Trump Is Falling
...He's our savior
a man of utmost principals
He stands up against the deep state
and speaks his mind concisely
But he has faltered
and hoarded sensitive information
Now silver bars may bind...
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Categories:
concisely, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Your Ticket To An Endless Stream of Consciousness
...Are you out of your goddamn mind?
What even is a TOS at this point anyway?
Copper meets gray matter in a stellar show!
Self-inflicted; this is what your ticket paid for!
Here's your endless str...
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Categories:
concisely, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Fight Another Day Flightless Ostrich Egg Bird
...Why are your wing's so ruffled black
It begs the question what on earth is the
air up there contaminated with
Is that maybe the reason why it's 2
shades of gray on a English summer's
day in...
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Categories:
concisely, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Oft-Times I Wonder
...Mindless Musings Over Morning Coffee
What Is Wrong Or Right?
Whether It be dark or light
Be it in…or out of sight
Wrong or right is neither
Truly Wrong or right
It all ...
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Categories:
concisely, allusion, culture, fate, humanity,
Form: Verse
Wrong Or Right-Musings Over Morning Coffee
...Mindless Musings Over Morning Coffee
What Is Wrong Or Right?
Whether It be dark or light
Be it in…or out of sight
Wrong or right is neither
Truly Wrong or right
It all ...
...
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Categories:
concisely, confusion, evil, fate, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Informative Tom
...Hey Tom, your heart you wear on your sleeve,
Concisely achieve what a poet does perceive,
Surpassing discerning reporters near and afar,
Keep writing about Putin and his stories bizarre,
You re...
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Categories:
concisely, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Speaking of Common Goods
...What I wanted to say
the other day
when exalting healthy kindness
for potentially freeing us
from Straight White Men's great meanness
Costing Earth's Green Commons
and charging disinterest ag...
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Categories:
concisely, health, humor, irony, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Surrealism An Outside In Art
...an image blue a memory
fleeting midst
black,white &
colour flows
shadows stream
& ideas fly
free to drift
afterthoughts floating
zig-zags
primitive themes
...
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Categories:
concisely, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Slow Grown Grace
...Poetry
like unpartnered,
unteamed,
slow dancing
However rhythmically precise,
concisely devised
Does not dance well
in a highly competitive
youth-oriented
commercial entertainment marke...
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Categories:
concisely, age, beauty, dance, engagement,
Form: Free verse
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