What If It Wasn’t A Dream
...People want a life
with imagery similar
to that of their dreams.
They wish to replace
the everyday, mundane grind
with nocturnal views.
But how do you transfer
all of what slumber c...
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Categories:
concocts, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Greed governs some love
...Humans, long a self-seeking breed,
Oft concoct love foreseeing need.
With tender grass lush green
Does a butcher fatten
His sheep in his own selfish greed.
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Categories:
concocts, love, men, self,
Form: Quintain (English)
Passed The Bell
...Nights of flying dream world,
who might chase a raucous laugh,
or seek indeed mirthful excitement,
the sort that has embroidered twists,
as is generally perceived by intention,
but epic hurdle...
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Categories:
concocts, art, city, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Family Is
...A New Poem:
Family Is:
The first thing that makes sense...
It blossoms at every direction it grows...
The flourishing nature of family
Is beauty-impersonified....
Sparks fly when the core tenet...
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Categories:
concocts, anniversary, appreciation, art, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Burlesque Bernadette
...Flagrant bird Bernadette feathery flair flamboyant
Towers over average plumage
Parades tassle twist pantomime pow wow warbonnet
Cascade costume illuminating
Cheyenne ...
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Categories:
concocts, angel, animal, beautiful, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
The Mask of Labradorite
...Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to ...
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Categories:
concocts, corruption, imagination, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
In Milky Way
...In Milky Way, the silver stream
where stars stelliferously teem,
is home among celestial sea
for willful creatures such as we
who dwell in dream within a dream.
Beneath the welkin’s haloed gle...
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Categories:
concocts, appreciation, earth, humanity, life,
Form: Rondeau
Fearless Avant Garde Fashion Witch
...Fearless Avant Garde fashion witch concocts love potion number twenty-three
A glorious new elixir that truly makes new sense of “blessed be”.
There are many who watch her create this mysterious rec...
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Categories:
concocts, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme
Waxing of Candlelight
...Kate and Bram, so in love or so she thought, but he was after Kate’s rich cousin. Laura, was just as greedy for Bram’s striking good looks. Does lightning strike twice for Bram? Will he find happ...
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Categories:
concocts, dark, murder,
Form: Sonnet
Bewitched Vision
...My nights have lately become sultry
as suffocating heat chases sleep away,
I lay wide awake unloved and sweating
beneath the murmurous ceiling fan
hoping for some refreshing relief.
Each eve...
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Categories:
concocts, longing, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Damn Anticipatory Anxiety Affliction
...Damn anticipatory anxiety affliction...
trumps volition (mine) to don employee hat!
Until the grim reaper
whisks yours truly away
common joe just biden his time
chronologically old fogey
(alb...
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Categories:
concocts, 12th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Free verse
My Dreams
...Some of them are drifting vapor,
fluid pastel flavoring my tongue.
When awake, they linger like nectar,
or the hidden symbols of Jung.
Others are more like nesting dolls,
hand painted selves i...
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Categories:
concocts, allusion, dream, metaphor, sleep,
Form: Sonnet
The Mask of Tourmaline
...Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving w...
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Categories:
concocts, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Biased, Perhaps
...My son Scottie turned out to be an amazing chef
Whatever dish he concocts, it's up there with the best
Know not where it's from
But it's up with my thumb
Deserves the World Culinary Award...
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Categories:
concocts, pride,
Form: Limerick
Original Mask of Alabaster
...A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frot...
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Categories:
concocts, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream,
Form: Couplet
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