A Flowerless Corpse
...Snowing-- a hiemal, deathly air
Their frigid, frostbitten fingers hold nothing
Uncomfortable silence washes over all there
A petalless, thorny rose someone is clutching
Her corpse,...
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Categories:
confraternity, angst, appreciation, betrayal, dark,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A Comment Is a Gift
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A Comment is a Gift
Here we are and the holidays
approaching!
I can even vaguely hear the
reindeer bells in the air.
A poet friend started all this!
I don't know how she did it, bu...
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Categories:
confraternity, encouraging, giving, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
The Shadow of a Stroke
...For all the damages
there was no pain
but for the thought,
I am the person that I was,
and knowing that I'm not....
A Wanna Be, dog-paddling
on the surface of my intellect
and decked in silence
jus...
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Categories:
confraternity, recovery from..., me,
Form: Free verse
The Inner Circle
...I've learned to deal with funerals.
They celebrate a history both past and recent,
cementing it with closure just as earth
would close a grave.
There's not much room for victory,
despite the words o...
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Categories:
confraternity, death,
Form: Free verse