Ten to Ninety
...There is no reason to die except
An intent to be born again
Considering this, we are living dead
Why don’t we remember it then
Scientists say that we use only
About ten percent of brain cells
T...
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Categories:
conjectures, life, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the s...
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Categories:
conjectures, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon,
the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o...
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Categories:
conjectures, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Petroglyphs
...Petroglyphs scattered
All over Hawaii
Carved on black volcanic rocks
Mysterious they are
Stoke human curiosity
Unendingly
Human and other forms
Numbers and writings
Carved by the island’s a...
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Categories:
conjectures, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Do we end?
...
One is buried, the other is cremated.
Both are consigned to dust and ash
Both are gone, merging with the ear...
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Categories:
conjectures, death,
Form: Free verse
The Less Scriptural Time of Christ: Part 2
...In future data, accords the claimants henceforward Christians know or, should know--that both Mary & Joseph were Hebrews and devout status to their faith, was seldomly noted scripturally. After all, ...
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Categories:
conjectures, beautiful, education, imagery, jesus,
Form: Narrative
Babel
...[REVISED 2024 April 04]
Shinar, some know as Mesopotamia, others as Assyria,
near the Euphrates River, a midday sun cast doubts of
a weakened shade made idle by the pause of its agi...
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Categories:
conjectures, allusion, analogy, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
Life Stories
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Reality, given time, returns to fiction.
The character you play now,
writes-on hurriedly,
records a yesterday,
and conjectures a tomorrow,
oblivious
to the ephemeral nature
of both.
Few s...
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Categories:
conjectures, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Poet as an Artist
...As a painter
Brushes and strokes
Fortunes on the canvass
Every Dab of paint a scene
The Poet's brush are words
Dabbed on the canvass of the mind
Painting pictures with words
The audience cre...
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Categories:
conjectures, art, imagination, perspective,
Form: Free verse
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
...An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
an...
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Categories:
conjectures, 6th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
When Naught Was, There Was Love
...Eons back there was naught what so,
Cosmic existence as we know,
Matter nor space now so rife,
Day nor night, death nor life,
All there was, was darkness
All around wrapped in nothingness,
And...
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Categories:
conjectures, love,
Form: Free verse
The Conversations Are Rolled Into the Corners
...the conversations are rolled into the corners
stretching into a fifth dimension
perpendicular to all points
this is where i love you
curled back upon itself
unavailable to the eye
the physicist...
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Categories:
conjectures, heart, loss,
Form: Romanticism
The Poison
...A Concealed exercise concocted,
Wuhan Lab the playground,
secretive China obliges,
Western media consenting,
Medical experts silenced.
the age of censorship,
Dictators feigning incognit...
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Categories:
conjectures, abuse, america, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
...Deep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm...
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Categories:
conjectures, allegory, crush, death, earth,
Form: Free verse
A Clunky Television Conjectures a Covid Variant
...In those early days we bought a used TV set.
A gypsy fortune-teller
had predicted many televisions
in our life together.
Thus when the TV conjectured
the possibility of ...
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Categories:
conjectures, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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