Growing up
...In such a way where it's almost amusing, I get to sit here on achy feet, and a leaning flat pain like metal bars against my chest. I wasn't even allowed to exhale.
It's, like a circus attraction,...
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Categories:
conjurations, angst,
Form: Free verse
Metaphors of Transience
...tapping
into the eternal
yearning
for
wholeness
without
boundaries
contemplations
in
a
quest for
synthesis
drawing
whispers
irregular...
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Categories:
conjurations, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Neither Black Nor White
...Neither Black Nor White
David J Walker
Neither chimeric nor recondite
The world remains the world
In either black or white
In neither phase of reds nor grays
Or esoteric plight
As one by ...
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Categories:
conjurations, allegory, race,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 38
...Day 38
Pugnaciousness set aside,
Phantasmal was the anticipation,
Possessing each moment
Some shutter fell over him
He knew, at least, that he had me
He knew that I cared enough
Ours toge...
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Categories:
conjurations, bible, black love, feelings,
Form: Epic
Prognosticating Present Plight
...Prognosticating Present Plight...
Perhaps Preset During In Utero Protean Stage?
Reviewing, sans my life
and arduous hard time
lock, stock, and barrel on regular basis,
and of late composing
t...
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Categories:
conjurations, 7th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Bio
Cancellated Accursements
...Banul had a knack for annoying others,
thanks to a fractious face –
a smile guised as a grimace,
a grimace guised as a scowl,
a mouth left ajar when it should’ve been shut,
full of wrongful wor...
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Categories:
conjurations, fantasy, magic,
Form: Free verse
Affectionate Mothers
...O thou affectionate mothers
Where you were slumbering tired in the mud houses
And the darkness, shining by your breath perfume.
You who were defeating the fear
by conjurations and soothing th...
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Categories:
conjurations, mother,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dream Drifter
...A Hush falls upon the night,
As conjurations take full flight,
Sashaying through the misty dew
My thoughts drift towards you
Silently asleep lips lightly apart
Rhythmic intakes keeping time with yo...
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Categories:
conjurations, dream, moon, romantic,
Form: Couplet
Magic
...Magic is the spell she weaves with her eyes, a smile,
A touch at day's end.
The children breathe their wonders out of their dreams
Into my grownup soul as I watch them there, just lying asleep
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Categories:
conjurations, faith, hope, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse