Ghetto in my Head
...I've never been in a war zone
but one time I got lost on my way to wriggly field
ending up in a tilted, burned-out ghetto.
A cherry pulled me over for being out of place
and said leave asap for i...
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Categories:
constants, baseball, poverty,
Form: Free verse
transcend dents of time
...opposite my upstairs relaxation chair
window-corner be a pendulum clock
...above a low shelf-cabinet
and below a black and white
buddhist meditation image...
the pendulum keeps swinging
but...
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Categories:
constants, adventure, time,
Form: Free verse
time - echoes
...our daily experiences of...
times change-ripples
be...
to observe their recycles...
as echoes of all
the...
patterns existent in all life...
form differences where-in
no...
two time ch...
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Categories:
constants, analogy, earth day,
Form: Free verse
our exist tents
...our time-bubble reflections...
of
natures change-constants...
enable us to sew our time...
for
for us and others real-at-tea...
stan sand
...
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Categories:
constants, good morning,
Form: Free verse
The Beggar and Lil C
..._____________________________________________________________
Another day,
same as the day was ...,
six hours, four minutes, and...
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Categories:
constants, appreciation, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Putin, Xi, and Damocles: Three or more than
...C|==>
Cicero's tale revives Dionysius
as modern-day leaders bear the o...
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Categories:
constants, change, character, fate, leadership,
Form: Sonnet
wolf and deer are my constants
...Two solid spirit animals I have are the wolf and the deer.
They get along well, apparently, for they are my constants.
Wolf uplifts my confidence, assuring me I am right.
Deer helps me to remain h...
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Categories:
constants, animal,
Form: Free verse
Heaven and Hell
...Once upon a time, there was a world, a one-derful world. Before they
needed explanations that became their defining moment. Contrasts,
and differences that tore them apart. Heaven and Hell are cons...
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Categories:
constants, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Ballade of Easter
...Leaves longing on settled limbs, tongues of green
savoring sweetened rays of saffron Sun,
claim this crowning hall a new day to be.
Mother's morning prayers hath long begun,
first, lo...
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Categories:
constants, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
A Ballade of The Cliff
...
Tho' bore your fate 'tis artless place you lone
Your girth--your hold freedoms--your claims be more
Restrained your gambled trade choice place bemoan
Shewn thee frankly tho' toughened be your co...
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Categories:
constants, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
Winter Sonata Binary's
...'Tis a parable of inseparable binary's
whose snowprints melted in silent tales.
Their bodies heat 'neath winter coats
that hides their Sunday's best white finaries.
Her pleasant h...
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Categories:
constants, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Songs of Soul COS No 3: ABAB
...Quest be, will we exist ... 'tis hit or miss
be of a lifetime. I gave no degree
of my retractions that constants amiss
my seeing yon desk an intimacy
be measured as the worth of passages.
A pond...
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Categories:
constants, analogy, change, character, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Heading Out
...A dawning twilight's me. Oh, joy. Oh, what a joy. This day. Oh, what a day. A breath bestills my eyes and I, e'er slight, a deeper breath that reopened them and myself to a blessed pleasing. ...
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Categories:
constants, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Prologue
...The orbiting host of a forenoon sky claims a sunny day. They are attributed for the better part of each year, primarily affecting the island's leeward side. On its windward side, periodic downpours f...
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Categories:
constants, allegory, childhood, dream, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Word By Mom, Me a Bit
...In the beginning ...," roosts;
Christians and Jewish boosts.
Hubs stretched out their ellipsed
rung, un-Earth cures eclipsed
space...
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Categories:
constants, courage, faith, future, happiness,
Form: Alexandrine
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