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The Touch of Life

...The Touch of Life

The Touch of Life
Fed by rotation
Stimulated by light
And access thereof

Growth with 
Volumes of love
Then Growth
Takes a sabbatical

The Touch of life
Is put on paus...

Categories: containments, absence, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Challenges Containments-

...Ecstasy in love on fire
Heart breath passions desires
Challenge resentment building silent choirs
Improvised home owners caught in the spires

7/6/22
Written words by Ja...

Categories: containments, analogy, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Day and Night

...The day is long
 the night short
filled with restless dreams
 crisscrossing imagery
 of fictional and unfamiliar parties
trying hard to encumber life
 by restrictive containments
 anxious in t...

Categories: containments, allusion,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Heart Walls of the D R Canal

...Every form of life has it's walls, nothing, no one stands alone
 some are trees, brush, branch, twig and wood and bark
 some are mortar and stone, mere workers flesh and bone
 others lay in memori...

Categories: containments, america,
Form: Quatrain

Cats Got Yo Tongue- -

... Cats got yo tongue,
	catwalks, runs stalks prowls;
	Meow!
        Catheads catalog catlike people.
	Meow, yet they smell cationic;
	Cats got yo tongue!
	
	
	
     ...

Categories: containments, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Wait

...The Wait


I thirst for liquid gold
Will fall ill to it impure
It’s containments will wipe me clean

Those who steal it do me dirty 
Pumping and extracting it from a well 
Leaves me with wha...

Categories: containments, city, conflict, corruption, drink,
Form: Narrative

Gospel

...gospel

We hear the expression:
the gospel truth
seeming to mean
an absolute truth..
What might be the meaning
of this word
untethered from religion..?
What is the Good News the
word often ...

Categories: containments, celebration, education, gospel, simple,
Form: Blank verse

Infectious Taste

...Layers upon layers 
Batter after batter 

Larger than life creatures 
live
Beneath my bed. 

My pillow whispers lie.
There are times 
when I flip it over. 

I prefer my lies served cold
s...

Categories: containments, dark, deep, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Lyric

Of Rivers and Streams

...Are the rivers and streams clear
Do they have great water to drink
Are the mountains and peaks clear
Can you get crisp air there to breathe
The rivers and streams have little
To do with clean drinkin...

Categories: containments, life, nature, mountains,
Form: Free verse

"precept"

...“Precept”

Death’s reign is but a world of carnal minded concepts,
Within which illusions of it own harlot are kept,
As minds counterfeit the Sacred Hearts of the precept,
In containments of wor...

Categories: containments, introspection, lovedeath, world, death,
Form: Monorhyme