The Return
...The Return
The quietness spreads thickly,
the atmosphere even thicker.
Nature has lost its voice
as the house glowers down at him
caped in silent stillness;
a muscle waiting to twitch!
S...
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Categories:
contemplates, father son, fear, home,
Form: Free verse
I Admire the Poet
...I admire the poet
who looks life seriously in the eye,
whose emotions he won't deny.
I admire the poet who makes me cry,
but I'm not him, and I won't try.
I admire the believer
who will neve...
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Categories:
contemplates, feelings, life, philosophy, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Trying Man
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Getting up after the fall,
Standing again and accepting the call.
Giving it the proverbial 'college try'
Burning the midnight oil and remembering his 'why'…
Standing in the batter's box...
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Categories:
contemplates, confidence, devotion, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
UNINTENDED INUENDO
...Unintended Innuendo
as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause
though we’re gentle, not hostile
we dimi...
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Categories:
contemplates, absence, age, anger, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
It is said that beauty resides in the eyes of the beholder
...It is said that beauty resides in the eyes of the beholder,
then my lover's eyes must be infinite galaxies,
for his gaze transforms me into a breathing masterpiece,
he not only sees me but contemp...
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Categories:
contemplates, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Crane
...beak wedged in white noise
twigs of legs snow-plant
plumage in the air
body borne invisible
muse contemplates wholesome bird...
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Categories:
contemplates, bird,
Form: Tanka
Notre Dame Bells
...It tolls eighty eight, times to symbolize that someone has died .It wasn’t the ordinary man in the street or the man that frequently disrupt the people’s heart beat; it wasn’t the fellow down the roa...
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Categories:
contemplates, bird, character, community, death,
Form: Narrative
Lead
...To be feared or to be loved
A king contemplates
No right answer can be had...
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Categories:
contemplates, fear, image, leadership, love,
Form: Senryu
I Dived Into The Cauldron Of Magic Potion And
...Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination
risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane,
potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined,
at some future stage I...
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Categories:
contemplates, adventure, character, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Britches
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“Britches”
Miracle Man
2/7/2025
Today, his steps have slowed and back is bent,
and his days most gone afford slight acclaim.
But in thought he relives life without lament,
Knowing e...
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Categories:
contemplates, age, life,
Form: Lyric
Read That Twice
...In vast realm between both false realities
efforts of a strained bowel movement collapse
like the arithmetic dreams of abacus beads.
Arthritic persistence contemplates procrastination
while stil...
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Categories:
contemplates, math, moon, space,
Form: Free verse
Internal Humanity
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A sentience, where evil notions dwell,
shall also hide a goodness there within.
‘Tis but a quandary choosing one to quell
when weighing which would be the greater sin.
The moral mind...
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Categories:
contemplates, allusion, angst, truth, universe,
Form: Sonnet
The Wanderer, Part III, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
...The Wanderer, Part III
The wise man contemplates these ruins,
considers this dark life soberly,
remembers the blood spilled here
in multitudes of battles,
then says:
“Where is the horse no...
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Categories:
contemplates, loss, sorrow, time, travel,
Form: Free verse
Continuum - Part Two
...Climbing from the sands, velociraptors turn as one
Triceratops and stegosaurs arise to share the fun
And then they march en masse toward that briny maelstrom
And Adam Adams yells, “They’re heading...
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Categories:
contemplates, future, humanity, time,
Form: Narrative
The Bomb II
...To boil with all the energy of Hell
may set aflame untethered wherewithal,
for once expended nothing can foretell
the limits of demise that may befall.
A single match may flicker to a flame
or s...
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Categories:
contemplates, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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