In One City
...I know a funeral when I walk into one
I can tell between a funeral and a burial
They are two entirely different artworks
One is done on grand canvas, with drunken strokes
Of sashaying brush and b...
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Categories:
contumely, community, death, farewell, funeral,
Form: Elegy
Martha on the US Stamp
...My theme is, “Martha Washington – but why?”
First Lady – how the Big Man’s wife behaves
was fixed by her: so Jackie Kennedy
was shaped by Martha. Coming through the rye,
we learn that some are ...
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Categories:
contumely, history,
Form: Ekphrasis
Do Your Worst
...Perhaps you think I’m sitting here, amazed.
Egregious as the test you set me is,
the truth is, I am utterly unfazed.
Desultory, to me, this kind of quiz.
Of course I like a challenge. Don’t...
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Categories:
contumely, character,
Form: Acrostic
Our Plight
...Strange sedition stealthy sets
cloaked in artificial greening phiz
some by prejudice inquiring,
“Where are you from”?
others in feigning frame avoiding,
finding paths away from you,
Though ha...
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Categories:
contumely, africa, color, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday
...November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky
My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no m...
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Categories:
contumely, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
The High Road
...Several moons ago, I caught someone
Dead to rights, without him noticing
I was just yards away as he
Clamped a na...
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Categories:
contumely, anger, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Morning Star
...Morose morn, but sun’s a catalyst, warm
On the eave, the pigeon’s contumely coo,
rids a night’s cumbersome, cold, smother
New day, dearth of dew on concrete lawn
Its dull gray lightened by that...
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Categories:
contumely, allusion,
Form: Metrical Tale
Beauty and the Beast
...There swims in each of us, a catalyst for dreams,
an urgency that calls from shores that never were,
a twinge of terror, lining distant paradise,
uniquely all one's own.
No one knows where all this ...
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Categories:
contumely, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Torture
...God has created me,
To be a mate to my counterpart,
To be a helping hand in this uncommunicative world,
To be a soothing relief to him after exhaustion,
To be a part of distress and sorrow,
To t...
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Categories:
contumely, caregiving, daughter, family, hope,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme