a healing emptiness
...time
and aging
affects us all
that's the story
convincingly told
yet there can appear
a healing emptiness
in these empty words
...
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Categories:
convincingly, age, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
healing words already written
...time
and seeming aging
affects us all
that's the story
told and told
convincingly yet
appearing with
a healing emptiness
appearing as these
words...
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Categories:
convincingly, i am, wisdom, words,
Form: Imagism
Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this...
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Categories:
convincingly, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
serpent mound
...under the serpent mound prudent
demons (NOT monsters) preserve the
nuts and
endosperm meant for
later day
postmen to deliver
when the time is
all too convincingly ripe...
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Categories:
convincingly, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of Leadership
...Amidst the noisy world,
A unique character is bound,
Every creature has a sound,
A little moment shared, will find.
A day cold and drizzly,
Folks remain warm and sturdy,
Thin icy drops cheer ...
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Categories:
convincingly, encouraging, inspiration, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
Sick
...Tension Spread Thick
Layering Quick
Mental Health Sinking And Physically Sick
Sympathy Party
Wounds Pathetically Licked
The Sores Of My Past, I So Dangerously Pick
Black Cloud I ...
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Categories:
convincingly, angst, health, horror, how
Form: Rhyme
Famous People Limerick Contest Rejects
...There once was a man named Galileo.
To him, scientific knowledge we owe.
He was the brainy inventor
who said, "the earth ain't the center."
I guess that was his basic ideo.
There was a lady n...
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Categories:
convincingly, humor,
Form: Limerick
That word Reify
...Reify..
This word
Showed up this morning..
"Make (something abstract)
more concrete or real."
Objectivity clarifying
With more objectivity
More convincingly separate
Scientif...
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Categories:
convincingly, words,
Form: Light Verse
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's Inferno
...Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno
Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb
promises eternal martyrdom
awaiting voluntary die hard protest...
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Categories:
convincingly, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Me very late mum, a funereal day
...Me very late mum, a funereal day...
courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.
Another anniversary of her death occ...
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Categories:
convincingly, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Whisper of the Heart
...Whispers of the Heart
To fall for someone, a forbidden dance—
A waltz with shadows, a silent trance.
Accept the unacceptable, bury those feelings,
In the quiet chambers where desire conceals.
Fi...
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Categories:
convincingly, absence, age, anger, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The Beholder
...Through the smoke filled air
sunlight snared me a glimpse
of the expansive landscape painting.
It spoke to me convincingly about its inherent worth
matching the picture window view
strok...
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Categories:
convincingly, art,
Form: Free verse
White Lies
...Today my girlfriend asked me,
How do I look in this dress?
Does it fit me like a glove?
I reluctantly said yes!
Does it make me look younger?
It's just perfect I replied.
So not to hurt her f...
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Categories:
convincingly, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Money Bags No More
...Mister money bags no more
Ah..., how I idolize the days of yore
before June twentieth, and twenty first
two thousand twenty three
when utter senselessness wore,
a trail of woe brutally
ravagi...
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Categories:
convincingly, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Apoplectic Curmudgeon Fumbles
...Apoplectic curmudgeon fumbles...
Jumpstarting outstanding undertaking...
bringing jouncy, spectacularly crafted,
nuanced, zesty, noteworthy, creatively
spirited enlightened written poem.
Thi...
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Categories:
convincingly, abuse, adventure, angel, anger,
Form: Rhyme
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