Ballet For Vowels
...Ballet for Vowels
No eyes watch the vowel’s ballet
A masquerade dance for a, e, o or u
Graceful jettes, a happy heart chasses
To celebrate words for entrechat tendu.
Devant at the door an ou...
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Categories:
coupes, dance, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Untouched By Time
...In a quiet corner of the world
lies a village quite primitive
untouched by passing centuries
folks at liberty to live
Stress-free, without the burdens
of our frenzied society
No push to...
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Categories:
coupes, fantasy, health, society, today,
Form: Rhyme
Hopeful Hot Wheels
...Deserted we lie, banished to a shoe box; discarded metal
scraping metal every spring as our ignored box gets shelved
in a different room of the house; forsaken and further away
from real ...
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Categories:
coupes, car, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Gathering
...The Gathering
Brought together.
Late summer along the North Platte
At the wandering river bed flanked by cottonwoods.
They have been drawn, emptying out their small town for the celebration to ...
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Categories:
coupes, dream, imagery, social, summer,
Form: Free verse
Keep Pace, Rat Race
...Coupes skimming fly, gently humming of engines and tires.
Listen closer, and hum turns to cheetah’s roar, pushing for
A harder pace, an impact-- No achievement is frictionless.
Jaguars leap and bo...
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Categories:
coupes, angst, animal, car, conflict,
Form: Haibun
Odd, Weird and Radical Stories
...I asked Solomon if he knows
Any new tricks the system has planned for us,
but he told me that-
"behind the scenes these closed doors,
closest's full of skeletons and lads tapping:
straight p...
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Categories:
coupes, allegory, deep, image, imagination,
Form: Verse
Poeta Decepta
...expecta O' Greta great dep·re·depta
snitchie fumes crud
Senate weaselin' words
mosaic-speak fungals thrall-truth up your nostrils
unmasked civil·a·tons
square crotch per smile
poeta d...
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Categories:
coupes, america, parody, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Deer Hunt - La Chasse Aux Cerfs By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s DEER HUNT - la Chasse aux cerfs by T. Wignesan
“La civilisation est une maladie, le barbarisme rejuvenation.”
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Categories:
coupes, america, film, freedom, humanity,
Form: Free verse
When a Man Breaks
...You killed an innocent man
The thought he fed you lies
The only woman
He has ever looked into the soul
Never ashamed to show you off.
The man’s spirit still yearns
Yearns to be with you
How h...
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Categories:
coupes, i love you,
Form: Acrostic