Testimony
...I recall by chance the astuteness of rain
When the thin smoke from charged pulses of cold haze
Befriended the weeded way . . .
Leering further into the viscera of the village,
Clouds of old begin...
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Categories:
coyness, community, culture, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Summer Nights
...I recount the nights of faint, distant glows —
the dimmed party lights of summer —
of silenced streaks of fleeing light, tassels of clouds
adorned in fleeting whites,
on the broad balcony of the ...
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Categories:
coyness, night, summer,
Form: Free verse
Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four sibl...
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Categories:
coyness, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Darkness Veils Anguish
...Solitary can remind us of who we are.
I rubbed the skin cluster wait for hope star.
A shield wall adds depth to the seas shallow
Coyness hides in a falsehood shadow.
Out of the d...
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Categories:
coyness, analogy, angst, character, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Coyness
...Days pass and I wish I could pour out my mind as a man
It has been delayed reluctantly of which decision to make
In fear of his reaction and his possible take
For culture demands man grace to woo...
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Categories:
coyness, africa, age, anxiety, art,
Form: Quatrain
Frankenstein Tea Party
...Monsters of conceit that human beings create,
With fantastic forms and shapes and strength decorate;
Licensing to love, loath, lust, lie, lure and loiter,
Wretched then; dare to kill the very crea...
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Categories:
coyness, life, political, psychological, social,
Form: Rhyme
Quattro Mani
...If ever
You walk Cable beach
Say hello
To a girl I know
She’ll be sitting there
Come sunset
Under a wondrous sky
That will make you believe
In Gods and magic
And love too
If you gaze to lon...
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Categories:
coyness, beauty, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
To Her Ardent Mister
...after To My Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Had we but World enough and Time
Your mating call, sir, were no crime.
If lifetimes were more than a few
I’d spend an Age fo...
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Categories:
coyness, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Stretches of Silence
...Dewy-eyed, dragged on
With gaze upon
Spectre brighter than a noonday
I caught her soul entwined in the web
But lack what to say, like a play
Even with this swift communion of a babe
Entangle...
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Categories:
coyness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mekhela Chador
...Mekhela chador
I was too hurry and overwhelmed
To embrace the attire
"mur maa rr mekhela chador" ( - "my mater's Indigenous Traditional Assamese Dress")...
The days in kindergarten,
I cheri...
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Categories:
coyness, 12th grade, age, beautiful,
Form: Epic
Her Oil Indulgence
...Her oil indulgence...
Her oil indulgence...
It was all over her hair tress and
Permeated in her whole skin too
From top to toe
And the drape slips away
'Her nape just uplifted her bun on ai...
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Categories:
coyness, 12th grade, art, beautiful,
Form: Narrative
Coyness
...Coyness
Sheep for pets, I wimp amidst a modest plain of bushy regrets whose leaves of
character abandon its tenuous grasp of reality upon that ...
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Categories:
coyness, muse,
Form: Narrative
Kiss Me More My Love
...Of all the gifts you have bestowed on me, my love,
it is your kisses that I value the most.
Passion enraged
Affection enhanced
A kiss can spell love's worth.
Propelled I am into a world of mi...
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Categories:
coyness, love, paradise, passion, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Love-Full Last Night
...our contacted eyes with no coyness
our breaths breathe us together
our heartbeats frequently quest
a bared night abreast the dark
through the dim moonlit
crossing the shameless owl's eyesight
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Categories:
coyness, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four sibl...
...
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Categories:
coyness, abuse, age, america, child
Form: Ballad
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