Toward the Faraway
...I travel incognito, using a name I once found
in a book of minor sorrows.
I have a longing for the sea, yet languish here
behind the wheel of a rental,
crisscrossing arid lands with many ...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Every Which Way
...Suzie lived next door to Tom, and their families were the best of friends;
Like toffee clouds, chasing rainbows, once the blue storm wildly spends!
Tom and Susie enjoyed playing together,...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, children, fantasy, friend, fun,
Form: Couplet
Crisscrossing
...Every doorway is well lit yet barred and locked.
This is my dream body, it is chasing its twilit shadow
down blind alleyways
pausing only to heave breathlessly
as it comes to a stop
in yet anoth...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sodium Orange Streetlight Nostalgia Trip
...Zaila.
Can’t make a Nickname out of that,
But oh you can,
Super-Z, you ‘member that.
I rather not,
There isn’t much to remember,
I didn’t live much.
Oh, but that coffee table,
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Categories:
crisscrossing, black african american, childhood,
Form: Free verse
First Night
...Oh, how they danced as the sun shimmered red,
it dipped far away as the stars upwards sped.
Still, they danced, leaving footprints on wet sand,
Sometimes straight or crisscrossing, everything gran...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, love,
Form: Rhyme
One Electron Universe
...What if all was one?
What if the many were merely reflections
Of a single thread,
Looping through the fabric of time?
What if time flows not just forward,
But back—
A river branching,
Yet al...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, art,
Form: Free verse
Parallel Universes
...
crisscrossing parallel universes
by some freak of nature
teeter tottering tumbling
to one side then to the other
in one world her home
Julia is unbearably lonely
a devastated grieving wido...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, grief, heartbreak, husband, lost
Form: Free verse
a tempest for the almanac
...The evening stars were gone, replaced
by a spreading, ominous purple bruise of cloud.
When the wind rose, in sudden violent
crisscrossing gusts, everything went into motion.
White cabanas shook...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, holiday, humor, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse
Two Old Gods
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Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscross...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
haiku 101
...the skies overhead
as airplanes come and depart
crisscrossing smoke trails
the smell of coffee
perking in the kitchen
wafting on the air
...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, sometimes,
Form: Haiku
A Face Like Thunder POTD
...I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.
Studying the said effects on the biosph...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Flyovers
...Progress seems proudly perched on flyovers,
Sold on many a toll-dotted speedways.
Each, pylon-pecked, on hinterland hovers,
And not on friendly crisscrossing highways.
They slyly gloat over...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey Scope
...
Written: December 28, 2023
Beneath the shades
of velvet shadows
swarms of amber
luminance of daylight
and elusive flits
of faerie embers.
Veiled in jeweled which
rhymed with
Calyx e...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, analogy, angel, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
The Last Viking
...Erik Bye was a writer, entertainer, TV personality, and easily, in the sixties and the seventies, the most popular man around.
He was born in New York to Norwegian parents who later went back to liv...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, angel, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Dark Matter
...In a spiritual sense, dark matter does not exist – Pure Light, Pure Potential appears to the human eye as darkness, having vibration far too high for human comprehension, sort of like dogs can hear s...
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Categories:
crisscrossing, creation, imagination, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Prose
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