HALLS OF AMENTI 1
...HALLS OF AMENTI :1
My Kingdom is clear of books
poetry, coins
My Kingdom is clear of colour
just Me on my Throne
giv...
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Categories:
crowbars, allegory, character, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Watching From Behind the Vibracrete Wall
...Watching from behind
The vibracrete wall
Watching for the
Coins to fall
Butterflies in the tummy
But I'm not about to stall
Me and the boys up to mischief
As I watched the game machines fall
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Categories:
crowbars, celebration, change, character, happiness,
Form: Free verse
It Takes Me Back
...I remember my cousin so adventurous
Carpe Diem was the way he lived
In the fast lane his motive was obvious
Now without him life is
One big cul de sac
Back then I drank Tip Top
For the first ...
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Categories:
crowbars, absence, adventure, change, i
Form: I do not know?
Solar Flares
...Damn solar flares made me freak out
Swallow my gum and make me choke
Up the proverbial creek without a paddle
Think I soiled my jockeys, no joke
Envisioned I was going to lose all my da...
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Categories:
crowbars, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Rough Landscape
...Rough Landscape
In my mind the landscape of Guernica features high on the many
crowbars to unmask that inner prison of conscience and humanity
So many scenes of destruction with no predominant...
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Categories:
crowbars, peace,
Form: Free verse
Why the Poet Writes
...When a poet writes, the past has been opened,
pried at with crowbars and curiosity
He reaches,
pulling strands of words and metaphors from cracked corners of faint memories.
Ink pouring from ol...
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Categories:
crowbars, addiction, love, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
Wicked
...Remote from the equator, remote from all light
Lie victims in the hands of an angry man
Who sees law as wet clay, who sees the will of the people not at all
And the spring rainshower of life’s bou...
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Categories:
crowbars, people, political, war
Form: Free verse
Trapping Time
...It's with decision that I put the lid on time
Sitting with all my might
Calling you over with heavy appliances,
washing machines, refrigerators,
piling them up on my lap as time bumps upward and...
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Categories:
crowbars, angst, imagination, people, time,
Form: Blank verse
Goth
...In the bleeding shadows threading ***** and deft
Along and above corridors painted white and green,
Fluorescents flickered in their moth-brushed bowls,
And the madness and sweet anguish seethed un...
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Categories:
crowbars, death, history, mystery, places,
Form: Verse