From the Clarinet
...Late November,
and lonely resonance of harmattan
salutes this solitude.
A weaverbird's contralto, in one
gale-sweep, lays bare the lower balustrade
of a maisonette,
and the romance of the last ...
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Categories:
cusps, life, music, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Anuruedoahu
...In Biafra, when we drank from the tilting
cusps of dank leaves and washed with the spittle
of cassava,
the sun scorched like hell.
Añuruedoahu*, the oasis of war, like worldly
cowrie, stagnant...
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Categories:
cusps, eulogy, nostalgia,
Form: Ode
Bread Crumbs
...Feigned cusps of nothingness,
brass knobs holding the fireside,
life's amazement,
like an infant's emotion.
We should be confined to ourselves
too many others opine,
life becomes complicated en...
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Categories:
cusps, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
''NFC'' Our Natural State
...If age is a constant then daydreams and nightmares
will cease to exist when the best of life is achieved
as maturity stabilizes at a level of immaturity favors
the innocence in confidence-mired i...
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Categories:
cusps, imagery, poetry, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
My Future Self
... “looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was
I’m different now, though not without flaws
Each crest becomes a trough, as we move on
God slowly steers soul towards a new dawn” Unseeking Se...
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Categories:
cusps, muse,
Form: Free verse
COLOURFUL LAMENT
...COLOURFUL LAMENT
I combed cool waters of your
baby blue crystalline Jewel as you
waded waterfall waves washing
my stellar rainbow rays
Arching it melted into the warm
womb of transducing...
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Categories:
cusps, allegory, blue, color, deep,
Form: Free verse
White Witch
...
Krokus gets sweatered in chiffon,
in shiverlry, white knighted,
like royalty, a bestowed visage
in heir appeara...
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Categories:
cusps, art,
Form: Free verse
Adina Augusta Purcell
...Can words truly capture the essence of the lady on the hill
Whose womb bore eight but yet-
Has mothered countless others?
Whose hands dug deep to till the soil; to stretch outwards to care, to sha...
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Categories:
cusps, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Screaming Into the Void
...I stand on the precipice
the edge of nowhere, nothing
screaming
Screaming into the void
all that I am and, all that I will be
or ever was
I am at the edge of the earth
the rim of re...
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Categories:
cusps, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
But Girls Might Err
...hey, mind, think back and dwell on this …
our decades-old, warm reminisce
of heady nights when dating Kris,
sweet buxom, avid, bob-haired miss
who learned with us to bill and kiss,
and lift youn...
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Categories:
cusps, humor, lost love, remember,
Form: Monorhyme
Potestades Virgo Case
...only things grown in the ground remain
but mismatched without the hand of man
see that they dodge beautiful
their languishing longitudinal vegetable bodies
never suffer fracture the stems with...
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Categories:
cusps, analogy, future,
Form: Free verse
Man-Made, Yet a Human Brain Was Cooked Into Stygian-Hued Glass By Spilling Lava In 79ad
...A curve of sky
in a corner cusps a smooth,
thick dusting
of carrot-mauve hues
tonight. Drapes over heather
trees
whose arms
and hands bend with this drowsy sky
as it starts
to fall...
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Categories:
cusps, allusion, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Haiku
Stellar Composure
...Show me a burning arrow from your quiver of love
Avail me fire and kindness set joined earth ablaze
Grant me only this one wish for the hotbed of passion
In fletching’s path we feel think re...
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Categories:
cusps, bridal shower,
Form: Acrostic
Intimate Script
...The boudoir joins us in absorbing feeling
a Goddess right next to me under cover
breathless and inspiring we share the muse
of all muses as we preside over wedlock
hands tied around leath...
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Categories:
cusps, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Balance
...tear drop mountain
weeps floodgates cusps water fall -
lizard licks sun rays
11th November 2020...
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Categories:
cusps, drink,
Form: Haiku
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