The Master Builder
...I don’t believe ideal love is real…
Can castles in the sky be built to last
eternities? Or rather burn, as fast
as marriage papers (and melt the holy seal)?
Besides, I hate to think I’m meant ...
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Categories:
daftly, fate, humanity, love, marriage,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Should I Dream For Another Thousand Years
...Should I Dream For Another Thousand Years
Should I dream for another thousand years
Dare this soul to its former self denounce
Times that I succumbed to shallow fears
Or a shadow tiger about to...
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Categories:
daftly, art, dream, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Rejected Thesaurus
...Once again
“Man”
Fails
A faulty miscarriage of stanzas and exhaled anomalies,
“Man” withers
Unto a Shakespearean passing
“Man” testifies
Verbal precedence above cedar scented opinions
Whi...
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Categories:
daftly, corruption, life, people, slam,
Form: Free verse
Quagmire
...Adroit in this quagmire so meticulously infused
I yield yet the ground beneath me moves
Alone in a room of people I stand confused
Attune in this menagerie so materially abused
Seclusion notwiths...
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Categories:
daftly, angst, confusion,
Form: Couplet
Writing Letters Is a Dying Art
...Dear Sir:
I realize you’ve been busy, so I’m sending a letter of distress
Postmarked today, addressing my quality of living
Since the last time we told our life stories
Sewed the seams between o...
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Categories:
daftly, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse