Nesting
...There’s a faded blue tarp
On an old pile of wood
For a fireplace no longer used.
Though my hearing’s not sharp,
I thought maybe I could
Hear a strange sound that got me confused.
So I ope...
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Categories:
dangled, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Unsure of Cell or Shore
...We made our padded rooms,
Trampoline parks for a time,
For bouncing off the walls,
With a crash into the side,
Those clouds our leather breakers,
Of eroding rolling rows,
Salty tongues of the s...
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Categories:
dangled, confusion, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Free verse
The Cashier
...The bridge above her nose was pierced,
Her nostrils were, as well,
With several silver bars laced through,
As far as I could tell.
Her upper ears both sported studs
And wrapped around her neck...
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Categories:
dangled, today,
Form: Rhyme
sliver of silver
...
she had attempted to colour in outside of the box
now the silver lining dangled from a broken necklace
suffocated her aspirations oozed discontent and sorrow
the shine had come off and no amo...
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Categories:
dangled, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Magnum Opus
...Cantankerous cancers found my blood letting from the slit,
Is it avarice of me to desire the love begetting of Lazarus?
Enjoying life cadaverous like forgetting the want to live,
Is it glamorous...
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Categories:
dangled, absence, addiction, anxiety, confidence,
Form: Free verse
REJOICED AND GLAD
...REJOICED AND GLAD
Awakened naturally—no need to go
to the bathroom—I peeked through
the blinds of the bedroom window,
and there it was: had I been dreaming, or
was this all just a gl...
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Categories:
dangled, beauty, change, good morning,
Form: Prose
Written in Santa Maria della Vittoria
...The feast, it happened, of Saints Peter and Paul.
I’d called in early, for a final look
at Saint Teresa in her cosy nook,
before the tourists made a shopping mall
of this delightful church. My pl...
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Categories:
dangled, self,
Form: Sonnet
REJOICE AND BE GLAD
...Awakened naturally—no need to go
to the bathroom—I peeked through
the blinds of the bedroom window and
there it was; had I been dreaming or was
this all just a glorious morning awakening?
The...
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Categories:
dangled, allegory, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
she
...she
she walked along the silken shore
crocheting thoughts and even more
morning could not unravel her
men’s lustful eyes freely traveled her
she cleaned the windows of my soul
layi...
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Categories:
dangled, fantasy, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
precipice
...
he would not avoid the void any longer
like a cliff hanger he dangled at the abys
abysmal emotions told him to leap yet
for action he searched for a jump lead
when silent retreat bonded with Se...
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Categories:
dangled, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Dangling Upside Down
...When you travel and you’re on a plane,
Attendants must always explain
What to do in a crash
But the words they rehash
Most on board think are spoken in vain.
Yet a Delta flight recently dipped...
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Categories:
dangled, flying,
Form: Limerick
A Kiss in the Dark
...I was the satyr you embraced
who was more than a kiss in the dark
and rose in your eyes like a rising sun
to dry the wet dew of your hauntings
I was the twilight breeze to your evenings
the bu...
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Categories:
dangled, allusion,
Form: Free verse
My Savior Is My Insanity
...[ Y o u c a n ‘ t b e f i x e d i f y o u h a v e n ‘ t b e e n b r o k e n]
…
My immune system lay strong, yet I was burdened with many health issues; my treatment has healed the ...
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Categories:
dangled, adventure, body, how i
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
...The following fictitious scenario I evoke
Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of sp...
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Categories:
dangled, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
voyeur
...
cold rain
to slow-streak the
glass I watch you through -
you and your
christ ...
the ginger bread man,
sugar daddy savior, all that
I was not, (and less) ...
choices of
compromise, to prov...
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Categories:
dangled, analogy, break up, poverty,
Form: Free verse
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