My scientific experience
...So just a man human frail..Now confronted and really
Aware of a veil..' No real power no real plan, yet the thought
Of what has been happening? Over a fifty year span.? I
Not from a truly religio...
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Categories:
deathbeds, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
After The Storm Raged
...Friends tell each other how they feel
with relative ease and frequency,
Siblings wait for a more convenient time,
—like their deathbeds.
Anonymous
After t...
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Categories:
deathbeds, family, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
October Carvings
...Gray wings
at the edge of a threadbare blue.
A feathering that attenuates
and denatures.
Beneath somber clouds
stone angels watch
green granite deathbeds
crumble
in darkening dens.
Octob...
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Categories:
deathbeds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Peril
...You are all vehement and gutsy
Putting across even the wrong forcefully
With vulgarity drawing a bow or curtsy
From a righteous man smeared shamefully
You care not for truth but to win
Teasi...
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Categories:
deathbeds, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Unseeded
...A nation dies
when its ideas become slogans
nothing is deeply planted
or cultivated
just notions to be scattered around
as exposed hayseeds
that fly directionless.
When a state is oppressed
...
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Categories:
deathbeds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Faded Away
...Faded away—
and all that is left
is the shape of it—
the memory.
Brown leaves lightly disturbed
in their cold deathbeds by
your black paws—
ears lifted—slanted forward.
Your eager stri...
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Categories:
deathbeds, absence, anxiety, appreciation, cat,
Form: Free verse
Ellipse
...At sunrise the heron soars effortlessly upon the breeze
waves roll in crashing upon the rocks and beaches
rising tides reach high upon the sands then fade away
the sun breaks through my window and...
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Categories:
deathbeds, appreciation, beach, beauty, bird,
Form: Metrical Tale
The Temporal Clouds
...In clouds of spring fresh whispy dreams prevail
They tell of joy as hope in hearts arise
With youthful frolic's yearning wishing wells
In fairytales seen through poetic eyes
In clouds of summer...
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Categories:
deathbeds, analogy, beautiful, beauty, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Ladder2heaven
...The ladder is cold steel and past its days, dulled to a natural grey
Yet its rungs still stand strong, stretched over the battered frame
See over time, a ravished age, the world has grasped the lad...
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Categories:
deathbeds, confusion, god, myth, voyage,
Form: I do not know?
Deathbeds In the Desert -
...The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of Caucasians clad with Celtic...
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Categories:
deathbeds, creation, history, western,
Form: Epic
Mother Spider Webbing Days
...Co-empathic passions
like hearts with flowers,
mothers with soft sunny spring shower days,
Develop interdependent webs
of both/and intimacy,
like bodies with loving minds
wrapped around lovin...
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Categories:
deathbeds, earth day, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Prayer: Power Or Placebo-- Part Ii
...I have prayed,and prayed hard, for the deaths of 2 people. Lest you think me a criminal, an explanation: one was my mother-in-law, a frail 89 yr. old who had a bad fall. Her organs were already faili...
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Categories:
deathbeds, angst, appreciation, blessing, death
Form: Prose
Despair
...For thus I am entangled in a web of despair!
A widow's orb of woven thread.
'Tis a stalker's venom that keeps me there.
A visceral poison; paralyzing it spreads.
Transformed; tram...
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Categories:
deathbeds, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Narrative
Little Men
...Little Men
They speak
Before thinking
They speak
After drinking
They speak
When silence would make them wiser
They speak
The words of little men
Sadly they know not the land of the me...
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Categories:
deathbeds, anti bullying, fairy, humanity,
Form: Light Verse
Poverty, Angst and Anxiety Dx
...In the mirror, I see my face melt away in shame
And, yet I still hunt for game…feeling this shame without a well-thought-out
name
I hunt you down to catch some inspiration
I’m not looking for ...
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Categories:
deathbeds, angst, beauty, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse
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