Mushroom Picking
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In the cool of an autumn morning
my father and his friend,
Jimmy Kerin, would go
mushroom picking in paddocks
way out past the last suburban fence.
I would tag along not to pick
but feel th...
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Categories:
decapitating, autumn, dad, memory, mother,
Form: Free verse
Rough Draft part2
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Soak in the palmolive snake oil tonic.
The cool stalk of my ebonics on hydroponics.
Get stuck in the matrix of my convicts, of hooker phonics.
Get high off of my knock off water on the br...
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Categories:
decapitating, art,
Form: Lyric
The News Is That You'Re Not the One
...Breathing the new air, grasping a trembling news
Firming my grasp, and holding my grips
Asking anyone to trample on my shoes
As me flying my mind, and stiffening up my lips
I cannot cry, as my ...
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Categories:
decapitating, break up, crush, for
Form: Rhyme
I Love To Talk-Yet, I Hate the Sound of My Own Voice
...i love to talk-
Yet, i hate the sound of my own voice
i love to speak-
Yet, Everything i say is inconsequential
Lack of substance
nothing i say changes the world
Basically meaningless
All i ...
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Categories:
decapitating, anxiety, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Free verse
Raptor's Eye
...EarthCare Elders
repurposed our red brick industrial
BrownField
Including a rusted metal box
the size and shape of a giant's coffin
orange and dingy brown
metal flaking paradox
floating towa...
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Categories:
decapitating, earth, health, power,
Form: Political Verse
Left Getting Right Off and On
..."The left hemisphere's assault on our embodied nature
is not just an assault on OUR bodies,
but on the embodied nature of the
[sacred EarthMother]
world around us."
Iain McGilchrist, The Master ...
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Categories:
decapitating, allah, earth, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
A While Longer
...Darkness stumbled as if fell
offering glimpses of hope
then with oil slick ease
it spread itself
decapitating pins of light
were my thoughts influencing the darks movements
or were my tired eye...
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Categories:
decapitating, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Mourning of Mother Earth Iii
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{There will be ‘nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.’ UN climate report warns of ‘code red for humanity.’}
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You, ...
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Categories:
decapitating, death, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Atmospheric Inferno
...Boisterous clouds are churning, roiling air-mass in warm updraft
Declaring on callous inhabitants of earth, a dark ferocious war
Manifesting malevolent force, imposing anger on spatial norms,
Con...
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Categories:
decapitating, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Verse
The Mourning of Mother Earth
...You, unfeeling creatures
Who call yourselves human,
You, fleeting bubbles of reason,
Accidental parasites of time,
You, filthy microbes of cancer,
Ephemera of invincible eternity,
You, wh...
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Categories:
decapitating, earth, humanity, life, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Capital Congested Ways
...Green currency
currently has a capital city way
of ungreening pastures,
dying waters,
spoiling mother lands,
decapitating valleys of red-flowing death,
fears of divested death,
war-torn unvict...
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Categories:
decapitating, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Spiritualist -Signs of Souls
...Spiritualist -Signs of Souls
Fragmenting eyes of sorrow of baneful tears that demons burrow
Stealing Cupids arrow and the elusive songs of the morning sparrow
Encroaching black mas...
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Categories:
decapitating, conflict, dark, lost, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Advocate of Eris
...Eris, goddess of chaos
I sacrifice my will to you
To give you the discord you desire
To summon you to me
Embracing a crooked path
Give me the gift of power and glory
To for see your vision
A s...
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Categories:
decapitating, evil, fantasy, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Death and Forlorn Time In the Shadows of True Evil
...Death and Time holdeth onto eerie and most frightening shadows
Whilst pervading deeply within that infernal region where the dark
Evil and uncanny mists occlude the terrifying presence of a great...
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Categories:
decapitating, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
Death and Forlorn Time In the Shadows of True Evil
...Death and Forlorn Time in the Shadows of True Evil
Death and Time holdeth onto eerie and most frightening shadows
Whilst pervading deeply within that infernal region where the dark
Evil and un...
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Categories:
decapitating, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Quintain (English)
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