Foe Forgiveness Joy
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Written: December 24, 2023, For Anoucheka Gangabissoon Contest
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Forgiveness is felicity fetching a hefty feud.
It warms our heart...
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Categories:
defrock, analogy, confusion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Well, I Never
...A peacock without his feathers
Like a motorcycle jacket without its leather
How absurd
to defrock the bird...
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Categories:
defrock, analogy, bird, giggle,
Form: Light Verse
Spending My Life
...Well, this morning began “a fine kettle of fish” to my taste
(ambiguity present and somewhat ironic), no waste
of intent here. ‘Walk’ mentioned proforma, ‘glazed doughnut’ from Stan’s (1)
tasked, ...
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Categories:
defrock, life,
Form: Rhyme
I Cant Wait For Death
...I Can't Wait For Death
And finally take one last breath
where hands of Seth
Thomas no longer clock
freed at last from cataclysmic aftershock
reverberating thru every baited cell
after quaking...
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Categories:
defrock, allusion, dark, family, farewell,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Celtic Tones--Dark Side of the Moon
... Above a ridge, knowing not how on
some parcel of a lucent dome, we meander
to breathe in the vapor of moonlight ,
gently burying her crown upon breasts of valleys
endowing a lush ritu...
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Categories:
defrock, adventure, love, moon,
Form: Light Verse
Keeper of Omen
...Winter grates as the blackbird roams
through frosted limbs of trees... and shrills;
while moon hides from a brooding night
its call, the threadbare air, refills.
My eyes mirror this drowning ...
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Categories:
defrock, angst, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Silent City - Part 3
...Continued from Part 2
Beyond the suburbs, farmers’ fields (where donkeys often brayed)
inhale gray gusts of barren dust where living seed once laid
and in the haze a scarecrow sways, impaled upo...
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Categories:
defrock, angst, life, war,
Form: Rhyme
My Ex For Sale
...Come one come all my ex for sale
His underwear being sold in bale
Naked on the block
Glad he is defrock
His chest shows fear at the exsale...
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Categories:
defrock, husband, peace,
Form: Limerick