One Flew Over
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I knew an old buffoon
quite the gloomy poltroon
who through a stormy monsoon
flew his hot air balloon
and among the Walloon
and Flemish
much to their surprise
did not meet his demise...
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Categories:
densely, flying, fun, humorous, language,
Form: Rhyme
Arm Hair
...I am a girl with densely haired arms.
In school, classmates would exclaim upon seeing my arms,
"Oh my gosh, how can you have so much hair on your arms!"
"Kiwi girl! Haha"
I looked at my own a...
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Categories:
densely, appreciation, body, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Undergrowth with Two Figures -Van Gogh
...Describe what you see my love, she queries
A game they often play in the depths of the forest
He replies, Turgid are the woodlands densely they’ve died back
creeping where no life is seen,
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Categories:
densely, art, assonance, death,
Form: Free verse
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
...Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.
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Categories:
densely, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Crazy NaughtiMess
...Crazy
that you can listen
to glistening gospel ministers
missing Messiah's GoodNews non-sinister
transNazarene re-sistering
whole Earth uniting salvation
Crazy
Jewish lay teacher
and EarthN...
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Categories:
densely, god, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
Turning to Become
...("July 7 - Hot and Blue", 2024, original encaustic)
Turning to Become
As they say, humans are like onions,
Densely layered and prone to making others cry.
But I think a better metaphor...
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Categories:
densely, earth, extended metaphor, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Gamboge Romance
...My silent serene soul softly craves your candles of crystalline calm.
Your gallant greens of golden glow gently beam with bumbles, bashing blissful thoughts in a thundering whisper.
Our chemistr...
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Categories:
densely, angel, beautiful, beauty, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Dauntless
...“Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution”. ~ By William Shakespeare
Meet this dweller of the icy continent
Among the few, he is the chief occupant
Out in that territory, it is freezing cold
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Categories:
densely, animal, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge
...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge,
Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended.
Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse
Te...
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Categories:
densely, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge
...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge,
Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended.
Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse
Te...
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Categories:
densely, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Unraveled
...I could fill a bottle with air,
sunken by liquid depression.
A matter so densely populated.
by false hope and worthless thoughts.
I cower to my need to feel this way,
for thi...
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Categories:
densely, anger, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The lunar eclipse
...It happens every two point- five years so make sure you are there. Pack some stuff and put in the land rover and meet me at the desert in California.
We will have barbecue on the sand and experim...
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Categories:
densely, best friend, business, change,
Form: Prose Poetry
Shared Empathy For Palestine
...“Look carefully and see if there could possibly be pain like my pain, like the one bestowed by You upon me.” – Lamentations 1:12
I walk the width of 2000 pound bomb crater in the densely populated...
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Categories:
densely, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Glimmers In the Abyss
...In the ocean’s vast and boundless deep, where light begins to cease,
A world of silent shadows casts a spell of tranquil peace.
Abyssal creatures, luminous with bioluminescent glows,
Paint streaks...
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Categories:
densely, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Ode To Ambedkar
...Part - I
O bright star! Where have thou gone?
For thy beams are needed again,
To warm thy followers’ lives forlorn.
Few robbed breads thou baked, most sans gain.
Till thy rise, it was densel...
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Categories:
densely, appreciation, dedication, in memoriam,
Form: Ode
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