cruelty to toads
...the toads do not dive
they plop into the scummy pond
pale green bellies floating beneath them
like airbags
they paddle and back-stroke
through the weedy water
as slow as inflatable boats
whe...
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Categories:
departing(a), poetry,
Form: Free verse
Just Humor Me
...
I met a fellow mortal as we both were of necessity
departing a place we could no longer reside. The city
was called 2023. The two of us were headed north to
reside in a new and different city ...
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Categories:
departing(a), new year,
Form: Free verse
Fast Forward-A
...Like a slow-moving westbound wagon train in 1887,
filled with brave souls departing a land of nightmares; or like
a 13-year-old in no-man's-land looking at 18 and wishing he could
push a button ca...
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Categories:
departing(a), america, poverty, time,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cruelty To Toads
...the toads do not dive
they plop into the scummy pond
pale green bellies floating beneath them
like airbags
they paddle and back-stroke
through the weedy water
as slow as inflatable boats
whe...
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Categories:
departing(a), poetry,
Form: Free verse
God's Affair
...A closed fist. A pair of eyes pressed shut. A teardrop trickling down. A mouth wide open. A shrill shriek piercing multiple eardrums.
An open palm. A pair of eyes unfurling to see their first lig...
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Categories:
departing(a), death, deep, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Damascus Revisited
...He relied much on ‘expert’ opinions,
doctrine and dogma
as if assumptions and conjecture
were an undeniable truth.
‘Settled science’ was accepted confidently,
blind faith and an irrational rat...
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Categories:
departing(a), poetry,
Form: Free verse
Why a Setting Sun Upsets
...I wonder why a setting sun upsets,
Departing, a fellow passenger,
A belated monsoon when hesitates,
Why good fragrance fades like a stranger.
But then, the sun at dusk is ought to set,
Tra...
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Categories:
departing(a), death, pain, sun,
Form: Free verse
Road
...My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to...
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Categories:
departing(a), age, perspective, , cute,
Form: Bio
A Long Fall
...Oh’ little star, you was always there above my head,
But I missed you when you were hiding from my eye sight.
I opened my window in the night time from my bed.
But sky was clouded and moon was a...
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Categories:
departing(a), caregiving, devotion, inspirational, nature,
Form: Terza Rima