You are a Metaphor
...you are a gentle breeze
a cocktail with antifreeze
an approaching sneeze
or a winter storm
three standard deviations from the norm
four sheets to the wind
and I think your rook is pinned
are y...
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Categories:
deviations, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
front page, democracy wins
...the medical obstruction of justice as opposed to the medical obstruction to justice
logic and logical assembly of sentences without derivations nor deviations
as i am not the team but the expre...
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Categories:
deviations, abuse, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Candle flame:
...I watch a candle flame,
Steadily burning in my room,
In the darkened room,
Its shadows cast a spell of despair.
In a lighted room,
Stare into the steady flame,
Connect your mind with d...
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Categories:
deviations, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The Fifties
...With nostalgia Mom looks back to the year
A little girl walking to Riverside Park, without fear
Except for the bowery, no homeless on the street
Kids played outside, lots of friends to meet.
A ...
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Categories:
deviations, america, community, freedom, history,
Form: Lyric
DISTORTISTA greco holbein
...anamorphic
for
enhanced
eccentric
visual
impact
deviations
personalised
from
the
prespective
to
connfront
the familiar
with
exaggeration
manipuating
emoional...
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Categories:
deviations, art,
Form: Didactic
Syzygy
...
"Syzygy"
Behind the wet dunes
fringed with seagrass
a blood crescent
kisses the forehead
of dreamer traversed
twin aeon syzygy
barefeet the velvet
sophia imprints
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Categories:
deviations, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Anomalies
...The sky is looking to contemplate the rainy drops.
It is considering the theory of becoming new
by breaking an old one.
I doubt, though, if it is sure for all or if it may be.
Deviations in n...
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Categories:
deviations, absence, addiction, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Pedestals
...Pedestals..
Climbing up
Looking up
Seeming deviations
Extraordinaries..
Characters posing
As deserving of
Attention..leaders
It might be said..
Or knowers..
Or worshiper...
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Categories:
deviations, career, encouraging, forgiveness, time,
Form: Light Verse
The Enemy Within
...The enemy within
There has been a war up North but after some times
the occupying forces surrendered and took the train
back where they came from.
Newspapers and magazines were (for a while) f...
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Categories:
deviations, abuse, addiction, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Leftover Tomorrows
...Leftover Tomorrows
Not just the yin and yang of life
Not just the perplexed and entangled
Not even the esoterically amplified deviations
Just the oxymoron nature of the beast
It’s the fashi...
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Categories:
deviations, emotions, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
Deadlock
...Highs and lows, deviations of waves in a predicament
in full effect like the seven seas currents weighing the
pros and cons, incessant periods of non-stop r...
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Categories:
deviations, abuse, addiction, character, community,
Form: Free verse
Expectations
...promise may be both a blessing and curse
sometimes turning into something far worse
potential the symbol for higher things
beyond the grasp of most human beings
entering such an uneven bargain
...
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Categories:
deviations, anxiety, confidence, perspective, self,
Form: Sonnet
Leave It Out Judge
...The judge told the man, “You’re accused
By all of those that you abused.
You’re too touchy feely,
You touch and feel freely
And all of them feel they’ve been used.”
The man cleared his throat,...
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Categories:
deviations, humorous, judgement,
Form: Limerick
Pierces Together
...PIECES TOGETHER
realisation
influences
multiplied
& a genuine
opportunity
fresh
elements
look elsewhere
to reimaginings
blending
a transcription
with a sense
of the precarious
...
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Categories:
deviations, poetry,
Form: Other
Easter Musing
...On Fort Apache Indian Reservation, in Arizona, there is an old pueblo ruin called, "Kinishba", aka "Dull brown house in the middle of nowhere".
On a hill overlooking Kinishba, there is an older r...
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Categories:
deviations, humanity,
Form: Narrative
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