Dark Days Are Coming
...Dark Days Are Coming
Dark days are coming
Loping over the far horizon
Distant still, a little,
Yet they approach, all the same.
The familiar disappears
Note by note
As the past piles up be...
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Categories:
devolves, angst, anxiety, grief, journey,
Form: Free verse
Breathless in the void
...“Let silence teach”, the master said
“that soul may be by God’s hand fed,
whence graced by His touch, we ascend,
on choosing to be by love led.”
Inertia cajoles us to blend
with the crowd that...
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Categories:
devolves, god, light, self, silence,
Form: Rubaiyat
Mindscapes
...
A deep pit with a crumbling edge.
Far below,
is a muddy pool swarming with crocodilians.
There is someone with me, a boy.
I shouldn't have taken the child here.
I am slipping, taking...
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Categories:
devolves, poetry,
Form: Free verse
bebop pop sprout
...buds beckon to pop
leaves unfurl reveal green scroll
spring devolves uncurls...
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Categories:
devolves, spring,
Form: Haiku
Pablo Neruda in English Translations including 'Religion in the East'
...These are English translations of Spanish poems by Pablo Neruda.
Religión en el Este (“Religion in the East”)
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
for Tom Merrill
I realized in...
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Categories:
devolves, death, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Too Much Tumultuous
...I can't quite remember how I got here
It apprehends my vision, apprehends my senses
my hiding places are very well hidden
and there's no way to stay
this maddening day from my vision.
All the ...
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Categories:
devolves, loneliness, mental illness, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Equality For All
..."We appreciate the popular democratic intention,"
began the Drag Queen Ball proclamation,
'Equity for All'
We would even more appreciate
a more specific lack of pretention:
'Equity for All Vic...
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Categories:
devolves, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Theory of Devolution
...Prayer devolves to Meditation
Meditation toward Prayer
As long as the Master's listening
As long as you know that He's there...
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Categories:
devolves, god, meaningful, prayer, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Zombie
...
Little birdy said “a lot of coma coming soon”
When the earth chills down with a blood red moon
Silent shrieks abound as the brain dissolves
Big mistake on the uptake man devolves
"W...
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Categories:
devolves, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
All the Splendor
...The rose
natures
fairest scent
covering
the valley
pales
compared to the
smell of your
perfume
on a letter.
If Aphrodite
Goddess
of beauty
of love
swift she
devolves into
a wretched...
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Categories:
devolves, love,
Form: Free verse
Rule of Threes
...Health of a nation
See the old and young station
Your indication
Breeze moves the tree leaves
But turned to gusts the tree heaves
The wise man perceives
Things are a blessing
Until fury op...
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Categories:
devolves, muse,
Form: Rhyme
The Hinterland
...Democracy devolves into tyranny, Plato cautioned.
Flooded by the frigid torrent of factionalism,
will we certify his prediction?
Blinded by the prevarication of public discourse.
Numbed by the ...
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Categories:
devolves, allusion, dream, hate, hope,
Form: Political Verse
Dada
...He came beating a path
That devolves everything
That is norm
Strangely kitted
Strangling patterns
Dawning and hatching
Stirring the hope
Of the unmasked kind
Erasing all dreads
Settl...
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Categories:
devolves, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
Toxic 2018
...I've noticed a new favorite word
in 2018
was "toxic."
And, in on-line discussions,
a newly invested discernment
of what it might fascist imply
to lead each white privileged day
with patriarc...
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Categories:
devolves, anti bullying, fear, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Villanelle: Don'T Some Live Life the Way He Or She Wants It
...Villanelle : Don't some live Life the way he or she wants it
Don't some live Life the way he or she wants it
Look around and see who lives resounding lives
If I were Life's Playwright won't I...
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Categories:
devolves, conflict, judgement, life, philosophy,
Form: Villanelle
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