Paper Tigers
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"Paper Tigers"
eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot
slap...
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Categories:
diabolus, dark, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Xeriscape
...The year is 79AD...
The engineer's feet
step carefully...
upon the dark dirt...
onyx hues like the sky.
This sky is pricked
by the wake of death.
He exclaims, such
illumination! Our
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Categories:
diabolus, allusion, business, christian, courage,
Form: Narrative
Pondering a Winter Dusk
...I ride the bus...
Tilt a bit, balance-
ponder later. Yolk yellow
and sky blue, chalk
grey paint. Steel
rectangles; winding parallel
lines. Circles- Eternal.
Toothed horizons-
golden r...
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Categories:
diabolus, allusion, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
War In the Distance Is Better
...This chair has chipped paint.
Its shadow gangly
in the light spilling through
the window. A deep
buttercup bisque steeps.
Through this stream, ember
motility of curdled
cream seeps ...
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Categories:
diabolus, allusion, angst, august, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
Colors of Birth
...This chair has chipped paint.
Its shadow gangly
in the light spilling through
the window. A deep
buttercup bisque steeps.
Through this stream, ember
motility of curdled
cream seeps ...
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Categories:
diabolus, allusion, autumn, betrayal,
Form: Shape
Diabolus In Suburbia
...We are drawn here for the festivity, to glorify His name.
In our crimson best, presents wrapped gaily, to glorify His name.
Joyous revelers and their dutiful handlers arriving.
Doors ope...
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Categories:
diabolus, america, birthday, childhood, culture,
Form: Ghazal
Tenebrosi Diabolus , Funesta Pugna
...Tenebrosi Diabolus , Funesta Pugna
The snake that slithered in lay quite still
as if testing my shaky resolve, my weak will
I saw its blackness and that shining skin
mesmerized , my body wa...
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Categories:
diabolus, allusion, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Diabolus Amare
...It has no rain,
for there is no sun,
there be no reasons for children to run,
there is no light at the end of the road,
there is no kiss for the prince of toads,
there is no love as st...
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Categories:
diabolus, angel, love,
Form: ABC
Colors of Birth
...This chair has chipped paint.
Its shadow gangly
in the light spilling through
the window. A deep
buttercup bisque steeps.
Through this stream, ember
motility of curdled
cream seeps ...
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Categories:
diabolus, day, fire, grandmother, light,
Form: Prose Poetry