eye on the storm
...The sky is a cloudless crystal blue
with a breeze to chap your lips
I’m grateful for it, it’s heaven-sent
the dawn was a celestially stamped, angry red
sailors take warning
It’s going to get f...
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Categories:
disclaimers, humor, nature, new york,
Form: Rhyme
The Art of Being Blind
...She never got spoon-fed and started licking off the knives
But knives cut her tongue
Her home is in the white spaces but not the words
You claim to know the flower, but do you know its pollen grai...
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Categories:
disclaimers, 11th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Following the Footnotes
...Not for nothing
does the light prick my eyes,
a thirst for walking shoes
tightens ankle bones
that parachute out of an inner attic
landing awkwardly into the open throats
of sneakers
still clu...
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Categories:
disclaimers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Do Dodos Do Doo Doos
...[Mr Google assures me that the plural of Dodo is dodos or dodoes]
Do dodos do doo doos
Not any more
But dodos did do doo doos
They did doo doos on the floor
But dodos doing doo doos
Droppin...
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Categories:
disclaimers, bird, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Seasons of Time
...The universe is all abloom with seasons, diamonds left in wakes of stars (1)
(whose flowers linger) viewed through lenses binding star’s birth to its death,
its ghost, perhaps, not there at all for...
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Categories:
disclaimers, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Pandemic
...12 AM!
Happy 2020
Everyone greeted in delight
"Not yet", uttered corona
From venturesome everyday
Something distant
To being trapped in lockdown
For several months
We all got a lesson
No...
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Categories:
disclaimers, change, courage, deep, faith,
Form: Free verse
Hard To Take
...HARD TO TAKE
He was sure that for most
of his life he’d been a dangerous
prescription, wrapped in caveats
and warnings such as:
don’t mix, ask your doctor, must
be twelve years or older, ta...
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Categories:
disclaimers, change, love,
Form: Free verse
The Dream of a De Ja Vu Moment
...The Dream of a De ja vu Moment
David J Walker
As if broken into a thousand pieces
the poetic scenes of the night
Make no sense until completed
Dreams rehearsed first in the light
As if se...
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Categories:
disclaimers, dream,
Form: Rhyme
This Homeless Man Named-Dizzy
...a lone man just shaking his head
Constantly stumbling
His mental status;
Causes disclaimers;
Some say he’s got dementia;
Needless to say;
To say the least;
He’s often found on the s...
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Categories:
disclaimers, addiction, analogy, anxiety, character,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Created Me a Circus
...Big top three-ring-circus ferris wheel and sideshow freaks
Ringmaster draws your attention to the center ring
Presenting the bareback rider with a graceful fling
Silly clowns riding tricycles
F...
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Categories:
disclaimers, fun, games, life,
Form: Rhyme
Tv Commercials Disclaimers
...I am listening to a list of glorious disclaimers on TV
That follow a commercial about a terrific new wonder drug that
helps you blow freckles off your arms.
Usually I am in the kitchen getting
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Categories:
disclaimers, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Disclaimers
...i am the lord your god & all that is wrong
in the world has been spawned by a fallen angel of whom
i created so that he would tempt humankind into madness---
if you have a bone to pick, please pi...
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Categories:
disclaimers, life
Form: Free verse
The Fruit Salad
...Sceptical satsumas with suspicious rumours of fruit bowl disclaimers
A mention of cucumber and tomato being part of the starter,
leaving melon and grape displeased and irate
A discussion re:pi...
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Categories:
disclaimers, people, social, fruit,
Form: Free verse
The Night We Let the Animals Go
...The night started out as a gift, a fable
with doves blooming white and alive in the air
The top of the tent open wide to enable
freedom of wingspan exploded and bare
Elephant troops with red sequ...
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Categories:
disclaimers, animals, love, nature, passion,
Form: I do not know?