Jealousy
...They call her green
Her eyes are mean
She’s blowing steam
She comes on scene
This type of weakness
Is of some uniqueness
Devoid of any sweetness
Absent of any neatness
Inadequate tendenc...
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Categories:
discrepancies, jealousy, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Love Looks With The Mind
...
There must be
a meeting of personalities,
a synchronization of Souls,
lots of the same ground
for 2 people
to become a couple
Love doesn't mesh
with the eyes
but with the mind.
Intellige...
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Categories:
discrepancies, appreciation, friendship, happiness, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
The Glitch in the Grid
...The telescreens hummed their endless drone,
A symphony of truth alone,
Dictated, printed, beamed so wide,
Where independent thought had died.
Newspeak choked the rebel tongue,
And every sun...
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Categories:
discrepancies, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Multi-Di-Minstrel Message, Reprised
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Salutations!
Are we all just a footnote in God’s mental thoughts?
He’s gotta BIG BANG Universe to run, does He not?
He’s the most masterful, magical, mystical, mathematical Magician....
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Categories:
discrepancies, dream,
Form: Spoken Word
BAREFOOT BROWN KIDDIES
...Poet’s Note : Robertson & Ashton are two small wine producing towns in the Karoo of South Africa. Robertson is known as the Town of Roses & Wine because it is exceedingly beautiful, yet the wealth di...
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Categories:
discrepancies, change, emotions, environment, farm,
Form: Political Verse
Anger- POTD
...
‘Anger is one letter short of danger.’
Excess of it, our life can endanger.
Anger when grown into aggression and violence,
Works in vicious ways and is a great malaise
It fosters ha...
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Categories:
discrepancies, anger, relationship, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do the Bells Still Toll?
...Why do the bells still toll
For such senseless deaths as these?
Us brothers fighting wars
Over vain discrepancies.
Why do the people cheer
Only when their sons come home?
No cheers when peace...
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Categories:
discrepancies, conflict, death, hate, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Don't Celebrate Christmas - Fiction
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Grandma died when I was 18 years old, on Christmas day. I never really got to know her well since the family had pretty much kept their distance from her due to her 'weird religion.' I grew up unch...
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Categories:
discrepancies, christian, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Please Don't
...His Version of Mail It
Please don’t question yourself, please don’t give me a second thought, who am I to live in your mind after all of the turmoil I brought?
Believe me you don’t want to do thi...
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Categories:
discrepancies, angst, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
What Fascinates Me
...What happens when we die? I really want to know!
I’m getting up in age and am ready for the show!
Religious fundamentalists say things won’t be good
for souls unbaptized or for those not living ...
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Categories:
discrepancies, universe,
Form: Couplet
Salvage
...
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
...
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Categories:
discrepancies, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
Christmas Time
...Welcome
to the wonder and the magic of the reason
that Christmas time brings to the season,
the decoration on the tree, the marvels, and miracles
the lights, the glow of simplicity of carols l...
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Categories:
discrepancies, america,
Form: Rhyme
The Wisdom of Men
...Eminent Doctors and professors
Did meet, at a prominent place
For their prominent feats
After much preamble; they sat down
Face to face; their table was long, a
Shiny space.
Their gizmos an...
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Categories:
discrepancies, bible, education, irony,
Form: Didactic
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
..."The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-...
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Categories:
discrepancies, america, appreciation, art, bird,
Form: Blank verse
Perfectly Mismatched
...We are a perfectly mismatched set.
We share contradictory alliances in Peace
We conquer complimentary foes in War
You quell the unnerving anxiety that haunts me
And I haunt the quelling worry t...
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Categories:
discrepancies, happiness, love, relationship, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
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