Discretely Poems

Premium MemberRolling In Clover

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You take the high road, I'll take the high road
You ain't gettin' away that easy
I'm on to your tricks, I'm a pretty smart cookie
But some things make me queazy

Like a beautiful wom...
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Categories: discretely, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSolitude

...“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,” - Lord Byron
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Categories: discretely, feelings, life, pain, solitude,
Form: Free verse


The World Is An Aquarium

...The world is a sea of gigantic aquarium 
Of immeasurable acreage;
With eclectic species of humans:
Coal, Amber, Snow and Bronze;
365 score days in the whale's gut,
Junketing from Kolkata, Kalama...
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Categories: discretely, humanity, life, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Fleeting Days

...Here I am again searching for my new found friend
We were walking together hand in hand
And in a fleeting moment the wind spun around
Rooting up trees and flinging light poles all over the ground
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Categories: discretely, absence, america, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry

Delicious

...You invade my senses
Memories of hands touching 
Innocence and beauty 
Softness and warmth
Entangled in dance

I see you
Beyond your skin
I see. You.
Delicate and perfectly formed
Soft focu...
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Categories: discretely, absence, feelings, friendship, missing
Form: Free verse


Absolute Hunch

...Am the string.
Oscillating discretely,
The sways of pattern,
Calling for elation,
To come happen...

Am now a probability.
Never discrete, yet,
A contradictory distinction,
True absolutism,
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Categories: discretely, art,
Form: Free verse

Passive aggressive insubordination against establishmentarian paradigm

...Bully me, yours truly 
never ordained, gifted, or blessed
with mien mean characteristic
evoking, jump/kickstarting,
representing, nor zapping
friend or foe courtesy fiery intimidation
if anythi...
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Categories: discretely, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Got Lost In Your Moon

...Late yesterday afternoon
I got lost in your moon
In your deep ocean.

My heart was drowning
I became a sick fan
Of your smile, my darling.

I was afraid to utter a word
I became speechless, ...
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Categories: discretely, appreciation, beauty, desire, inspirational
Form: Rhyme

Reminisce

...You walk a hundred miles on the old country road in the sweltering heat, looking for that one thing that will make you complete and the stars in the early morning sky keeping your company as you walk...
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Categories: discretely, adventure, america, animal, appreciation,
Form: Narrative

not a slave

...Not quite a slave 

After war number 2 when the time was hard and
oil was undiscovered, hidden under deep waters 
when our town stank of stale fish oil and people
made their booze called “sats” ...
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Categories: discretely, abuse, allusion, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

The Circle In the Sun

...It has been there for many centuries before the world began, it has served the Egyptians well and has taken the lion out of the den, the British was in it,  the Puritan have mastered it, the Babyloni...
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Categories: discretely, appreciation, birth, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative

An Old Year Sets Again

...In the middle of the night, a corner of a star
tenderly strikes the hourglass of time,
The rays of a sunrise, a new sunrise,
descend joyfully to the tired earth.

Bright arrows of love
from the...
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Categories: discretely, blessing, celebration, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Helpless Hands

...Playing with breezes 
you do not understand
Time will discretely arise you
Quietly laughing to yourself
you with your knowing
extending helpless hands
as the shore ascends
you are the drowning...
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Categories: discretely, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Craggy Bark

...At a distance the trunk did not impress,
lofty though this fir in Cragside's autumn.
Yet close the fissured craggy bark expressed
a legend of colours discretely awesome,
Many forest creatures hav...
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Categories: discretely, autumn, nature, tree, weather,
Form: Sonnet

Finnegan Sir Harold and His Horse Part 3

...The Lord Mayor received a letter,
The Chief Constable the same, 
From the Big House in London,
Signed a double-barrelled name.
Harry Finnegan received a letter,
Not the same of course;
Tea at t...
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Categories: discretely, celebrity, horse, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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