Not So Friendly Discussions
Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before blasting bullies!
Carefully commandeering calmer Carlos,
Claiming cool comradeship courageously
Communicated clever candid conversations.
Dandified Darius decided daring dialogue
Dangerously divisive, declined discourse,
Deliberately discrediting dainty discussions.
Even egregious Ethan engaged everyone else
Entertaining either eloquently or engagingly,
Entirely
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Categories:
discussions, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
Heated Discussions and Disappointment
Ozarks are brutally hot
Heated discussions and disappointment.
August is a potential fireball
Backs are sticking to leather car seats.
Animals escaping from the west arrive daily
Grass is dried brown, our earth parched
Cultivation of garden is a pipe dream
This summer is the hottest in a decade
There is a bleakness in these hills
Tomatoes shrivel up on their vines.
A storm of
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Categories:
discussions, summer,
Form: Free verse
Discussions In My Head
I have discussions in my head
With family, friends not here but dead.
Coworkers or acquaintances
Who said they were but weren't instead.
Not dead and buried, not burned to ash.
It's just that part of life has passed;
Of evening talks through nights that last
Till dawn when gone is our repast.
Not that those true nor I don't care,
But life removed
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Categories:
discussions, age, change, life,
Form: Quatrain
Bad Discussions
Bad Discussions
(Not a nice poem)
By the pound what a sound,
in morbid delay at death's door.
Cutting off bits and chunks of souls,
too busy to be made whole.
Now withered on the blocks,
slaves to the lochs...
where things beneath the water,
must eat and cheat death,
for a day and a night,
and...
a day.
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Categories:
discussions, addiction, allah, america, child
Form: Narrative
Still She Wonders
She remembers
The depth of his blue eyes
And how he once told her
Sullen and pensive
That should she precede him
He had it all worked out and
Knew exactly what he would say
hating such deep discussions
she changed the subject and
thought nothing more of
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Categories:
discussions, death, eulogy, grave, lost
Form: Free verse
Discussions With a Deity
Discussions with a deity
Let’s talk about G-d
Let’s talk about your connection with G-d
Let’s talk about Him/It and
How you converge here in
This public forum
In this place of G-dlyness
Let’s walk in to the holy of holies
And proclaim our worth
And right
Together
Here, holding hands
Let’s talk about kosher
Let’s talk about candles
Let’s talk about when
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Categories:
discussions, confusion, education, faith, mystery,
Form: Verse