Interlude
...With keen eyes, I follow July’s evening
Spread its blended palette of amber tints,
Of varnish 'midst interlude of showers
That I enter into nature's mystique;
Before me— an avian carousal...
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Categories:
disengaging, bird, july,
Form: Free verse
HEAVEN IS VERB AND NOUN
... Heaven, synonymous with
Heart in its becoming of
the New Human ~
perception, perceiver and perceived
when merging incubates an
anechoic reality________
all els...
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Categories:
disengaging, allegory, allusion, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse
CREATION OF MAN Section Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1511 -MICHELANGELO
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GO ! BELOVED
YOU are the CENTRE OF CREATION
go c r e a t e
see these children in my embra...
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Categories:
disengaging, allegory, art, character, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis
My Seventh Decade
...As if startled awake
from fitfull sleep
Of dreams both cartoonish
Yet with meaning deep
My life having passed
as this very repose
A young woman
Now grand dame all as I dozed
For I mus...
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Categories:
disengaging, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
The Outsiders
...In a world that rushes,
we step back,
disengaging from the flow
to observe, to reflect,
often choosing not to engage,
but to understand.
We, the outsiders,
interestingly disinterested,
brin...
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Categories:
disengaging, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Peace Prayer
...If now is your time
in this final threshold
between life
and death,
then this is our passion time,
remembered past
torn from imaged future.
I cannot bear this burden
this loss
this relinqu...
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Categories:
disengaging, death, grief, life, light,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Tide
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Up the shore the rhythmic tide strides.
Twice a day, the army marches in succumbing.
Then retreats, tail between its legs, discharging
Its grip and flooding embrace, releasing, disengagi...
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Categories:
disengaging, ocean, time,
Form: Personification
Zen Mode
...slow strangulation
osmotically penetrating
the very fabric of our being
stymied before fear germinates
simply by our nonchalant observation
plateaus off the sunken vibration
which we look at sl...
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Categories:
disengaging, i am, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Orpheus
...Slang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade =
brooke = gorgeous
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”
Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re...
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Categories:
disengaging, humor, mothers day, new
Form: Free verse
Storm Ali Was Here
...The prophecy came true in the swamplands
She rose from the bowels of an alligator’s belly
Disengaging herself with the hands of a sorcerer
Those who saw were struck as if by lightning
She was co...
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Categories:
disengaging, storm,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Time
...My road to hell began with good intention,
Floating up then crashing down more times than I can mention.
Tripping through time in a parallel space,
The scars of my life reflect upon my face.
Mis...
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Categories:
disengaging, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
My Hand On My Heart-Mystic
...At the dead end of broken road, losing hope
my introspecting mind took a disengaging view
of life wandering in wasteland, trying to cope
with trying times to reach the destination new.
I heard ...
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Categories:
disengaging, emotions, love,
Form: Rhyme
Learning Healthcare Systems
...My educational system
has a diseducating problem.
How to engage young minds,
like young ideas,
easily distracted,
and potentially miseducated,
by vicarious
and often trivial entertainments.
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Categories:
disengaging, anger, bullying, caregiving, education,
Form: Political Verse
Unarmed
...Give me space
I want to disappear
I’m purposely invisible
There’s nothing to see here
Allow my disconnection
As I'm guarded and afraid
My boundaries have been set
Don't approach my barricade...
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Categories:
disengaging, conflict, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Disengaging
...disengaging
before
the truth slips out
posted on July 27, 2018...
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Categories:
disengaging, angst, silence, spoken word,
Form: Senryu
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