For Refaat Alareer, Palestinian Poet
..."There is a window open from my heart to yours." Rumi
See the splendor of pained poetic souls.
After he died, leapt out in the air above,
turned into a star in Gaza's bleak sky,
pouring words...
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Categories:
dismembering, appreciation, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Dysmorphed
...I, looking in the mirror yesterday,
witnessed distorted eyes replacing mine;
and, too, the lips and nose, as if a sign,
seemed bent crooked, misaligned in some way.
And, as I, squinting, gazed ...
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Categories:
dismembering, body, depression, gender, identity,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Cryptic Cipher in the Crypt
...(Begin: There is no beginning.)
(O' my--not again--you should not have started.)
The quill burrows. No--splinters. No--fractures. No--was nev...
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Categories:
dismembering, confusion, dark, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wallow
...Nowhere is my place.
Escape evades my chase.
Shunned by lifes embrace.
Imbue with hindrance grace.
Consumed by peace I rot.
Exhume long hidden plot.
Solitude sought where it's not.
Accursed ...
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Categories:
dismembering, depression, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
More Than Ink
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I Adamantly Refuse to Care or Show Concern,
After All
I Served Sincerely and Genuinely, Now I Sever
Hoaxed Mundane Emotions that No Longer Appeal to My Growth
Flippantly Burning Icy Bridges
T...
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Categories:
dismembering, betrayal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Legend of the Rose
...Long 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbrea...
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Categories:
dismembering, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Soozie the Floozie
...Soozie was angry with her boyfriend, Bob
Tried dismembering him but botched the job
Disgruntled with all men
She vowed to try again
When she found him in bed with her friend, Rob
Soozie was li...
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Categories:
dismembering, woman,
Form: Limerick
Living Law and Dead Beacon
...The idea of a living constitution
has the same forensic indeterminacy
as a committed dream.
I am content to trust this dream to the end
to have it fill my cup of hope all day and night.
I am c...
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Categories:
dismembering, rights,
Form: Free verse
Grand Priorities
...What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
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Categories:
dismembering, black african american, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Paradox Reversion
...Introversion explores an isolated ego voice
While extra-relational versions
speak a more complex eco-political choice
of historic context
embedded in sensory feelings
positively healthy memori...
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Categories:
dismembering, anxiety, deep, depression, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Drips of Tears'
...Drips of Tears'
There I was alone
In a dark place far from home
Crying...
Pleading...
Afraid with my heart bleeding...
Will you take my hand
Dry these tears
or leave me alone with the man i...
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Categories:
dismembering, courage, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
A Reaction To Fuel Scarcity
...The by-nature amiable Peter
Is now inconsolably bitter:
At a filling station, a protesting sitter
After his supplied mere one liter
For this vulgarly insulting pump attendant Rita
And threatenin...
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Categories:
dismembering, anger, anxiety, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
I, Zombie, Part Xii: the Remembering
...It’s ten years later
I’ve finally hit paydirt
It’s the motherload
I didn’t strike gold
I struck a deal with myself
To help me grow old
Not act like a child
But first I had to grow up
And ...
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Categories:
dismembering, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Haiku
The Fantasy
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmLsbatEo_w&t=27s
Quote by: Victor Buhagiar
Free your mind of old chains, fetch me all nine muses focus on fairies, elves and pixies,
f...
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Categories:
dismembering, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Awake and Aware
...My easy does it done over did it again.
Rusted and busted eat up with sin.
Discontent with the nonsense splendidly blended to end, my endless transcendence not yet to begin.
Ashes to ashes rusting...
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Categories:
dismembering, best friend,
Form: Acrostic
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