MILESTONES
Roused by a rude jolt
I start up from my half-slumber.
Utterly clueless I move about
clinging to my pet delusions
in complete darkness of my past
coming after me swinging a truncheon…
I vaguely hear screams and yells
hurled at me some time before
echoing in my memory’s vault
as from a distant past.
But yesterday seemed like a bowl
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Categories:
distant past, change, endurance, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Dreams From the Distant Past
Dreams from the distant past calling me
how can I stop in the middle of this race?
In this crowd I am just another face
of losing dreams which I once loved to see,
no looking back we're now on a racing spree,
changing lanes,breaking rules to increase pace
Dreams from the distant past,
sleeping in them my never grown wish tree,
faded
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Categories:
distant past, life
Form: Rondeau
Stepping Into the Distant Past
" I open the door and cross the threshold of imagination...".
Too hesitant to enter,
I pause and ponder:
is this a place of wonder?
What tempts me to open it?
Is it curiosity or desire,
and what lies beyond it?
The aged brown door decorated with brass painted in black,
has a distinctive Gothic style of a house of prayer standing
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Categories:
distant past, dedication, faith, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere In the Distant Past
Somewhere in the distant past,
Pushed tightly back
From the corners of your soul
The sting of fury rages and grows
Full breath into the doom
Waiting in wretched solitude
Where no one knows...
The silence that hung heavily in the mist
Will disappear
Those fake smiles twisted in your lips
Would fade into the dawn
Rattled to the bones by Death and the great
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Categories:
distant past, angst, childhood
Form: Free verse
Voices From the Distant Past
New discoveries today!
Tools belonging to ancient man have been found!
Our ancestors left traces
for us to ponder
Stone implements
which they used to survive
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Categories:
distant past, history
Form: Verse