Black and White
...To mix the two together only brings gray. Battling persona. Never on cue.
For one’s never certain, which facade debuts.
Dark finely feathered, filled with lustful charades
Hides behind a notion...
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Categories:
drawling, age, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Step
...A step on a lonely road
With heavy burden and load
Dragging miserable soul
To emptiness with no goal
Drawling when not walking
Silence is the only talking
A price to pay
For something I d...
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Categories:
drawling, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Scene
...
Soft snowflakes falling, winter comes calling,
Wind shakes the pine trees, snowman's time to freeze,
Birdsong's enthralling, cardinal's d...
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Categories:
drawling, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Mountain Mist
...
A cloudy blanket sheaths the peaks,
Wrapped in blue, they look enthralling,
Emerald trees behold the sight!
Milky river of mist like creeks
flows overhead this scene sprawling,...
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Categories:
drawling, beautiful, blue, green, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Watching
...This drawling, heinous war is sapping the soldiers’ strength.
I perceive of which high above the battlefield.
These rivers, fresh, indispensable rivers, flow red with hate and blood.
And yo...
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Categories:
drawling, death, god, sorrow, war,
Form: Free verse
Unexpected Joy
...My life was droning along, quite monotonously
like a tired, worn-out song... drawling endlessly
Then one day it happened- two whole lives affected
a simple letter was penned, something unexpecte...
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Categories:
drawling, friendship, tribute, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom Rings
...Roundup lassoes, swinging
Roping stars of wide open country
Sweetheart moon is swooning
Cowboy smiles wrangling darlins
Tobacco spitt’n anywhere the varmint wants
Yellow taxis the color of the...
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Categories:
drawling, america, freedom,
Form: Free verse
My Pen Pleads
...My pen pleads
Lonely nights offer moments of silence
and one dish suppers where candlelight seems a waste
Seated with pen in hand, I smooth the ruffles beneath
as if that will help the words f...
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Categories:
drawling, longing, writing,
Form: Free verse
Pardon
...Oh wow a mystic meaning manifesting majestic majorities. In a purple eclipse. In a towel hung geometrically on a towel rail. Hum then. Queues upon queues of geometricians on hoops. Linguistic lingeri...
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Categories:
drawling, autumn, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Halloween Night
...All day long the clouds lay hanging
thick and gloomy in the sky.
Night approached. The wind was restless;
it gave out a ghostly cry.
Eerie lights blinked in the darkness,
shadows dancing in b...
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Categories:
drawling, dark, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Rain
...Last time it rained was in April.
It did not rain that much,
but it was enough to dirty everywhere.
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Categories:
drawling, rain,
Form: Haibun
Draw a Better Picture
...Is it her calling?
I was just drawling
pictures of my feelings.
All these killers and retards
we should be healing,
Insted we are keeping
them from the world.
Tis it was the greatest sto...
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Categories:
drawling, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Rhyme
These Butterfly Kisses
...THESE BUTTERFLY KISSES
I cannot tell what happened
But I heard somebody telling me:
“They vanished in thin air”
“My butterfly kisses are broken wings”
“I know no butterfly kisses”
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Categories:
drawling, abortion, abuse, boyfriend, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Turning Blaze, Response To John Fleming and Ye All
...Am I from thine amity pleas'd,
So tell thou how in me eris'd
Of Joy the sorrow and the dawn,
Of Beauty mistery and frown:
'Tis sung in here the sighing sail,
The waves,the sea- forsake!
Will ...
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Categories:
drawling, beauty, caregiving, dark, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Change
...(A Paul Callus co-write)
The tempest came from nowhere; it took me by surprise
The wind and drawling thunder tried hard to quell my cries.
The darkness felt so heavy, my heart dejected, blue
T...
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Categories:
drawling, change, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
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