I Am The Blueprint of My Own Quiet Ruin
...The door swells in its frame each winter,
paint curling like old tongues —
still you press it open with a finger,
leaving soft dents in the wood.
Inside, the walls hum from hidden wires;
plast...
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Categories:
droops, emotions, extended metaphor, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Blizzard Wizard
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To the skies...cries of have we sinned..the seasons spinned...winter grinned as before it’s really beginned...spring’s been sneakily binned..
That bitter wind does cheekily blow...delivers tingl...
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Categories:
droops, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Tears in Vacant Rooms
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Written: March 05, 2025
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As the final petal droops
upon quivering leaves,
while the soul begins to decay
akin to the evening lights
fading in...
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Categories:
droops, analogy, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
A Vine In Winter
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The dry stem of a lonesome vine of vivacity,
now painfully curled, rooted frozen,
entwining the desiccated verdant veins,
sways chilled in the winter wind of desolation.
The sleeping passio...
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Categories:
droops, analogy, change, depression,
Form: Free verse
Wringing Out the Rain
...A squirrel got into the homestead,
it picked a lock with a dry thorn.
The smell of dank fur clung.
We carried small talk above our heads.
Nothing put away but still dangles.
Denim droops, snag...
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Categories:
droops, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Soulmate
...Teasing eyes that I can never get out
In my reveries, they haunt forever
Voluminous euphoric feelings sprout
And engross my musings without sever
Spend time gazing at the infinite highs
Your e...
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Categories:
droops, love,
Form: Sonnet
Petals of Pain
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Pale pink peonies, I carried on the day we said, "I do."
Not the innocence of white Queen Anne's Lace of spring,
nor romantic stems of red roses on a sultry summer day.
In all the years share...
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Categories:
droops, death, flower,
Form: Free verse
Black Dog
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Its raven skin follows without a 'woof,'
no bark no bite,
darker than a shadow in sunlight.
It reflects in the mirror,
staring with 'Edgar Allan Poe,' ebony eyes.
At dawn it's at the bedsi...
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Categories:
droops, analogy, depression,
Form: Free verse
Sunflower Enthralls
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Suffused with sunburst horizon’s spectral galE,
Unfurling the placid petals, the fiery floral sheeN,
Never droops while leaning toward the sun hoT,
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Categories:
droops, beautiful, flower,
Form: Acrostic
A kiss
...You tremble in my arms,
my head droops..
as hearts falls into an abyss
oh, if only it was so for us
love always knows.
Wondering now,
what's in store for two lips
hope lives in a quick f...
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Categories:
droops, kiss,
Form: Rhyme
Rain Came
...A Summer rain came,
heads ducked,
hoods, hats and umbrellas
transformed into helmets.
all walked hunched below raindrops,
all looked only at the ground.
One little girl, dark hair flowing,
l...
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Categories:
droops, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mozart Requiem
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Written: February 13, 2023
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An anathema for,
pilose nettle burns,
an art form of unstable feathers,
tropes across the ivory cuticle...
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Categories:
droops, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, music,
Form: Free verse
NEW YEAR’S EVE 2023
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Journey Journal Page
NEW YEAR’S EVE 2023
For Ann
Here on the verge
The old year droops
With weary sighs
As distant highs
Fade in odd scoop
Can joy emerge?
Here on the verge
Last...
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Categories:
droops, new year,
Form: Rhyme
I Resolve
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**not to start lying in wait to exact revenge on those
who cruise down my little street late at night
playing outrageously loud rap music,
jarring me awake and sorely testing my Christianity~...
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Categories:
droops, new year,
Form: Free verse
The Weeping Willow
...You planted a weeping willow
The day we said "I do"
You said it was a symbol
Of our love so strong and true
You watered the weeping willow
With your tender care and smile
You said it was a pr...
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Categories:
droops, death, depression, earth day,
Form: Free verse
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