Solitude
...The cruel laughter of the soul
Laments its flagellation by time,
Ebbed on the flattened stones of
A raped river.
Sorrow, an amanuensis of silence,
Reads the minutes of the last meeting
Held wit...
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Categories:
ebbed, introspection, philosophy, solitude,
Form: Free verse
When the Tide Remembers!
...The sea was a whisper before it was water,
cleaved through the wind.
I stepped into its silver mouth,
waves curling something pressing in
a wistful longing for a past I never knew.
Seagulls tr...
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Categories:
ebbed, emotions, longing, loss, love,
Form: Lyric
evanesce
...
( for Mom )
I’ll treasure dear while growing old
I clasped your hand til it waxed cold
a warm so gifted - touch and breath
thus torn from me by time and death
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Categories:
ebbed, analogy, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes Remain the Same
...I tried to speak, but the words were hollow,
My breath held tight to leeward of an echo.
You said goodbye, like the end would follow,
But I’m stuck dumb trying to swallow.
You're far away,
But...
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Categories:
ebbed, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
The Price of Power
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In dusk's silence, I wandered into the forest's recesses
Where ancient secrets slumber, and mystic powers weave
The Uba forest's murmured wonders, a realm of awe
Where powder-kissed mysteries aw...
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Categories:
ebbed, allegory, analogy, art, dark,
Form: Free verse
Rubicon crossing
...Soul’s
heartfelt
cry echoed
in the vast void,
of prayers unheard
by the heavens above,
so to resolve the impasse,
poised in the void of cessation,
the earth entity melded with sp...
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Categories:
ebbed, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
easter reading
...Easter Reading
In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with
its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up
here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and
had been blessed...
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Categories:
ebbed, art, best friend, blessing,
Form: ABC
Light
...the blood runs thin yet saturated with ideas
foreign and forgotten of home's idyllic nature
day's twinkle welcomed the white svelte blankets as
golden needles pierced deep through the fabric of he...
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Categories:
ebbed, hope,
Form: Suzette Prime
Country Pubs
...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..
Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled.
Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...
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Categories:
ebbed, culture,
Form: Free verse
Mulberry B
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At Arromanches Les Baines, the British used a massive artificial harbour, known as Mulberry Harbour( specifically Mulberry B) to facilitate the landing of troops and supplies after D Day. It was i...
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Categories:
ebbed, appreciation, dedication, hero, war,
Form: Free verse
When I Have to Open my Eye
...When I have to open my eyes, stop own
To remember what the dream is,at sour
Gigantic hot gulfs in heart blown
Where ebbed fathomless sea, feels sore.
The memories going on my mind,
That are fr...
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Categories:
ebbed, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Hospice Whispers
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(A lone elderly man holds his wife's hand, for maybe the last time, and whispers. As she sleeps)
Although your beauty may fade with age
My only love
Don't you dare leave me alone
Althoug...
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Categories:
ebbed, longing,
Form: Rhyme
SANDPIPER SONNET
...The briny’s ebbed and now far out of sight
And all around a vast expanse we see
With debris left by the retreating sea.
And stretch of golden sand, a real delight.
On rocks are barnacles there cl...
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Categories:
ebbed, animal, beach, food,
Form: Sonnet
How I met God
...attention internalised
thought flow rested
my heart was at peace
though earth life tested
I became a witness
motionless in vast space
doing nothing thus
I invoked God’s grace
fears and...
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Categories:
ebbed, god,
Form: Rhyme
Zen mode
...enraptured by the bliss current
thoughts automatically ceased
abiding in pure awareness
demons of our past were released
doing nothing save being still
we became holder of the flame
earthy de...
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Categories:
ebbed, joy, silence, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
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