Light That Lights All Llghts
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Primordial begs a question. Precursor answers,
prior request. Clarity necessitates perspective
anchored. Pre-Genesis /\ Chapter 1: Verse 1 of
it being OUR EARTH-- / \ Verse 3 is the F...
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Categories:
elaborately, death, destiny, mother son,
Form: Concrete
Versailles
...In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.
It’s a five-star bash at the palace of Ve...
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Categories:
elaborately, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy,
Form: Free verse
Far Beyond Hereafter Part One
...Team leader Renee peered out
of her faux gold window around a pulsing Friday noon.
“Almost like we’re puppets of each other down there.
Maybe everywhere?”
Albert, her partner and co-worker were...
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Categories:
elaborately, city, color, dream, humor,
Form: Prose
Day One of the Festival
...The table set
just us three
My wife, my son
and me
A masterful meal
spirits raised high
How about a song now
Let's give it a try
One tune l...
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Categories:
elaborately, celebration, happiness, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Dappled
...Dappled dawn slowly raised its shade
As brindled pit-bull puppies played
Patiently the fisherman hooks the mottled rose-dotted trout
Peppiness in his laughter rings out
Lazily the varicolore...
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Categories:
elaborately, bird, daffodils, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Hellbent
...people dont always reveal
exposing their curled horns sharpened
towards the sky
elaborately torn or newly shown
wings
gigantic over towering
guiding their soul
who says there are ...
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Categories:
elaborately, addiction, analogy, angel, dark,
Form: Free verse
Make America Healthy Again
...Does
Make America Great Again
Also mean
Make America Straight Again?
How about
Make America White Again?
Maybe
Make America
AntiFeminist Again?
Another possibility,
Make America
Ch...
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Categories:
elaborately, america, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Political Verse
Did They Have a Bad Childhood
...Ruffians badger and bother the rest of the world, without care.
I see them coming with their mean attitude and try not to stare.
I wonder who has hurt them so badly, that they want to hurt others.
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Categories:
elaborately, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Co-Traveler
...It was one of the red-eye flights I got,
Everything went dark as we started to depart.
He seemed pleasant in his appearance,
I exhibited my great scholarly brilliance.
In matters of poetry, scien...
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Categories:
elaborately, dream,
Form: Verse
What a Fella
...What a fella what a lovely fella happened their way
What a generous fella to kindly offer all these gifts and his services for free
He was of the mind to give them some of his grub
But he waited u...
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Categories:
elaborately, character, england, games, humanity,
Form: I do not know?
Chimera
...Perched atop the vaulted arches of Notre Dame
Exquisitely carved spouts are not angelic hosts
To receive the embattled, sinful souls seeking
Entrance to the cathedral, Paris's most holy,
Clos...
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Categories:
elaborately, christian, irony, religion, religious,
Form: Sonnet
Three of My Halloween Costumes
...Gypsy Fortune Teller costume revealed my most dazzling self
Wearing hot pink, silver, gold, purples, and flaming oranges.
Carrying a crystal ball, tarot cards and runes.
An elaborately embroidered...
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Categories:
elaborately, halloween,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Bold and the Brave
... He was a bold color artist, painting bright
pigments of rose blossom pink,
tangerine treats and peacock waves, just right;
occasionally working in pen and ink.
He was a brave thin...
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Categories:
elaborately, art, people, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
And Then It Happened Part 3
...AND THEN IT HAPPENED Part 3
She invited me to join her. I wondered what was on her mind. As we entered her suite, the glitz and glamor of a celebrity lifestyle overwhelmed me. She hurriedly sh...
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Categories:
elaborately, fun,
Form: Free verse
The Bridge I Burned
...THE BRIDGE I BURNED
I burned the bridge behind me, the one elaborately built,
The one of all my failures, the one of sins and guilt.
A bridge I thought would carry me to a life of bliss,
A brid...
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Categories:
elaborately, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
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