Dozing the Depths
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Written: February 26, 2024
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Our slumber, a rock falling swiftly overnight,
Embalms serene, steady air that breathes.
It shapes our d...
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Categories:
embalms, appreciation, dream, sleep,
Form: Sonnet
The Waltz Of The Werewolves
...At high noontime, the tires are burning in the streets
The sound of barking dogs is everywhere; the cats of hell smell
Like never showered rats who are locked up in death row cells
Where the air d...
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Categories:
embalms, anxiety, deep, dream, evil,
Form: Free verse
The final letter
...my mind does not understand
when you are sending me feelings
through the mill of the mind
no matter how loud that would be,
wouldn't focus the world
twenty four hours of bookmarks
left in ...
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Categories:
embalms, allusion, art, birth, confidence,
Form: Free verse
The Photograph
...I don’t recognize myself;
this is not uncommon,
but he seems to me like a pale root
dragged-up to be exposed to sooty clouds;
one raw and unearthed by quarrying shadows.
A grainy tinge shades va...
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Categories:
embalms, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Come From the East
...Come from the East, they tracked a star and gave a king their gold.
Then leaving by another way, warned in a dream, foretold.
Another sought him - Rachel weeps; she will not be consoled.
Then fr...
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Categories:
embalms, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Veracious Rover
...Hundred million K' away neighbour, Mars
Hovers bolognese smeared brother, ice brick
Fondness for possibles although bizarre
Intoxicate screw loose hair brained psychic
Fro...
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Categories:
embalms, animal, baptism, character, crazy,
Form: Sonnet
What Love Means
...I knew what love is from my mom, my first sensation
Before I could grasp its meaning, I sensed that emotion
I enjoyed it in breadth and depth as a babe from my mom
She wiped away my aches with...
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Categories:
embalms, love, mom, sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Foreign Hitherto
...Pushing cascades crest bastion, stomach lost
Largesse spread wafts orange blossom bridal
Bestows clouds let go to marshmallow moss
Fearless flight crinoline crash vertical
In ...
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Categories:
embalms, analogy, animal, baptism, drink,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
embalms, holocaust,
Form: Shape
Bring Back the Horse and Buggy
...Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, per...
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Categories:
embalms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fragments 10
...FRAGMENTS 10
As if each verse makes good sense
This tacit bluff and sly masquerade
Embalms even lifeless still life
Beyond canvas or poignant picture
As a living mantra chant echoes
Or els...
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Categories:
embalms, change,
Form: Free verse
The Smidget Puggily and Her Prettisome Guru --
...THE SMIDGET PUGGILY AND HER PRETTISOME GURU --
Prettisome Guru engages in mystical arts;
Smoke is where my her energies lie;
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Categories:
embalms, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: O What a Way To Go They Say Locked In Lover's Arms
...Villanelle : O ! What a way to go They Say locked in Lover's Arms
O ! What a way to go They Say locked in lover's arms
Damned he or she be to live curséd life alone
Do we not all smother most...
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Categories:
embalms, bereavement, body, break up,
Form: Villanelle
Cold Heart - Monoku
...freezing rain embalms cold heart ~ pellucid shell fissures with warm beating
12/23/2017
Written for Monoku Contest
Sponser: Silent One...
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Categories:
embalms, emotions,
Form: Monoku
Perfumes You Use
...embalms
the living body
to make it sweet
for decay...
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Categories:
embalms, body, satire,
Form: Quatrain
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