When Laughter Falters, the Forest Lifts
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When facing a wall of fear and pain, I stand.
Laughing, as hope and calm slip from my hand.
I climb tree branches, easily, swiftly and timely.
Each thread a steady beam that holds me upright.
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Categories:
encases, angst, anxiety, tree,
Form: Rhyme
SURREAL SWEETNESS IN MY FATHER-
...Oh Lord I admonish and acknowledge that I kiss
As such I embrace so
As I encases sorry
My emotions and praise around as
I hold you so long
You’re loving touch your breath in me
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Categories:
encases, analogy, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Mother Snap
...As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me.
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Categories:
encases, dark,
Form: Free verse
Wabi-Sabi
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Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.
Dreadful a...
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Categories:
encases, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Melancholy - Edvard Munch
...The tapestry of the indigo sky,
weaved with the strips of silver cloud,
merges with the still sea in the blues.
The dislodged boulders strewn as dry debris,
away from the waterfront of desire,
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Categories:
encases, art, nostalgia, sorrow,
Form: Ekphrasis
Screaming Silently
...I scream but you don’t hear me
No, please don’t go
The darkness encases me
Please just stay
I promise to change
I promise to try
But you don’t hear me
I cry but you don’t see me
Tears of si...
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Categories:
encases, break up, death, grief,
Form: Verse
Frozen Styli
...clear ice encases
sharp, fragile, gray branch styli
rain frees spring’s heralds...
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Categories:
encases, rain, spring, tree,
Form: Haiku
Thumbs Up
...Each finger performs forthwith
the assigned functions freely,
aware that interference imposed
and the suffocating attire slipped in,
can be unpleasantly chaotic,
disturbing the digital harmony,
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Categories:
encases, analogy, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Steel City
...Come to the hill named Flagstaff
Climb to the top and glimpse the emerald expanse
In summer when kites are flying and students laugh
Or the crystalline mounds in winter when tobogganers prance ...
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Categories:
encases, adventure, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Sleep
...Fiery Lotus blossoms in my mind,
as I sleep the sleep of the blessed artist,
pinwheels of spinlets of gold of finest finery,
gold from the dresses of pouting princesses,
that spin and blossom in ...
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Categories:
encases, feelings, perspective, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Blank verse
The Magic of Light
...I look up sometimes, when surrounded by green,
To things above, which have yet to be seen.
In the dark green forest, with twinkling light,
With golden rays, that fade into night.
Long canes of ...
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Categories:
encases, blessing, color, deep, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Beauty
...A colorless void encases a cardinal mind
Aesthetically stifled in a lonely heart
Its beauty therein has flown worlds apart
Entrusting true love, one day it’ll find
Until then, she’ll dwell in m...
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Categories:
encases, beauty,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
My Crust
...The subtle crust slowly encases around my beating heart
Where the layers of scars have formed a dance line
Stepping in time to the angel of deaths tambourine
Beckoning and persuading me to surrend...
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Categories:
encases, blessing, growth,
Form: Free verse
I Love Your Aura--
...The love I have for you is so;
Is that your heart and spirit shines so;
And if I never existed;
It's you that I shall consistence...
And I love your aura
And I love you aura
And I l...
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Categories:
encases, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, for
Form: Lyric
End of Summer
...End of summer arrives over the hill
with yielding flowers in little red buckets
half eaten pizza boxes discarded at will
theme parks lay vacant as open lockets
a Japanese lilacs gives one ...
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Categories:
encases, summer,
Form: Sonnet
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