Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories:
enclaves, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
Rosemary's Wedding
...This Sunday,
Before noon,
In my community church,
Wedding bells ring?
Rosemary,
Daughter of our land,
Weds!
Grand invitations
With ancestral R.S.V.P.
To be spoken with flutes,
Dressed i...
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Categories:
enclaves, social, society, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Stamp Collector
...In a world of paper, colors bright and bold,
Lives a stamp collector, with stories to be told.
With albums of wonder, and pages of dreams,
Each stamp a journey, or so it seems.
But shadows...
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Categories:
enclaves, world,
Form: Rhyme
Moving Out
...I was born in a muddy time
created to be a field of broken bricks.
Years wove their weeds.
There was hope,
enclaves of suburban heavens
old men in grim pubs spoke of.
You might think
that ...
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Categories:
enclaves, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pebbled Stream
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Rocks and streams from pebbled ruins,
Makes my feet moan and groan.
Water rushing,
Never flushing the dirt from years gone past!
Hurts my toes as I meander by.
A journey that con...
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Categories:
enclaves, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
When Will the World Open Its Eyes
...Three 'Palestinians' murder innocents
three Jewish women in cold blood
Then dance on rooftops and in the street
where fellow bullies and cowards nightly meet
When murdered themsel...
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Categories:
enclaves, innocence, jewish, murder, violence,
Form: Narrative
Like Rabbit In a Headlight Caught
...PTSD
Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From swea...
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Categories:
enclaves, anxiety, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Adieu
...Howl fir tree, the cedar is fallen
From this narrow lane of time,
from this uncertain strait and burdens
from these enclaves of wearying vanity fair,
from this time bound journeying amon...
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Categories:
enclaves, death, faith, family, grief,
Form: Elegy
Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945
...Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945
Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleash...
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Categories:
enclaves, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse
Replete With Colonial Army Spirits
...Though I posted the following poem
(B)efore (C)ovid, a sense
of glee donned my being
the notion arose to trumpet anew
said literary handily crafted endeavor.
Not far from here – Perkiomen V...
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Categories:
enclaves, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
When I Was Thirtysomething 1990s
...I saw a colonel in shadows arms dealing
I saw a chain of command red faced and reeling
I saw a disaster, the flight of the damned
I saw the wreckage strewn where it had slammed
I saw a gu...
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Categories:
enclaves, history, world,
Form: Couplet
The Art of Morning
...Upon rising, awakened by
ripening scent teasing my nose,
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes new life
and hope into my journey, so b...
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Categories:
enclaves, art, creation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stars and Moon Await
...Floating embers swivel golden flames go up
towards marked enclaves a midnight sky
skywards and onwards the stars and moon await...
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Categories:
enclaves, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Hiroshima Seventy Six Years Since August 6th 1945
...Hiroshima – seventy six years since August 6th, 1945
Once again, I take momentary pause
to contemplate horrific event
regarding unleashing atomic warfare
activating nuclear brinkmanship,
hence...
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Categories:
enclaves, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict,
Form: Free verse
If the Day Dawns, At Last - Yuliya
...If the day dawns at last that your heart bows to service,
acknowledges, longs to ‘pay forward’ past debts, I’ll praise God.
If you live Life of Grace (shown to people around you),
to mentors, your...
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Categories:
enclaves, appreciation, blessing, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
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