To My Pest-Friend
...You are my pest-friend,
As you may not know,
And I deem it my pleasure and privilege
To write this panegyric of you.
Mostly chocolate brown in complexion;
And very rarely, if ever, you produce...
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Categories:
etherized, funny, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Vowel-Consonant
...Awaking to exceptional day, I noticed obviously gross, uncut grass,
all glaringly exhibiting growth in degrees ordinarily considered unusual.
My ambition to erase the ill look of my ugly duckling a...
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Categories:
etherized, write, time,
Form: Free verse
Here I Stand
...Here I stand
Where the golden image rise
A Babel
Bowed before its feet
And music like eternity
Etherized the skies.
The cost, the cost, the cost of it
The surging pain of love's betrayal
I cannot put...
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Categories:
etherized, faith, self, longing, self,
Form: Free verse
Living Under the Curfew
...The beast inside is etherized,
Patiently slumbering in a trance
Hatching conspiracies of dark intent,
Digesting the prospect of a secret break,
Possessed and obsessed in its consuming intrigue.
But t...
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Categories:
etherized, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
Grabbing Colors With Vincent
...Running fast thru Autumn’s dream, Vincent-bright in village winter’s light
Topaz-treed streets, eaves-filled , singing with saffron and gold,
A Rocky Mountain cold cornflower sky over English hills
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Categories:
etherized, art, dream, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For Plane Take Off
...Dozing before take-off. Patients etherized and unable,
Evening spread into the distance
Silly solitaire cards spread on pull-down table.
I hate toves with imagined importance
Giving direction...
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Categories:
etherized, allegorypeople, me, people, silver,
Form: Epic
In the Dentist's Chair
...IN THE DENTIST’S CHAIR
Lean back and just relax
Put on these protective glasses please
Injection - this will not hurt at all
He says in fluent dentist-speak
Man with goggles and m...
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Categories:
etherized, adventurefootball, me,
Form: Free verse
Madame Rapoza
...Take this card,
take any card,
and know your fate,
or discard,
both theory and invention,
my reality and yours,
ignorance and substitution,
illusion, and delusion...
Is your card not The He...
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Categories:
etherized, mystery
Form: Free verse
Contemplating Kierkegaard
...I too believe
Flowers have more purposes than the bringing of fruit
So that all of me is not known
Though dig to the bedrock of my root
And I have feared that I shall go away
Before the golden f...
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Categories:
etherized, philosophyme, sick,
Form: Free verse
Crescent Mourning
...At twilight I sang
through veils of darkness,
as moon turned heads
with her crescent mourning,
and yesterdays permeate
within this etherized rhythm,
the metronome swung
a lifetime within a cr...
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Categories:
etherized, forgiveness
Form: Blank verse
Avacado, Amoretto
...Silently bathed in avocado,
you soaked in the fragrance of a blanket
At midday, crunched your teeth
into something sweet and yellow,
no flower still no pretty petal;
I’ll make...
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Categories:
etherized, happiness, yellow,
Form: Sestina