Narcissus
...Echo, you dizzy tramp,
I’m searching for my soul;
Echo, I won’t white picket fence my heart
Inside your Jackie bag with brown rusty nails,
I’m searching for my soul,
Mirror images from the tra...
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Categories:
exfoliate, angst, image, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Between Reality and Understanding
...A thought arose...
In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!
While S...
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Categories:
exfoliate, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse
Lucubrations Fuels Ebullience
...Lucubrations fuels ebullience
Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
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Categories:
exfoliate, 12th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Skins
...Age 10 slough. Age twenty slough.
Age thirty slough.
Age forty and fifty slough
and so on.
Age sixty was a mighty shedding,
the polished scales
rattling in the very teeth of death.
Wriggling...
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Categories:
exfoliate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Each Thing a Dark
...Obviated by passion
I could as much apply each person
Exfoliate my heart.
Such tormented fragments
Seeking reconciliation therein,
Where all refrains come subject to warm
And, as my oath pre...
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Categories:
exfoliate, birth, change, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
Down the Plughole
...Down The Plughole by Melanie Barrow
‘Stay clean-
It’s good hygiene’
Lessons from plagues long past
Lessons now re-learned fast
On a pedestal
Agai...
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Categories:
exfoliate, image, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Imagination
...Hence, I plunge into imagination to encumber suffering,
Athwart are the horizons wider than my pride,
I, one but three, such a symbolic trope, the Trinity,
A gorgeous exaltation gorged into voraci...
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Categories:
exfoliate, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
True Cleaning
...What you feed will surely grow
Take it from someone who truly knows
Too bad you can’t exfoliate your insides with some microdermabrasion
That kills all your pride
Stripping away the degenerate ...
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Categories:
exfoliate, identity, life, vanity, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Lucubrations Fuels Ebullience
...Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
("FAKE") facade, Oriel sincere
...
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Categories:
exfoliate, birth, celebration, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Afterglow
...Autumn afterglow
Amazed at autumn's splendour
maple leaves rest in grandeur,
It's a stunning morning twilight
compliments the garden vividly bright,
Yellow and brown, winds sway
Cr...
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Categories:
exfoliate, beautiful, blessing, day,
Form: Rhyme
The Paint Movers
...The Paint Movers.
The old boat sits in the dry dock. Layers of shabby paint covering the vessel. The boat wears a mask of magnanimity, like a woman about to apply a mud pack.
The old boat has a...
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Categories:
exfoliate, boat, space,
Form: Free verse
How To Express Love
...Should I buy you a novel perfume?
Woody and mysteriously macho
Then choke on its lingering fumes
Ceaselessly, my sneezes will echo
Should I bake you a cake?
Recipe? Sugar, flour, vanilla, rais...
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Categories:
exfoliate, humor, valentines day,
Form: Sonnet
My Body Is Your Blank Canvas
...i want you to know,
my body is your blank canvas
paint me with the manicured strokes of your brush,
bathe me in the lipstick red of your infinite touch
exfoliate my highly charged tac...
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Categories:
exfoliate, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Fragrant Touch
...(Dedication: For Regina Riddle)
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Tree caterpillar crawling
Strong windy debris;
Blown over the bough
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Violet blossoms
Vine decorations dancing;
Sun and...
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Categories:
exfoliate, blessing,
Form: Haiku
Duplicitous Eyes
...The effervescent glow my smitten eyes ingratiate
The duplicitous shadow your intentions obfuscate
The sparkling twinkle my collateral dreams exfoliate
The superficial glare my residual doubts accent...
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Categories:
exfoliate, beauty,
Form: Couplet
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