I AM POETRY
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I AM POETRY
‘In the Beginning
was the Word’
light penetrated dark
sound big-banged birthed
three in One creating
~ P o e t r y ~
I am this poised superlative
unchangi...
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Categories:
exotically, allegory, character, creation, deep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
NEW YEARS BAKE OFF
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My Greek grandmother and godmother, cousins,
My grandma baked and cooked homely,
My Nona, my godmother exotically,
Each one perfect, one couldn’t fault either,
Their husbands, playing backgam...
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Categories:
exotically, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Critterature: The Peculiar Plight of the Poor Pitiable Octopus
...To the ancient Norse he was Kraken
With a mean inclination,
And the Greeks called him Gorgon
With the same reputation.
But as monster of myths
He's been wrongly miscast,
So I'm here to shed new...
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Categories:
exotically, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Stuck in the Middle with You
...When you are alone,
you look at the others
and think
that one had too much ...
time to think
and that one …
well, you surmise,
they are on the brink
of some precipitous ...
evaluati...
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Categories:
exotically, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Muse Speaks
...When universal trauma lurks
with upper hand,
To know paranoid loss
is to fear unjust death
of much-loved reputation
compassion's robust integrity
and pleasure's self-respect.
When unitarian ...
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Categories:
exotically, death, health, integrity, love,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Sacreddancing Out Public
...We thrive finding freedom
to speak out
to dance around
and sacred shout
to sing full-stop gospel
turn'em out
Outside our secluded cells
of dominant evolution
and protagonist predation theo...
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Categories:
exotically, dance, health, humor, inspiration,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Little Jackie's Christmas Surprise
...Little Jack Horner was sent to the corner
For sticking his thumb in the Christmas plum pie.
The guests were also not pleased when he sneezed on the peas,
Or sang nursery rhyme ballads while fondli...
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Categories:
exotically, christmas, humor,
Form: Light Verse
When Coempathic
...When I feel compassion
with my positive needs
for love
health
trust
safety,
When I feel compassion
for my fears
wounds
negative fortress wants
to overpower perceived threats
against my e...
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Categories:
exotically, health, humor, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
A Forties Woman
...She was a forties woman thrown into another era
We had no idea that she wanted to be a para
She was dressed exotically with a veil on her face
Her hair would have reveled an alien’s in space
Sh...
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Categories:
exotically, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Buddy the Flying Dog
...A cross between a Great Dane and a German shepherd of course.
Dumped on us a few months ago; Buddy is the size of a small horse.
He has big ears and exotically interesting markings of black and whi...
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Categories:
exotically, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sensual Synergy
...I think I shall always see
a creative tension
within aesthetic equity
not just Earth-focused beauty
but also sensory health
of intimately true
integrity
When I feel painfully
non-eroticall...
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Categories:
exotically, community, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Ricochet
...My old life seems monotonous to me now, but I allow it was fine then,
As cobalt skies allow warm butterscotch rays, to linger in the glen.
I worked through those golden days, but most evenings st...
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Categories:
exotically, beautiful, color, happiness, life,
Form: Couplet
Benjamin
...It’s a garden of roses
Sweet sweet smells of Jasmine and lavender
It never rains,
it never pours
it drizzles patiently
It drizzles romantically
I have my garden
I have my Eden
Red roses...
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Categories:
exotically, death,
Form: Free verse
The Truth About Canada
...It is with stealth that sometimes
words make their way to the mouth
usually, for a stranger's safekeeping
who unsuspecting walks around
slows down and talks to you as if
hearing for the first...
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Categories:
exotically, adventure, allusion, longing, people,
Form: Rhyme
I Felt So Out of Place
...The sunshine and singing birds, awoke me that fine day;
And warmth caressed my face, as the wrens began to play.
I stretched luxuriantly in my bed, while smiling broadly,
At the gaiety of beauti...
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Categories:
exotically, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery,
Form: Couplet
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