A fool in love
...I guess I'm a fool,
a fool that has fallen in love,
with a soul so beautiful,
but the fate is rather dreadful,
it was not meant to be,
but a speck of hope that seems to be the world to me,
tho...
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Categories:
expressible, crush, feelings, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Data Delivered to Your Inbox
...Black lives matter. Me too.
Not my president. Give peace a chance.
Luck runs out. I like immigrants.
Power must be challenged by power.
Equal and opposite reactions.
God is the answer. Love ...
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Categories:
expressible, city, death, history, peace,
Form: Free verse
Appearance Feels Like Freedom
..."Appearance"
Seemingly a better
Word for expressing
The not expressible
No-separation..
Not-two appears as two..
But then:
Blue appears as red
Is the same paradoxical
Exp...
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Categories:
expressible, community, friendship, irony, truth,
Form: Light Verse
Covid Cashier
...Quiet, dawn, Covid.
Biggest accomplishment yesterday: buying toilet paper.
Thanking the young cashier for doing her job.
Feeling a little sick, wearing my mask and gloves,
Spring oblivious to the...
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Categories:
expressible, fear, nature, poetry, smile,
Form: Free verse
One On One With God
...The spirit of God is in the words to make generally known
Of the mind that touch the heart to express and proclaim
The mystery and to establish the existence of words;
Widely, deeply, expressible,...
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Categories:
expressible, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Copper Roses
...Love is fake and hate is real, some people say,
And I know why they feel and see it this way.
Hate is base, more available, and far more accessible
Easily expressible, you can hardly fail be succ...
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Categories:
expressible, encouraging, hate, hope, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Aging As a Spiritual Practice
...Beautiful summer day. You know you're gonna die
that's why you know no joy.
Obsessed with self, there is no answer
unless religion, tv, stories, sports matter.
So what if nothing rhymes and I don...
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Categories:
expressible, age, anger, death, joy,
Form: Verse
Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful As These Purposes
...Imperfect world, purposeless person.
I retired to pursue perfection
learn jazz tunes, woody and herbaceous plants,
read every inch of English literature,
Scientific American and Foreign Affairs...
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Categories:
expressible, bird, blue, day, death,
Form: Verse
Max Joy Marries Minnie Pain
...Kissed his student.
Punched his friend.
Accused her lover.
What if China's navy asserts control where our navy also patrols?
Should we concede the South China Sea? Not on your life! Or maybe.
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Categories:
expressible, age, cancer, friend, joy,
Form: Verse
Either Way
...If a poem or essay can end with a conclusion or its opposite, either one,
Can it be of any use to anyone?
Do the discrepancies and disparities, dualities and densities, reflect only
the de...
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Categories:
expressible, day, evil, heart, kid,
Form: Verse
Where the Ruins Make the Willows Weep
...sitting together on that remarkable hill
in the blazing sun light
with the bees buzzing in the circle of trees
we come back to this place for a reason
sharing the notion that we know exactly what th...
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Categories:
expressible, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Assessments
...Expressible emotions divide, enumerate, humanities mind.
written by Cecil Hickman
Sponsor Constance La France ~ A Rambling Poet ~
Contest Name "One Amazing Line"...
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Categories:
expressible, confusion, devotion, education, history,
Form: Monoku
A Business
...A business is clever, handsome and polite.
Linguistic, apologetic but tactics are behind.
Mathematically and politically he is honest mind,
Dramatics, gymnastics and generatic bright.
Pleasant, t...
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Categories:
expressible, business, education, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet