August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories:
extremity, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Truth of Life
...Some people assume and say
they bring nothing on their birth
and take nothing on their way
when they leave this earth
But I strongly oppose
as I observed with perception
it isn’t odd as yo...
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Categories:
extremity, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
My Type of Jealousy
...I’m jealous of successful individuals
I’m afraid people talk behind my back and act like I’m the fool
I’m envious of happy-go-lucky couples
I need to feel joy towards them, but how when I’m this s...
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Categories:
extremity, angst, jealousy, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Age of Aquarius
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Time was when in a golden age begun
a boy was I and a vision was she,
and at the heart of her constellation
gazed I upon its infinite beauty.
I vowed the ends of the earth to follow
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Categories:
extremity, childhood, first love, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Middle
...In youth, vacations lent my Summers wings
and Christmas gilded wintertime in gold.
I've aged (a bit) and love my Falls and Springs
for landing in between too hot or cold.
In time, I've learned it...
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Categories:
extremity, age,
Form: Sonnet
The Broken Bond
...The sea of vacillation
The intense aura of gloom
The acute fever of desolation
The gaudy flowers that didn't bloom
The essence of emotions piercing my heart
My transmogrification into a veh...
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Categories:
extremity, addiction, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Rhyme Royal
The Apocalypse
...The ocean of vacillation..
The intense aura of gloom...
The essence of emotion piercing my heart...
The extremity of unrequited love...
The promotion of my quintessential idiosyncrasies ...
The ...
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Categories:
extremity, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Restful Sleep
...Desmond Tutu strove hard to battle desultory extremity?
Humanity's hurdle is to sustain and esteem diversity.
One day, He saw a "Whites Only" sign on the exterior bath gate.
Said, "What i...
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Categories:
extremity, analogy, appreciation, discrimination, meaningful,
Form: Epitaph
My Affinity
...I shall live the rest of my life in serenity
With beautiful thoughts filling my mind,
A desire to love and be loved is my affinity.
Some may say this lofty goal an extremity
No doubt...
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Categories:
extremity, celebrity, integrity, life, love,
Form: Villanelle
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
...August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who co...
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Categories:
extremity, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
A Tribute To Soldiers
...Lofty glory be to the soldiers
Who committedly protect the land -
It's people and the line of culture ,
Of the time-run ,running and future ,
Woods, rivers, fields and stretch of s...
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Categories:
extremity, courage, soldier,
Form: Lyric
Clouds Dark
...Sky murky
A biting wind blows furiously
Swirling about ghostly
Whistling against the extremity
As dark clouds show
With drifts through
Begin to form anew
Ensuing cloudburst view...
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Categories:
extremity, nature,
Form: Free verse
Augenblick
...Augenblick
By David J Walker
The edge the border
The verge the skirt
The last words heard before
The brink
The perimeter the periphery
The point the bound
A wink
All...
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Categories:
extremity, allegory, death,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day
...(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one...
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Categories:
extremity, abuse, adventure, angst, good
Form: Free verse
Flowing Thoughts
...FLOWING THOUGHTS
When love flows free,
In abundance,
And you feel all the earths
Chains have been released,
The time has come
For exultation!
Rejoice now,
For tomorrow may be
Too late, a...
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Categories:
extremity, love,
Form: Prose
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