Categories:
extrication, courage, education,
Form: Verse
American Revolution Reaffirmed
...Our Revolution sought limitations
On imposition of regulations,
But supplications met deprecation
And castigations not reformation.
Such condescension sparked protestation
And contemplation of...
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Categories:
extrication, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, history,
Form: Rhyme
Junk
...Today is the day.
The day to put in records.
The day of extrication.
The day of riddance.
My albums are clean.
Swept them before dawn.
My archives are clean.
I reviewed it down.
The photo...
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Categories:
extrication, break up,
Form: Free verse
Extrication
...An attic full holding me earthbound
thunderous applause without virtue of sound
looming overhead no room left for expansion
Wall to wall misery held without ransom
Offering no absolution a gl...
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Categories:
extrication, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Regressive Progress
...In Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:
Change doesn't happen
without planning
This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
...
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Categories:
extrication, fear, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
I Don'T Rap Like Rappers Or Write Like Poets
...i don't write poems like poets
or rap like rappers
i flow boats like rowers
talk what matters
wasn't raised on council estates
still a victim to down force weight
gravity pulls seeds from trees...
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Categories:
extrication, how i feel, me,
Form: Rhyme
Tangled
...
that once came more simply.
What of love, when all must
magically work together?
When we fell in its quest
did we wish to be cut free
or lifted and untangled
so we may stay or walk away
once more whole?
(Inspired by Stephanie Deshpande's painting "Extrication")...
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Categories:
extrication, love,
Form: Free verse
Retrieving Reprieve
...He was caught in a mine of a mind in reprisals admonitions and self-reproach
Had been looking for diamonds and gold but then the escape shaft caved in
Gotten shafted and the stake stuck like a...
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Categories:
extrication, confidence, conflict, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Can'T Make a Monk Out of Me
...A plush monk’s life was my designation
Before the process of dissolution
Then back to now, fast extrication
From enforced seizure and desecration
A simple life it was for me
Amid fertile land,...
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Categories:
extrication, history,
Form: Light Verse
Pecking Sounds
...Pecking Sounds
For several days, I was both annoyed and worried. Annoyed by the pecking sounds; worried over possible damage to my house by something that I could not readily figure out. I suspecte...
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Categories:
extrication, adventure, animal, hilarious, nature,
Form: Narrative
Sonnet 5
...Now comes the day when thou art no more here
To prattle with me rend’ring soft delight
As thy heart knew that mellow joy, clear,
Untainted free from world’s many a plight.
Transcending din of t...
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Categories:
extrication, love,
Form: Sonnet
Avariciously She Wanted To Be a Poetess
...Two Poems
Avariciously she wanted to be a poetess
Cryptic colloquial eloquent words possessed
Often elusive eschewed from the theme
Limericks and rhymes avoiding etymology means
Sh...
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Categories:
extrication, humorous, poems,
Form: I do not know?
Salieri Soliloquy
...You give me the desire
a love for composing
word symphonies
yet you give me
the cross of mediocrity
to bear
day by day to know
there are others
who are prodigies
and I must hear
the thun...
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Categories:
extrication, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Kitty In a Soup
...Kitty In A Soup
Our town has its usual vertical ups and downs and horizontals
One day a gray kitten still finding its way
Discovered a long cylindrical corridor
A seeming hallway or in its tin...
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Categories:
extrication, adventure, animal, cat, cry,
Form: Free verse
Extrication
...i’m talkin’ to you through a screen, it hurts that i can’t touch you,
too much space in between, i wish i had a time machine,
not to pick **** up where we left off, just to wipe our slate clean,
i...
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Categories:
extrication, absence, break up, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
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