A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,...
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Categories:
flagless, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Place Not Meant To Be: 13
...#13: Close One, & Cigars
To the accords of The Book of Life ... cheers,
loose ends of the created stoic string
crisscross a heedless sea of empty tears.
In the facade of guilt, all ...
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Categories:
flagless, change, forgiveness, friendship, hope,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Lowering the Union Jack, 1962
...Like love ones come to view a parting ship
Before the anchor lifts
And its iron lips prow the salty waves
We journeyed from our busy day and penny pay
And the indifferent utterances to our cause
We c...
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Categories:
flagless, history,
Form: Free verse
Nine-Eleven Recovered
...He, on loan from faith, stared skyward
Eyes hoisted flagless where the boom broke
And saw through that window forward
Coming, what no imagination could evoke.
Some men like fledglings have learnt t...
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Categories:
flagless, death, history, sympathy, allah,
Form: Rhyme
A Belated Welcome Home
...Written in 1981 after attending a Viet Nam veterans welcome home parade.
They march in step without a cadence call
and wear old uniforms, if they still fit,
recalling days when they were standin...
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Categories:
flagless, warmen, march, men,
Form: Villanelle