ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug...
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Categories:
focusses, culture, depression, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Damage Control
...slowly he picks away at the shell of his swathing
enough shrouded persona
the charade had to retreat
masquerades are for fools
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Categories:
focusses, courage,
Form: Free verse
Neighbours
...A resilient addict with corona
Believes he is immune as a stoner
Puts Mary Jane on the mask
And Jimmy Beam in his flask
Fortifies his deluded persona
Quite soon though his supply is ...
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Categories:
focusses, addiction,
Form: Limerick
Undercover Operation
...He chafes the prayer beads against his wrist
Has died lesser deaths of exasperated rage
It’s not forgiveness he seeks but purifying anger
To feel the rawness of emotion he focusses
On undef...
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Categories:
focusses, anger,
Form: Free verse
My Heart My Camera
...I carry a camera deep in my heart,
Snapping pictures of love dressed in red,
Pictures of you stored away in my mind,
Pictures that simply transcend,
The image we see with colourful mist,
Ra...
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Categories:
focusses, introspection, love, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain
A Secretive Beetle With a Suitcase Jumping Around On a Train
...Tortoiseshell tulips often grow at left angles to the moon and are otherwise adjusted to a sealed lip of ground. But a curled canopy of shredded wheat and oats make even the wildest of gardens bloom....
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Categories:
focusses, baseball,
Form: I do not know?