Genius
...It lives
in the margins
betwixt and between
Visible
yet fleeting
a light once unseen
When reaching
to touch
its magic forestalls
Lost to that
moment
— posterity calls
(Dreamsleep:...
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Categories:
forestalls, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Light That Lights All Lights
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Light that Lights All Lights
In the dim darkness of the night
When the moon is draped with grey clo...
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Categories:
forestalls, faith, light, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
READ: Why the Wherefores and Wherewithals of my OPEN and WORKING
...Poeticism Way Off Base
I Wrote Below and may have been OVERLOOKED; BEARS READING AND UNDERSTANDING
The deletion of one's post will then have a direct impact on one's totality of posts being r...
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Categories:
forestalls, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Poeticism Way Off Base
...The deletion of one's post will then have a direct impact on one's totality of posts being reduced by that action, in equal numbers,
where the relevancy will be the act of adding a post to one's t...
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Categories:
forestalls, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Songs of Nature COS No 9: AABB
...Of feet crinkles crispy snaps with your mate,
as the ebbing tides that breaths winter's fate.
Echoes summons a dusty field in white,
closets freed skis and sleds still not quite right.
Few sunflo...
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Categories:
forestalls, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Men Without Chests
...The scholars say man is innately good.
He just needs training to do what he should.
Education will his nature improve,
and most of his imperfections remove.
God is not needed to help man break ...
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Categories:
forestalls, character, corruption, education, god,
Form: Rhyme
Factual
...Fearless agile sprinter,
Forges ferociously,
Fights on unrelenting,
Feline wild carnivore,
Faces its prey boldly,
Forestalls attack quickly,
Forward it advances.
May 25, 2022....
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Categories:
forestalls, animal,
Form: Pleiades
Viewpoint
...Your viewpoint can be comforting,
Or your viewpoint can be troubling:
Either comforting as a safeguard,
Or as troubling as a canard.
A safeguard tunnels Saints through sin.
A canard tunnels si...
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Categories:
forestalls, anxiety, bible, encouraging, god,
Form: Rhyme
Tomorrow Is Today Before It Becomes Yesterday
...The sun is the sun
It rises we run
When it turns the nighttime to day
It's hot when it's cold
And never grows old
As our time slips quickly away
The sun remains the sun
The wind is the wind...
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Categories:
forestalls, change,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn's Wink At Winter
...VIDEO/AUDIO on YouTube above. NOTE: On the video; double-click to enlarge, and/or, right-click for the drop-down menu and click on 'Loop' for auto-repeat.
Autumn's Wink at Winter
Stares at the ...
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Categories:
forestalls, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Drools
...Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Dogs of course but that also applies to fools
No biting at all
Barking forestalls
Acting puppyish can only lead to drools...
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Categories:
forestalls, pets,
Form: Limerick
One Last Tear
...When the crying seems done
and there is nothing left
When the sorrow has won
and your heart is bereft
When your reasoning fails
to accept what is true
When the torture prevails
and there...
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Categories:
forestalls, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Life As a Tree
...LIFE AS A TREE
A tree stays rooted in the same place,
its shadow forestalls the passing of time
It takes what's needed from the earth
and explores existence as a tree.
What secrets ...
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Categories:
forestalls, tree,
Form: Free verse
Asinine Alcohol
...Asinine alcohol alters me into a paper sniper
Ready to bounce and pounce on any challenger
Who dares to dance his lance in the path of my pied piper
Primed to civilize and sanitise viewpoints of ...
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Categories:
forestalls, poems,
Form: Free verse
Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
...POTW 28 January 2018
Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her planet. ...
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Categories:
forestalls, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
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