The Watermark
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The mark of water is an empty void.
It washes clean.
It slips through fingers,
It has no cup, leaves no trace
For it is the primordial spark,
the fountainhead of life,
the matter and medium
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Categories:
fountainhead, angst, anxiety, water,
Form: Free verse
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
...Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment...
analogous to where
the fountainhead of knowledge
gushes forth unstoppable
as a result after Atlas shrugged
his head and shoulders
loo...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was ra...
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Categories:
fountainhead, art, conflict, death, flower,
Form: Lyric
Lao Tzu: English Translations III
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS III
The Valley Spirit
by Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The valley Spirit never runs dry,
the river to whom all waters run:
the Sp...
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Categories:
fountainhead, earth, heaven, mother, water,
Form: Free verse
Lao Tzu: English Translations II
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I
Be Like Water
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch
The highest virtue resembles water
because water unselfishly benefits all life,
then settles, without...
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Categories:
fountainhead, death, heaven, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Upon a dark and stormy night
...Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thu...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse
When urinating into the toilet bowl
...When urinating into the toilet bowl...
yours truly (me) could not help but notice
while living social at various residences
within Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
the following described phen...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 12th grade, crazy, house,
Form: Free verse
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...
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Categories:
fountainhead, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
MOM
...Mom
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
MOM !!
My first shout out loud...
Where is my metal
When i am weak
Where is my coastline
From the deep...
Where is the fountainhead
Of our parenthood
Her he...
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Categories:
fountainhead, age, celebration, child, hero,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Unwritten Absence
...Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of i...
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Categories:
fountainhead, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
My Epitaph Writ Large
...My epitaph writ large...
courtesy third person singular.
Mise en scène pour décès
pardon his feeble attempt at French,
a unilingual English language
quibbling, and scribbling mensch
strongly ...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, adventure, bereavement, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Tis Raining
...‘tis raining
greening
thundering
pelting
blessing the soil
wetting the seeds
cleaning the face
of Spring blossoms
May’s tada
in fountainhead palms
of life
sweet life
living water
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Categories:
fountainhead, christian, may, weather,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories:
fountainhead, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme
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