one you
...your not the first to think it
others thought it to
not even first to say it
its been said long before you
that special feeling
you think unique
others felt it
long been critiqued
whatever yo...
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Categories:
fraternal twin, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Xenophobia
...racism's
fraternal twin
rose to
his fever pitch
when the pandemic
hit...
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Categories:
fraternal twin, anger, angst, hate, violence,
Form: Verse
An Existential Curiosity
...*Image of January 14, 2023, by WinCal.
An Existential Curiosity
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Ambitious existent presence to yield,
Hostage that's well endured of a pre-life,
Handcuffed fallible praying...
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Categories:
fraternal twin, brother, dad, family, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Fish Lips
...My father had a Dick Tracy nose,
sometimes referred to as Roman,
beneath which were his thick, full lips.
His fraternal twin, on the other hand, had thin lips
(Genes are strange things.).
I don’...
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Categories:
fraternal twin, father, father, daughter, daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
Yin Yang
...Yin Yang
We make our own demons,
create our own gods.
Our lives, are a series,
of evens and odds.
In the ebb and flow of the rockiest tide,
Truth is a pearl, We all seek to hide.
Success,...
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Categories:
fraternal twin, adventure, faith, happiness, imagination,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Gray
...Poor miserable mysterious color,
Not a dark, not a light, an in between.
Oh the complexity of gray in laundry.
This neutral hazy excuse for a color,
like the polluted version of white,
or the i...
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Categories:
fraternal twin, death, life, mystery, peace,
Form: Lyric