Please Wash Your Hands
...Hands like dirt
Cracking in sunlight
where weeping willows grow and glow
burning in the snow
freeze-dried
tied below and pulled into a flash fire
your art dies you write the words
"right befor...
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Categories:
freeze dried, fire,
Form: Free verse
foggy freeze dried memories
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icy daggers serrated his chilly mind
memories sharp as polar bear’s claws
wielded reminiscent evocation in pain
how he longed for selective amnesia
heart and reason at war with the enemy
a ...
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Categories:
freeze dried, war,
Form: Free verse
FALL IS RUSHING BY
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The raspy rustling of freeze-dried multicolored leaves
Rush past my raised windows and open door as the soft breeze
Gathers its strength and sprays them haphazardly along
The leaf cluttered si...
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Categories:
freeze dried, autumn, beauty, change, destiny,
Form: Free verse
A Book Of Shadows
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In between a wand and a warded space
lies an old Book Of Shadows to embrace;
Fee fried foe thumbs,
throw them in as the guitar strums;
Picked over hair follicles and toenails,
A few fast...
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Categories:
freeze dried, emotions, feelings, magic,
Form: Free verse
Cogito
...Every last one of my thoughts
Is begged, borrowed or stolen
Somewhere in memory
They are freeze-dried or frozen
I want to chip at the edifice
Want to recognize what's real
Is it some second...
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Categories:
freeze dried, confusion, irony, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
Death's Less Than Nothing
...Death’s Less Than Nothing!
Death’s less than nothing, a frail, not one welcomes or offers a cold one /
a glass of fine wine. Death is nobody’s friend one might meet on thi...
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Categories:
freeze dried, death,
Form: Rhyme
No Fool Any More
...When the sky crashes down onto your weary soul remember
It’s a lot of thin air and you are never closer to nutritious clouds
When your world falls into a hole of paramount proportions
Co...
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Categories:
freeze dried, courage,
Form: Free verse
Grown Up
...Grown Up
I weep
now and then
simple things
a song lyric or
an old photo
touching me
in raw places
sliding past
thinking parts
that used to be
sentries at the gate
protecting me
from ho...
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Categories:
freeze dried, celebration, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Step Santa and Petting the Prefix
...12/28/18
I just received a gift from my {step}mother,
Only three days late this year.
It's a Santa Claus soap dispenser... with a twirl and a twist.
I used to own it well over twenty years sinc...
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Categories:
freeze dried, abuse, holiday, mother,
Form: Free verse
Snake 101
...Since the Garden of Eden and Cleopatra,
snakes strike great fear in man
I have it—ophidiophobia---
legless lizards equal repulsion
Slithering, sliding as they move
something about friction an...
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Categories:
freeze dried, animal, fear,
Form: Free verse
Never Grow Old
...Can you tell me my friend
How long has it been
At least 30 years or more
I still think of you
Being one in their youth
As I have yet to pull that cord
Pictures inside my mind
Are stuck in ...
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Categories:
freeze dried, age, friend, life,
Form: Rhyme
Summer's Dead
...Walking through a grove of maple trees,
I saunter amongst swaying giants.
Musky odors assault my nostrils
with the smell of damp, decaying leaves.
Nature's scents in perfect harmony;
nur...
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Categories:
freeze dried, autumn, beautiful, color, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
That Night
...I remember that night
Shattered by your demon glare
Burning my soul as you stare
Freeze dried on the road
There goes all hope,
suffocated by your black soul
Road kill on the interstate
Tears ...
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Categories:
freeze dried, anger, dark, evil, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
-food For Thought-
...-Food for thought...-
Distributed freeze-dried nutrition,
a consumers dietary attrition?
Constitutional, by institutional
conglomerate corporate ambition.
Do our politicians convictions
mandate our...
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Categories:
freeze dried, food, political,
Form: I do not know?
The Monkey's Uncle
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The Monkey's Uncle
I'm french fried
freeze dried
pour tabasco on top
if you think I lied
if I look your way
I will go astray
pat the monkey's head
every night and day
you drive me mad
wi...
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Categories:
freeze dried, satire,
Form: Rhyme
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