Young American Man
...Withering away your days
Waiting on some undefined occurrence
To move you on to participating
In a life of abounding meaning
Change your ways, live life today!
Living life drunk and stoned
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Categories:
frittering, men,
Form: Free verse
On Dreaming
...On Dreaming
They are butterfly wings
delicate and fragile thoughts
mere wisps of memory -
ideas strung like gossamer
between the branches of our minds
embrace this gentle play
daydreamers ...
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Categories:
frittering, appreciation, blessing, dream, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Attitude with latitude
...Attitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested...
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Categories:
frittering, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Zen Mode
...we welcome dark fear forms
since their presence signals
that like dark spots on the moon
we too have in our aura a flaw
onto which delusion may anchor
were it not for pricks of thorns
would ...
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Categories:
frittering, fear, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Where Are We Headed
... We know not who we are and yet we spar,
frittering away thus, the gift of life
and looking back see we’ve drifted afar,
with nothing to show save struggle a...
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Categories:
frittering, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Polarity Rotation
...No different from an earthworm,
in our own way, we likewise squirm,
day after day, engaged in strife,
frittering away gift of life,
for what we pursue is fleeting,
yet heart’s desire...
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Categories:
frittering, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Lay
Ego Insane
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Ego insane chases rainbows
Frittering gift of life
Upon brow are sorrow furrows
It’s way of life is strife
Blunder after blunder
How long will we flounder
Leaving hearts asunder...
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Categories:
frittering, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Good Times
...Frittering their lives away
at work, at home, at play
When the good times finally died
~ they'd nothing left to say...
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Categories:
frittering, fun, life, sad,
Form: Rubai
Reassured
...*Reassured*
Amidst the glitzy party, I wallow in suffocation,
Secluded in the bathroom – my apt accommodation.
Trapped within the hollow walls, I weep aloud,
Brutally slapping myself until my ...
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Categories:
frittering, appreciation, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
One Day In a Life
...If you could relive one day of your life..
time lost, now retrieved for just a short while.
To thrust old scheming machinations knife,
or return healing to a lover's smile.
Such a fretted fritt...
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Categories:
frittering, america, day, dream, heart,
Form: Sonnet
Ferris Wheel
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The Ferris wheel rotates, altering views,
each moment in time having appeal
for the knower, who has so seen,
thus frolicking in delight,
at the cyclic movement,
leaving for others
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Categories:
frittering, conflict, fun, muse,
Form: Etheree
Reflections In Stillness
...We
see here,
in our midst,
furtive glances,
borne of our desire,
mirrored by egoic fear,
wishing to but not knowing
how to ensure its fulfilment,
oblivious to joy here and now,
frit...
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Categories:
frittering, desire, freedom, joy, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
The Devil Who Knew
...Wealth you seek, hmm let me decide,
Ok let’s trade, work out a fair price,
Sometimes I can be quite extortionate,
This special case, perhaps very nice.
Depends weather, you please me,
Better b...
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Categories:
frittering, allegory, corruption, desire, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Available Choices Informing Me
...I can select scant options
available among figurative
menu of life (mine) case in
point, this ordinary day (July
10th, 2019) typifies small
number routine prospects
regarding how I will while...
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Categories:
frittering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
No Matter Papa Repents
...No Matter Papa Repents...
Every blasted acrimonious misdeed
aye indelibly perpetrated
affecting ye and the Punim for life
hounds me doggone soul night and day
venomous wrath torments, strangle...
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Categories:
frittering, abuse, anger, depression, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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