Photograph
...Some haunt me pleasantly,
Using the grains of dewy silence that speak loudly
Within the long, grey halls of history.
I recline on such images with smiles I borrow from
The penetralia of my soul a...
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Categories:
genuflecting, community, memory,
Form: Free verse
Once upon perdition :now a dedication:
...This POTD is dedicated to Di11y Da11y
who spoke the truth and paid the price!
to the unheard poet
you weren’t driven away
you moved beyond them
_______________________
Once upon perdit...
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Categories:
genuflecting, life, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Coming Andantes
...you are flying on a hazy dream carpet —
floating up there, above these old streets,
these ancient genuflecting pines and cedars,
rising above the sleeping dead on Broadway,
soaring now through ...
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Categories:
genuflecting, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Every Man
...I live in every man's struggles.
I lose myself in the crowd;
Everyone has a story of loss,
Of a childhood that ended abruptly,
Transmogrified into juvenile gods,
Worshipping, genuflecting, react...
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Categories:
genuflecting, farewell, fate,
Form: Free verse
ADMIRATIONS a chance poem in open form
...ADMIRATIONS
captivated
by
the imperative
genuflecting
the polyphonetic
with
demode
certainties
castigating
& circumventing
pressures
entranced
by
the
unsettli...
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Categories:
genuflecting, poetry, word play,
Form: Verse
Motherland
...
"Motherland"
The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,
fingers have a personality and a mind
of their own, don’t you agree?
the stalwart mind converses wit...
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Categories:
genuflecting, child abuse, dark, light,
Form: Narrative
The Altar of Years
...Most of my flying now
is restricted to planes,
feet less able to
“trip the life fantastic” --
age having slowed fast living
to delayed starts and early
finishes –
joining the genuflecti...
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Categories:
genuflecting, faith, introspection, journey, religious,
Form: Free verse
Faith's Chained Haiku
...The living mindscape.
Virtues stage, showing colors.
Painting the belief.
Sculpted in truth's form.
A resurrect, re birthing.
A glorious seed.
Sunlight on our skin.
...
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Categories:
genuflecting, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
The Epiphany Rose
...
"The Epiphany Rose"
All well and good,
the story unfolds;
the isolating madness
drew out the poets
in all the shunned
playing up and out
their origami
word games
...
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Categories:
genuflecting, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Payload
...
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
...
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Categories:
genuflecting, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Consider the Lilies
...“Consider the lilies,” the wise Solomon said
They do not spend their time in worry,
Though they know they soon will fade ~~
They present themselves in all their glory,
Neither genufle...
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Categories:
genuflecting, flower, uplifting,
Form: Quintain (English)
Once Upon Perdition
...The apostate looked out his window,
and started to believe
As genuflecting pylons,
sent ramifications through the trees
Chaos looked at reason,
was it about to make a plea
I see Satan’s raisi...
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Categories:
genuflecting, allegory, humanity, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Drink the Kool-Aid
...Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug –
no matter the fly in our
President's mug, the bug in
his thinking...my reflecting on
his ailing brain, and it's obvious
volume shrinking:
Those mindless, confusing ...
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Categories:
genuflecting, christian, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
If I Was As Clever As I Think I Am
...If I was half as clever as I think I am
People would whisper about my whimsical wily ways.
Warlocks would warn witches about my wit.
We would be reading about me in a World Book.
If I was as hu...
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Categories:
genuflecting, me,
Form: Free verse
A Child Leads Us
...We were intimidated by stone man
Wondering why he was genuflecting
We reflected on it as only adults can do
Wesley walked over to touch him and say “hi”.
They had an intense conversation, this ...
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Categories:
genuflecting, child,
Form: Prose Poetry
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