Reflections That Reside
...Reflections That Reside
Innumerable Cumulus clouds gather just up o’er the green hill
Considerable quiet lathers the air as my heart begins to fill
Formidable resolve tethers me to the place I...
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Categories:
genuflections, life,
Form: Rhyme
Like Root Beer Diamonds
...Like Root Beer Diamonds
smokestack lightning on the pomona freeway
plays their twangy sound brimming with desire
tan mexican cheerleader rides in a ’46 chevy
passing neon hamburger stands in wa...
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Categories:
genuflections, memory,
Form: Free verse
Collections
...COLLECTIONS
ardent
worship
aflame
more them
a
mirage
an
etched
illustration
still
relevant
genuflections
inquietude
an
underling
unease
an
elusive
strange
intensity
unreve...
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Categories:
genuflections, poetry,
Form: Other
The Amourette Autopsy
...The Amourette Autopsy
In vesper’s curt caress there seems no bind
To daylight’s brim or morning’s dire decree-
Your vertigo embrace confounded vows,
Within a steel wheeled cauldron we stir...
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Categories:
genuflections, addiction, bereavement, dark, death,
Form: Blank verse
Opening of Borders
...Opening of borders
It deeply touches and bothers
When closed are a country’s borders:
Sealed, helpful channel of a trade
Of super grade.
They needlessly suffer,
Who chiefly feed from neighb...
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Categories:
genuflections, africa, environment, freedom, money,
Form: Rhyme
With One's Life
...With One’s Life
There are always choices to be made and certain realities to square
within the confines, conflicts, and limitations of human existence.
It is given and understood that human...
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Categories:
genuflections, destiny, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Didactic
Empty Ceremonies
...Sacraments and rituals will not
Bring forth our holiness,
They're empty ceremonies that
Just make men walk in darkness.
Pious genuflections, deeds-
They make us think we're good.
Truth is in ...
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Categories:
genuflections, bible, jesus, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 51
...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 51
Brand not NATURE God word fallen in misuse
As if it were an all-pervading spirit
Principle rules laws all physical in use
NATURE eludes all ...
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Categories:
genuflections, god, life, muse, myth,
Form: Villanelle
Fake
...FAKE
mirrored alien
reflecting panics
plastic grin
repeating names
unnervingly with
with tainted fears
forging terror
ambiguity takes shape
scrambling shadows
hidebehind views
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Categories:
genuflections, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Wind
...The February full moon stirred
A wintery blustering
Wind that roared through the neighborhood
Like an out-of-control freight train.
The stark, naked trees swayed wildly
In a ceremonial dance
Wh...
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Categories:
genuflections, imagination, nature
Form: Verse