Oxymoron- Silent Scream
...quick as a molten drop of wax
running down a dying candle,
a single drop of salty tear
left her sunken eyes' boundary
making its way downwards and fell
without a sound, crashing in ...
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Categories:
glassware, angst, pain,
Form: Other
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
...Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last ge...
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Categories:
glassware, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
...Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last ge...
...
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Categories:
glassware, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
It is a Lovely place
...Remember how you’ve come such a long way
Becoming iterations of what you’ve become
You’ve grown vulnerable with a pompous inner child
You know joy is about being grateful
And your grief has melt...
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Categories:
glassware, change, identity, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Sea Glass
...Look at you! Naturally processed from pieces of broken bottles,
glassware or things breakable to frosted glasses with round edges.
Distinctive creation that could take from two decades to probably
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Categories:
glassware, creation, life, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Modern Version Psalm 23
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My dishwasher is mine; It serves me well.
It makes glassware beam high with prisms of delight: forks sing praises minus grit between their prongs.
It combats the scorche...
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Categories:
glassware, appreciation, technology,
Form: Free verse
I Saw God, but Now What
...Line of inquiry:
“Yes, I affirm, I have seen God
But He appeared and then disappeared
This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed
But until what’s imbibed is assimilated, by fears I’m seared”...
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Categories:
glassware, anxiety, character, god,
Form: Free verse
Unassailable Purity
...Her birth was never trumpeted,
Nor caught any media headlines.
Born to Joachim in very ordinary settings,
Virgin Mary, the simplest of the simple,
Was specially chosen to perform a ta...
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Categories:
glassware, celebrity, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse
GREAT WAVES CRASH
...As I watch the great waves crash
I hear the sound of savage splash
I see the water break like glass
Like a glassware out of class
The crashing sets my spirit free
Of things that cap my mem...
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Categories:
glassware, water,
Form: Rhyme
Memory
...Hanging Queen.
The killer Queen's serpentine glean
Like a field of sunflowers:
Smell of gunpowder filled with gelatine.
Medicine and melancholy, wound-filled barley.
Bloodbound fairground, gla...
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Categories:
glassware, betrayal, conflict, corruption, death,
Form: Rhyme
An Unforgettable Meeting
..."a dagger of pain, a tear of grief" ~ by Constance La France
Only once I looked into her pale, weak face.
In white hospital sheets, she lay motionless,
A bag of bones! Her chest he...
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Categories:
glassware, farewell, friend, pain,
Form: Free verse
Fragility
...A beautiful glass vase
Must be handled with care
Made with love,
Without a blemish or tear.
The glazier takes pride.
As he fashions the glass,
He always tries
To make each one
As perfect as...
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Categories:
glassware, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Dinner With Class
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Mashed potatoes, Mom’s heavenly creation.
Such a gourmet creation, was an alpine white.
Green beans, like a Christmas decoration.
Candles were benevolently, not bright.
I c...
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Categories:
glassware, beautiful, childhood, dedication, family,
Form: Rhyme
I Don'T Want No Trouble
...You were born in December
And you wear your trouble like a rough petrifying plum and carry the sadness of 1000 unsung voices
That's about as much as I know about you
Where are the poems about the ...
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Categories:
glassware, 10th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse
Balmy January Fifth Two Thousand Twenty Three
...Balmy january fifth two thousand twenty three
pardon moi as I self plagiarize
with slight modifications
cuz following words written
at least an Earth's orbit ago
exhibits pearls of jocularity....
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Categories:
glassware, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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