Without Merit
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You condemn me from shadows you've never dared to leave,
Crafting judgment from fragments you refuse to believe.
I wear your scorn like armor, forged in silent wars,
And still you tremble—...
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Categories:
gnash, anger, angst, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
Elysian Fields Are Beautiful in Spring
...Opa John
The caboose sits red—its iron spine cradles the earth like Atlas
rails stretching into nowhere. The stream murmurs softly
its voice threading through Ellie’s laughter like silver...
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Categories:
gnash, daughter, father, flower, granddaughter,
Form: Narrative
March is Nature's Halloween
...
March is Nature’s Halloween
treats us to a winsome Spring day
while she forecasts snowstorms on the way
In between a tornado or two
just to make you gnash your ...
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Categories:
gnash, halloween, march, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Doubt - Mar 10
...To draw the string back, with a notched arrow,
To sense the taut twine pull against and test
The strength of stiffed up shoulders and flexed chest—
But not to loose the arrow at the sparrow;
T...
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Categories:
gnash, bird, crush, fear, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Truth
...Just because someone says “their truth”
Is this or that
Doesn’t mean it is The Truth.
Subjective truths come and go
(Like that chocolate ice cream is the best)
But The Truth just is
What it i...
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Categories:
gnash, perspective, spiritual, truth,
Form: Narrative
My Longing Creature
...Crack! I lay, beneath me creaking
Hath it taken from me? What to give?
Mayhaps yesternight another seeking
For not many there is to live
It approaches, shaking, floors creaking
To th...
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Categories:
gnash, adventure, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse
si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
...si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
if your name is melancholy,
the scant tidbits I know of French.
perfect cold day to down
a cup of hot chocolate, java or joe
in tandem with an intelligent con...
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Categories:
gnash, adventure, angel, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Seated Together at James Earl Carter’s Funeral
...God’s timing impeccable, bringing
together presidential adversaries, ringing
in the new year, giving us a chance
for revival. We hear about truthtelling stance.
We shall all pass into the great b...
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Categories:
gnash, funeral,
Form: Couplet
FORGIVE ME
...FORGIVE ME
I ask that you do forgive me, please
Judging poems is no spiffing wheeze
Needing some skills but no degrees
As reading always takes some time
Seeking syllable counts and rhyme
Few ...
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Categories:
gnash, judgement, time,
Form: Rhyme
Our Every Trust In God
...Test has an end
Problems has a solution
Pain has a cure
You can overcome anything
If you trust God.
Not every battle you have to fight
Sometimes, being silent
Can make you win
Let them stre...
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Categories:
gnash, faith, hope, trust,
Form: Free verse
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
...I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture betwee...
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Categories:
gnash, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Until Then
...An orison to hope
Shattered into smithereens
Its keened tongues and teeth gnash and lament
A despairful cry of a cutthroat womb.
Cacophonies cry out
Cellos and violins bow, inexorable and unfo...
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Categories:
gnash, angst, bereavement, blessing, depression,
Form: Free verse
Threefold Laughter of Jesus
...Peter went downwards
Onto a bed of black mud
To rest his filled mind
From questions of the cold wind
And prayed to the Son
For the burning white fire
He was thus blinded
Briefly by a burnin...
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Categories:
gnash, death, irony, religious, spiritual,
Form: Choka
Some more Questions and Answers Q and A part six
...Q: Why do not all roads lead to the kingdom of heaven and we all end up on
the same mountain top's destinations?
A: There are only two roads available to all people. The board road lead...
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Categories:
gnash, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Shift the Blame, Shift the Pain
...Shift the blame that way you can shift the pain, push it all onto me, put my heart in first gear and gnash down with your teeth
Put me in the lowest gear the one that hurts the most, the one where t...
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Categories:
gnash, angst, pain,
Form: Rhyme
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