Consciousness correction
...Clutching the moment
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away,
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing ...
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Categories:
gratings, appreciation, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Storm Gull
...The steersman dry-heaves
into rolling scuppers,
the skipper dozes fitfully in his sodden berth
spew dribbling from a tossed piss pot.
The deck is also heaving; fo...
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Categories:
gratings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Parasite
...I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum
Wit...
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Categories:
gratings, political,
Form: I do not know?
Dawn Forever Rising
...Dawn Forever Rising
It starts
Street lights fade
their tiny soft-winged tenants flee
checkerboard facades change
last night's illumined squares now dark
become but yesterday's portals
some polished...
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Categories:
gratings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Anonymous Inquisitors
...“Do you hear gratings creak
Upon the cellar bricks?”
…Just autumn winds that wreak
Deceptive, noisy tricks.
“And did you hear the knell
Of bells from long ago?”
…The belfry long since fell
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Categories:
gratings, fantasyautumn,
Form: Verse