My Inner Voice Told Me
...A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enj...
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Categories:
guidepost, care, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Wuhan's Wet Market
...We've experienced pandemics before
but the COVID-19 virus is new.
This coronavirus we can't ignore
so self-quarantine, we're told we need to,
it’s not safe to socialize anymore.
The wh...
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Categories:
guidepost, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
The 36 Percent Poem
...The 36% Poem
I recall going to the stained-glass church as a child
and wishing the Jesus statue would move, that he would
just step down from that hanging cross and walk among us,
casting drop...
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Categories:
guidepost, forgiveness, religion,
Form: Blank verse
Easter 2019 Jesus Birth, Death, Resurrection
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Easter 2019
Jesus’ Birth, Death, Resurrection
Written: by Miracle Man
4/12/2019
Jesus came to earth, virgin born, in a stable,
To accomplish things that no other was able.
He hung...
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Categories:
guidepost, easter, jesus,
Form: Couplet
Barba Tenus Sapientes
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Collective consciousness
Folded over into a square
Wrapped around a tree trunk
Etched with a scimitar
Another guidepost
To the morning star
Ad nauseam
Barba tenus sapientes
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Categories:
guidepost, allusion, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Deeper Footsteps
...The trail of my passing
the joy and the tears
Each memory a milestone
to mark every year
That road undiscovered
lay before me ahead
With faith as my guidepost
—deeper footsteps t...
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Categories:
guidepost, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Third Gelato
...Walking in Milano
On a guided city tour,
I wasn't really certain
What delights would be in store:
A castle (or castello)
Which displayed, as quite a perk,
An unusual Pieta,
Michelangelo's la...
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Categories:
guidepost, travel,
Form: Rhyme
To My Friend, Arthur
...I’d like to poke Arthur now
You said you were so dark
That you lie on the floor twisted
From yourself hurting you
Why my friend?
Why would you want to hurt yourself
When he is the last person you wan...
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Categories:
guidepost, angel, faith, light,
Form: Free verse
Mating of the Rich and Famous
...I once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating,
or trust-I would have been rightly confused
Here hangs a long line of slime,...
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Categories:
guidepost, animal, beauty, cat, dance,
Form: Prose
Guidepost
...In life,
friends do cross my path,
I will show them love, one and all,
the kind that will always last, an' never fall!
In life,
we march down the road together,
for you all, I am not a sign, no...
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Categories:
guidepost, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Le Rue De Licht
...Even if the road ahead is difficult
Even if I have to give something up
Push forward
Unnoticed light accompaning us
What's your price? Abandon faith.
Will you give up? Abandon certainty
Nav...
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Categories:
guidepost, adventure, hope, life, passion,
Form: Lyric
They Are More Than Just Rocks
...Once there was a woman
Who hap to pass this way,
She examined all the rocks she could
To pass the time of day.
With each stone she did pick up,
She felt the weight of time,
T'was just as if t...
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Categories:
guidepost, adventure, imagination, nature,
Form: Verse