Confronting Shadows- POTD
...On a dusky evening long time ago,
When shadows huddled at every corner,
When rain had gone and birds had roosted,
You held me close and whispered in my ear;
“In your eyes I see, th...
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Categories:
gurgled, beauty, lost love, missing
Form: Free verse
A Brook Trickled Easily Down
...A brook trickled easily down
As poetry running unbound
And I stood on a rock
To hear the steady stream
Of foreign words gurgled.
A hazy shaft of light beamed down -
Laser-pointing through pin...
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Categories:
gurgled, poetry, river, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Memory Activity
...At a certain age when memory activity
Reminds me of a dream I never had
Absolutely nothing happens
That hasn't happened many times
I come again, but only to forget myself
More reliably than usua...
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Categories:
gurgled, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tribute to my Vogon Valentine
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My trusty twagwanger trolblasted me
I’m woken by chitterlings and crampoons
twilling and twonking
I cover my mastificle
And try to hinkle on the bandistrap
As I splurtwangle my ...
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Categories:
gurgled, humorous, i miss you,
Form: Vogon Poetry
As the Rain Came
...As dark clouds dashed and clashed in the sky
Thunder began to boom and rumble
Sensing an impending rain, frogs started croaking
Cows stopped cuddling and began to ...
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Categories:
gurgled, nature, rain, wind,
Form: Free verse
After Sunset
...The sun set upon the hill
Leaving meadows in the shade,
Trees lost their colour bright
As also waters of the lake.
Flowers too drooped their heads
While silent waters lay still,
No shimmering o...
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Categories:
gurgled, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Nature's Harmony
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The sun set upon the hill
Leaving meadows in the shade
Trees lost their colour bright
As also waters of the lake.
Flowers too drooped their heads
While silent waters lay still,
No shimmering ...
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Categories:
gurgled, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Komodo's Final Feral Kiss
...In the beginning was the word-
and the word was…
light darkness
dawn promise dusk despair.
I was a tempest
child a feral cat-
alone wild and
untamed eyes a
jigsaw of shattered chaos.
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Categories:
gurgled, abuse, addiction, depression, loneliness,
Form: Narrative
lemon-shine
...The bright sunrise made the snow-covered Alp mountain-tips, an hour-away-by-car, glow like they were topped with lemon ice-cream. Was this evidence of magic?
Peter (my bf) and I are low atop the f...
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Categories:
gurgled, boyfriend, paris, student, summer,
Form: Free verse
It Started With A Blank Canvas
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My life began as one big blank canvas,
a sweet baby girl loved:
the second child for my parents,
yes, I had an older sister by one year;
Suzanne, already had signs of an adventurer,
while I ju...
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Categories:
gurgled, life, me,
Form: Narrative
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
...Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
Ever since a young lad
irritable bowel syndrome
in my humble pinion wracked
lower abdominal area
gurgled and ballooned gastrointes...
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Categories:
gurgled, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Song of Praise
...Said Earth shyly to Sky, “Your grandeur is utter perfection.”
Whispered Sky softly to Earth, “I am but your reflection.”
Called Ocean to Shore, “I yearn for your soft embrace.”
Replied Shore to Oc...
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Categories:
gurgled, appreciation, beauty, blessing, god,
Form: Rhyme
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcola...
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Categories:
gurgled, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
A Paternal Verbal Letter
...Dearest ,darling,beloved child,
so innocent,so meek and mild,
I in wonder,remain beguiled.
Precious,perfect in miniature,
voiced gurgled thoughts so pure,
in these arms slumbered so sure.
A...
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Categories:
gurgled, baby,
Form: Rhyme
An Ember's Light Amid the Frost
...Forget those words, cold, distant calls
Penned to lead you o’er the falls
Toward blank white emptiness below
Hush now, your gurgled snarl
vile drool of fettered rage
Your words have not yet co...
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Categories:
gurgled, wisdom, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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