SOUTHERN CROSSES I
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Electric Line's sway,
spider webs of industry
along a rocky lane under
a hot southern sun, cicada…
cry high, into the crystal blue sky
We are a ghost nation
of Man’s hypocrisy
crossing ...
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Categories:
halogen, art, culture, day, deep,
Form: Free verse
On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread
...On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread,
While the scar beneath my ribs sings a melody only I can hear.
The halogen spotlights burn intensely, bleachin...
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Categories:
halogen, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
White Cadillac Prayer, 3 A M
...( In collaboration with ChatGPT (OpenAI’s conversational language model)
I told Him once,
my favorite sat under halogen moons-
White Cadillac parked at the edge of ...
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Categories:
halogen, car, christian, faith, fun,
Form: Free verse
Knowing Angels
...Angels are almost silent
Subtle
treadbare steppers
subliminal stalkers
determinedly quiet
except at choir
a pair of cherubic hums
can equivalate
to the drones
of a billion bee...
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Categories:
halogen, angel, evil, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Story Behind Rudolph's Red Nose
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Rudolph the reindeer has a big red nose
And it shines so bright wherever he goes
Well, it’s not real; it's a halogen light
That Santa Claus switches on at night.
"So, what's the history?"...
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Categories:
halogen, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Never Arrives
...Halogen hesitant glide incubates baskers
Hush worship horizontal, roasting rascals
Trust flail arms gleeful face of jack in box
Toast salt pepper toes opposed to office socks
Lopsided sway sc...
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Categories:
halogen, adventure, august,
Form: Couplet
A Spectacular Show
...Sky covers her nakedness
with the raiment of clouds
Stars array in circular patterns
to stage a group ballet
Amid, sits queen moon
in silken robes and a silver diadem
bathed in gar...
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Categories:
halogen, appreciation, moon, night,
Form: Free verse
Holocaustum I a Horror
...OF THE NEW FLESH
A returned to open channels
Open to the unknown the beyond
Burning humming like angry hornets
Bottled in electric light and shadows
The whispers come through the void
Humm...
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Categories:
halogen, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
It's Still There
...DO YO WANT TO SEE
an imaginary line
HOVER IN THE STRATOSPHERE
above the once divided city
OF BERLIN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
incandescent in what was once the East
HALOGEN OR EVEN NOW
LED I...
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Categories:
halogen, muse,
Form: I do not know?
For One Bright Bounding Ball
...ONE BRIGHT BOUNDING BALL OF A YEAR
Climbing piles of warm clothes,
freshly folded from the drier,
you pose, triumphantly smiling,
beneath the soft g...
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Categories:
halogen, child,
Form: Free verse
Planning For Retirement
...I will not go for collagen,
I'll just stay away from halogen....
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Categories:
halogen, humor,
Form: Crystalline
Thou Precious and Guiltless Nigerian Blood
...The whips of smoke was thickly spiraled all over my face,
I stood at the shrine, rather the church,
The eerie and somber silence within the cave scourged me,
As the nocturnal owls spoke cabalis...
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Categories:
halogen, death, evil, hurt, world,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Magdalen
...Magdalen longed to become a Parisienne
Unfortunately she felt more like a prairie hen
Working earnestly for the county’s aldermen
Tallying hydrogen nitrogen oxygen
Overseeing regimen an...
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Categories:
halogen, assonance, dream, fantasy, longing,
Form: Monorhyme
The Anatomy of God
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"The Anatomy of God"
Who shall say there is one God?
if there are many, as it seems
in all the world’s sects and religions -
Who is their God? Is the source
some universal, bright, bi...
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Categories:
halogen, bible, dark, god, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Traffick
...12:44 a.m.
Hollowed-out eyes
Rimmed with kohl
Set deep in sunken faces.
Tracks down faces and up arms
Visible under flickering halogen bulbs.
Dark cars creep by,
Distorted light reflections
g...
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Categories:
halogen, lost, missing, people,
Form: Free verse
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