The Death of Pleasantries
...My monocle, please,
or if you please,
my spectacles so
I
can attempt to eye
a book with both irises
and which book
to attack first:
the gigantic book of fashion;
it’s
not a lap anim...
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Categories:
handcrafted, books, love,
Form: Free verse
The Face of War, 1941, Salvador Dali
...O moon,
the blood-rose pearl
of my aching soul,
the ghostly seer of hourglass woes ~
heed these wistful words ~
forgive the dreadful quivers
between cacophonous quiescence,
tre...
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Categories:
handcrafted, angst, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Wilting flowers
...Wilted flowers
Wilted flowers lie in empty fields
Days pass as flies scour,
Leaving the decomposing ideas to be eaten.
The sun flickers as each minute weans by
An empty shell of you left in bloo...
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Categories:
handcrafted, 10th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse
Mind of the Heart
...“feeling not thinking, soul with love linking ~
we attained God consciousness unblinking" ~ Unseeking Seeker
L e t t e r s
I weave with
tears of twilight,
wish...
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Categories:
handcrafted, faith, muse,
Form: Free verse
Jane-By-The-Sea
...Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place t...
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Categories:
handcrafted, friendship, girl,
Form: Free verse
Story of Eden -- A paradise lost
...A garden of love and hope, woven with silk and ethereal threads
Handcrafted by the creator, with unmatched skills and snowy beards
The Divine, seated on high, with golden hairs aglow,
The garden ...
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Categories:
handcrafted, art, character, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
PLANS
...Frozen eggs?
Surrogacy?
Cesarean delivery?
Natural birth?
To be a parent?
Or not?
Do we save
for a child?
Or just save
for us?
Thoughts are hammers
on my soul.
Which way do I go?
Here or...
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Categories:
handcrafted, confusion, fate, future, society,
Form: Prose
Musings of Love
...“You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope."
Rumi
in the kingdom of love,
nothing is simple,
not even musings,
so tel...
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Categories:
handcrafted, love,
Form: Carpe Diem
Entertaining of Peace
...Builder-blocks build with
Builder-blocks are entertaining
Entertaining for little ones
Entertaining even for adults
Adults get creative
Adults articulate to their children
Children build t...
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Categories:
handcrafted, education,
Form: Blitz
He Loved Pianios
...Bechstein, Blüthner, Steinway or Fazioli,
even an archaic Pianoforti,
long had he craved to play them all.
He was in love with their shape and sheen,
their sweeping contours, their circuit bodies...
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Categories:
handcrafted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wooden spoon
...Wooden spoon -old fashioned handcrafted discipline tool...
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Categories:
handcrafted, leadership,
Form: Monoku
Liwat Rib
...In 1958 we saw the end of an era.
Mused the Curtiss Wright scholar.
he told a crowd of people
that an America that didn't
trust in the newness of creativity
would see a day were only exterior ma...
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Categories:
handcrafted, business, culture, imagination, jobs,
Form: Bio
Simply Godgeous
...My mood is Godgeous
My attitude is Godgeous
My life is Simply Godgeous
My house is Godgeous
My children are Godgeous
My beauty is Godgeous
My smile is Simply Godgeous
Everything about me i...
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Categories:
handcrafted, beautiful, beauty, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
The Chair Peddler
...A man reached me at the market that day.
He lifted two handcrafted seats on his head.
He urged, "Won't you buy my chairs?" Today.
Nobody took my chairs. All moved instead.
I recall ...
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Categories:
handcrafted, analogy, community, encouraging, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Pianos Were His Love
...Bechstein, Blüthner, Steinway or a Fazioli Pianoforti
long had he craved to play them.
He was in love with grand pianos, their shape and sheen,
their sweeping contours, their circuit bodies.
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Categories:
handcrafted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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