Because Pandemic is Holocaust
...Because the mind still stays
The memory of the holocaust,
And the face reflects the twinge that still lurks
In the hollow of our frail hearts;
My mournful pen shall bleed
In a forever flow of pe...
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Categories:
havocked, emotions, grief, holocaust, hope,
Form: Free verse
Dawn of the Woodpecker
...Swaying and shuffling to the bathroom,
once again,
I hoped this time that I’d summon the wherewithal
to finally start my Saturday.
But my visit was bookended by
my usual return to b...
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Categories:
havocked, bird, drink, funny, good
Form: Free verse
Delicate Dimensions
...The Shepherd asked the poetess-
Who are you?
Twinkling her eyes, the poetess
said-who am I.
Am I a breath or a death;
breeze or a storm;
am I soothed or havocked?
I am blazed and ashed.
A...
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Categories:
havocked, beautiful, blessing, emotions, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Your Room
...Behind your earlobe there was a birthmark that had the shape of palestine
But they taught you in there that it was called israel
In the hearth of your chest lied a heart full of vitriol
Out of y...
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Categories:
havocked, anxiety, books, child abuse,
Form: ABC
Love Aligns
...Love Aligns
Of names given at birth, one blooms special.
Mary seems to me a popular name.
Common folks and royalty likewise called.
But no two named Mary are quite the same.
A young girl na...
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Categories:
havocked, family, history, lovefamily, woman,
Form: Quatrain
The Family Trait
...A sudden sadness
A taste of madness
a tear trickles down
due to the on going storm
going on in the passage
A story never told to anyone
wrecks havocked
and it's all because of a family trai...
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Categories:
havocked, introspection, life, sad, family,
Form: Free verse
Mea Culpa, Extol Belles-Lettres
...The Jackal's line of demarcation ye souls' furlough for interim...
Today, cockcrows perturb in a gala thrice for thee quiescent stay,
God's Park of Ephemera, sashays the daggled the minder harks,
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Categories:
havocked, adventure, imagination, nature, on
Form: Free verse