Two Fine Words Like Cherry Preserve
...My name is printed in a column,
Politely, like a queue,
A school crocodile line.
Two words in staining ink.
My fingertips,
They have turned black,
Tracing lines of a curling print,
Prints burn...
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Categories:
hexagon, mental illness, suicide,
Form: Free verse
1st family reunion
...2025.2.1
My big happy family 1st reunion.
Today, Saturday, is the 4th day of CNY.
It is a bit late to gather and to celebrate.
Can't help it though, since most members,
Worked during the weekday...
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Categories:
hexagon, celebration, children, family, food,
Form: Free verse
CNY 2nd day
...2025.1.30
CNY 2nd day.
Today, the celebration continues.
People visit their distance relatives,
Their grand parents, aunties, uncles and cousins,
The CNY visiting's routine become formal and pra...
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Categories:
hexagon, food, goodbye, happy, new
Form: Free verse
Snowflake
...
majestic winter
hexagon shapes free falling,
intricate white storm...
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Categories:
hexagon, nature, snow, weather, winter,
Form: Haiku
WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM
...WHEN RELIGION BECOMES
YOUR OPIUM
When religion becomes your
opium you slip into icy pre-dawn
to mosque then lie in fever flu
at dusk as bilal calls again
for you to stumble towards
bec...
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Categories:
hexagon, 12th grade, deep, god,
Form: Alliteration
CUTTING CORNERS
...What of pride and presentation
When time is short in duration?
An octagon out of a square...
Proverbial scissors used there.
It is what it is - this, I hear
Constantly in and out each ear.
A tr...
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Categories:
hexagon, conflict, stress, work,
Form: Rhyme
I'LL WRITE ANOTHER DAY
...I sit here with my heart in my mouth
Wondering how things so quickly went south.
A task I once did with joy and delight
Now feels like a burden I shoulder each night.
It's nearly day 130 of thi...
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Categories:
hexagon, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life is a Song
...My Life is a song sung in a
series of repetitive inferior notes.
I’m unable to record mellow melodies,
as my violin strings continually play
with reckless violet villains.
As I sit and repla...
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Categories:
hexagon, anger, courage, deep, high
Form: Free verse
WINTER SLUMBER
...Hallows Eve to Candlemas
the sun now turning
south,alas;
November sombre,December dark,
January,February
cold and stark.
Catkins litter
the forest floor,
beeches
shed their l...
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Categories:
hexagon, winter,
Form: Verse
The System
...The system is breaking their backs; the system is stealing their frock. I woke up this morning in the midnight hours after taking a nap for only one hour, I had no appointment or assignment,.
I ju...
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Categories:
hexagon, blessing, business, conflict, corruption,
Form: Prose
This Part of Me
...This part of me is searching for you, I have knocked on every door and surveyed every shore but the other part of me was not there.
I have a glimpse of what you are like; the mysteries are bound u...
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Categories:
hexagon, appreciation, blessing, business, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Six Pack Senary
...The World created in six days, the senary devised.
Carbon the sixth element, the core of organic life.
Bee perfection, hexagon cells; snowflake six-pointed stars,
The sixth sense, Perception lies ...
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Categories:
hexagon, creation, life,
Form: Free verse
Patchwork of a Master
...I’m taking control of this physical presence of mine, this breaking ship;
pulling it down forcefully to the bottom of this god forsaken sea,
allowing it to be destroyed by nature once and for all.
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Categories:
hexagon, abuse, beauty, courage, growth,
Form: Free verse
Wasp Nest Under Construction 1
...Wasp nest under construction...
vacancies for yellow jackets also available
alternately titled: eave'n roofs houses nidus
If ye dear reader find yourself
as an under appreciated
busy buddy ...
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Categories:
hexagon, 12th grade, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Leftover Lines of Poems Undone
...Love avenue shuffle
spirits fandango through
grave eyes of doubt on
delusions of disorder
when we kiss do
dreamy clouds cuddle?
Photonic warped thoughts
feed on disdained
mecurial clot eclip...
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Categories:
hexagon, adventure, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
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