Not Me
...My past
My mistakes
The right and wrong choices
My failures and successes
My hopes and dreams
The man looking at me in the mirror
The man you see with your eyes
All my physical homeliness ...
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Categories:
homeliness, cry, deep, endurance, for
Form: Free verse
At the Graves Gate
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"A grave wherever found preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Categories:
homeliness, fate, grave, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Autumnal Zephyr
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The trees dressed in their carnival clothes
Gold and scarlet of the autumn days
They play about the earthy hues
Of boughs and boles
Proud flag of any sky
I take in the freshly...
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Categories:
homeliness, autumn, day, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Wish List of the Soul
...Health, wealth, success, grandeur, and happiness,
Name, fame, status body-mind homeliness;
Family, friends, love, and self-fulfillment,
Thoughts, words, and actions purity movement...
Within ...
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Categories:
homeliness, heart, life,
Form: Rhyme
In Search of Yesterday
..."recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
Quote by _Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We often say that time waits on none of us.
Getting on board life's bus is simp...
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Categories:
homeliness, memory, time,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv
...(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).
Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tub...
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Categories:
homeliness, 1st grade, age, best
Form: Rhyme
Amalina the Queen of Sheba
...AMALINA: THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
To the Queen of Sheba.
Unraveling of your thesis and your folklore
To devour your whole body in form of study
Zipping the raw facts in the mind's lobby
Trying to di...
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Categories:
homeliness, 1st grade, for her,
Form: Free verse
Traveller
...She came upon me in a dream deep down from within my destination
Which coursed the mind and soul of years for my memories' inspiration
The path was crowded with bouncing hooves and wagons decor...
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Categories:
homeliness, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Two-Ply
...Two-ply in roses of yellow and pink,
rolls and sings to the touch
of fingers on its faintly-scented folds,
giving miles of pleasure to soft seats
on hard covers all in the name of
modern conveni...
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Categories:
homeliness, discrimination, home, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Ogazi
...Morning dews were here and there
Smiling and running down to the
Plants as insects dance to prove
Their acceptance of nature
With fowls attached to the waist of
farm plants in search of worms
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Categories:
homeliness, africa, age, blessing, blue,
Form: Lyric
The He Meets the She
...He was a hard-edged razor-back, but bright.
His hands were red-dog rough, but his smile was a delight.
She was a soft-hearted floret, and smart.
Her hands felt as light and plump as a neonate’s he...
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Categories:
homeliness, fun, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body Electric
...Thine distorted reflection rippled
within rain maker's pool
upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata
flooded shallow abyss,
cleaved fractal structures of silence
reverberating dea...
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Categories:
homeliness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body Electric
...OKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?
thine distorted reflection rippled
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss,
cleaved fractal structures o...
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Categories:
homeliness, allegory, bereavement, depression, evil,
Form: Free verse
Delirium
...Delirium delves deeply
Deeply dense
Derivatively dying
Dancing deliriously
Driving deeply densely
Happily hastily
Honeyed homeliness
Lying loneliness
Levitating loveliness
Delirium do...
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Categories:
homeliness, anxiety, art, bangla, color,
Form: Alliteration
Two-Ply
...Two-ply in roses of yellow and pink
rolls and sings to the touch
of fingers on its faintly-scented folds,
giving miles of pleasure to soft seats
on hard covers all in the name of
modern conve...
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Categories:
homeliness, humor, humorous,
Form: Prose
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