Dementia
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Mind, like a deciduous forest
has lost all its foliage,
all leaves torn away
by the autumnal blasts.
The brain where great schemes were concocted
is now an abyss where spiders sway
It i...
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Categories:
hurrying, angst, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Sailing on the Bay, a Living Poem
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On the bay the wind is scurrying
along its flock of waves,
with white crests honey combed,
to flip over their edges,
on blue foreheads.
The bow of the yacht slices
through the waves drive...
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Categories:
hurrying, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Meet Oreo
...This is Oreo
Joined our family not too long ago
He is 12 weeks
Already become a member
With all his little antics
I wonder
Jumping, racing and playing
Following me about
Getting under my fee...
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Categories:
hurrying, beautiful, best friend, cute
Form: Free verse
Choose Life
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Sometimes – many times
I’m busier than I would like to be,
I find myself hurrying through the days
as they pass by,
laughing at my scurrying
like a squirrel, they say – hustling
but sho...
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Categories:
hurrying, appreciation, christian, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse
Barbados
...Whenever life - or the weather - gets chaotic,
I love to retreat to somewhere exotic,
and there is one place in the Caribbean
that, for me, is worthy of song or paean.
This place is one that I...
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Categories:
hurrying, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Steps
...When summer comes
it won't fall out of the blue
like a suntanned cherub
no - after a heavy rainstorm
it will heave itself up
through the cracks in the pavement
as thousands of pale and fragile ...
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Categories:
hurrying, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Another Day
...Another day, and she sighs
Pain seeping from her drained eyes
Can't go on getting high
I could have stayed, she cries
The streets, they’re cold and bare
The people, they don’t care
No time for ...
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Categories:
hurrying, drug, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Shades of Blue
...Shades of blue are flying in the air
and people are gathering from far and near
the symbols of the world
are hurrying down the street
spreading whispers of hope
on threadbare knees
Shades ...
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Categories:
hurrying, america, beach, beauty, business,
Form: Narrative
The Lineman
...He works on the pole, he works on the ground, in any storm he can be found.
They call him a lineman; his work very dangerous. Bucket trucks and hot wires, that’s his love language.
It’s 3 o’clo...
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Categories:
hurrying, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
The Shadows of Hope
...If hope is all the shadows you see, let it surrounds me
If fear is the mountain that lies beyond the sea, let it departs from here.We are trying to rebuild our lives again and invite some new friend...
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Categories:
hurrying, business, confidence, culture, deep,
Form: Personification
A Buzz
...There's a buzz in the forest tonight
I can see shapes in the dark of night
hurrying along the various paths
they seem to be going to a clearing.
I carefully follow them and see
what's causin...
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Categories:
hurrying, animal, birth, jesus, leadership,
Form: Imagism
Westside
...My heart was racing,
Chaos around me on the road,
But silence inside me is so calming,
Dying to meet her,
I saw her parking the bike,
And hurrying inside the building,
No she's not worried,
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Categories:
hurrying, fairy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Music Looks Like
...Music Looks Like
A thunderstorm rolling
in from the west.
Jagged flashes of lightning
from dark roiling clouds
A quiet stream meandering
through a wooded glen.
Bubbling and gurgling as it
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Categories:
hurrying, music,
Form: Free verse
Dusty Box of Memories
..."Photographs escort us to hidden recesses of memory and bring before us rare moments lost in time"... By Poet
Flitting through the pages of an old album,
Picked up from an abandoned dusty box,
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Categories:
hurrying, home, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Orchestra Of Sky
...The rain when it came
was not unexpected
soft at first
then larger drops
dancing puddles
ignored by hurrying passers by
I stayed to the end
and heard it all
that orchestra of sky...
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Categories:
hurrying, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
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