PATTY GRIFFIN
...As you paint your songs with colours divine
And words you so assiduously mined
You leave me standing breathlessly behind
Your visceral emotion hypnotically opined.
Mesmerising destructive bewi...
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Categories:
hypnotically, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Road to Maximus and Winter’s de-Reckoning
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“The Road to Maximus and Winter’s de-Reckoning”
Winter pulled me into Her
like I was Her new season
and cooly stroked my fevered skin
like the contours of my body
we...
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Categories:
hypnotically, muse,
Form: Narrative
ON OUR VACATION IN RIO
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The nights near your endearing, deep cocoa skin,
Silently, splendiferous, in this, sensitive , Spring we revel in.
Samba music fingers, paint energetic dancers on the Spring walls,
L...
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Categories:
hypnotically, beautiful, desire, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Dying Embers
...The day was ending,
But a window was open
To a view of dying embers
Ablaze on the coastal horizon.
Like a canvas in motion,
It captured amazement,
Reaching out hypnotically
Through clouds awa...
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Categories:
hypnotically, allusion, imagery,
Form: Free verse
harbor snow
...I watch the harbor through the falling snow
the sky and sea form one vast, gray tableau
the sun is nothing but a weak, background glow
the scene draws me, as if hypnotically.
Five mile’s lighth...
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Categories:
hypnotically, boat, sea, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Song
...Last night we composed
Our own serenade,
Then danced to the tune
Orchestrally played.
Touched chords in my heart
Reached notes never heard,
As we moved to our beat
Without singing a w...
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Categories:
hypnotically, feelings, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Tell it to the fire Keeper of the Night
...Tell it to the fire
(Keeper of the Night)
By Michelle Morris
24/11/2024
Tell it to the fire
It will burn away all your secrets
Feel the roaring flames
It will burn away all your fear
I...
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Categories:
hypnotically, encouraging, environment, fire, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
GOD'S CANVASSING NIGHT
...(A MLOKU)*
What a magnificent canvassing God gave us in the sky tonight;
The full moon and all the constellations glowing hypnotically;
With the oceans and the seas below, reflecting this glorio...
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Categories:
hypnotically, allegory, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Why Is The Sky Blue? Asked Jimmy
...Why is the sky blue? Asked Jimmy
Fantastic question!
Why indeed?
Why did The Creator
Whether God or Science or a Scientific God
Choose blue
Instead of forest green, pale yellow, or maroon?
I...
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Categories:
hypnotically, blue, child, father son,
Form: Free verse
A SIGN
...This now! BEHOLD!
His Majesty flashed a sign.
Naked was the night without
Its moon and stars bright!
Hypnotically confused. Look
The LIGHT! Though then the GODS
we're dared to find the TIME...
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Categories:
hypnotically, allusion, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Like Water
...Like water
I was the river
You were the sea
I dissolved into you
And thought I was free.
Out of the cage I flew
But landed on my knees
As I tried to flee
The heavy clouds
And storms, of r...
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Categories:
hypnotically, allegory, betrayal, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Smile Through Shadows
...Written: September 07, 2023
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In the depths of sorrow, as pokiness prevails.
A smile defenestrates, though my heart wail...
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Categories:
hypnotically, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Doppelganger Complicit As Accomplice In Pecuniary Crime
...Disguised as an Apple Computer Technician.
He initially hacked Macbook Pro laptop.
He (alias Harvey Specter)
planted seeds of suspicion
that criminal activity prevailed
within my geographic ...
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Categories:
hypnotically, abortion, absence, abuse, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife Trois
...Inevitable death defines afterlife - trois
So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized
chapped sticky man
spinning t...
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Categories:
hypnotically, absence, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Clubbing
...Long time since I have been to a nightclub
they don't let me out at night alone now.
I used to be sharp
had many friends in low places.
I miss the culture, the sweaty maneuvers
under hypnotica...
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Categories:
hypnotically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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