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Illicitly Poems

A Waste of Space

...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t...

Categories: illicitly, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose

From the Virtuous Woman To the Wayward Women

...FROM THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN
TO THE WAYWARD:

Excuse me...I'm moving on,
And I don't need your opinion,
To cast away the trust I'm leaning on.
You have life and choices you living on,
And I don't t...

Categories: illicitly, bible, christian, confidence, faith,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Dark Love

...The secret I retain no more, in the shelves of my soul,
The tales and scales of our moments,
The darkest passion, with no comparison,
The craziest glamour, sired illicitly,
The brawniest mystical...

Categories: illicitly, anxiety, black love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

If I Were She

...If I were S/He
I would look downstream
for a power so high
this mythic enlightenment feels sacredly deep
and widely therapeutic
mystical in feeling,
practical in  application.

If I were She
...

Categories: illicitly, health, heart, integrity, military,
Form: Political Verse

Unrepentant Privilege

..."The simplicity
of total trust
is one of the most powerful forces
in the world."
Sogyal Rinpoche

The Rinpoche's faith 
in radically democratic trust,
feels too wildly green-inclusive madness...

Categories: illicitly, earth, environment, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Gustav Klimt

...
"The Three Ages of Woman," painted by
   the noted symbolist named Gustav Klimt;
from Austria, late-nineteenth century
   till early twentieth, he left his mark.

At center, woman with her...

Categories: illicitly, art, how i feel,
Form: Blank verse

50 Fallen Stars

...50 Fallen Stars
There's a plague of insanity among us
Is it blind ignorance or just the blatantly ignorant?
A whole new land of despair and those with golden bars shall survive.

Hitler too was ...

Categories: illicitly, allusion, america, anger, art,
Form: Verse

Single Day Father

....

Am a Single Day Father, like my father.
I have never accepted my son,
And show him my inner feelings,
This is a trend which comes from my father,
He never became dad to me,
I never saw him holding...

Categories: illicitly, confusion, father, day, father,
Form: Free verse

I Declined Beauty's Invitation

...I declined beauty’s invitation
she approached in shadow
cool and yielding to the eye
a momentary nakedness
not thrilling as flesh illicitly exposed
but soothing
like truth perhaps
if there wer...

Categories: illicitly, introspection
Form: Prose Poetry