A Flogging Rain
...We carry small talk above our heads, ceilings drip clouds.
Nothing is put away. Coats dangle over chairs in layers.
Drugged by spate and mizzle, denim droops,
snagged over rummage
and the outst...
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Categories:
impedimenta, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Land
...We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.
We raised cities that were bear free.
Our faith in 'better and bigger' soared;
meth fueled crime leapt still greater.
Cracks appeared where a gari...
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Categories:
impedimenta, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Land
...A sinewy faith built rough cabins.
We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.
We raised cities that were bear free.
Everything soared;
later crime and meth rose even
higher.
Cracks app...
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Categories:
impedimenta, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Leavings
...When I am only an almanac of belonging
left behind
I will leave a son who will move on
allowing me time to pick his pockets
of the sins of his father.
There will be grandchildren
tucked away ...
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Categories:
impedimenta, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Saving the Gray
...Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
and not the broken spool...
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Categories:
impedimenta, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Green Eggs, Spam and Grits
...Green eggs, Spam and grits
Sam and Pam had their fill,
Then made their way to Main Street
Down WhoDat’s Whatsup Hill.
Waived "Hi!" to their neighbors
To show them that they cared.
All smiled ...
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Categories:
impedimenta, bullying, cat, courage, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
When First These White Walls Were New and Porcelaneously Gleaming
...Spartan are the white walls were once hung draperies
And things papered, paneled, plastered...
Yet, 'tis so no more.
Now all is white and wan and sickly,
And the ghostly shadows of the accoutre...
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Categories:
impedimenta, absence, allegory, angst, anniversary,
Form: I do not know?
An Impermissible and Impossible Thing
...Were it not a thing impermissible,
I'd take handfuls of all these silly bits of
Simulacra, and detritus, dross and debris:
The minutiae and impedimenta that are all these
Constricting, confini...
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Categories:
impedimenta, allusion, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Ins and Outs Part 4
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 3
Dr. D. confers in panic
with Rex and boys at the Limbo Sa...
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Categories:
impedimenta, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Stephanus Marcus 5
...Stephanus Marcus Book I
Canto I
Verses 8 and 9
Swords, bucklers, "apparatus belli" seen,
all shields escutheoned by their family sign.
Pass gate, across bridged moat, on road called Queen,
ra...
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Categories:
impedimenta, england,
Form: Rhyme
Intentional Connection
...To be less of such impedimenta
and far more of intention
instead of solitary
and more of intentional connection
What is there to be discovered in bar code religion
that the centuries of a mou...
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Categories:
impedimenta, god,
Form: Free verse