Coup de Foudre
...They told me, if you’re camping and it’s raining,
to never touch the fabric of the tent
inside: they said it breaks the seal, explaining
that any person so improvident ...
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Categories:
improvident, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
antonyms
...I’m finally going to get on that platform
on the 18th of next month,
for a first-time, one-time performance.
The once, seemingly impossible will come fully true,
which seems like a lot narrative...
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Categories:
improvident, appreciation, courage, future, graduation,
Form: Free verse
To An Inadequate Father
...Don’t your daughter’s skin
Attack with a pin
Nor her blushing wall
Hit for an amusing fall…
And don’t your vibrant son
Leave in improvident sun:
Now playfully moving clockwise
If he ventures...
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Categories:
improvident, care, family, father son,
Form: Rhyme
I - Illusion
...Images of incineration interrupt
Infernal imagery imposes in intricate intervals, illegible to those ill with ignorance
Inadequate ideologies imply impoverish ways, never to be incriminated no matt...
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Categories:
improvident, corruption, fire, future, image,
Form: ABC
Ode To the Long Neglected Squirrel
...Hail, high denizen of tree,
not one improvident like me,
safe within your arbor's ruts,
there you keep your store of nuts.
Autumnal bunting soon must end.
and winter dearth is round the bend.
W...
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Categories:
improvident, nature, tree,
Form: Couplet
Not Given To Know
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Zeus mythical bastard son of Aesop wives tales
Y-chromosomes missing their synthetic teat surrogacy
Xanthium baby mamas getting the cash subsidy breed
Wisdom being parceled for fine pri...
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Categories:
improvident, spiritual, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form: ABC
The Death of Tutankhamen
...THE DEATH OF TUTANKHAMEN
I.
The king is dead--and layed within his place,
and night has fallen as it did before,
within his tomb he hides his golden face
and waits to li...
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Categories:
improvident, future, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
The Death of Tutankhamen
...THE DEATH OF TUTANKHAMEN
I.
The king is dead--and layed within his place,
and night has fallen as it did before,
within his tomb he hides his golden face
and waits to li...
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Categories:
improvident, absence, culture, history,
Form: Sonnet
A Lady of a Certain Age
...I’ve been around this world awhile,
have had my ups and downs.
I think were I to tally them,
I’ve had more smiles than frowns.
I want to live each day as though
it is the very last,
for I hav...
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Categories:
improvident, life, day,
Form: Ballad
Patient Love
...Time was when love was very near, lying there in waiting.
In dawdling youth I looked away, with heart and head debating.
The mind grew weary after while, conceding heart had won.
The heart exten...
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Categories:
improvident, love, heart, heart, love,
Form: Couplet
Folly
...Ever seen a warrior beaten by an armless nincompoop,
Whom he could have maimed and vanquished?
A pilot swimming through murky waters,
Having ignored the benefits flights so furnished?
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Categories:
improvident, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
The Perfect Firmament
...Before sunrise the firmament,
silent and luminous
kept all its stars under guard,
and none would go astray,
because the voice of God they obey;
and their names, unknown to us,
are spoken by Hi...
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Categories:
improvident, inspirational, love, nature, peace,
Form: Ode