GNRT DAY 41 FROM LE CHATEAU FRONTENAC TO A TREEHOUSE
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We’ve stayed in a wide variety of places on this long cross country jaunt.
One night we’re in Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City
the next two nights we’re in a tree house in Vermont.
We’ve g...
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Categories:
incinerates, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Earth Air Water Fire
...Over the brazen earth,
A breeze wafting gently,
Evokes sensual aromatic bursts,
Yet earthy by intent.
Clean fresh air rejuvenates.
World’s blanket of atmosphere,
Supplies the essentia...
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Categories:
incinerates, earth,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For the Sun
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“Waiting for the Sun”
when the black hole
turned inside out
the Sun which
those hidden wait for
rolls in like like a
well-lit bowling ball
incinerates all before
th...
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Categories:
incinerates, dark, light, muse,
Form: Narrative
Read and Enter Poetry
...To enter poetry,
you need to be ready...
that you warm up
because poetry can be
as cold as a winter night...
Be care not to freeze
body and soul...
On another occasion,
that you put on light ...
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Categories:
incinerates, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Prose Poetry
Reign of Change
...Hands hold, faces face
Eyes embrace, distance dissolves
Time stops, love lingers.
Hands hang, faces warp
Eyes glare, bridges burn
Past crashes, time aborts.
Minds mangle, hearts abrade
Ego...
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Categories:
incinerates, change, relationship, time,
Form: Free verse
Love In the Spirit Realm
...I revere you here, in the midst of the flames
Which scald incinerates and purifies the faith,
And hurled ash and smoke into the frames
Where flowers blossomed before our birth.
Whic...
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Categories:
incinerates, analogy, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Pantoum
Rachmaninoff's Second
...It is sonorous blue velvet,
a mitten with a thousand invisible fingers.
A concerto for dyslexic mystics.
The composer peeks nervously at the listeners
then rips open his uttering heart
until blo...
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Categories:
incinerates, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fall of Afghanistan
...Just like dominoes, Afghanistan falls;
It was only a matter of time.
American soldiers cash in their chips
And head home on a jet plane
After two decades in the trenches.
An unwinnable war is d...
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Categories:
incinerates, conflict, horror, places, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Destroyer of Worlds
...Pen mightier than the sword, impales upon nothingness
for utterances are omnipotent, as a force of nature
My one encoded word, now incinerates our entire planet
Dear god forgive me, I’ve launche...
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Categories:
incinerates, allusion, dark, war,
Form: Free verse
Most Dangerous Call Ever Made
...I’ve recited this a trillion times
now I utter one single word,
but in code,
Not through amnesia or illness of any kind
Moreover because I have become
part demigod and part devil,
Nothi...
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Categories:
incinerates, allegory, allusion, america, death,
Form: Free verse
Plastic Butterfly
...We float for years - drift and disintegrate.
But we don’t give rise to flowers.
We pollute; as our morality incinerates,
We float and die - drift and disintegrate.
From ourselves we seek to liber...
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Categories:
incinerates, allusion,
Form: Pantoum
Stop and Shop Strike
...The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones.
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling,
p...
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Categories:
incinerates, dream, food, sun, war,
Form: Verse
Unleashed
...Unleashed
And now fifty days since Salvation wrought
Heavenly Volley overflows their court.
Eleven bound in wood, fear, and doubt
Only Love can conjure the single way out.
Flame descends, ...
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Categories:
incinerates, christian, religious,
Form: Rhyme
The Toilet Rap
...A gas leak came again last night.
The dreaded bean a desperate flight.
It takes it’s form of natural gas.
A blowhard’s dream now fleeting fast.
A boastful blast out from the rear.
One last att...
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Categories:
incinerates, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Alcoholic's Sonnet
...I expected my life of days would be fairly calm.
Only the enlightened ancestors would follow me.
I’d mimic them and love and sing their favorite psalm.
Instead this mystic mind does not escape blo...
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Categories:
incinerates, addiction, drink, family,
Form: Sonnet
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