The Great Debate
...(“Citadel of Light Merit Badge”, 2016, original pen and ink)
The Great Debate
The great debate in buddhism
Specifically in ancient Tibet,
Was between the sudden and gradualist schools....
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Categories:
inexplicably, allegory, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Love’s Unraveling, Love’s Return
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She says she loves me—yet dreams of another,
her heart adrift on restless tides,
where my name dissolves into echoes,
a whisper lost before breath takes hold.
I am broken.
I see her alone ...
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Categories:
inexplicably, deep, devotion, fate, love,
Form: Free verse
Fool For Poetry
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Amouage is given
to the Pope, the King, the Queen
some we offer willingly others begrudgingly
the honorable can be challenged or challenging
the dishonored deemed unworthy,
placed upon ...
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Categories:
inexplicably, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Natural Treasure
...The sight of a tree has been known
to move people to tears of joy,
while others, inexplicably, see it
as something only to destroy.
But here is an inescapable fact:
when we help trees to grow ...
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Categories:
inexplicably, appreciation, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
The Great American Disgrace
...While the oceans are churning
The world above is slowly burning
Flags of freedom have turned white
Giving up before they even fight
At the expense of the American dream
We've sold our future f...
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Categories:
inexplicably, america, anger, corruption, how
Form: Free verse
Ode to Earth
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Traversing forests, deserts, and over plains, baked naked out in the sun,
forlorn, a child sobbing in the rain, or teardrops from heaven falling..,
Imagine just a moment, futility of time,
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Categories:
inexplicably, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea
...Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea...,
yielded following resultant fiction,
which arbitrarily selected thread
first popped into my head
considered one among many pos...
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Categories:
inexplicably, absence, america, confusion, humorous,
Form: Free verse
A starry eyed burst of creativity
...A (starry eyed) burst of creativity...
at approximately
a painfully early o'clock in the morning
give or take an o'clock
found yours truly (me) amassing
line after line of a poem
crazily coal...
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Categories:
inexplicably, abuse, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Select A Character
...I’m dressed for battle. Sword in my hand, shield covering my weak chest, my lungs heave. I stand, inexplicably tall and brass. Vision barely focusing on the girl in front of me, her pigtails are lops...
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Categories:
inexplicably, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Yours truly me just got acclimated to writing 2024
...Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document
Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this ca...
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Categories:
inexplicably, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
The Golden Oriole
...On his twenty-fifth birthday, elated
He decided to go hunting.
He let the fresh air of the early morning
On the slope of a wooded hill, fill his lungs.
A small vale stretched beneath him,
Whil...
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Categories:
inexplicably, bird, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
attempting to learn bird speak
...bird-speak is inexplicably complicated
I try to imitate it, but unsuccessfully
it is impossible without a beak
a mouth cannot replicate these sounds
I dare not try to decipher their meaning
with...
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Categories:
inexplicably, bird,
Form: Free verse
To Whom Does This Come
...What’s left behind is the fragrance of the lilac
Crushed between forlorn fingers
Petals held in contorted hands
Once lust rendered dust the terrain shall cover
Fierceness is abandoned forgivene...
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Categories:
inexplicably, analogy, deep, i am,
Form: Haibun
God the Father is Able
...God answers miraculously, and powerfully!
Suddenly, inexplicably, amazingly
God the Father is able beyond all measure
God gave us the Kingdom of God
Before the foundations of the world!
God is a...
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Categories:
inexplicably, education, god,
Form: Free verse
Melancholic Bound
...Fragile fragments lachrymose, sanctified sapphire rivulets, lamentable malevolence of my fetters, is there a sanctuary from this tableau to which I am shackled as you cascade down the window pane?
E...
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Categories:
inexplicably, dark,
Form: Free verse
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