The Grasping Talons of Desire
...I want to cling
To you
The way vultures do
Circling in
On every movement
Until the last exhale in winter’s air
Replacing bed sheets
With blankets of
Frosted covered grass
Openi...
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Categories:
inexpressive, animal, deep,
Form: Free verse
Walls of Woe
...I see it,
I see the silence now
shattering, lingering,
mounting up the loud walls
where I used to hear the colours
and every shade of your voice
reverberating from wall to wall
now faded off o...
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Categories:
inexpressive, grief,
Form: Free verse
Under the Bright Red Umbrella
...Under the bright red umbrella
Whilst all around poured down the rain
I giddily kissed some fella
An attempt to forget my pain.
It was springtime there in Paris
The faint-hearted ran from the s...
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Categories:
inexpressive, angst, art, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Deepest Memories and Thoughts
...Deepest Memories and Thoughts
A little child
with big wet tears
An early love
a crushed heart
Feelings of utter loneliness
other people’s cruelty
Jagged-broken glass
a big toe bleedi...
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Categories:
inexpressive, analogy, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Lyric
War of the Words
...Today there's a War of the Words going on
Today there's a War of the Words.
It's taking place all over this beautiful land of ours
Polluting our precious air and clear-blue streams
Muddyin...
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Categories:
inexpressive, change, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Hot Stuff
...How come I never looked like Hot Stuff in a sundress?
My sundresses by comparison look anemic and shapeless
My figure is not what it used to be (it is hopeless)
It’s fallen down, spread out and lo...
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Categories:
inexpressive, funny
Form: Rhyme
Computer
...Computer
Thinking machine
Quickly access information
Detached, indifference, inexpressive, objectivity
Superhuman
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 22, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain...
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Categories:
inexpressive, computer-internet
Form: Cinquain
Script Cognitive
...Script Cognitive
Guiding Hierophants
And Priestess’s
The voices of subliminal
Spiritual clue-lings
Reach out to us
Where the quiz-lings longings
Seeks their answers
Footprints through th...
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Categories:
inexpressive, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse