July first two thousand and twenty five
...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.
Expanse of green...
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Categories:
infrequently, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Because He Loves You
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I saw your lips moving ever so infrequently.
There was silence; yet I heard you.
I also beheld your eyes. They were open
wide, wisely listening to every word.
I could feel the sponges of yo...
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Categories:
infrequently, god, youth,
Form: Free verse
Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
...Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable
Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the ...
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Categories:
infrequently, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
goodbye in their eyes
...goodbye in their eyes
while waiting to catch a train,
oftentimes he sat alone at the depot
—afraid—scratching initials in the dirt
and sometimes in his head.
hours became a collisio...
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Categories:
infrequently, lonely, rain, sad,
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:
infrequently, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Fragmented Existence
...Impel discourse upon one and another,
the unseen veracity of ennui and weariness causes me to covertly smother. Appreciation and fascination moderately transpire,
humanity led solicitous to retir...
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Categories:
infrequently, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
division
...The division
Here in this landscape of bushes and crippled trees
the grotesque peace of daylight ghosts
grey boughs stretching upward appeal to a soundless god.
“Give us today a new life.” Ther...
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Categories:
infrequently, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Bride
...And yet the Sun did rise again to warm a broken scene
It peered through ruined window frames where coloured glass had been
Inside, beneath a vanquished roof, before an alter, smashed
She waits in ...
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Categories:
infrequently, halloween, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Wake
...Awake this morning with a positive vibe.
What you can achieve be your only thought.
Let your mind be focused on brighter things.
For today is fresh and newly brought
Days will be fleet as age c...
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Categories:
infrequently, dream,
Form: Rhyme
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...
despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories:
infrequently, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Mountaintop Moments
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You know those mountaintop moments
When your spirit seems to soar,
When all the stars align just for you,
When you have all you wanted and more?
Everything you touch seems to turn to gold
An...
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Categories:
infrequently, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
...Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so ...
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Categories:
infrequently, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Weedy Eschatology
...The aging street mourns its faded splendor.
It remembers having red tulips and roses
in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns
in community yards lining its borders.
But neighborhoods gradually dec...
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Categories:
infrequently, character, endurance, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Dauntless
..."Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution" William Shakespeare
My passion arouses the pulsing of my heart.
My identity fearlessly embarks toward the start.
The confidence I muster surges da...
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Categories:
infrequently, woman,
Form: Couplet
Sitting In Silence
...No edifice harbors more profound silence than this,
Each door creaks with a mournful cadence as if bearing the weight of years.
The stairs emit a plaintive screech, echoing the passage of time.
Al...
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Categories:
infrequently, death, devotion, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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