BAR CHRONICLES
...Fireflies in my bourbon
(PART 4 OF 10)
The bar looks haunted today,
Jukebox playing requiems as long songs,
Cigarette smoke suffocating air in between inhalations,A man knows he needs air to f...
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Categories:
inhalations, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
How Frank Sinatra Saved My Life - Or At Least Got Me Kicked Out Of The Hospital
...Up and down, up and down, up and down
I don’t know if I have any more energy for
Up and down
If the line would flatten
I could finally rest
A masked woman wearing scrubs
Fights my inclinatio...
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Categories:
inhalations, faith, health, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Introducing the Splitzmodic Vibratones
...Emaciated test-tube mutations
Raised apart in pristine distillations
Conceived in dexedrine celebrations
and the crazed, ecstatic inhalations
of the professor’s choicest pheromones
Right-...
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Categories:
inhalations, music, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Soul-Embrace Whispers
... Written: October 15, 2023
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Shadows dwell in the confines of dreams.
I delve into an abyss of enigmas streams.
The soul...
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Categories:
inhalations, analogy, appreciation, fate, heart,
Form: Rhyme
The Other Day
...I went down by the river
just the other day
I sat on my favorite granite
as I gently caressed a kyanite
I listened to white rushers
splash against steel grey rocks
I graciously engulfed t...
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Categories:
inhalations, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, earth,
Form: Imagism
Taking Place Right Now Inside You
...Halt
Pause to
Consider
Every Process
Taking Place Right Now
In Your Body and Brain
You’ll likely be Overwhelmed
Inhalations, Exhalations
Absorptions, Secretions, Digestions
Grief, Ecstasy, S...
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Categories:
inhalations, body, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Bad Weather
...I’ve learnt to judge you at crucial time,
Not to conclusions jumping: a regrettable crime,
Marriage a woman often eyes in her prime,
Your chosen days, a sour lime,
In my room locked, caring not a...
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Categories:
inhalations, dark, day, earth, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Tolerating Intolerance
...I cannot tolerate
those who are intolerant,
I cannot stand
those who take a stand
against unknown others
unlike themselves,
much less than we are truly
health and safety seekers
multicultu...
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Categories:
inhalations, bullying, caregiving, change, growth,
Form: Political Verse
Grasping Distractions
...Maybe it's just me.
So, I'm asking,
as focused, yet open
as I could ever hope to be,
Do negative correlations
between inhaling
and exhaling
Earth's sensory WorldView
resemble, for you,
too...
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Categories:
inhalations, caregiving, character, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Matzo Ball Soup For the Soul
...Explorations of cerebral fascination
Devilish ideas' mutated peregrinations
Spirited inhalations of tribal incantations
Torso-twisting through saucy peregrinations
Whilst the grimy sesame t...
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Categories:
inhalations, fantasy, hyperbole, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Conflicting Commitments
...Where and when I find a commitment
to capitalism
to buying and selling Earth
to patriarchalism
to racism
to Western SWM LeftHemisphere cultural dominance
to win/lose global economic politics,
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Categories:
inhalations, health, love, military, political,
Form: Political Verse
Oblivious Transit To Astral Sphere
...Transcendent meditative
ascendance assuaged
deep sleep grogginess resultant
resounding residual REM cycles
profound dreams decreasingly faint grip
fading fast, yet...
after effects heavily li...
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Categories:
inhalations, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
City of Lakes
......early Spring walk around 3.2mi. Lake Calhoun...so named after controversial industrialist sotten with checkered past...movement underway to return name to Native American Dakota "Bde Maka Ska" Whi...
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Categories:
inhalations, happiness,
Form: Narrative
When He Can'T Sleep
...He remembers his grandmother
sitting next to him on the couch during naptime;
his two-year-old body restless and jumpy.
She would yawn a tremendous open, lion’s mouth
yawn and shake her mane of...
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Categories:
inhalations, assonance, family, grandmother, love,
Form: Free verse
Je Te Veux - - I Want You
...Hungered for a taste
of your essenced elixir,
drunken inhalations
of your French poetry
a splendiferous whirl
of time & space 'tween
darkly scented moons
and sun's adoration,
blit...
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Categories:
inhalations, beauty, heart, inspiration, longing,
Form: Romanticism
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