Inhospitable Poems

Premium MemberMemento on the Moon

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The Sea of Tranquility gives rise to a parasitic plague,  
Colonizing mechanical machines grinding,  
Robotic arms frantically fabricating an inhospitable habitat.  
Plumes of blackened smok...
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Categories: inhospitable, conflict, humanity, poetry, science,
Form: Ekphrasis

The breathing, bare branched tree outside the kitchen window?

...She shivers about, tense
at the inhospitable world 
blinds and plexiglass seal frightened creatures from. 
Rocking
from root to root — 
in front, in back, in 
the sun’s silhouette, the wind fan...
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Categories: inhospitable, nature,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPerfect Illusion

...within the oscillation of melting clocks,
our poltergeists of times long expired…still reverberate~
tainted ticking echoing
in an everlasting tug of war,
pushing and pulling,
throwing barbs at b...
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Categories: inhospitable, conflict, dark, gothic, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Formidable

...4/20/24


The truth not fictional
If you don't get the principle
Then it's not clearly visible

No it was not biblical
Or mythical

Zero to do with being political
Yet they'll treat you li...
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Categories: inhospitable, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStars Tempt Our Senses

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It was time to visit the stars
To embrace them with my senses
Though the price was astronomic
I saved up for the expenses

Most think stars are unreachable
Due to the heat that they emit
B...
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Categories: inhospitable, adventure, senses, stars,
Form: Rhyme


Glimmers In the Abyss

...In the ocean’s vast and boundless deep, where light begins to cease,
A world of silent shadows casts a spell of tranquil peace.
Abyssal creatures, luminous with bioluminescent glows,
Paint streaks...
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Categories: inhospitable, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Looking To Nobody To Save the World

...I hear it more and more,
Every time I visit the store,
Walk along the shore,
Or hear our neighbors next door.

"Nobody is going to tell me what to do",
No wonder I am feeling blue,
Every time ...
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Categories: inhospitable, analogy, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberAn Inhospitable Truth I Have

...An inhospitable truth I have
   To carry throughout my life
That must stay buried in my heart –
   What a terrible truth!

It dances on my tongue
   When I feel somebody knows.
On the scale of...
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Categories: inhospitable, history, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTransgender

...“In the eyes of God, everyone is equal. The real dignity of a man lies in treating all with respect, never relegating anyone as inferior.”  ~ By Poet

Applying a coat of thick rouge
Ov...
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Categories: inhospitable, angst, betrayal, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Prolonging Pain

...prolonging pain 
ongoing insane
subverting hurting
ain't working
dodging the day
gets me no pay
prices up wages flat
elect a democrat
who does better than
what's done by republican
spending...
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Categories: inhospitable, anger, ireland,
Form: Free verse

Home

...I was always told that home was not where you hang your hat, but it's where your heart is. Home I have found is not a place that can be given an address, or pointed at on a map. Home is the warmth, a...
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Categories: inhospitable, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

It's Not a Bluebird But It's What I Have

...after Charles Bukowski

No bird lives
in my heart. An 
inhospitable place, flooding
every morning
with curious
blue blood. 

The bird I know
lives
in the park or,
the zoo, or may...
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Categories: inhospitable, bird, life, poets,
Form: Free verse

July First 2023 Will Celebrate

...July first 2023 will celebrate...
our sixth anniversary at Highland Manor Apartments
	
Subtitled: The perspective of one festive folky fellow
friendliness ofttimes prompts me 
when crossing path...
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Categories: inhospitable, absence, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOceans

...My boyfriend (Peter) and I went down to New Haven Harbor today.

Let’s face it, we’re surrounded by oceans,
and most of them are downright inhospitable.

I live near the ocean, (pointing) it’s r...
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Categories: inhospitable, books, boyfriend, ocean, space,
Form: Rhyme

Generation Z the End of the Line

...No one wants love they only want likes, 
freely protesting they haven’t got rights! 

Raised by the system playing the victim, 
that’s the ambition that they envision. 

Say you’re offended by ...
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Categories: inhospitable, age, people,
Form: Rhyme

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