Time Comes For All Things
...What is the nature of the affection you claim to possess for me when your expressions of love are accompanied by detachment, distance, and uncomfortable silences? I find myself engaging in internal m...
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Categories:
inquiries, age, brother, conflict, deep,
Form: Free verse
There's a dead horse in my bathtub
...I resist the urge to write of what I allegedly know for I am unsure of where I gathered the information and therefor unsure of whether I know it or not. As you can see this poses a strange conundrum...
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Categories:
inquiries, humor,
Form: Prose
Portrait of an All-American Fe-Male
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When Joe was young he had tonsilitis
In grade school he developed bronchitis
Later, elbow bursitis
And Colitis, Neuritis
Now that Joe’s old ~ he ...
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Categories:
inquiries, conflict, gender, humor, pain,
Form: Limerick
Multi-Di-Minstrel Message, Reprised
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Salutations!
Are we all just a footnote in God’s mental thoughts?
He’s gotta BIG BANG Universe to run, does He not?
He’s the most masterful, magical, mystical, mathematical Magician....
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Categories:
inquiries, dream,
Form: Spoken Word
Something We Never Had
...How can I feel and almost touch something we never had?
A moment shared but not, lost somewhere a long way from where it started,
where it didn’t begin.
But I can paint a picture of it, transcribe...
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Categories:
inquiries, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Secrets
...Do state secrets still matter much?
What is so horrible they would reveal
That could really astound as such
Though most horrible are the most real
Compile some selected facts
Into a confident na...
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Categories:
inquiries, mystery, political,
Form: Rhyme
That was Then This is Now
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Written: April 13, 2024 For Ink Empress Contest
Rumi Quote: “Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.” “Words can fertilize space now and th...
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Categories:
inquiries, analogy, change, fate,
Form: Free verse
Story-My humor
...Do you know what it feels like when your dad leaves to go get the milk and comes back with a gun and some vengeance?
No? Well me neither.
See look, being funny is hard.
Some people don’t like your...
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Categories:
inquiries, creation, emotions, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative
A Memory From The Past
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AN ANECDOTE FROM THE PAST...
Names of places and persons have either been changed or omitted to protect identity.
It was a late summer’s night warm and balmy,
Camping we were high in ...
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Categories:
inquiries, confidence, conflict, friend, hero,
Form: Free verse
Beyond a Telescope
...Beyond a telescope lies a million mysteries.
There is space, a vacuum, filled with solar systems,
And the most beautiful planets orbiting amidst the stars.
Beyond a telescope there are comets...
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Categories:
inquiries, imagination, space,
Form: Free verse
Tactile Awarenes
...She shared a tactile fancy
Explored the feelings of the world
Inquiries of subtle touch
Within her head vision unfurled
She visited a wooded glen
Saw through sound and scent and presence
Tha...
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Categories:
inquiries, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Questions' Answer
...May 18 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 36-38
Key Verse – Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY QUESTIONS’ ANSWER<...
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Categories:
inquiries, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Please Use Me, Lord
...When I don’t know what to say
Be my voice
When I don’t know what to pray
Be my choice
Be the wisdom that eludes,
Beautiful that pursues,
The miracle of Holy Truth
When I don’t know what to ...
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Categories:
inquiries, appreciation, christian, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Crystal Brook Heroes
...Our shifts are duly spent
Of police duty known and meant
And inquiries followed through
In the daily things we do
One day this can turn dangerous
When this duty becomes onerous
And an off...
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Categories:
inquiries, anger, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Verse
Questions
...QUESTIONS….
They thought my
dinnertime inquiries
about their days at public school
were interrogations, investigations
pursuant to suspicions of misbehavior,
missing homework, dissatisfaction...
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Categories:
inquiries, family,
Form: Free verse
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