Our journey thus far
...1 Intent
Assigning no meaning to grace imbibed,
we watch how we are breath by breath transformed,
drenched in bliss mists that cannot be described,
trouncing ego, last bastions of mind s...
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Categories:
inroads, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Behind the Magnolia Curtain
...Behind the magnolia curtain, childhood ne’er knew.
Drawn to Sleepy Hollow - over the river, really
mountains; and the thruway, to Grandma’s we go.
Magnificent magnolias, bountiful with ...
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Categories:
inroads, people, tree,
Form: Free verse
Saqi Poem Series: Collecting Stars
...
Saqi
I yearn
To pluck these stars
Out of their distant stupor
To hurl them
And watch them explode
In the immeasurable
Distance
I yearn
To thunder
My intentions
to rip down
mount...
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Categories:
inroads, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
the Lost Mermaids
...The Albatross grants us its vue
The lamp is bright
to mature your soul
The nonsense makes me numb
The Mermaids of the Canals cry
their demise
They play their best web, swim
Make your plans
te...
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Categories:
inroads, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
On Moral Relativism, Part I
...A point of view that I first saw
back in my college years
now seems to be quite everywhere,
and that’s reason to fear.
That moral relativism
the toxic left promotes
strikes me as at the greates...
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Categories:
inroads, god, humanity, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Clouds
...You watch the candle burning
you thought they were a charade
watching them flicker
You played with painted ladies
see how they turn and twitch
And the moon is praying
to be somewhere else,
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Categories:
inroads, age,
Form: Free verse
Clarion Call
...The rotting process,
The ailing wood,
Slowly its strength ebbed,
Gradually its resilience declined,
Blemishes made inroads to its core,
Its roots became feeble and frail,
Its boughs withered,
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Categories:
inroads, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
The Last Crusade
...Most of his mature life
had been a process of recoiling
and mending.
Until late
he had not suspected
that this prolonged retreat
had been his lot.
He thought he was building bricks,
const...
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Categories:
inroads, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Raining Again
...“This circus is falling…”
It’s circa 1997; I’m in Charlotte, NC
It’s a 13-week consulting gig, my longest ever
I come home every few weeks
Long days at the customer site
A hostile environment;...
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Categories:
inroads, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Tough Though True
...War reprehensible war, with such connotations as I abhor'
Also the agents of its inception; on them be complete rejection'
Those that sow unrest, within the people's breast; bones of contention'
S...
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Categories:
inroads, appreciation, betrayal, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
Fear of Freedom
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Inch
by inch
we progress,
making inroads
to entwine with soul,
which in turn connects us
to domain of love and light,
present both within and without
seeking but surrender of ou...
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Categories:
inroads, freedom, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
Ink To Paper An Un Quatrainal 19nov17
...On an empty page, my quill
Does not sit to quench
Its thirst to lessen this quandary
To let, nay make, quintessential
Inroads, biding thy quiver
Of lexiconical bolts; queuing
And firing for...
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Categories:
inroads, inspiration, metaphor, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
A Hopeless Romantic
...meandering
along the hinterland
relentlessly I search
for innocent love
in the remoteness
of unspoilt territory…
a hopeless romantic
making inroads into
inaccessibility
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Categories:
inroads, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse
Caveats of Carpe Diem
...When the sinking feeling rises
He hopes it floats on rainbow bubbles
Until the dredges clear once more
What ifs have not buts they simply are
A luxury or misdemeanour in thou...
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Categories:
inroads, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Machine: the Final Chapter
...Computer
Bits, bytes, ones, zeros
So Charles and Ada conceive -
IT’s Pandora’s box
Robot
Man and beast replaced
Same task over and over -
Objective carnage
AI
Boolea...
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Categories:
inroads, computer, environment, planet, technology,
Form: Haiku
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