Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was ra...
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Categories:
insignia, art, conflict, death, flower,
Form: Lyric
Reflection Of The Past, Visions Of The Future
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In the live network of intricate design,
layer on layer my mind was stratified.
Within the strata of innate awareness aligned,
many divergent motifs got unified.
Many attributes of sole disti...
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Categories:
insignia, analogy, future, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Swimming In Grief
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When the sodden vision lurks in the dark depth to see
the trace of soul’s insignia at the bottom of tranquil sea,
I fail to discern where the solemn stream I cry flows to lie
beyond th...
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Categories:
insignia, analogy, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
The Person I Used Be
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In the live network of intricate design,
layer on layer my mind was stratified.
Within the strata of innate awareness aligned,
many divergent motifs got unified.
Many attributes of sole disti...
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Categories:
insignia, analogy, me,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Rumours
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Afternoon ember flare coddles forest
Nodule noses, from dark bark eyes sap drips
Naked soldiers, Summer’s subside promised
Farewell foliage, spun fairy floss gossip
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Categories:
insignia, adventure, flying, halloween, voyage,
Form: Sonnet
MOM DAD WAR AND GRACE
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Just the very thought of him, like an artist’s stroke of his
Paintbrush, sealed a promise of a lifetime of tomorrows.
I finally had found myself and, knew my purpose in life.
The instant you...
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Categories:
insignia, animal, world war ii,
Form: Narrative
Etched Humanity
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Written: April 24, 2024
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Tread of life
a strand of hair
disassociation
desolation devastation
floribunda fl...
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Categories:
insignia, analogy, humanity, peace,
Form: Other
Psychologically still thirteen
...Psychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place th...
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Categories:
insignia, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Languish
...The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Categories:
insignia, analogy, appreciation, heart, winter,
Form: Rubaiyat
Imagine
...“Imagination is a persuasive inspiration,
motivates the mind with creative momentum.” – Quote by poet
I imagine my psyche morphs into possessed passion,
becomes a drifing daydream of ...
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Categories:
insignia, analogy, imagination, love,
Form: Rhyme
Symbolic
...Once envoys carried messages, betwixt those Royal thrones of Kings.
Scrolls of vellum parchments, all bearing wax insignia, impressed with signet rings.
These symbols of authenticity, made safe p...
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Categories:
insignia, journey, symbolism,
Form: Couplet
Abundance a Freed Verse
...ABUNDANCE
tangible
& reminecent
a perception
of stimilii
in aspects
of sensory reception
with
variations
of functional
& emotional
desires&needs
an allegory
in the senses
personifie...
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Categories:
insignia, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Scoundrels of the Senate
...Again these men comes to mind,
Paid to say yes and nay,
Lame duck,
Canker, ***** rapscallion minds
Incorrigible,
Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries
Maggots in honor...
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Categories:
insignia, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
He Won'T Fit Inside a Church
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He won’t fit inside a church
He won’t fit inside a thought
He won’t fit inside a hope
Yet He fits inside a heart
He is light and He is love
He lavishes us, each one, with good
He re...
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Categories:
insignia, appreciation, christian, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Its a Cold Cold War
...Amongst the guns and bullets
the tremors of a soul unfinished, refurbished,
by a cold cold war
Democrats, Republicans
dead remains without a name
who cares which side of the f...
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Categories:
insignia, anxiety, war,
Form: Free verse
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