Orphaned Moments
...Abandoning
yesterday
haunts me
today
Interring
reminder
of what’s not
in play
Bypassing
my choosing
evading
my will
Each sight
unenvisioned
in blindness
— distilled
(The New Roo...
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Categories:
interring, time,
Form: Rhyme
Our tribute to you Marie
...A tribute to Marie,
Marie, you seemed to draw the short straw in life,
Again and again,
Yet somehow you were able find a way to keep giving,
To those who we thought less deserving.
But giving w...
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Categories:
interring, age, angel, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
Hear the Instruction-
...Hear the Instruction
Cast in the lot among;
Let us all have one purse;
For the love of money is the root of all evil;
If someone comes to take your pants, give him your shirt;
Hear the i...
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Categories:
interring, analogy, appreciation, care, caregiving,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fragments of First Love
...“Fragments of the first experience ever remain in air” ~ By poet
Sits above uncle wearing his preacher's hat;
Sits her Mom below with a vacant praise;
She for whom h...
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Categories:
interring, evil, heartbreak, love,
Form: Rhyme
Which Door To Open
...The corridors of life are rarely straight:
Not only do they bend and twist and veer,
We find the way ahead becomes unclear,
Soon blocked by doors -- each door, a different fate.
We’d like to take...
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Categories:
interring, analogy, future, life, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Loving--
...In a kingdom full of cuddles;
'Loving!' said I, 'thing of amour';
My passion is this blessed, crazy muddles;
Heated hot emotions and loins treasures;
Got fever boiling?
Can't contro...
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Categories:
interring, analogy, appreciation, desire, for
Form: Rhyme
The Last of the Wine
...The Last of the Wine
When the last of the wine
has been poured, red and dry,
and the gold wings of eagles,
burnished by time, dismount the sky.
When the velvet hush of eventide
conquers the...
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Categories:
interring, love, romance, romantic love,
Form: Verse
Mr Strange
...I walk the plank
Lit the bed, laugh at myself
Like whose that in the mirror?
Laughing at me, now I'm sad
Playing with dolls
Hocus pocus to the kids next door,
The voodoo
I contemplated for ...
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Categories:
interring, image, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Quiet Hypocrisy
...A Rant – The Quiet Hypocrisy
it seeps in through gradual osmosis
and soon is ingrained in pliant minds
it mutates and thrives in tunnels of vision
and then is fused into the fiber of unreason
t...
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Categories:
interring, courage, dream, education, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Bliss Be
...Bliss is the lips of a lover.
Soft yet Harsh and,
Unchanging lips which spring words of love,
Upon ones breast.
Leaving it to,
Resonate hums of love,
Upon the winds wings.
Interring the v...
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Categories:
interring, love
Form: Free verse
Castles In Spain
...Drumming from the amps, bristling with snares and hooks,
(“I see in your eyes, castles in Spain.”);
Aide memoirs of the past, post-war resurrection, stubbornly,
Wreathed in wires of smoke and deli...
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Categories:
interring, allegory, angst, death, history,
Form: Verse