As I Look Down - 2025
...As I look down and see the ground, on which my feet don’t stand
The light I see is all around, things haven’t gone as planned
It’s really kweer, I’m standing here, and somehow, you are not
You did...
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Categories:
interspersed, betrayal, suicide,
Form: Lyric
Cosmic Dreamcatcher's Ride
...Across the way, I can replay
Scenes from the past, like a wandering day
Of hope and tenderness on the blue bus
Among riders, hurried but generous.
As such stars passed through Montana, eyes sta...
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Categories:
interspersed, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Motherly Love and Frowns
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Motherly Love and Frowns
Treading down the memory lane streams to my mind
memories from far yet near, some sweet, some sour,
memories preciously shelved in the prec...
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Categories:
interspersed, appreciation, feelings, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
A Defensive Action
...How fortunate that I, correctly versed,
knew hand-grenades are passive. At their worst,
they maim and kill. But this is interspersed
with usefulness: defenders have no thirst
for carnage. Since t...
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Categories:
interspersed, war,
Form: Sonnet
Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...
of diverse and sundry sizes engaged
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide t...
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Categories:
interspersed, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Etched in Stone
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Etched in Stone
In the soothing serene silence of a shining summer day
Strolling along a lonely alley laid in black stones
Bordered on both sides with verdant ...
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Categories:
interspersed, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Wild Kingdom
...Wild Kingdom
every Sunday night
Marlin and Jim
traveling throughout the world
catching cats
lassoing llamas
herding hyenas
interspersed with insurance commercials
Mutual of Omaha protec...
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Categories:
interspersed, humor,
Form: Free verse
Poet who exhibits panache
...Poet who exhibits panache - meant...
to tickle your fancy dear reader rabbit,
perchance European G-man double agent
regarding the following poem
with kick a$$, je ne sais quois
ingenious, humo...
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Categories:
interspersed, adventure, appreciation, celebration, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
moonstone
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‘if I could I would fetch you the moon a spoon …’
opalescent like a chakra’s rainbow
your lustrous promise kindled
a path to peace and stability
to the moon and the back of beyond
shining da...
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Categories:
interspersed, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Haunted House No More
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Reverberating eerie noise
Interspersed with tormenting voice
Always lamenting like that of sorrowful boys---
Oh, haunted house… you allow children not to rejoice!
Echoing agonizing wa...
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Categories:
interspersed, blessing, christian, environment, hope,
Form: Rhyme
October Seven: An Acrostic
...Each incoming missile took out by ‘The dome’
Very few, thankfully, get to hit home
It never will change till tyrannical men
Learn to repent of their actions back then…
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Categories:
interspersed, religion, war,
Form: Acrostic
Jews Harp - A Reflection On Turmoil
...I take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe
in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days
their tea cups are only for them
interspersed with silence and solitude
the streets are buildings...
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Categories:
interspersed, inspirational, introspection, life, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
As I Look Down
...As I look down and see the ground
On which my feet don’t stand
The light I see is all around
Things haven’t gone as planned
It’s really kweer, I’m standing here
And somehow, you are not
You d...
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Categories:
interspersed, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
GNRT DAY 25 HALFWAY IN DULUTH
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Since leaving Banff we’ve driven 1200 miles
(as a nod to Deborah’s dad we drive only during the day!)
and we’ve stopped for the night in 6 different spots along the way.
So after driving 260 ...
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Categories:
interspersed, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Revel In A Luscious Glimpse
...Deep blood red orange cloud’s,
ethereal dream float,
Satin wind carrier of luscious mint,
green hymnody’s deft transport,
Spring hues random loitering,
between gray peeled branches,
Chirpy echo...
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Categories:
interspersed, appreciation, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Narrative
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