Chasing the Gray
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Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...
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Categories:
irreverently, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Azure Vistas
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"Azure Vistas"
Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...
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Categories:
irreverently, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Words We Cannot Escape
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“Words We Cannot Escape”
Words we can no longer speak
we tap dance over keys
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand
Autumn now gone
across white-washed n...
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Categories:
irreverently, muse,
Form: Free verse
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
...Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
Ever since a young lad
irritable bowel syndrome
in my humble pinion wracked
lower abdominal area
gurgled and ballooned gastrointes...
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Categories:
irreverently, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
The Vagaries
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"The Vagaries"
You could go all Zen over Me,
I’d listen studiously, then, spit it out
like cherry seeds for integration
the flesh of it all,
"The Past", savoured;
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Categories:
irreverently, muse,
Form: Narrative
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
irreverently, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Plagued With Lifelong Lower Gastrointestinal Sturm Und Drang
...Germane generic geeky guy
five sixths enroute
to complete lxiv luxurious Earth orbits
experienced chronic, demonic,
physiologically hegemonic...
irritable bowel syndrome
without shadow of a do...
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Categories:
irreverently, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Birth of Venus
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"Birth of Venus"
The yo yo
bleeds and bends
a life haunted by ghouls
green nymphs
blowing pixie dust
kissing bottom
a donkey’s soul
tight rope walkin' -
all fo...
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Categories:
irreverently, addiction, dream, muse,
Form: Free verse
Let This Be a Dire Warning To You Part One
...This is a dire warning that I am issuing to all of you as a Watch woman on the Wall! There was a young boy who was able to see into hell and hear many of the people! That were sent there! Some of the...
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Categories:
irreverently, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
The In-Between
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"The In-Between"
I ripped the pages of
that tired old story
from the heart, a body of work
buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back of ...
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Categories:
irreverently, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Blue Sky, Why
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"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet childre...
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Categories:
irreverently, courage, humanity, leadership, light,
Form: Narrative
On the Brink of Tranquility
...I stand on the brink of tranquility
A short distance from out-of-touch,
Surrounded by chaotic disapproval
All around me swirling in confusion,
Wondering whether truth has died--
[sacr...
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Categories:
irreverently, truth,
Form: Free verse
Understood
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"Understood"
My feet stand solemn
grounded they're barefoot
sinking in the undertow,
feeling what’s real
my toes grip the past
while ...
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Categories:
irreverently, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber Part 2
...Gamesomeness goads gawky, gingerly,
goofily graceful, grandiloquent gent, gallant,
genteel, geico, guppy gecko, gabbling gaffes,
gagging, gamboling, gestating, gesticulating,
garlic, gnashing, go...
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Categories:
irreverently, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
The Dilettante Diaries: the Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step On Love Street
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The Dilettante Diaries: "The Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step on Love Street"
She said, "Pffft Bumble Bees Rule,
No Bees, no World
Shy Little Hearts
Big power
freedom wing...
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Categories:
irreverently, fantasy, humorous, imagery, muse,
Form: Romanticism
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