Idly Fret
...I'm sitting with device in hand,
Trapped in forked thought,
Derailed, enqueued, attention spanned,
All plot but ought for naught.
Zephyr-jostled oriel,
Jalousie jingle jets,
Venetian pi...
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Categories:
jalousie, addiction, body, dark, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Life
...Life is not a scrawled hazy fantasy.
We must learn to impress what we fancy.
If we open our fastened jalousie
then maybe, we can explicitly see
that our mind can be wider than the sea.
For ...
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Categories:
jalousie, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Curtains of My Heart
...With beams of divine illumination
my heart is unveiled from shielding curtains
exposing verities of motive-throbs
surely God can discern
bereft of humanistic favoritism.
Lurking drape ...
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Categories:
jalousie, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Palm-Chats of Jalousie, Haiti
...After Agnes Krampe
Upon a lone palm,
they build their communal
nest —determinedly— but pause
to study the berry-hued
cinder blocks of the hillside
shanty town, short lives
stack...
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Categories:
jalousie, analogy, bird, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Memory
...The forgotten memory
Years ago I received a video from a place I had left I put it in a drawer
where it languished for years, yesterday I played it an eerie a part of
a history I had forgotten, y...
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Categories:
jalousie, candy, cat, character, childhood,
Form: Blank verse
The Rejection
...it all started on a nothing day
one where the sun shines just so
not too hot, not too cold, like the tea
that stirred easy in the mug staring up at her &
the fact that they had been friends for quite...
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Categories:
jalousie, life,
Form: Free verse
The Musical Lady
...The Musical Lady
I knew of a pavement café where tables and chairs were painted
in different colours, this to lend ambience in an otherwise dreary
street. A young lady, a student at the music...
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Categories:
jalousie, funny, happiness, music, hair,
Form: Blank verse
When Hell Freezes Over
...Two windswept hearts skip a beat
beneath a broken window
Frozen footprints from ice cold feet
as if they didn't know
paint the window sill
and chill a crying crow
with a look to kill
it c...
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Categories:
jalousie, adventure, allegory, death
Form: I do not know?
Tears
...Tears
(for A, I shed)
When I herd these tribes and fashion cities
With my words, you are what's missing.
- Mookie Katigbak, The Proxy Eros
I c...
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Categories:
jalousie, introspectionme,
Form: Free verse