The Annual County Carnival
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The carnival came once a year.
My friends and I could hardly wait.
The lively music reached us long
before we ever reached the gate.
We’d pay our dollar to get in
and...
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Categories:
jostling, childhood, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Hovering Moon
...Where hovering Moon touches field of ripened corn
Lone ragged tree contrives to fracture perfectness.
Heavens jostling myriads eager to witness how Moon
Responds to such deliberate and prov...
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Categories:
jostling, appreciation, august, culture, environment,
Form: Free verse
Beyond the Veils of Kensington Street
...Checked by www.howmanysyllables.com
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Categories:
jostling, city, feelings, social, society,
Form: Rhyme
Earth
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a blue speck of yonder eons
my cosmic charisma
in spatial silent spin
immaculate
stream strings wind in rhapsody breeze
through the topographic template
carved of rocks
the sands of tim...
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Categories:
jostling, analogy, earth,
Form: Other
the mismolding of the lens
...Courageous stories end courageous words, issuing peaceful assemblies
Laid away as day was valued, enjoyed without symbol
Divisive victory hiding overtures of bread
Hardships and arrogance about h...
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Categories:
jostling, abuse, age, america,
Form: Free verse
The World Is An Aquarium
...The world is a sea of gigantic aquarium
Of immeasurable acreage;
With eclectic species of humans:
Coal, Amber, Snow and Bronze;
365 score days in the whale's gut,
Junketing from Kolkata, Kalama...
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Categories:
jostling, humanity, life, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Of Strings and Wind
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Of Strings and Wind
As the embers fades
There emerges a throbbing pain
The then jostling crowd
Befuddled with many words
Now swallowed in shallow graves
Ebbing expectation
Of men ...
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Categories:
jostling, confusion, deep,
Form: Narrative
Bon Voyage
...The story goes that men have only one thing on their mind
But down throughout the ages there are men far more refined
Sometimes man is called upon to do the righteous thing
And carry out the wish...
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Categories:
jostling, rain, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Relent
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Most of the night was a blur
Couples giggling as they passed
Some teens jostling each other in the shadows, the smell of cheap alcohol carrying on the night air
The neon fuzz of the carnival c...
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Categories:
jostling, poems,
Form: Free verse
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
...n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement....
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Categories:
jostling, character, dark, death, emotions,
Form: Prose
Pearl-Eyed Riser Part Two
...Blue
Waves
usher
ocean dream
enchanting ripples,
whose hypnotic spell oozes charm,
for yellow dawn pearl-eyed first light riser’s coastal fog,
stunned by the heavenly turquoise canvass ...
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Categories:
jostling, beach, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Fibonacci
The Monroe Moon
...In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with ...
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Categories:
jostling, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
New Year Wishes
...Written 29 December 2023
New Year Wishes
The old year is fast flying by,
A new yea...
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Categories:
jostling, happiness, humanity, inspirational, men,
Form: Quatrain
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
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When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
...
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Categories:
jostling, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Refugee
...I was born in the African horn,
In a village, that was always warn torn,
Tired of my life, on a gloomy morn,
I took that fateful decision alone.
Without telling my loving family,
I left them b...
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Categories:
jostling, africa,
Form: Rhyme
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