Confessional Booth Number 9
...Streetlight dander. Jawbone asphalt.
Blink razors carve her iris script.
Rib stars ovulate in feral grates,
mechanical tongue juts a bloodline breath.
Keystroke ruin writes in collapse,
a wavefo...
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Categories:
keystroke, absence, conflict, corruption, desire,
Form: Romanticism
december
...(a quick, staccato tapping of imaginary typewriter keys)
december!
(d(arkness)).
(e(nding)).
(c(old)).
(e(ven so)).
(m(emory(christmas hanukkah kwanza))).
(b(efore(ten))).
(e(ach(a flicke...
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Categories:
keystroke, birth, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form: Acrostic
Literary Feud Among - Pt 1
...Prelude to what…..
I see you, / you / yes, come into my……
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought
and savage syntax shatter li...
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Categories:
keystroke, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Flower Thirsting For Rain
...In the glow of a screen,
we found each other,
two souls adrift in the vastness,
spilling into the digital ether,
each keystroke a heartbeat,
Sometimes, I trace the outline
of your fa...
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Categories:
keystroke, abuse, computer, cry, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
the old poets
...The old poets haunt me
they taunt me from the shadows
following every keystroke I type -
they’re critical of phrases,
they demand narrower themes
and mock the very clichés they invented.
I re...
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Categories:
keystroke, anxiety, gothic, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
internet
...Oh, the internet, that digital domain,
Where truth and fiction dance in disdain.
Where every keyboard warrior reigns supreme,
And cat videos rule, a bizarre meme.
Scroll through feeds of filter...
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Categories:
keystroke, funny, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
...Au revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liber...
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Categories:
keystroke, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Unsociable Media
...Everyday we get more dependant
Reducing our span of attention
Rendering us less independant
Diminishing our skill of retention.
Like this, like that
Me.. Me.. meme.. Me
View this, watch th...
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Categories:
keystroke, society,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To a Master Poet
...At times a poet joins us
At times another leaves
But when a master poet departs
it's a dagger to the collective heart ...
O, but if he pops in for a 'cuppa' or two
his every ke...
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Categories:
keystroke, joy, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Does Poetry Have a God
...Does poetry have a god?
I wonder as I write,
Re-write, delete, delete,
Save….no wait….
I sense a presence
Hovering over my fingers
As they search
Each keystroke
Hesitating, conspiring
With...
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Categories:
keystroke, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophization
...anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,
especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
pun...
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Categories:
keystroke, 12th grade, anger, computer,
Form: Rhyme
Pressure
...It’s May 18th, 2022. I’m poised, alone, heart pounding, in front of my laptop, waiting for courage, my finger hovering over the return key, like a child hoping the timing of my keystroke will bring m...
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Categories:
keystroke, fear, mom, motivation, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Veil
...sliver of vertical night
visible slit along the curtain centre-line
too lazy to pull them tight
surely nobody outside lurking, peering in
winds rise, branches creak and fight
rattling ...
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Categories:
keystroke, dark, imagery,
Form: Verse
Masterful Paint Strokes of Artistic Hand
...Masterful paint strokes of his artistic hand.
Should use zinnias or roses that are banned?
Decides upon an honored verdant ginger jar
Muse stirs up imagination from afar
Maestro’s every keystr...
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Categories:
keystroke, art,
Form: Couplet
Same Persona
...
Tho’ the soft voice has an aristocratic tone,
the haughty attitude ain’t no street gutter different:
Being rude ... dropping shade
Dark keystroke mood,
shallow indigo indifference s...
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Categories:
keystroke, humorous, imagery, psychological, satire,
Form: Tristich
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