true animal tale
...True animal story
One-legged seagull
sat on the roof near the chimney
it was a male gull, its feather
worn like he had been
in a battle and needed a rest
when my dog noticed the bird,
she b...
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Categories:
knowingly, art, beautiful, best friend,
Form: ABC
When the Truth, Lies
...It's brought to you
as if sincere,
"The News"
truth be damned!
Knowingly false,
the agenda, deception
without compunction,
to what end?
Now its up to us
to decipher,
when the "Truth" ar...
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Categories:
knowingly, betrayal, confusion, truth,
Form: Free verse
Fallen Empires
...Ambient breeze
Caressing dead erroded figures
Gently hewn impressions jest knowingly
Laughing madly now only pitied
Quieted remaing stagnant
Tired useless vessles °
Weathered xylography
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Categories:
knowingly, time,
Form: ABC
Race Track Thinking or My Mind's Raceway
...Race Track Thinking
16… little did I know the initiation began. 16 is hard enough navigating adolescence. Hormone dumping, the anguishing struggle to fit in any way—- relinquishing my individualit...
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Categories:
knowingly, betrayal, conflict, confusion, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Race Track Thinking
...Race Track Thinking
I didn't choose an ADHD brain. At times a random whispered thought, barely connected, pops in uninvited, insistent to be acknowledged and immediately included in my conversati...
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Categories:
knowingly, angst, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Narrative
Shadows on Rooftops
...yellow, orange, red, ribbons stretched across…the brilliant sun
the sound of a rooster..,a fiddler on a roof, above Anatevka
where roads are muddy and tradition is a foundation…milky
town comes ...
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Categories:
knowingly, life,
Form: Free verse
When the Poem Became Tears
...When the poem became tears
As the ink drips,
I have become an emotional basket case.
My keyboard squeals, as the businessman's anxiety climbs
At the sound of the opening bells,
Tariff wars t...
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Categories:
knowingly, addiction, africa, america, analogy,
Form: Narrative
The Questions
...Why does no one care?
Why are we here?
Why should we love if it only results in heartbreak?
Why do we run for purpose, to be only crushed by the crowd,
Killing you with every word.
What is goo...
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Categories:
knowingly, angst,
Form: Free verse
letters and science
...letter and science
dissect-able fraud in statements as advertised to the press
abuse's of power by poor people to create recession
this is underpinning the news
to prefect the crime knowingly abl...
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Categories:
knowingly, abuse,
Form: Free verse
When I Loose Myself - I Can Only Dream
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My only friend,
The night is full of stars, scattered like lost prayers upon the velvet dark.
I stand beneath them, adrift in my own unknowing, whispering words of kindness, into the legal wind...
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Categories:
knowingly, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
antitrust boredom
...civilrights/votingrights/democracyreform
update on communication of opinion with senator warren
constitutional means and measure as provided in description of property
antitrust boredom
pet...
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Categories:
knowingly, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
PALEO PAIR
...PALEO PAIR
Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions
were our t...
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Categories:
knowingly, age, allegory, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse
Hermann Hesse translation of 'The Poet' and 'Without You'
...The Poet
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch
Only upon me, the lonely one,
Do this endless night’s stars shine
As the fountain gurgles its faery song.
For me alone, the lonely ...
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Categories:
knowingly, hair, lonely, love, night,
Form: Free verse
Hate Happens
...The group you are in did not win
Now your mind begins to unwind
Fear grows for "They" are different
Dangerous and a threat akin
To a fascist re-emergence
The things you hate about the winner
Ar...
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Categories:
knowingly, america,
Form: Free verse
The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
...I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it fail...
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Categories:
knowingly, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
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