Chasing Sleep
...In the midst of grief
I find myself chasing sleep
I have tried sleepy time teas
and kitty cuddles to please
help me lasso the moon
and find some sleep soon
but no, it evades
and I feel like I ...
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Categories:
lasso, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Flash points
...
If the flash ran into a room and switched a light on would the light hit him
if Gotham was in Africa he might have been the elephant man
If she’s holding the lasso she has to tell the truth too...
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Categories:
lasso, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Prismatic Self
...I am a dare-dreamer, a mask wearer
a soul bare-r (but not always my own); a word-weaver.
I pull at thoughts like strings. Strings of cobwebs
and cirrus, frayed dungarees and threadbare memories
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Categories:
lasso, art, conflict, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
I Surrender All
...Hark! The birds are driving me crazy
so lazy, to get up and fly with them
whirling my lasso finger ‘round
their wings, pulling them into my heart
a dart straight through, you never know when
hit...
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Categories:
lasso, angst,
Form: Free verse
Kindred
...
Kindred
Hooks and loops
Laced the path
Burning minds
Torching trusts
Tightened lasso
Strangling hopes
Frail words
Breaking bonds
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Categories:
lasso, betrayal, conflict, dark, family,
Form: Light Verse
az pleiades whisk'n by
....
Whut
Yes
Thus I
such thuh
quintessential
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Categories:
lasso, allusion, beauty, celebration, hyperbole,
Form: Carpe Diem
Eyes on the Fish
...Hungry for ideas -
a fish dish would help,
an unhinged arm's length away,
way over the Yangtze River,
where, far from the nearest eyeball,
drunken cormorants dive
for silverplated carp.
Alas, ...
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Categories:
lasso, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ties
...It takes off-rhyme
to heighten rhyme --
like background in a
painting, should not
obliterate the fore...
leaving little to view,
less to excite and visually
explore -- (my wife, a fashion
pl...
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Categories:
lasso, creation, freedom, imagination, journey,
Form: Free verse
Ready, Go
...Ready, Go
If a crossword puzzle clue has to give me writing prompts, then so be it.
I’ll consider myself prompted.
Uncle Wiggly reveals what the Brits call At Sixes & Sevens. But if the man...
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Categories:
lasso, allusion, humor, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Rime and Reason I Shall Not
...Alone, alone, all, all alone
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime and Reason I ...
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Categories:
lasso, death,
Form: Free verse
Death Of A Smile
...The last time I could remember seeing you was 2017
Life was one big song
You know the one that plays from the voice of the vinyl
A unique raspy calm like sand on the beach
Where you forget every...
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Categories:
lasso, death, me, mirror, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Love Goggles
...Love Goggles
My only ambition to count your heart beats,
To watch your chest rise then fall,
to a steady rhythm all your own
Life affirming breath, enthralls.
You need not lasso the far away...
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Categories:
lasso, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Docked
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boxed to a corner
horde by unseen eyes
shirking the coming dusk
slashed to a million pieces
prickling the mind
wailing, screaming
with concise thoughts
as a lasso to the soul...
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Categories:
lasso, africa, deep, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
The Stench of Insomnia
...THE STENCH OF INSOMNIA
narcoleptic deities in charge of the world
are tangled and detangled in the threads of time
they are sardonic and bitter and out for revenge
alien me...
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Categories:
lasso, addiction, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Calibration
...Here I stand, entirely symmetrical
with the longitudinal lines
that thrusts perfectly through
the balance of our planet
with not a moment of fluctuation.
Stiffly positioned in a direct sta...
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Categories:
lasso, 12th grade, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse
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