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...Stones left unturned for those that seek truth among the urns.
I care not to seek out answers requiring a life’s sacrifice of family and name.
Secrets revealed. Kingdoms rise, then disappear. Bur...
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Categories:
lay claim, appreciation, deep,
Form: Free verse
An Interview with the Color Purple
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Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show.
Hello. I’m so happy to be here.
So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?
Ha!...
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Categories:
lay claim, color,
Form: Narrative
A Tipping Balance
...a storm rages outside.
sky, overcast with clouds
fearful sounds echo,
through mountain crannies,
like that of shrieking bats in flight.
trees shiver under wind's might.
everything ...
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Categories:
lay claim, angst, destiny, endurance, growth,
Form: Free verse
Home
...There sits along a well traveled road, a house forgotten so long ago
Brown faded logs, bleached from hot Summers seasons
Stand proud against its kindred trees
Its roof top still shelters the mem...
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Categories:
lay claim, age,
Form: Free verse
The Truth Shall Set You Free
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*The Truth Shall Set You Free
Miracle Man
12/16/2024
America has become a theater,
with actors galore.
Daily, many “wanna be’s”,
are flocking to our shore.
Some lay claim to bein...
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Categories:
lay claim, bible, god, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: In Story-Tale-in-Form
...Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: The Tale of Prince Zag
Note: The tale is six (6) sonnets long, each sonnet has 14 lines, each line contains variable words bearing 10 syllables, neverthele...
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Categories:
lay claim, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Mountain Glory
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Listen to the joy, the melody… silence,
peaceful as the forest’s streams,
Reassuring the soul of every good thing.
Listen to the melancholy, worthy of a tear
Falling in the shadows of a dre...
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Categories:
lay claim, appreciation, mountains,
Form: Ode
Thought of the day
...sages fall when they lay claim
to fame in our Father’s name
hoping to gather a crowd
feeding ego, feeling proud...
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Categories:
lay claim, introspection, pride,
Form: Jueju
Grief Ascends With the Rising Moon
...Trijan refrain
Grief ascends with the rising moon
'neath frosted Winter skies
A lone wolf howls, wailing a rune
desperate for replies
Her mate has died, she must lament
beside him 'til...
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Categories:
lay claim, death, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Who is was Jamie Ashworth
...Who is/was Jamie Ashworth?
Written roundabout October 31st 2017,
yet nary a handy dandy blue's clue
Jimmy Neutron Spongebob SquarePants
exists about real or imagined
gal in question, and pres...
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Categories:
lay claim, adventure, america, angel, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
...The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so h...
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Categories:
lay claim, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo
I have a question
...For everyday, did I dare to dream,
Of love, of life, of soulful things,
Where blissful words had made serene,
The hearts of all, both far and wide,
Afraid to harm for many had died,
Yet, for ...
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Categories:
lay claim, conflict, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Let Us Write
...Oh, let us write of gentler things
Still wondering why “the caged bird sings”*
Or rise upon a thermal shaft
Of feathers drawn upon first draft
Or watch the sullied surf subside
As clean-up crew ...
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Categories:
lay claim, poets, silence, writing,
Form: Couplet
Universe-2
...Universe is beyond comprehension
That dark far off void away from our sphere
Midnight stars and moon are like extension
On night of perfection, they seem so near.
We might lay claim to ...
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Categories:
lay claim, space, stars,
Form: Sonnet
Gird Up Or Else
...Writing cheques beyond notes with distant memories of coins
Was to be your place until you couldn't gird your loins
For as soon as you are within the reach of the heights you aim
The darkness clos...
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Categories:
lay claim, fate, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
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