Incantations
...Were every breath an incantation,
Every word a prophecy,
Would I fear more this consternation,
Not writing for anxiety?
Were every word a portent, telling,
Every sentence writ, a spell,
Woul...
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Categories:
leaper, angst, anxiety, art, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Painted Horses
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Painted Horses Leaping
Painted horses leaping, faster and faster
I hold on tightly as my tangled hair is flying
a sweet carnival memory of a childhood summer!
And of painted hors...
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Categories:
leaper, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Where Is the Grim Leaper
...Where is the grim leaper? The little boy asked me.
I was surprised about this question from my nephew, Lee.
You mean the grim reaper? I queried him.
No, I mean the grim leaper. His name is Jim.
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Categories:
leaper, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
My Superhero
..."I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak
havoc on the basketball court". Charles Barkley
Pop Eye, the sailor man, with the aid of spinach,
always defeated a much bigger man; but did...
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Categories:
leaper, hero,
Form: Verse
Traversing Cyberspace Hinterland
...Of thee virtual netherland...
courtesy one spellbound wordsmith
within apartment b44
nestled within a manor
(and manner of writing)
atop nondescript Schwenksville highland.
All gibbets zing a...
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Categories:
leaper, adventure, beauty, care, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Pathetic Acts
...Pathetic Acts
Stop all the traffic; a million ants are passing by.
Red light, Amber light, waiting on a Green light.
All the windows have their curtains closed inside,
And nobody knows how t...
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Categories:
leaper, desire, fear, insect, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Painted Horses Leaping
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Painted horses leaping, faster and faster,
I hold on tightly as my tangled hair is flying;
a sweet carnival memory of a childhood summer.
Painted horses leaping!
The amusement pa...
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Categories:
leaper, childhood, memory,
Form: Verse
A Patch of Earth Under a Thatch of Sky
...Patch of Earth under a Thatch of Sky
Each man must have a corner
A patch of earth
To call his own
Under a thatch of sky.
As the Homeless
Have their the memori...
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Categories:
leaper, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Death Friended Me On Facebook
...(while trapped in Pottstown
Memorial Hospital parking lot).
My humble apology to those,
who posted uber up lyft ting messages
to this Macbook Pro Facebook keeper,
without said scrivener swift...
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Categories:
leaper, death, destiny, goodbye, natural
Form: Dramatic Verse
Enormous Energy
...J-umping kangaroo
O-utsmarts hungry predator,
J-ust running away,
I-n this leaper the hind legs
T-ruly become powerful.
Topic: Birthday of Jojit Divine (March 17)
Form: Acrostic...
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Categories:
leaper, birthday,
Form: Tanka
Hinterlands of Thee Netherlands
...oft times ('specially
these latter un-sainted days and nights)
death doth haunt me zeitgeist
which thoughts of my demise
crowds out purposeful thinking
in the twitching mind k...
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Categories:
leaper, absence, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Extra Day
...Extra day of the calendar
Breaks during the leap year;
Three hundred sixty-five dawns
Let additional morn appear.
A man or a person born
On the twenty-ninth of February
Is called a leap...
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Categories:
leaper, life,
Form: Verse
Dear Jack the Reaper
...Dear Jack the Reaper
Flipping and fiddling, one might say engrossed by the impression
Formally geared up for the occasion
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Categories:
leaper, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories:
leaper, angel, beautiful, beauty, bible,
Form: ABC
A Laboratory Mouse In the Maze
...A lab mouse grumbles:
“I’m so frustrated! I don’t know why
I have to be confined in this narrow path with high walls on both sides. I’m forced to lick food scraps I find on the pathway to sustain...
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Categories:
leaper, abuse, allegory, anger, death,
Form: Free verse
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