The Matriarchs are Molting Again
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Grandma’s ghost has taken up
knitting rattlesnakes in the drapes.
They hiss when someone lies.
Now, my mother only speaks
in noodle metaphors.
I ask her how she is, and she replies,
al...
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Categories:
levitates, age, allusion, women, word
Form: Free verse
Age of Windchimes
...The backyard fills with windy snow
For the whole weekend
Until the floor of the Earth
Fluffs itself
Levitates
And observably lifts its pedestal
A foot closer
To the sky
Reaches
And clutc...
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Categories:
levitates, age, life, memory, mother,
Form: Free verse
Enchanted
...Deeply enchanted by the things you call flaws
My spirit levitates at mere sight of you
Doing things you call normal.
Like when you rise and set,beaming like the sun though out the day.
Or when yo...
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Categories:
levitates, cute love, fantasy, for
Form: Free verse
Cosmic vibrations
...From a centreless fulcrum, bliss beats rise,
drawn from deep within heart’s innermost core,
transmitted to mind before the rhythm dies,
reflected back to soul, for an encore,
which obliges us sin...
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Categories:
levitates, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
Keep
...I let go the moon, but keep it's mystic glow,
I let go the stars, but keep their pixie dust
I let go the day, but keep it's embraced night
I let go the sky, but keep it's sobbing clouds
I let g...
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Categories:
levitates, break up, depression,
Form: Free verse
Three Teeth
...three incisor teeth burst through fresh flesh...
opaque as pearls, strong as love, precious
beautiful baby babbles assertively
mesmerized by mishmash sounds
that her astounding mouth can make...
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Categories:
levitates, abuse, addiction, childhood, drug,
Form: Free verse
Robot
...My vacuum is a robot
My tumble dryer, true
They're programmed to assist
My world
And keep it ordered too
I feed my dishy-washer
My clothes go in a box
It's where the magic happens
Yet
It a...
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Categories:
levitates, bible, bird, blessing, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Neutral Scrutiny
...Cherub's unfurled fingers faithfully extend to his fallow fringe
hung from a chest made firm by suede, sweat and rain.
Chernobyl blue irises mimic April '86 radiation,
dessimating her...
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Categories:
levitates, 5th grade, adventure, baptism,
Form: Haibun
Waterway
..."You drown not by falling in a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
A gentle mist
billows above the man-made pond
that spawns a rippling
sorrel-dusky brook
that ebbs and widens as it beco...
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Categories:
levitates, allusion, angst, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry
In Her Skin
...she draws memories in melodies with her eyes.
she deceives the moon
with the stars,
backspace,
and the sun
back spaces
to lengthen her daylights of joy and shorten her nights of sadness.
the d...
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Categories:
levitates, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Pavlova Levitates
...Cut open pomegranate Christmas lights aril
Syrup drips erupt bitter volcano alluvium ooze
Blackberry gall sullies crust creamy caramel
Chroma pervades pavlova cracks in lilac hues
North Pole ...
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Categories:
levitates, celebration, food,
Form: Rhyme
The Avatar
...The un-bodily sphere in realms of conscious,
introverted senses in space ponder precious.
Through deep quiet into different existence,
uncertainties from beyond the distance.
It felt like fire ...
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Categories:
levitates, 12th grade, magic,
Form: Ballad
Take It Or Leave It
...reflections condense in the mist of time
it is what it seems to be in prismatic recoil
and then another broken shard mirrors
illusions of self-cent...
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Categories:
levitates, change,
Form: Free verse
She's a Dreamer
...I wanna tell you a story about a little girl
A beautiful sweet little girl
who enjoys living in her
own world of recluse
hopscotching to the beat of
her own drum
She's a dreamer and boy let ...
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Categories:
levitates, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
As the Crow Flies
...moist cinnamon bark
infused fragrance levitates -
monsoon descends time
rice fields lie flooded
draft windswept change into roots -
rise to the challenge
tea leaves take shelter...
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Categories:
levitates, environment,
Form: Haiku
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