A POETIC TIMELINE
...The mind hangs in silence,
All is stilled, thoughts lingering
Lazily, as if in cosmic animation;
No words drip from the faucet that once
Streamed waters of creation, and now is
Only empty air ...
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Categories:
lexis, allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Tercet
Dodo Talk
...Words are born and some change, adapt, some wilt;
Norse drips into French seeps into English, hidden treasures under silt.
Blendings swirl meanings and semantics shift our daily use;
once uttered ...
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Categories:
lexis, language,
Form: Rhyme
Education
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education
an equation
wrapped up
in
explanation
and
instruction
drifting lexis
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Categories:
lexis, appreciation, education,
Form: Verse
Nameless
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Written: November 17, 2023
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. By William Wordsworth
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Categories:
lexis, analogy, appreciation, bird, character,
Form: Pantoum
Linguistics 4 My Tonology Hypothesis 2
...Igbo words for the feared mostly high tone
Perfectly matching what rattles The Bone
Her lexis for Death, Python, Snake - Fire
And it’s like speaker screaming, pitch higher!
So also Poison’s, M...
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Categories:
lexis, education, language, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Expectations
...I want to be synthesis,
be thesis...
I want to feel a lot
a sum, but being one...
Being of the ground and the air
be from the sky and be from the sea
to be, crazy higid... mentally sane
corpor...
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Categories:
lexis, allegory, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Prose Poetry
The Language of Blue
...The Language of Blue
Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
With muted voices
In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass blushes, electric flecks ...
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Categories:
lexis, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse
Gag Reflex Iz
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Past hern Leabeeyah
hern ither
whence lexis cannot be
dislodged
Mine
*Sad to witness this second occurrence...
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Categories:
lexis, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Reserata Carcerem Lxiv
...Yore was pulpy pride hoisted oft
that tactic ticker toppled
'n' was absorbed - la-de-da lotion.
"f such tiding tamed Satraps puncture.
Quoth would damp dell conception b'rrowed
when "f voluptu...
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Categories:
lexis, self,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Lxiii
...Athwart swayed a raven 'cross land,
yon cliffs 'n' moist mountains anon 't danced
'til a callous Centuar caught her
'n' made mess ''f graces nature barters.
Ergo did sh' rhino's allure snatch,
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Categories:
lexis, myth,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Lxii
...Went a shrewd shaver t' moaning monk
ñ a dark day's hurled hay tactic ton.
''f felon feast b' a callous cod thrown,
sate h', robed 'n gaunt grief, girdle ''f gloom 'n' throe.
"Go to, why wrapp...
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Categories:
lexis, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Lxi
...*Reserata Carcerem LXI*
Yore lived a sage b' bounty brook pining;
dainty daffodils, his keen kins.
Oft would tumbling tide whisper 'ts tune
'n' sewn sage bewitched, ajar would croon.
ñ longe...
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Categories:
lexis, myth,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Lix
...Yore was bounty birth ''f inky ire;
moistened malady, dribbles dire.
''f callous cedars 'n' sane Sequoia;
one t' th' other blitzkrieg, bis loyal.
Torn tidings ñ wanky wind's wings rode;
porous...
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Categories:
lexis, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Lvii
...Porous pride sucked sassy strength leased
b' bounty biddings hoisted hurls greased.
"f two cods, crushed contentions dangled -
their salient stances 'n' hexed dribbles.
Quoth th' first t' twain...
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Categories:
lexis, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Reserata Carcerem Lvi
...Erewhile took hoisted oath crushed cod,
'pon Cecilia 'n' cramped Cynthia's nod.
T' his lusty lover he'd rehearsed
pored pledges gored b' lanky love's lurch.
Damp dell 'n forg'ry hewn dark decei...
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Categories:
lexis, love,
Form: Sonnet
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