Height and Might
...I have been searching all my life for heaven in paradise but I just could not find it until my innate spirit reveals it. I searched from country to country over hills and valleys, mountain and plains...
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Categories:
lodging, america, beautiful, betrayal, books,
Form: Narrative
Unloved And Became Decrepit
...“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.”
T. S. Eliot
He travelled miles to see the h...
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Categories:
lodging, age, fate, nostalgia, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections In A Cemetery
...Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst
unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill
holy water--maybe thickened dew—just
to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries,
while an insolent breeze fails...
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Categories:
lodging, bereavement, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Joshua Moore Minnesota
...Damp linens flung aside
sodden cushions
Flank by flank
She was damp
Nickel sack and bark rings
Verdant gaze meet hazel orbs
Ripe late April Northern Flatlands moisture
Slaughterhouse savory mi...
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Categories:
lodging, america, angst, children, confusion,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
...Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to describe a situation
perfectly verbalized...
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Categories:
lodging, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse
Life's Menu
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Life's Menu
The world is a feast
hosting many beasts
lodging its beings
In a palace of bliss
Serving mystery meals
with knives and forks
tending to fangs and claws
Ripping through ...
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Categories:
lodging, creation, deep, life,
Form: Narrative
Highway Signs
...The big green ones are everywhere,
next exit in half-a-mile,
they seem almost reassuring,
all done up in the same style.
Then smaller ones bordered in blue,
with promises of food to eat,
the bi...
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Categories:
lodging, art, car, color, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Please come join me in spirit if not in body
...Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional
I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of hours
before edge of night,
wh...
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Categories:
lodging, absence, animal, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Find Your Lifestyle
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Many foreigners living in the Philippines
Quite for a long time now
Come, visit us here any...
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Categories:
lodging, adventure, destiny, life, people,
Form: Free verse
I lived the real life lolita
....
save
I lived it only by sight
the criminal offered mine
lodging
thuh
b&b i'd say
swine'z lodging
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Categories:
lodging, adventure, appreciation, image, innocence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Beautiful Birds
...Beautiful birds come
Lodging in durian tree
In discrete colors....
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Categories:
lodging, beautiful, beauty, bird, color,
Form: Haiku
Sanctuary
...I was a stylish, assertive travel agent, arranging getaways for busy people;
Like sudden getaways of jewel, shooting stars, on ebony nights of upheaval.
I planned calm, exotic, trip itine...
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Categories:
lodging, beach, beauty, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
I also feel blase today February 19th 2024
...I also feel blasé today February 19th, 2024
Linkedin to being lax,
and shirking house cleaning tasks,
which negligence cost us
(yours truly and the missus)
a golden opportunity
to relocate to...
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Categories:
lodging, angel, appreciation, blessing, crazy,
Form: Free verse
DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist
...DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist
"Are you my enemy, if you’re not my friend?
Alternative exit without exit should be posted dead end
When “Google” tells you turn right...
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Categories:
lodging, allusion, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
October 7th, 2023 Upon Third Anniversary of Mine Papa's Passing
...October 7th, 2023 upon third anniversary of mine papa's passing...
Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride nor prejudice
no matter (even with margin...
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Categories:
lodging, adventure, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
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