What She Left Remains
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A red wine stain stays
seared into the wooden grain —
the table keeps watch
how their laughter filled the room
last time they were together
Jellybeans loiter
on the shelf in cookie jar
I w...
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Categories:
loiter, lost love, love, memorial,
Form: Tanka
After Mental Flight
...Pink clouds with feint zigzag veins
craft a stunning desert maid’s
muse in mirror swivel guise
as she pondered in set pose
how welkin palettes loiter
when a tense eerie inkling
sighs “I’m t...
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Categories:
loiter, beautiful, beauty, character, environment,
Form: Verse
Why
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I spent so many lonely days,
many even lonelier nights,
asking of myself
the whys and wherefores
of this terrible life.
To suffer such ignoble pains,
to be unjustly accused
of things I had ...
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Categories:
loiter, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Tears Of A Clown
...Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or t...
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Categories:
loiter, angst, anxiety, august, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Music of Waves
...“The sea casts a magic spell with the ever- rising breakers and the melody, the clanking of waves produce. It amazes us with the wonders hiding within its caverns. Without drawing any boundary or bar...
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Categories:
loiter, appreciation, sea, song,
Form: Free verse
A Masked Requiem for a Virulent Era
...A cold berating
light-erasing rope
survives
relentless
entropy
(another year ends
another variant contends)
Desolate debris in
empty
erroneous caves
swallow
blank pages
submerge...
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Categories:
loiter, dark, society, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Rhythms of Fate and Sound
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Written: January 08, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Di11y Da11y
1. Newton's Laws of Motion:
Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
4. Quantum Superpo...
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Categories:
loiter, analogy, perspective, science,
Form: Free verse
Burden of Broken Ties
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Written: December 31, 2024, Contest: Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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Welcome into the world,
with grazing blue eyes and sap...
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Categories:
loiter, analogy, god,
Form: Free verse
Life After Death
..."House of lies, pride and bone,
The gauzy instability in my augmentation, I feel the hostility commence deep into my lanes. I prom in the masquerade of the mirror and cannot identify myself as an e...
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Categories:
loiter, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Streets of Solitude
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Streets of Solitude
Along the streets of solitude
I stroll alone but not lo...
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Categories:
loiter, feelings, loneliness, nature, solitude,
Form: Quatrain
Which Way Is Home?
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Life's compass denies me its' stare
Forgotten time knows not the where
Directions stripped themselves bare
To loiter under red streetlight glare
The music stopped to steal my chair
Stranded ...
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Categories:
loiter, longing, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
move-in
...Although we’re just moving in,
It feels like we’re lived in these rooms forever.
I can’t look around without the past coming out to play.
These ivy halls are sticky with memories now.
The mov...
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Categories:
loiter, friendship, humor, moving on,
Form: Free verse
An Empty Page
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An Empty Page- Free Verse
Empty thoughts loiter in his mind
As new words he tries to find
But shackled by an absent muse
No words come forth for him to choose
His wizened face ...
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Categories:
loiter, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hope my final sigh is Relief
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Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest
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Finally, my blood began to coagulate;
I am initially concerned over p...
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Categories:
loiter, analogy, body, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Secret Escape To A Heavenly Ancient Place
...Tell me
Have you ever felt you could runway
Far away to a secret place
Where time stands still
The hot sun mostly shows its beaming face.
Well come!
Take my hand
And I'll take you to that pl...
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Categories:
loiter, beautiful, bible, desire, faith,
Form: Free verse
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