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Letters For People Part 4
Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
awkwardly, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
That Long Evening
When you came to me...
Not that you wanted me. Oh, no! It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...
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Categories:
awkwardly, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey
Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
awkwardly, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
awkwardly, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 39
"The one thing that eludes me is if the throne is the one in the Council Chamber there are no windows for which the sun to shine through.”
“I agree with...
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Categories:
awkwardly, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955,
not quite half...
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Categories:
awkwardly, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
A Nice Couple the Tale of Jean and William Part 1 2 and 3
A nice couple. The Tale of Jean and William. Part 1
Jean Fallen was born in 1999 and had a lonely childhood.
She grew up in Redfern but never went to school.
She lived with her mother...
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Categories:
awkwardly, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden flooring.
"I thought I'd find you...
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Categories:
awkwardly, august, bereavement, blue, christmas, december, farewell, grief,
Form:
Narrative
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities Viewed
Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
tonight October 25th, 2022
terrifically summarily requoting
poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...
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Categories:
awkwardly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 69
Chroí awoke early the next morning, disoriented and a bit frightened. This was not her bed . It was so big. She was tired and felt drained. Closing her eyes, thoughts...
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Categories:
awkwardly, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Log Cabin By the Railway Track
Hilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling.
Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthusiastically.
An otherworldly spot...
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Categories:
awkwardly, adventure, change, cool, creation, destiny, environment, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Strange Vampires
"Strange Vampires"
all those years
ago, when conspiracies
flourished around
did we or didn’t we go
to the moon, when we
were once human,
proved to be lies,
whichever way
the dark shadows
conveyed it.
the truth
came out much later,...
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Categories:
awkwardly, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities Viewed
Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
(summarily iterated June 30th, 2020)
I share the following lines
with utmost delight
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
June twenty ninth
two thousand and twenty
corrigible, fallible,
and intelligible light
hearted fella (aging
baby boomer) usually polite
doth not trend toward
superficial nor...
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Categories:
awkwardly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
She Spoke
I was in 4th grade - when most kids are 9 or 10 years old. Not yet to the semi-adulthood of the teenage years, and not just "little kids" anymore, either. You might...
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Categories:
awkwardly, growing up, memory, , 4th grade,
Form:
Prose
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarian
One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married)
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...
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Categories:
awkwardly, 12th grade, abuse, africa, america, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
La Unwindin’ Mind ove Mine
Took a breath
Of your death
Upon my tongue…
Burnt a lung…
In the process
Of my hopeless state
I’m making progress
As of late, as of late
So young and awkwardly long
I can’t believe I don’t belong
So wrong, it feels right all...
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Categories:
awkwardly, conflict, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, fear,
Form:
Lyric
The Curse of Nefertiti
In golden chains of bondage, was the royal queen
Brought forth, force to kneel, before the newly crowned
Pharaoh of Egypt!
Branded a heretic, a blasphemer of the Gods, a traitor to
Her people, unworthy to wear the serpents...
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Categories:
awkwardly, adventure, halloween, history, imagery, international, mythology, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
awkwardly, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Dark
Dark chances,
unhealthy and unsafe trauma
HiStories
Degenerating predative dogmas
not wanting to let go of ballistics
even for dawning light's sacred peace promise
to grab full-immersion hold
and heal dark mythologies
lose now and again later ecologies
repeat rehearsed
inside-only voiced economies
exploiting dark...
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Categories:
awkwardly, appreciation, health, humor, integrity, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
A Day For a Lifetime
Driving my car across the country, numerous years ago, going to a new place,
Changing who I’d know
A loud bang broke the boredom and...
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Categories:
awkwardly, adventure, anxiety, food, memory, romance, travel, true
Form:
Ballad
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13th
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
awkwardly, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 2
Note: If you haven’t please check out part one before reading this.
It will make more sense that way Thanks.
Time moves slower than a rusted windmill on a still day
as I am unable to...
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Categories:
awkwardly, good night,
Form:
Free verse
Sprained My Heart
Sprained My Heart
I’ll kiss your image that sleeps in my memory
That’s what I’ll do and ponder a spell
You left me with that wound inside that hasn’t been fixed in nary five years. And even...
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Categories:
awkwardly, appreciation, courage, hilarious, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 2
Time moves slower than a rusted windmill on a still day
as I am unable to avert my stare, frozen in this spot,
captivated by an intoxicating charm smoother than Tennessee whiskey
that hasn’t...
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Categories:
awkwardly, beauty, poetry, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Cherry Tree Music Co-Op
Cherry Tree Music Co-op
alternately titled instant infatuation:
a moment of spontaneous spunk
instantaneously transformed
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
inside his mouth
bitesize morsels did plunk
wafted courtesy pheromones
found him punchdrunk
reclusive tendencies bubbled...
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Categories:
awkwardly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme