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Premium Member Lawless Land
dreams …

diaphanous …
mysteries of the mind
that will never find an answer
fluid and dynamic
beyond our affect or sense …
personally,
I remember only a couple from my childhood
rather nondescript …
and early adulthood was par -
mostly confused jargon
fueled by...

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Categories: bookend, analogy, dark, dream, fear, night,
Form: Free verse



Bookending Part One:
I feel that I have bared the darker moments of my life of late, and it is time to redress the balance 
a little, I am in truth, like most, a complex creature capable of...

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© Kriss Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bookend, dedication, devotion, faith, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Burning of the Jews
It was a woodcut in our high school history text, Unit 4 Beginnings of the
      Modern World, that so disturbed,
from the Nuremburg Chronicles depicting the burning of the Jews, flat
...

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Categories: bookend, beauty, christian, dark, garden, jewish, military, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Shoot Nothing Like Killing Spree To Bookend August 2019
Shoot! Nothing like killing spree to bookend August 2019!

The latest homicide,
where gunman(men) slew
dirty deed done dirt cheap
half dozen innocent people drew
minimal horrific gasps, now a new
month (September two 
thousand nineteen)

where goldenrods yellow
with morning dew
encompassing human...

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Categories: bookend, 11th grade, 12th grade, dark, horror, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Holding On
You were my longest journey ... and I never left home
The terminus changed, ever - roads twisting to fit your desires
And in those passages, the courses and quests that measured ... us
I, the ONLY I,...

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Categories: bookend, growing up, introspection, life, lost love, soulmate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Picture Perfect Family
Easter morning
Nineteen fifties 
Black and white 
Edged in gray 
Pyramid like
Stepping stones
Determined by age and height
Reminiscent of the glories of Cleopatra
Stand silhouetted within
Easter’s sunny orbit

The Ideal family with fixed smiles
Returns the viewers’ gaze
Light enters
The shutter clicks
Kidnapping...

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Categories: bookend, easter, family, identity, tribute, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member butter from blood -
“kiss me”

you whisper softly
then blush …
at least it SEEMS so
cheeks of a subtle crimson glow
you - reclining on white
the yawning waffle-weave towel
spread on cooling sand
your tawny hair weaving its way
off the edge, twining the dune...

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Categories: bookend, analogy, beach, beauty, imagery, kiss, ocean, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Lambs
* For my grandson Makkie - my newest fishing buddy *

            ~

they …

are amazing creatures
with tiny little arms that stretch
inches, feet … miles -
they...

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Categories: bookend, analogy, child, children, grandchild, grandparents, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dear Friend-Constanza
My loving friend I could depend
Out for lunch, shopping and talking                        ...

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Categories: bookend, flower, friend, funeral, love, magic, summer, thank
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member but a house -
I sit …

unusually still
car parked in the driveway 
engine off
home again, jiggity-jog
but I don’t reach for a handle
I soak a moment
in silent twilight, breathing
old leaves and a hint of apples
tickling the chill air
October enfolds me...

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Categories: bookend, age, imagery, introspection, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covenant
* For my poetry sister CONSTANCE LA FRANCE, and all those who battle grief daily as we do. *

   ~

you …

are no god …
but even were you such
you would not be safe from...

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Categories: bookend, analogy, dark, death, deep, grief, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Beached Whale
Im like a whale 
Beached on your sand
I was too stupid to know 
I wasn’t meant for land
That evolution doenst happened
As fast as you planned
That when you saw me out of water
I was too big...

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Categories: bookend, allegory, life, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Test of Time
Test of Time

       there's always more
       trapped between quotation marks
       the metal parasites resume an ancient harmony
...

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Categories: bookend, confusion, future, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Planning V Praying
Prayer's positive potential is not as substitute for planning.

Prayer might be a prelude to planning,
and might be an appropriate postlude
to fully implemented plans,
whether psalm of gratitude
or requiem of remorse
depending on healthy and pathological outcomes.

Even better,
some...

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Categories: bookend, earth day, health, humor, people, planet, prayer,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Skull Or the Buddha
The sleeping lambs nestled in the
Silver bullet,
Hot from the gun.
They slumber through the sketches
Of Spain until finally
The veil of moisture meets plum lipstick
And it’s time to depart;
Time for the slaughterhouse.
They scurry out from their earthy...

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Categories: bookend, absence, fantasy, identity, innocence, lonely, me, metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Forms and Words - Absence
Absence as I hear them calling
Broken as I feel them falling
Cardiac as it's stalling
Darkness has me crawling
Endeavoring to its installing
Fevered by enthralling
Giving into it appalling
Heartfelt gifts sprawling
Individual love is worth mauling
Jointly our worth is stalling
Kissing...

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Categories: bookend, anger, betrayal, break up, divorce, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Book Ends
Bookends call a gaggle of bedraggled books to attention.
The big fat tomes, short stories, paperback,
are all pulled into line, toe-to-toe buttressed on parade.
Books need bookends to get propped up and be seen,
to get up out...

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Categories: bookend, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Princess
I …

unlock the front door
walk across the sill and
into the house
like countless times before
look around quickly
no sight of you
“Pretty Girl!” I yell
in that silly, high, cartoon voice that
folks rolled their eyes at
but you always loved
(cuz...

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Categories: bookend, analogy, cat, grief, loss, love, pets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Myself and Me By I
I would say that I am beside myself
but I cannot see any other me
or even garner what such means.
If I am truly side by side as two
then both must be clothed in obtuse.
I cannot get...

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Categories: bookend, character, conflict, confusion, emotions, happiness, nonsense, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member cover to cover -
oh, heaven …

the enigma of her face ...
its melting mysteries and moody veneers -
when shadowy and despondent
like a brumal, aching, mist-muddled beach
wild tresses framing it
like a surf-swept seaweed
sandy spindrift
left tossed by her squall
then …
the haze...

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Categories: bookend, appreciation, beauty, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Webs
too brief …

the garland on my brow
too deep, that tangled labyrinth
of epics, eternal
entwining my sinews
the dark, deceitful dew
sopping sun with
the parched lips of laurels …
whispering whims -
spinning them like sugar
into cottony lullabies
honey-sweet lies that drip...

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Categories: bookend, animal, introspection, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gift of Quietness

The gift of quietness, sometimes ignored,
   may go unclaimed throughout our busy day.
   Unless that time of stillness is embraced,
we'll miss our joy to share in the reward.

The gift of quietness-...

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Categories: bookend, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
A Book of Bones
I have a book of bones,
it props up bookend shadows
a frame and spine for all other books 
as yet unearthed or published.

Poetry is all about bones,
it gives clouds bones,
myths their bones,
boneyards their bones.

A book being...

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Categories: bookend, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven U
July 7, 1977 ...

I met YOU
My split-apart
My kindred heart
My first true love
My one soul-mate
My lucky number?
Seven ...

Your lucky number?
Seven ...
Our last time
Together?
Seven years ...
Seven months ...
And seven days ...

AFTER 7/7/77.
Not that it matters,
But I have...

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Categories: bookend, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, romance,
Form: Free verse
An Uplifting Feeling
Two black backed gulls returning
gathering twigs they build their nest
haphazardly placed on a concrete ledge
protecting eggs from thieves and vermin

Watching her patiently sit, she waits
for her precious brood to arrive
in rain and fog and cold...

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Categories: bookend, bird, birth, feelings, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

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