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Caregiving Stories

The Tyrant

Was born ginger
and learned WhiteRacist
from Dad
dead now about a year.

Possibly opioid addiction
but certainly something
in growing families
of yin-suppressed
self-medicating
LeftBrain too dominant
addictions
to chemical acclimations.

Dad left by death
Tyrant's also addicted
and chronically depressed mother
And his only white racist
twelve year...

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Categories: breathlessness, bullying, caregiving, education, health, humor, parents, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse

Colors of My Heart


When we met, I surely knew the yearning
Breathlessness erasing my weariness
Feelings, dreams, soothing every discerning
You silence doubts, discourage dreariness
Deep inside, I long for your spirit’s smile
I feel so thankful for this song of grace
Past all...

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Categories: breathlessness, appreciation, friendship, joy, love, marriage, relationship, romantic
Form: Crown of Sonnets

The Wrong Train

London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
And lungs are besieged by distilled...

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Categories: breathlessness, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse

The Light

Light pours out across the hills,
Destroying the darkness
With its reflections and sparks
Crystal clear, glistening
Through the doubts and confusion,
Awakening the silent yearnings,
Hopes lost in the past,
Dreams that you thought wouldn’t last

Light disturbs the secrets, silent
Amid the...

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Categories: breathlessness, appreciation, blessing, christian, inspirational, jesus, light, love,
Form: Free verse

Unquotable Quotes: Dancers - Xxiii

Unquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII

Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral waves dashing on the beaches of their consciousness.
The only unlicensed...

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Categories: breathlessness, body, dance, joy, music, senses, sensual, uplifting,
Form: Epigram

Were I Forced To Do So This Is the Way I Would Do It

I’d sit and say “son, it’s just you and me now kid
So if you enlist do you know what you will be warring for
HITLER tried to claim other’s land and sea
And that was the same...

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Categories: breathlessness, angstme, war, me, men, war,
Form: Monorhyme

Hungarian Rhapsody

HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

Her hand’s swan-like dance,
ivory shadow puppets
romance. Hungarian rhapsody.

The musician sans existence
as emotive fingers move
imaginary marionettes
with splendiferous precision.

Drama drops onto piano keys
occasionally taking a gentle stroll
then in sensuous sway, sashaying
like an exotic dancer. The musician

plucks...

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Categories: breathlessness, music, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse

The Sublime Cavalcade of a Holy Ghost ( Part Two )

You have called with the wolf in the winter
planted trees that you will never see grow
and we have been a sunburst from clouds that shone
with the watered light of rainbows  

Though you have cried...

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Categories: breathlessness, hope, inspirational, love, mysterytime,
Form: Free verse

No One Waits For Me

lit by the light of a full moon
the breathlessness of a resolved heart
lies in still after the cunning dew
had tried to convince her death was cruel -
a last harvest-eve of doom and she should 
fear...

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Categories: breathlessness, life, love, life, death, missing, body, death,
Form: Free verse

Unzipped


Defiled by being stuffed into a sac so tight,
A confinement that suffocates, a desperate plight.
Zipped to the end by thy very  blood's own right,
A violent release, a nightmare of a cathartic sight.

With ignorance leaking...

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Categories: breathlessness, allusion, anger, art, betrayal, fate, history, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Depression - the Enemy Within

Depression is an enemy, it does not have one friend,
Unannounced and uninvited it will  gate crash and attend
Where it is not wanted, but has no heart to care
Stalks anyone and everyone,  their very...

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Categories: breathlessness, anxiety, cry, depression, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Depression -The Enemy Within

Depression is an enemy, it does not have one friend,
Unannounced and uninvited it will  gate crash and attend
Where it is not wanted, but has no heart to care
Stalks anyone and everyone,  their very...

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Categories: breathlessness, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Beat Through Your Wind

Your love whistled through my heart
Swung through my leaves
Danced with my soul,
And as we touched 
Our skin quivered
Tears were shed
As hands of Zues 
Which so tenderly caressed my every need
Breathlessness swept over my body,

You my...

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Categories: breathlessness, faith, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, peace, thank
Form: Ode

White Is the Color of Wanting To Be Stained

This is me raping the red of an apple,
the breathy sweetness of the flesh underneath,
a slab of clean, radiant cold filling my mouth. 
I can feel it under my teeth, 
your skin, 
like the calm...

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Categories: breathlessness, loveme, me, red,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

I Can'T Breathe

'I can't breathe I can't breathe '
'Please take your knee off my neck I can't breathe'
'My stomach hurts, my neck hurts I can't breathe'
Were his last words 'I can't breathe'

Hundreds of years my ancestors suffered...

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Categories: breathlessness, abuse, anger, bullying, color, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Running With Wolves

The air is as crisp as the night is dark;
Star light travels millennia to finally hit its mark.
The scents astound me pungent as they hit my nose.
From the ground, the air, the trees they nimbly...

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Categories: breathlessness, animal, nature,
Form: Verse

Thomas Kinkaid

quick figurative brush stroke drawn out character sketch
(serendipitous verisimilitude)

i stand in awe
(with mouth agape) at elegiac, fantastic,
   and graphic idyllic Kinkade magic
   leaving breathlessness from craw

at such artistic talent oozing
 ...

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Categories: breathlessness, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty,
Form: Elegy

Force of Grace

FORCE OF GRACE

Force of grace,
My heart did shake.
Motherly love,
Cuddled up snuggly,
In your big, warm embrace.
Remember my butterfly kisses,
All over your face!
Bursts of laughter, 
All of a sudden!
Tummy aches, breathlessness,
Tears streaming down your cheeks.
Moments like those,
Dozens...

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Categories: breathlessness, appreciation, emotions, mother,
Form: I do not know?

Miserable Stump Am I

Miserable Stump Am I


What a fine morning it was....
With an axe I saw him come
One, two, three trees he passed
Before fixing gaze on me.

The menacing axe so bright....
By the way he removed it
From his shoulder,...

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Categories: breathlessness, absence,
Form: Verse

Chasing Love

Chasing rainbows, chasing light
Chasing kindness, chasing smiles
Chasing goodness, chasing dreams
Chasing joy, chasing every good thing…

My life has been a series of moments,
Pasted together by gentleness, love and laughter,
The music of prayer and praise, the promises
Built...

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Categories: breathlessness, appreciation, how i feel, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse

Free Cee Hold Me At My Threshold

A THRESHOLD FORETOLD

I but strolled over my unadorned threshold
And what, of all things, did mine eyes behold
Begged I let not this be she
The she I was meant to meet yet hoped she not be the...

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Categories: breathlessness, angst,
Form: Monorhyme

The Wonderer

Just over the next mountain I journey
past the horizon of my history-
going past that which I have known
where knowledge lies in the next sudden sunrise
to follow the next bright illuminating moment
harnessing an untouched, untrampled day
bringing...

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Categories: breathlessness, desire, dream, nature, visionary,
Form: Verse

Free Cee a Threshold Foretold

A THRESHOLD FORETOLD

I but strolled over my unadorned threshold
And what, of all things, did mine eyes behold
Begged I let not this be she
The she I was meant to meet yet hoped she not be the...

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