Long Crisscrossed Poems
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Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming anxiety. He peers out into the gloominess at the wheel and tightly clutches...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, horror, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Oferta Del Diablo - Part One
The Beast smirked, horns quivering ...
"You know you want to", he said, nodding toward the hills
There, above a dark, gaping wound of earth, Página Sagrada shone.
A sheer, white marble face of mountain, it shamed all...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, adventure, analogy, fantasy, metaphor, satire, science fiction,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Futuristic Christmas-Contest
Hereafter in the times of tomorrows yesterday,
...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, christmas, future, snow, winter,
Form:
Couplet
The Prince of Purple
Beneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s illusionary ivory towers of brilliant colors, seemingly fades unto the
Violet...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, music, mystery, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
All Day Long
All. Day. Long.
I sit there, in my chair, All. Day. Long.
Glaring at people I hate.
The people who are but mere memories.
Mere dust in the wind.
All that I know has blown away,
taken by...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, death, depression, fear, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Tough Love
Tough Love
Sometimes with such strict parents, a tendancy to lend;
overlooking boundaries crossed to be your child's best friend.
I love my son with all my heart just as he does his mother.
Tho the path that he...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, addiction, conflict, faith, god, love, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
The Beauty of Her Scars
"everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucious
all she could see were her scars-
painted perfectly upon her chest like
a reverie flowing to her sadness
scars are proof of pain and pain is
proof...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, cancer, cousin, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The Dogwood
The blood and lapis daylight sets
in ether. How the mind resets
brutality of winter chill
with February's codicil;
what gossamer a dream begets.
I hear the crickets in the dark,
their clicking takes up where the lark
has been. The flagrant...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, dream, imagery, nature, tree,
Form:
Quintilla
Beauty In Disguise
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucious
All she could see were her scars.
Painted perfectly upon her chest like
a river flowing to her sadness.
Scars are proof of pain and pain is
proof of...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, cancer, courage, love, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Big Red
In an Old West Town of no repute
Came a rider on a horse as if in hot pursuit.
Into the saloon he ran and shouted aloud
"BIG RED'S COMIN' "...which brought down a shroud.
Out...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, fear, humor, identity,
Form:
Couplet
Dreams (Marked To Be a Human Dragon)
Moving into the deep luscious woods perspiring as darkness grew,
I saw a lovely high tree with soft branches vanish in the green sky
Climbing up within its branches I saw a sparkling stone drop...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, fantasy, lovebody, green, life,
Form:
Free verse
Scattering the Ashes of a Dream
I had a pair of the most beautiful wings,
But I grew bored with flying
And so I never used them,
Never exercised them or
Stretched them out to feel the
Sun on my back,
That warm glow that lately
I had...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, addiction, angst, dark, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Kingdom of 1000 Years
What the world would have become without gold?
Answers could not be found for platinum
Nor spoken word could be drawn out for diamond
Even the highly depreciated silver-
To the poor is still uncommon like bronze
Money talks before...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, christian,
Form:
Sestina
Her Name Was Annie
her name was Annie
we were raised together from the cradle...went to the same schools...played all the kids games (yes, even that one) talked and listened to each other...happy and sad for the same reasons...we never...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, war,
Form:
Free verse
Stubborn Words (Sestina)
My pregnant psyche labors over words
and somber fetuses embalmed in ink.
A restless scribble knots my burdened nerves
with these encrypted ciphers I can't grasp.
Interpretations drip from severed tongues,
absurd perceptions form a distant mood.
My prying, inquisition probes...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, imagination, on writing and words,
Form:
Sestina
At Three O'Clock In the Morning
AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING
trucks toil the city’s streets,
a minuet of practiced precision,
to the pulsating rhythm,
to the incessant beat.
they parade and pause,
they roll-on. stop.
roll-on. stop. roll-on. stop....
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Categories:
crisscrossed, age, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Sussing Out My Special Place
crowded, cornered —
i suss out my special place.
tossing, turning,
dendrites burning
the insides of my eyes.
posit the tables
chairs, arrangement
of girls and boys.
the chatter of calypso...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, celebration, children,
Form:
Free verse
My Neighbor Kofi
MY NEIGHBOR KOFI
LOCATION: Mazamaza, Lagos, Nigeria:
My neighbor kofi,
The computer scientist
At 34,
He crisscrossed, jetcrosed, redcrossed,
And hobnobbed around the globe:
Kathmandu, Acapulco and the Galapagos
He dined and wined
Like there was no tomorrow
He dined and wined...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, adventure, africa, business, political,
Form:
Prose
Coffee From a Styrofoam Cup
Once I drank milk straight from the carton
And guzzled beer out of a can,
When I dripped gravy on my tie, I licked it up.
But though my manners were appalling,
One habit I would never fall in,
I...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Changing Lanes
The roads walk upon within my life fells as if they are crisscrossed and tangled like a gigantic knot.
An enormous ball which has me trapped inside of it.
Will anyone come here to rescue...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Seesaw Into Space: Part 2
Cont'd from Seesaw into Space: Part 1
Round the Sun I catapulted
and away from it I sped.
Then I saw another planet.
Mars! I thought — the one that's red.
Mars was crisscrossed by long channels....
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Categories:
crisscrossed, child, children, imagination, planet, space, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wintery Poem
* * *
Outside, delicate flakes are drifting and dancing,
Last night there had been such a blustery blizzard;
But this winter morning my world was beautiful,
As I sipped hot chocolate and hummed White Christmas.
From my...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, christmas, winter,
Form:
Verse
friendly fire
there had been many battles raging
mostly within and with himself
alter Egos diffusing who was friend or foe
to the point of dissolution of Self
like a soul grinder on an impossible mission
mindful and yet full of...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
She Moves In Silence
She moves in silence like a jasmine breeze
through a moonlit garden walk
She doesn't journey like a star
with a lustrous shine in a celestial sky
But just like a little rock
a little limestone rock...
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Categories:
crisscrossed, love,
Form:
Free verse