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Fully Employed Now

Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...

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Categories: gorge, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By Dante

Already I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,

When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of  an horde just passing there
Under...

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Categories: gorge, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome

I walk o u t...

I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath

Death...

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Categories: gorge, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on 
imp apostle bull...

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Categories: gorge, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes

Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Categories: gorge, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme

Escape of the Bluesman's Song

Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of...

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Categories: gorge, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Unquotable Quotes: Fat People - Xxix

Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps there’s also the slightest...

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Categories: gorge, abuse, chocolate, depression, health, humor, hyperbole, natural
Form: Epigram

China Tour Thoughts

China Tour Diary Moment #1
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KUNMING THOUGHTS


Sunday morning flight to Kunming city;
East bound to explore vignettes of China;
New vistas to sight, postcard memories;
Feast visual galore on tour agenda.

Yunnan province greets our earthly landing;
Brisk clearance and we...

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Categories: gorge, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

These Are My Words Of Death

I never could live without leaving something behind—
a trail of words, a bottle of bourbon,
and now these reflections,
because we can’t escape the truth forever.

The world smells like a battlefield,
and though I was never afraid to...

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Categories: gorge, 12th grade, death,
Form: Free verse

King of Kings: 91-172

11	Contracted in this state our marriage made
		And only far too late we recognize
		That gladly with Reptilian Flesh we’ve laid
		The veil torn away revealing eyes
		Of yellow flame exposéd we surmise
		Out from the darkened room these floating...

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Categories: gorge, metaphor,
Form: Epic

Old Mate

I have this burning desire
To find old mate
I want to sit
And chat with him
Under a Gum and setting sun
About what has come
And what has passed
Times of old
Places we’ve been told
Along the wallaby track
Signs of danger
Moments...

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Categories: gorge, 12th grade, absence, courage, desire, old, ,
Form: Free verse

The Mystery of the Black River Gorges

*Situated in the south-western region of Mauritius, a dream island in the Indian Ocean.

Written on 9 November 2023


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Categories: gorge, love, moon, mystery, nature, passion, river,
Form: Rhyme

The Ancient Ones

I felt the earth moving under my roots.
Very same feeling deep down as it was -
five thousand years ago when Flame Mountain
started murmuring and belching before.
It turned its anger on all of us
spewing a fire...

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Categories: gorge, character, fire, mountains, myth, spiritual, tree,
Form: Free verse

Maman - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Mum By T Wignesan

Mama – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Mum » by T. Wignesan

Kevin Gilbert (July 10, 1933 – April 1, 1993) - father of Irish-English ancestry, mother an aboriginal from New South Wales - was orphaned...

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Categories: gorge, depression, discrimination, mother, murder, poverty, violence,
Form: Free verse

11

Claquée j’ai quitté mon lit douillé 
J’ai peur de sombrer dans ma tête souillée 
Dans mes rêves je suis toujours exilée 
Je n’ai jamais trouvé le sommeil espéré  
J’ai savouré le mal qui me...

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Categories: gorge, self,
Form: Lyric

Her Valentines Day Bo

She has been dreaming of the day when her Bo will come home and stay, her Bo has been out at sea since the “thirteen century”, he fought on the pirate’s boat and gorge out...

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Categories: gorge, beautiful, blessing, boat, caregiving, cute love, engagement,
Form: Narrative

In Search of You

Day one; I leave the coast following the great black river.  Its meandering slow water sneaking slowly and silently past the ancient pines and hardwood trees gathered near its banks like a band of...

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Categories: gorge, nature,
Form: Haibun

Humanity Canteen

Humanity Canteen

My restaurant is exclusive and classy no paupers allowed though I
have to declare that I picked up the chef near the township where
on a paraffin cooker in his garden of plenty lots of dishevelment...

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Categories: gorge, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two

 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...

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Categories: gorge, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form: Elegy

Dem New Publicans


Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray

Happy daze are here again!
Dem New Publicans bray 
dey be da common people’s friend

But...

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Categories: gorge, parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Narrative

China Tour Thoughts 2

China Tour Diary Moment #2
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AZURE MOUNTAIN GORGE



Mile after mile we take the China roads;
Highways beckon now as our tour meanders;
Vistas speak beauty as coach bears our load;
Silence fills endow as wind blows plunder.


Springtime in China...

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Categories: gorge, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Me To Myself

(myself to myself on myself for myself)

When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders...

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Categories: gorge, introspection,
Form: Free verse

My Crumpled Thoughts

(CRUMPLED THOUGHTS POETRY CONTEST)

When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders and violates sanctity.

Did...

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