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The Mask of Black Spinel

Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.

I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching whims and shaking limbs:...

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Categories: laggard, angst, dream, evil, horror, imagination, mental health,
Form: Couplet

Emotional Shrapnel

Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
the reckless chilling bursts of wild incendiary angst a blight,
such burdens...

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Categories: laggard, anxiety, august, change, courage, deep, feelings, moving
Form: Free verse

Jamie - a Waste of Life

A STORY OF TEENAGE THUGGERY, JEALOUSY, TEASING AND TAUNTING - 
THE DESTRUCTION OF A PROMISING LIFE ................ 


Staggering down the rain-drenched street 
I see you, reeling drunkenly 
like a sailor trying to keep his balance...

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Categories: laggard, death, teenage,
Form: Epitaph

Last Chance At Love

LAST CHANCE AT LOVE

                      Winter sun startles ambitious songbirds,

     ...

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Categories: laggard, beauty, happiness, happy, love, love,
Form: Blank verse

Indices of a Loon

GOODLUCK

Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll, 
Our feeble lord enforced by pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes) 
On congruent grounds of pain we forced him, though we hated his coterie....

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Categories: laggard, corruption, crazy, culture, heartbroken, history, leadership, parody,
Form: Alliteration

Word Squirrel

Rodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal

Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can be
With running mouth and wheel to match
They are a sight...

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Categories: laggard, animal, children, education, kid, words,
Form: Rhyme

A Night After the Neurosis : a Song For the Mozaic Society

It is a quite Sunday morning

It was a weird outing in the evening

We saw fuming ashes

We saw failed elephants

We heard the tales of fallen petals

We saw drifting continents of love and lust

It was a quite...

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Categories: laggard, allegory, angst, beautiful, character, memory, night, self,
Form: Free verse

Indolence

An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints our...

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Categories: laggard, boyfriend, grandmother, happiness, morning, teen, travel, vacation,
Form: Free verse

Entombed Enwombed

(Dedicated To Submariners All Over The World)
 
Dived deep in the bowels of the seas
My steely shell’s a womb.
Deep down amidst the oil and grease
I am at peace in the Lovecraftian tomb!
 
What’s with the...

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Categories: laggard, allegory, courage, gothic, imagery, irony, military, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Don'T Demean Meaning

In my life, narrow margins matter
Opening my eyes wide
To better perspectives which don’t flatter
Dispensable pride riding on the tide 

Where populism portrays norms
To which I don’t subscribe
Despite unusual forms and storms
I ride although I can’t...

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Categories: laggard, poems,
Form: Free verse

The Inconsistencies of Time

When did it turn around? I wonder now  
when the exact moment was I stopped 
looking ahead? Some moment in time
I looked back.  Back, back and back
and yet it is not far since...

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Categories: laggard, confusion, timelife,
Form: Free verse

In Hail

A seasonal malaise plasters 
stray tendrils of wayward thought.
Another dreary gray day hovers.

Vacant is the sky, as empty as the 
surface of an unwritten page.
On days such as these the mind strays
through the attic’s dusty...

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Categories: laggard, life, peace, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Loch Ness

The cooling evening breeze lifted and moved the laggard clouds
filtering the burnished moon through the sheer curtains  on  either side,
makes nature shiver.

Moon holds its gaze with longing over the Scottish Highlands
watching Nessie swim...

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Categories: laggard, imagery, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse

Surreal Nature

I await your coming for the flowers are blooming and the grass is high. The lilac branches are still bare and shivering in the laggard lion’s breath of March. They await your kiss, the Monarch...

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Categories: laggard, nature, daffodils,
Form: Haibun

Monarch of Summer

I await your coming
for the flowers are blooming and the grass is high…
lilac branches still bare and shivering
in the laggard lion’s breath of March
they await your kiss, Monarch of summer.

purplish buds
sprout from gray lilac branches...

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Categories: laggard, animals, devotion, inspirational, life, spring, spring, daffodils,
Form: Haibun

Nightlight

Oh laggard maid, why do you 
harangue the night with your longings
the void greets the multitudes
with the same ashen face.
Only the shades of fleeting joy
can brighten the monochrome 
to the richness of sapphire 
only bliss...

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Categories: laggard, allegory, angst, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Black Jack

The wearing of the green
damn, if it doesn’t remind me of you
of the swashbuckling laggard you were
and the ripple of muscle across your broad back
the salt and pepper curls on your chest
and whiskers tickling my...

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Categories: laggard, caregiving, dedication, introspection, life, lost love, mother
Form: Free verse

Brother Watches Over Me

My brother watches over me as I lie sleeping
He cradles me close, afraid I will wake
And he assures me I am in his safe keeping. 

I want to talk, tell him what my mind is...

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Categories: laggard, brother, me, voice,
Form: Villanelle

Osama Bin Laden

OSAMA
Obdurate Sadistic abductor as Machiavellian now abashed
Senseless Saboteur with Sabre sword,
Ablutions of wickedness as apology from vagrant
Mercy and peace mixed fleetingly against unprovoked America and the innocents
Abomination of true God explained as religion, hatred, wickedness,...

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Categories: laggard, angst, religion, satire, peace, peace,
Form: Burlesque

Fear the Night

Darkness steals the day’s fading sunlight
as the moon opens his bright eye above.
Stars begin to spray the ebony night  
that grips the still earth like a glove.

Streetlight burns through curtained window 
casting shadows along...

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Categories: laggard, dream, fear,
Form: Quatrain

Hanging In There

Our Hannah with her snaggle tooth
Is prettier and that's the truth
Than any sultry movie star
Who gets her beauty from a jar.

She's just turned six years old and so
Her baby teeth are primed to go;
But one,...

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Categories: laggard, childhoodbaby, old, baby, old,
Form: Light Verse

Where Dragonflies Alight

It was a long hike before they reached the campsite,
and sunlight was fading with the slight threat of rain.
Mandy was weary and Jeff's mood was quite dreary.
There was much yet to prepare before dark of...

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Categories: laggard, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Money Inferior To Time

Time richer, more precious than cash
Which once lost finds its way into your wallet
Whereas a second lost can stash
Permanent poverty punishment on your mallet. 

Time, scarce resource with powers
To determine the quality your future enjoys
If...

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