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We are the days that we’ve become. 
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings, 
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings. 

Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...

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Categories: sightings, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 24

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Remains the pain within the dark
A song so soft of love and heart
Yet, holes this deep leave their mark
Like life's sorrowed canvas art

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     “Elf King,” said DynDoeth, “Erlenkönig means Elf King.”
Joulupukki...

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Categories: sightings, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

RED SEA

RED SEA

At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
             mud of my anus, ink of...

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Categories: sightings, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form: Ballad

Nicholas Street Jail

The structure is imposing, massive and fearful.  Built in 1862 as a jail and
gallows for the worst of humanity.  "Living"  conditions were sickening and
appalling.  The top floor was reserved for death-row...

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Categories: sightings, scary,
Form: Narrative

Song From Beyond the Stars Part 2 Earthside Gathering

from the extremely large to the very small, rocks have been game changers
  planet-sized melters, moon-makers
  asteroids with cataclysmic impact, dinosaur terminators
  again life's prospects pivoting
  this time, on tiny stable...

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Categories: sightings, adventure, destiny, humanity, science fiction,
Form: Verse

One Ring To Rule Them All

Forged in the pit of despair, the Megacity to dwell.
One Place
to rule them all.
Hell.

Let us come soon to surface in false identity,
Saviours, Creators, with no indemnity.
Pen Pal- Secret Admirers, Watchers watching over-- humanity-like Dire Wolves...

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Categories: sightings, caregiving, engagement, eve, evil,
Form: Narrative

Nomad

The wails that disturb very few in their bed
Reach only the ears of the psychic… or dead

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Categories: sightings, death, devotion, love, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Love Letter

Love Letter 
This is my love letter 
To a beautiful woman 
I hardly know
I do know from observing
Her interaction with others 
She is smart and compassionate
She has chosen a profession
Helping folks on the edge of...

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Categories: sightings, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Columbian Uncivil Allegiances

It was a nasty war.

To call it an UnCivil War
is to avoid an obvious oxymoron
as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence
through lack of Anger and Fear Management,
violently over-industrious absence of mutual civility.

We were too optimistic
about democracy's...

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Categories: sightings, columbus day, culture, health, history, military, native
Form: Political Verse

Fleeting Moment

A fleeting moment I possess
I tend to obsess
condense my sight to the obvious sightings
I'm beyond inferior to proposals and promise of wedding bells
unable to compete with the reigning smiles
and the incoming wave of tiny giants
opening...

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Categories: sightings, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Ladder2heaven

The ladder is cold steel and past its days, dulled to a natural grey
Yet its rungs still stand strong, stretched over the battered frame
See over time, a ravished age, the world has grasped the ladders...

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Categories: sightings, confusion, god, myth, voyage,
Form: I do not know?

The Lady of the House

It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the gracious host, the lovely widow of a wealthy sugar planter....

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Categories: sightings, abuse, analogy, black african american, society,
Form: Haibun

Moors of Winscombe Face

It was on the night of midsummer's eve, there was a pregnant pause. Not even a leaf was moving,
the sky so starry bright and the moon benevolently shining lighting up the moors.
It was the kind...

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Categories: sightings, moon, nature, night, star,
Form: Haibun

It's In the Past

The past – it’s gone and yet, it lingers on
Darkening the sun’s warmth, yet – occasionally
Breathing joy through the heart and soul, awakening
Kindness, compassion – inspiration and hope

The past – oh, yes – it’s gone,...

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Categories: sightings, memory, old, remember,
Form: Free verse

Dear Joe,

Ah, the life surreal.  Nothing like wearing the weirdness like a greatcoat as I sip bad hotel coffee and muse over where the last few years have taken me while watching ice flow around old...

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Categories: sightings, humor,
Form: Prose

A Crime They'D See More Of, Part I

The call came in just after 2:00pm,
Anton was doing office paperwork,
a big part of any detective’s job,
lucky he had never been bad with words.

The word was that a body had been found
by some children playing...

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Categories: sightings, abuse, dark, gender, murder, pain, sad, suicide,
Form: Narrative

The Dark, Dark Room

The Halloween Party was in full swing
Witches, wizards and an alien thing
with tentacles and one huge eye
Flourishing a laser gun shouting "Die".

Alison and her friends Ada and Jo
Were all dressed as feline kittens "meow"
Carl and...

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Categories: sightings, adventure, halloween, horror, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Jones Town

Used to be a happy go around…later shrouded in frowns…?
For many a birth places…what are the shades of their faces…?
A log of many a cases…where are the words of their paces…
Memories of a ghetto…not in...

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Categories: sightings, memory, , western,
Form: ABC

The Door In the Closet Pt.1

In a sleepy old hamlet in Northeastern Maine
on old Knob Hill Road, there is a house,
a very old house,Victorian I think with
with what looks like old bell towers on either end

But they aren't really bell...

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Categories: sightings, adventure, fantasy, imaginationhouse, old, house, old,
Form: Narrative

mischief -

the uplands of the Scottish countryside
          have held a riddle, many hundred years

a meager man-type creature called a HOB
     creating rumors of...

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Categories: sightings, adventure, mystery, myth,
Form: Blank verse