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A Come Down World View From On High
some-tin-can-tan-man 
playing in the sand
with paper tigers
  a bear with many tentacles
red everywhere
	in the skies
  clouds streaming down
hispeed downsload online power lines
  pavement-red trees ripe for slicing
 and many motored mobiles moving
i...

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Categories: tornadic, parody, passion, political, social, lost, lost, may,
Form: Free verse



Prologue 2
OFFENSIVE !!


Gus Ferenski had a problem. It was a beautiful day outside. The rebel sun gazing down 
like a peeping Tom. 
The factory air, fresh and clean 
as a San Francisco hippie. 
The leaves were...

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Categories: tornadic, art,
Form: Other
Junk Drawer



The junk drawer of my mind processes MOMENTO, like golden Ark Dulcimer, Cimbalom that shatters the font of unfinished sound, into pixels of mime, song bound, PUZZLE PIECE orchestrated by the filter of Time

In swirling...

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Categories: tornadic, art,
Form: Other
I Will Never Forget
I will never forget the man I fell in love with, 
a man who once felt whole, who now bellows 
through broken nights of blood-stained desert, 
who sees ashen faces frozen in sand squalls ...

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Categories: tornadic, love, memory, night, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And I'M Coming After You-
And I'm coming after you;
By your eyes I see the tint of your heart;
Your spirit rises above all that’s not;
The beauty in your smile, your lips dutiful;
Your mind is mindful thinking onward spiritual;

And I’m coming...

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Categories: tornadic, analogy, appreciation, dedication, desire, destiny, feelings, i
Form: Lyric



F-5 Tornado
The warm temperature drops outdoors,
    And first drops of fresh rain sprinkle.
      The thunder claps right above me,
         As...

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Categories: tornadic, natural disastersrain, flying, rain,
Form: Concrete
Stormy Fray
My Child, 
I Need You to Realize, When the Storms of Life Threaten Security
Like A Predator Stalking it's Prey
Unpredictable Devastation May Occur
But Storms are not Here to Stay
When Peace is Plundered,  Security Shattered In...

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Categories: tornadic, life, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pixie Sue and Little Old Me
“The fairy was flying in loops and swirls around her,
shedding fairy dust as she went. Throwing it at Wendy.
Delighted, the human girl raised her arms up
to fully experience what was happening. Delicate
golden sparkles floated down...

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Categories: tornadic, fairy, fantasy, hope, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Chimney
I’ve come back to the place where I had grown,
a place no more as it once was known.
Not a roof, not a room, not one wall left,
just an old, weathered chimney standing alone.

An ill-tempered wind...

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Categories: tornadic, allusion, family, house, image, memory, nostalgia, senses,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Love You Cause You Been Here Before
When I say I Love You look at Me
Use the eyes of our Father stay looking at me
When I listen to you speak to me I hear whispers song
When I pray for you things that...

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Categories: tornadic, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Childhood Games and Paper Planes
I watched in awe as he sailed them aloft.
When they crash landed, I never scoffed
nor did I laugh when they hit the ceilings
for that would've hurt the pilot's feelings.

Stacks of paper were a staple at...

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Categories: tornadic, childhood, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Gain Or Never To Love Again
i've always believed that love lost is unpleasant,
painful as little as a lachrymal biopsy,
and as much as an emotional disembowelment
or lobotomy of the heart.

i am told that a love who walks out or finds love,
initiates...

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© Joey Foto  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornadic, emotions, faith, feelings, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
In a Moment
It was a day of gray windy spins and rolls
 howling through the mighty naked oaks
where cold and rain fell to ice laden shiverings
 and a wall of white stormed in
to pierce the air and...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornadic, bird, storm, winter,
Form: Narrative
Sunshine
Even in the darkest storm we have the promise of sunshine, 
We keep our noses to the stone we need to grind. 
We keep pushing on,
Pushing past the urge to run. 
There is always the...

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Categories: tornadic, encouraging, hope, motivation, seasons, spiritual, sunshine, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Sunshine
Even in the darkest storm we have the promise of sunshine, 
We keep our noses to the stone we need to grind. 
We keep pushing on,
Pushing past the urge to run. 
There is always the...

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Categories: tornadic, encouraging, hope, motivation, seasons, spiritual, sunshine, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Alternative To Peace
Most days it's so peaceful when Kimmy leaves home,
And the dust settles briefly, felled leaves never roam
On the floor where they mold now (till she's home again)
If not crunched in my passing, for some there's...

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Categories: tornadic, journey, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wonderment of Environmental Praise-
 wonderment environmental praise
How can the winds see were it's going
And what direction do they call
If the trees  are rooted in the grounds 
Why do the leaves raise branches  and limbs to the...

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Categories: tornadic, analogy, appreciation, environment, imagery, jobs, metaphor, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Captive of Circumstance
Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its snapped steel-jaws 
refusing to relinquish you; lest you chew up...

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Categories: tornadic, angst, pain, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MUSIC IS MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL- for Shasta Simms
I’m sick of the noise
I’m sick of the noise
Despair has me ill
I’m sick of the noise
Life has me confused
I’m on edge, I’m in lose
I ill and detained
I’m ill and I’m drained
I’m sick of myself
I’ve recently...

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Categories: tornadic, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, caregiving, emotions, meaningful, music,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Colorful Times of Cool of Warm Autumn-
The colorful times of cool warm autumn
Warm autumn breeze blown
Trees bark chap like lips burn
Mothers snuggle up with newborns
Green grass brown no longer shown

Ants scatter bees sucking blooms
Everything’s dying no spring zone
 Fact of the...

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Categories: tornadic, adventure, analogy, appreciation, autumn, cool,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God's Mercy
Most assuredly, for America,
These are not the best of times,
nor are these the worst of times.

Times have been worst and there is no
promise of better days ahead.  History for good
or bad is already set...

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Categories: tornadic, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weather the Storms God Got U In His Arms
Such a plethora weather
amongst all the people
things seem to be just getting better
timid thunderstorm rain typhoon season
let the Rain shine
with the rain shine
like the rain let it rain
Just Let the Rain shine
Just let the rain...

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Categories: tornadic, adventure, environment, surreal, symbolism, violence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Winter Forecast 2018
Winter forecast  2018

My life seasonally dull
Windy, clouded little sun
But I can see beyond the horizon
I'm lookin for 
Whether forecast a better life being...
Forecast in 2018
Mood swings precipitation teary hues
Skies condition will be blue
NO! I...

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Categories: tornadic, celebration, change, future, weather,
Form: Free verse
Morning Like Evenig
Morning like evening gallows
 casts eerie ominous shadows
 slip sliding deep in the hallows
 in along the walkway shallows.;
Inching in an out
 below the overhangs stout
 with fallen leaves and dopplegangs
 where  bent brittle...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornadic, bereavement, earth, environment, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member WEATHER THE STORMS SOAR-
WEATHER THE STORMS SOAR

I
Shadow dances impart across lite path
Souls entrenched in technicolor harvest
Comparable passage denied terrain grasp
Rainbow corral blurb optic delusions trust
Blown wind scars the clouds rains falls down solace
Weather the storms soar the heaven’s...

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Categories: tornadic, analogy, appreciation, imagery, weather,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things