Long Wrapped around her Poems
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Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hotel CaretakerHow unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyesalarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with my toothbrush
Scratchy, painful bristles
Toothpaste that makes me sick
With the strong...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, child, childhood, emotions, feelings, loneliness, pain, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Precious Priceless ProgenyPrecious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz DiveSaul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Autumn AtonementFace to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, solitude, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
MarlinoTwo, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Malkavian the SecondThe constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
The Peasants TruckEverybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging,
backing the art...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, muse,
Form:
Narrative
StubbornnessOriginal poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com:
"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyielding : resoluteb : suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, character, deep, desire, devotion, sensual, words,
Form:
Verse
Strawberry SweetSTRAWBERRY SWEET
Strawberry scent
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`
The basket half empty all the pies gone
Red wine from one glass, but we had...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, love, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announcesGalley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...
Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, 6th grade, 7th grade, abuse, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Riding Sixties ShotgunI was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
Tell Her You Saw MeTell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Pieces and Memories of YouA smile that could melt the ice protecting my broken heart, the ice that I placed there long ago when my world fell apart
When I had all but given up on true love existing in...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, heartbroken, lost love, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
I Want To Be Someone's First ChoiceI want to be someone’s first choice not their second runner up prize, I want to be the trophy that they’re after the one they can’t look away from with their eyes
I want to stand...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, heartbroken, jealousy, loneliness, loss, love hurts, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
A Man and the Moon Prose VersionSebastian looked at the moon, the source of his inspiration. When the Moon appeared in its silvery glory, he was profoundly moved to write. Sadly he could only write during a full moon. This was...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, day, fantasy, home, moon, ocean, romance, words,
Form:
Prose
Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms(or swing sets and monkey bars)
A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...
When, scads of light years ago
(half...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Hoarding Hope - the Odd BallGet me feeling well
For, I am sick as hell
Brain orgasms and headaches rape my mind and left me thoughtlessly behind
Trying to keep the Kingdom in remembrance before I grow blind or lose my mind
I am...
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Categories:
wrapped around her, angst, depression, emotions, happiness, hope, how i
Form:
Rhyme