The Carcass
...In this landscape, lies a nest
made of brown brittle leaves,
cracked asphalt,
and tire flattened filters
this creature, stands
broad shouldered and stupid
with a flat face and eyes
open so...
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Categories:
marcy, extended metaphor, irony, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
My Name Is December 2
...I am the youngest of 12, and I'm told that I bring lots of goodness and joy.
Perhaps you have already met my siblings because they've been around longer
I don't mean to be unkind, but the oldest is...
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Categories:
marcy, celebration, christmas, december,
Form: Personification
The Reunion
...The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...
First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and c...
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Categories:
marcy, age, character, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Freedom Enjoyed
...Once I was condemned to die eternally
Found guilty without iota of a doubt
Showing human nature at its sinful best…
…yet, God made me free!*
The Saviour with His wondrous love and mercy...
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Categories:
marcy, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Sapphic stanza
My Lillie
...My "Lillie"
The garden is overgrown
The blooms are growing wild
They are missing the sweet lady
I remember as a child
She would lovingly water
Each and every stem
As she pruned her pretty ...
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Categories:
marcy, family, flower, garden, grandmother,
Form: Lyric
Marcy
...Merry and forgiving
Angry at injustice
Romantic dreamer
Creative mind
Youthful at heart...
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Categories:
marcy, people, self,
Form: Acrostic
Listen To the Warm
..."It happens just because we need to want, and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and... listen to the warm.” -Rod McKuen
Listen to the Warm
L...
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Categories:
marcy, bereavement, family, love,
Form: Prose
Brooklyn Snow
...Brooklyn Snow.
By Feo.
I forgot how cold it could be these past few years. Not the coldness of the soul but the coldness of winter, which attributes to the coldness of the soul. Walking on a carpe...
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Categories:
marcy, city,
Form: Verse
Tahawus - a Short Poem With a Very Long Footnote
...A polite rain
joined me briefly
before heading uptrail
to leave me standing, alone,
in a suddenly steaming forest.
I wrote this on a hike in the Adriondacks to to Mt Marcy, the highest ...
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Categories:
marcy, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Mami Chula
...when u dont got nothing u do everything to make something just to have u around even tho
its nothing u made it something thats never forgotten marcy is what i see when i see u cry
wondering why ado...
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Categories:
marcy, love, passion, god, beautiful,
Form: Romanticism