Blue Marker Castles
I’ve always had the sneaking suspicion I’d never grow old.
I mean, when I was younger, I scribbled plans in a notebook.
Drew clumsy castles with blue marker and proclaimed loudly
that I’d own one one day.
But when you’re a kid, “old”’s just around your twenties,
miles away from that wooden gym floor and your friends
sitting criss-cross applesauce
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Categories:
marker, depression, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Permanent Marker
Thoughts they flow so easily
I need a pen to keep on me
No paper? No problem, I have an arm
To write things on, these words of charm
And when I transfer them to here
Then all who read will know you're dear
But if I get a new tattoo
Wherever it is I'll just show you
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Categories:
marker, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
A Marker Abandoned
A final remembrance,
stuck in the ground
an unspoken milepost,
lost to be found
Standing defiant,
with time as the judge
a marker abandoned
—memory begrudged
(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)
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Categories:
marker, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The First Mile Marker
As I approach the first mile marker I realize I am still glorying
in the cheers and hoots of my family; the proverbial die is cast.
a weird smile on my face, I have never seen
so many long legs as they dart past.
Some of their bottoms are so exercise- lean that they barely bounce at
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Categories:
marker, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
White Marker
You see thousands
I see one
flowers adorn
fields of memories
my love died
I am not sure his intent
not at all
he was a good man
he was mine
until war stole him
he gave his life
I gave my heart
year after year
I yearn for only him
and cry
for all of you
I shall never forget
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Categories:
marker, memorial day, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
The Roadside Marker
Plastic flowers bend in the breeze
Photos of a young face placed to grieve
A cross or marker planted near
A place of death remembering a loved one so dear
Was it a drunk or speedster then
That brought about an untimely end
For an empty place at a family table no longer taken
Marks the last place of a person’s death
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Categories:
marker, death,
Form: Ballad
A Marker Left
Sign of what once may be left
Breath taken deeply denial of death
Presence of grace to have a place to hide
As family leaves fall temperatures will rise
Accepting the passing of a goodbye
For moments of inscription
Left for grieving eyes
Stone slate curved shape
Squared surface engraved face
Measuring space words at a limit
Who? When? Memories of them
Beginning and an
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Categories:
marker, angel, death, faith, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Permanent Marker
Warm water
Swallow me whole
Up to my neck
Slide over my lips
And puddle into my ears
Close my eyes
The water climbs up to my brow
Pull the plug
The heat recedes
Watch the bubbles sucked down
The drain hole
The water streams
My body steams
I'm still not clean
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Categories:
marker, write,
Form: Free verse
A Marker
A sign of what once may be left
Within the hedge line written
Through the dark feeling of weight lifted
A presence of grace to have a place to hide
In stone carved out many names to find
The times of sorrow drifting over veins
As leaves do fall and temperatures will rise
Growth that flourishes may not wither nor die
Time accepting
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Categories:
marker, death, faith, family, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Marble Marker
MARBLE MARKER
There was a white Marble marker at the head of his grave
Here lies an honorable man, just started to shave
He died for his country, so Ol glory can wave
The kids don't understand, she cries every night
Why did our daddy, have to die in a fight
She was his first girlfriend , gave him his very
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Categories:
marker, america, family, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Trail Marker
barn swallows return
from seasons I've never known
to bring me new wings -
my eyes scan the old dirt road
searching for a summer lost
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Categories:
marker, bird, lonely, longing, loss,
Form: Tanka
Shell Marker
solitude and celestial light
reflections of most recent strife
I bury in sand with a shell marker
leave it there in shallow, salty water
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Categories:
marker, introspection
Form: Classicism
Civil War Marker: Vanderbilt Campus
History’s unpopular these days,
No one cares where Blues shot Greys,
Or where the tons of cannonballs were kept.
Union marker stands aloof, alone,
Monument of bronze and chisled stone,
And students giggle where the Northern troops once swept.
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Categories:
marker, history, giggle,
Form: Verse
Marker
Bright and messy
Colors, inks, and draws
Smooth, fun, easy, and silky
Crayola
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Categories:
marker,
Form: Cinquain
Marker?
hello,please be sure to vote for the o-b-a-m-i-n-a-t-i-o-n come november
remember,america has never had a black president and until this is fullfilled,we will never prove we are not racist
places will scream if we go with o'cain,eer,i mean,mr.mccain and the lovely vain wife of his.has she ever been proud of america?
dont believe me?lets look at truth.the youth
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Categories:
marker, political
Form: Free verse
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