unintended innuendo
...“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause
though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminished her soul’s sm...
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Categories:
materializes, angst, city, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Starman
...
Within the swirling currents of stars
He materializes, a silhouette against chaos
He is the whisper throughout time of stories untold
Worn out boots pound the cracked pavement
The echoes ...
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Categories:
materializes, future, life, star, storm,
Form: Dramatic Verse
brave kitty cat
...adventuresome kitty cat
materializes at other edge of my driveway
brave to venture in this dog-infested yard
mostly white with caramel face and tail
she stops and stares
startled I am there
bec...
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Categories:
materializes, cat,
Form: Free verse
Mirage
...O search not for a rare applause,
Beware, life is a thankless stage—
It's vain, a loud uproar to cause
On this voyage of pilgrimage,
A puppet you are, caught in cage.
Vain to think you’re a gr...
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Categories:
materializes, life,
Form: Quintain (English)
Absolute deafening silence
...Absolute deafening silence...
during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whit...
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Categories:
materializes, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
I yearn for raw love, unsculpted by time, unchanged
...I yearn for raw love, unsculpted by time, unchanged,
The kind that is born at dawn's golden break and does not die at dusk,
That pulses in veins like an eternal river, undivided by norms,
Through ...
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Categories:
materializes, love,
Form: Free verse
Meeting My Ghost Stu
...I woke up to his angry heavy footsteps again
my terrified beating heart is thick, not thin
the steps stop, and I am hoping it is my imagination of course.
But I hear him clear his throat, like a d...
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Categories:
materializes, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Belles Lettres
...
“belles lettres”
It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment
before you dive
into the dark
you surface
to find a boat
surrounded by
shining pearls,
Styx, a mirror...
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Categories:
materializes, dark, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Brace For Impact
...*Image of A Fallen Smirk by DG.
Brace For Impact
Pillar of society, creme de la creme, important person,
one to be reckoned by indeed.
One who's untouched by palls, frails near a radia...
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Categories:
materializes, character, fate, identity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
That's Close Enough
...*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki.
That's Close Enough
Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always,
A speck sans a cavass, ... materializes a wor...
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Categories:
materializes, allusion, change, character, identity,
Form: Sijo
Bad Gig
...The pole is slick
there's a smell emanating from the toilets
body odor and a thick male musk in the smoky air.
I'm not here to gawp at the dancer
just bar tend.
The floor is sticky, the glasses ...
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Categories:
materializes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Griever At Her Post
...Many claim to see her there with her knees up under her chin, her arms are delicately cradling her head as she dreams of his returning again
She is shrouded by the warmth of the fog off the ocean as...
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Categories:
materializes, grief,
Form: Rhyme
One More Vision For the World
...Unfold my vision,
close my eyes,
all almost the same...
Constant mixing,
effervescence of voices
and colors... almost convulsion!
...
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Categories:
materializes, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Free verse
To Write Poem With Poetry
...Poetry is intended for restlessness,
too much sweetness drives away poetry...
You can be pregnant with ideas,
stocked with what is benefit and write
emotionally without stoppage,
but the unusual...
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Categories:
materializes, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Sweet Breath That Holds Life
...Who gave us the sweet breath
that holds life and guards it?
Think of mother, think of God...
they both proclaim it
with their words; even Elisabeth
has lessons for us who seem dissatisfied:
God...
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Categories:
materializes, bible, creation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
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