The Whistling Hamlet
...A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic,
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal,
Warbling quietly to whistle scads of tranquil crypti...
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Categories:
matrilineal, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Spatial Temporal Lobbies
...I suspect Albert Einstein's mathematician wife
taught spatial Left
and temporal bicameral Right Al
to feel the passing
and surging
spatial ebbing and temporal flowing,
Circling
and spiraling...
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Categories:
matrilineal, anger, fear, math, seasons,
Form: Political Verse
Days of Glory
...Days of glory
These days when women get tortured, torched and raped
In democracies deemed the most enlightened
Remember glorious days women once shaped,
Being empowered and liberated no end
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Categories:
matrilineal, life, women,
Form: Rispetto
Regal Love Portended
...Sparkling black eyes aglow with love's ember
Appending lashes; swabbed cinders caressing
Sleek dark hair rippling waves of splendor
Blue, silk ribbon her coiffed crown dressing
Ashen, pale face f...
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Categories:
matrilineal, love, mother
Form: Sonnet
A Different Fear
...Remembering fear.
The sweat of retreat when one can never seem
to run far enough or fast enough.
Remembering the Christian children’s chants.
Devil worshiper, godless,
the taunting hell they saw...
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Categories:
matrilineal, education, faith, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse