Sound Bites: 5-30-2025
...Forbidden Ground
Wandering
beyond the limitation
of death
Trespassing
through the back gate
of forever
Maundering
alone in a virgin
wilderness
Witnessing
the future destruction
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Categories:
maundering, time,
Form: Rhyme
Wilderness of Mirrors
...In the wilderness of mirrors,
light unravels, names forget themselves,
ghosts slither between shards.
her maundering gaze ~ branches bleeding black~
finds the noir stitched in afterimages....
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Categories:
maundering, angst, imagery, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Prologue to Springtime
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Written: April 22, 2024
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Whimsical whispers of spring wallow,
Awakening from nature's languid tingle.
You were maundering...
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Categories:
maundering, analogy, beauty, spring,
Form: Free verse
Waterfall
...Leaping fish spawning
leaf floats by waterfall
lyrical bird sings
Waves crashing on beach
river maundering
clouds puffy white sail by...
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Categories:
maundering, bird, fish, water,
Form: Haiku
The Depths
...A mucky puddle
still holds the reflected night.
Two maundering starlings
peck at the dark pool
as if fishing.
One worm wriggles up,
the birds don't seem inclined
to eat it
one bubble in the p...
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Categories:
maundering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Unwritten Absence
...Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of i...
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Categories:
maundering, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Rhyme
Mellifluous - First Place Contest Winner
...In a world of mellifluous dreams,
Where whispers embrace in soft moonbeams,
A moiety of verses, murmuring in rhyme,
Revealing the secrets of an arcane time
Nemesis, the muse, with s...
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Categories:
maundering, analogy, appreciation, character, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Unrequited
...My mind mainly meanders where I yearn –
A universe where I cannot return,
To lament my life’s unchangeable truth
And exhume choicest corpses of my youth.
Maundering 'midst marshmallow mem...
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Categories:
maundering, desire, fantasy, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Plot Against the Giant
...The Plot Against the Giant:
First Girl
When this yokel comes maundering,
Whetting his hacker,
I shall run before him,
Diffusing the civilest odors
Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.
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Categories:
maundering, adventure, crush, cute, cute
Form: Free verse
Mini Drama: Sturmabteilung 4
...The employee took out these pizzas and put them on desks at the hall. No sooner had the pizzas popped into the gofers' eyesights than seething salivas (imaginary or real) bursted out of their mouths,...
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Categories:
maundering, betrayal, funny,
Form: I do not know?
Little Temptations
...Little Temptations
Sultry this evening with temperatures rising
Nary a breeze whispers soft, ever slow
Tempting the flavor of love as I taste you
Drenched in your essence, above...
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Categories:
maundering, good night, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Cities of Refuge
...Wall to Wall a rich texture of beige and ivory
Door to Door the throat closing color of unripe green
Floors heavy metal wielding concrete from block to block
From the phosphorescent radio signal s...
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Categories:
maundering, life,
Form: Free verse
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part II
...(continued from, "An Epistle Warning against Melancholia: an Allegory--Part I," where somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphor...
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Categories:
maundering, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...
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Categories:
maundering, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Moors of Winscombe Face
...It was on the night of midsummer's eve, there was a pregnant pause. Not even a leaf was moving,
the sky so starry bright and the moon benevolently shining lighting up the moors.
It was the kind of ni...
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Categories:
maundering, moon, nature, night, star,
Form: Haibun
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