Reflections
...Yesterday, when I closed my eyes, was seconds, minutes, hours ago.
Today, when I live my life, is yesterday, tomorrow.
Tomorrow, when it comes, I am blessed.
I will live forever with he, with wh...
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Categories:
memorializing, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Sage Tidings
...Deluged with the nostalgic era of you,
Your lush verdant scent lining
Wistful sentiments upon idle reflections
Scattered in fragments and fine dustings, as
I acquaint myself with futile intric...
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Categories:
memorializing, death, grandparents, life, love,
Form: Free verse
A Trail Treaded Lightly- a Tribute
...He sang of the wreck of 1975
Memorializing sailors who didn't survive
Honouring heroes in the story he tells
Visiting the cathedral still ringing its bells
29 chimes every year for their souls
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Categories:
memorializing, memorial, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
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Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday
during month of May
can be traced back
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mot...
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Categories:
memorializing, absence, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
...Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf
in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse to expatiate po...
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Categories:
memorializing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
...Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday
during month of May
can be traced back
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting prec...
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Categories:
memorializing, absence, anniversary, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Fig Leaf
...On the shadowed banks of river they sat together
Adulating setting sun quivering in rippling currents
Where golden filaments shimmered on blue water
Forming and breaking ephemeral circular motions...
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Categories:
memorializing, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Festering Wound
...On the banks of river folks gathered solemnly
Where in repose lay the body of his father;
Dry dead-wood was stacked in layers they built,
Fire was crackling, burning, heads were bowing,
Memoriali...
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Categories:
memorializing, angst, death, memory, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
...Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday during month of May
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for Mothe...
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Categories:
memorializing, america, appreciation, august, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Drink Up the Silence
...The echo of a thought lodged inside me,
a disjointed welter of crushed feelings
tinged with a sadness that finds no escape,
haunts my sleep and takes on a dark shape.
My past joys now a vast...
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Categories:
memorializing, dark, emotions, longing, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Unity Is The Key
...Black Americans marching on the street
protest white cops on a black killing spree.
And many will likely be gassed or beat;
to unlock change; unity is the key.
The racist hounds of hell...
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Categories:
memorializing, 10th grade, america, anger,
Form: Sonnet
I Will Never Forget
...I'll never forget the pain and the grief
I felt at my mom's bedside when she died.
As denial morphed into disbelief,
reality loosed its arrow inside.
An excruciating pain pierced my he...
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Categories:
memorializing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Seeking Ghosts
...I drove down the boulevard as I did a thousand other times
Passing by the aged blue-gray house - the bachelor's pad across the street
Hunkered down like storm clouds in a mist of yesterday's legacy...
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Categories:
memorializing, allegory, celebrity, character, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
...momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday during month of May
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent f...
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Categories:
memorializing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Uno
...the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast
in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin, when counting
the last three...
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Categories:
memorializing, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
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