She Is
...A dry wind lifts
a damp fringe of
gray hair.
She is wrinkled,
her mouth sunken
over dentures.
She's as thin as dust
but glows
on the edge of her ruin.
The earth aches.
It once made love...
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Categories:
metaled, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Urban Sprawl
...Gardens, houses, metaled roads, no tractor and mower
Speed limit grows in reverse, bigger and slower
Brick and concrete slowness teks ower
Sixty, forty, to thirty, where does it stop ?
Down to tw...
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Categories:
metaled, city, environment, farm, urban,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Wrath, Does Give An Unwanted Bath
...A cool Summer breeze...
Brings pollen to allergies's
own wheeze and sneeze.
Maple leafs wave against many southern winds...
Rain drops pelt rooftop's of metaled building's dins.
Storms aff...
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Categories:
metaled, death, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Excavating a Pulse
...By the sour lemon light
through dusty shafts
and cavernous gulfs of darkness for miles,
she crouched.
Examining the find
with a paintbrush, not for painting,
but for delicately brushing away d...
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Categories:
metaled, introspection, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Maldive On a Monday
...Excerpt from last night's dreaming:
Being plunged into the Lackadive Sea
blue green below me to sky scraper depths and beyond
With the quickness of burned off clouds, I think:
there must be sha...
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Categories:
metaled, adventure, imagination, water, green,
Form: Blank verse
Birch Eyes On Fireflies
...Dusting, cascading on wings confiscating
the dreams spilled in pools of desire
We watch and we wait in a thick contemplate
on these paper soft wings to expire
Birch eyes on fireflies, chalky mo...
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Categories:
metaled, adventure, happiness, imagination, moon,
Form: Quatrain