Dinner Plates
...Every night, while I watch,
she stacks the dirty dinner plates:
carefully, habitually,
with the grace of a woman
who has learned to love herself.
Intentionally, methodically,
cleaning dishes ...
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Categories:
methodically, age, appreciation, beauty, life,
Form: Free verse
Time Never Sits For No One
...Time stops for no one Poetry Contest
Sara Jama
From the first heartbeat to the very last
From the first cry to the last gasp
Life and time rise and then fall
The hands on the external cloc...
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Categories:
methodically, introspection, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Time
...Beware of Time
She won't love what came before
Time loves but Itself
A true Narcissist
She won't turn her head for you
Although outstretched
Her arms won't point out the next bend
Arrow hand...
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Categories:
methodically, introspection, journey, loss, mirror,
Form: Free verse
blind iris
..."blind iris"
my ire is
i'm not Eyre
to be loved
mechanically
molded mason
maiden made
methodically mad
can't you tell she
is a she
demon not
a demon
is she
for
she...
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Categories:
methodically, creation,
Form: Free verse
Strange Heat
...A Strange heat is walking up the street with a heavy load upon its head and a yardstick to measure the dead, it’s walking in a straight line, staring at the glaciers melting from the hill filling the...
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Categories:
methodically, beach, birth, business, city,
Form: Prose
Thanks Dad
...I appreciate, more than grieve, you.
If I have a regret,
it's that I didn't convey my appreciation
when you were here.
We had our disagreements,
on different sides of a generational divide,
b...
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Categories:
methodically, appreciation, dad, thanks,
Form: Elegy
Whats Your Lesson
...We leave our country in search of a new life but we end up paying a painful sacrifice, I can live with it, if it has future benefit, but I don’t intend to go through it for the rest of my life.
I ...
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Categories:
methodically, boat, body, care, child,
Form: Narrative
Three Sister Winds
...Three sister winds,
Ephemeral progeny,
Spawned by the sun's relentless
But passionless heat,
And the earth's inexorable
Grinding rotation:
Sirocco dances across the vast emptiness of the...
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Categories:
methodically, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
The Turn of an Unfriendly Card
...Turn of An Unfriendly Card
(Tarot 3 of Swords)
I cannot empathize with a shattered heart.
That image of a fragile, breakable baby pink orb
Is insulting to how I feel.
The turn of an unfriendly...
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Categories:
methodically, endurance, grief,
Form: Free verse
Flock Plus One
...Flock Plus One
Crouching among a gaggle of
dabbling Canadian geese,
a brown skinned child pushes back
long black hair,
intent on building a tidal pool
of which he can be King.
Extending a ridi...
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Categories:
methodically, bird,
Form: Free verse
L M
...My life, my love, moments lasting, making memories, lessons learned, I listen most leisurely, methodically, meticulously, light-heartedly, laughing magnanimously....
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Categories:
methodically, encouraging, happy, identity, image,
Form: Alliteration
Winter's Slumber
...Winter's Slumber Contest
Regina McIntosh
Winter's slumber has me in cozy places, warm and comforted
I am grateful for the wood fire that burns, many blankets I have
So many things to help me ge...
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Categories:
methodically, appreciation, inspirational, time, winter,
Form: Free verse
I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe
...**Trigger Warning**
"I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe"
I knew Anne.
you’d think
with a name like hers
she’d be able to find her way
out of unchartered water...
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Categories:
methodically, dark, love, poets,
Form: Narrative
Keep
...As keep doing good to many people usually
Their lives keep changing day by day
Which is wonderful on this earth.
As keep counselling some drug addicts methodically
Their lives keep changing da...
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Categories:
methodically, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Then There Was Midnight
...Here there was morning now
Then there was midnight madness
Murderous monsters massacaring
Many made Malcolm
And Martin martyrs mystifying
Masses methodically most memorable
Measured morning m...
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Categories:
methodically, allusion, creation,
Form: Alliteration
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