Causality
...What is this void you try to fill,
A void empty yet stuffed with society's swill,
Stark emotions driven by dopamine,
Scrounging for joy on a subconscious mezzanine,
Started all by a demented serp...
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Categories:
mezzanine, anxiety, christian, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 138 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: New Triplet ADDITIONS
...Date: May 2050
Damian returned home early morning
Back from another visit with Dolly. Still
Early misty May morning another
Dawning. 2050! The newborns triplets were
Sleeping. Damian was p...
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Categories:
mezzanine, beach, child,
Form: Alliteration
A High Road
...Today my thoughts have moved
To a higher altitude.
Where the air is crisp and thin,
Providing a fresh attitude.
The mountainous terrain blends
Both beauty and grace.
While reachin...
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Categories:
mezzanine, change, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Katydid's Last Song
...The warm hour after sunset in summer
Has long passed
So fast from these trees
In between
Just before the first freeze
Katydid clicks with half her strength
In the not-quite-right October su...
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Categories:
mezzanine, autumn, betrayal, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Like the Eagle and the Hawk
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwoxOpnN7g
Unceasing peace and calm arriving on the wings of twilight
brushed hymns quietly strung on golden harps by heaven's
mezzanine:
Plush dreams luxurio...
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Categories:
mezzanine, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Mountain Meaning I - Prayer of the Hawk
...I sit under the trees
Later
My neighbor said
“I enjoyed watching you pray.”
“What do you mean?”
“You sat there so still
Head tilted up for a very long time.”
“I suppose so
But actuall...
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Categories:
mezzanine, bird, earth, soulmate, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ponder
...Elephantine
Slow motion measures
out of time
in pace
Great go-between
grows notions
in lines
and space
Eglantine
embows fragrant pleasure
springtime's
embrace
Mezzanine
bon mot for half...
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Categories:
mezzanine, nature, words,
Form: Free verse
Triskaidekaphobia
...Triskaidekaphobia
And so, you have “Triskaidekaphobia” on your mind.
Indeed, fear of the Number “13” does have a real and
a certain palpable feel and meaning for people who
harbor this particul...
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Categories:
mezzanine, allusion, culture, fear, history,
Form: Narrative
Beauty Queen
...Muddy shoes beside her bed
Thoughts of you inside her head
Sheets that smell of gasoline
Been a long night for the beauty queen
Light flickers from a distant fire
Ask for the truth, she'll be ...
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Categories:
mezzanine, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Ariel
...Ariel
From my mundane mezzanine I peer into the waning light,
My charcoal heart beats slowly, yearning to ignite
As the sinking sun seeps gold and red upon the wooded crown
I feel...
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Categories:
mezzanine, fantasy,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again
...Dan's on the mezzanine
asking where the mayor lives
I'm on the dole line,
wondrin bout conservatives
The man with the leg cramps
boot camps wheel clamps
says they cut his food stamps.
L...
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Categories:
mezzanine, satire,
Form: Lyric
A Second Fireless Room
...Synthemesc candelabras ache hyacinth desire till woven floors
macabre phoenix grown on veiled crucible vines, dragonflies now
inhabit counter-clocks I've forgotten seer dust ponders hewn salama...
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Categories:
mezzanine, longing, mirror, surreal, time,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fading Stars
...This amber sky misted with periwinkle,
Daydreams close their eyes and grow,
These stars fade like the air we breathe,
Beyond my hopes of wishes yet seen,
Inside the stars will surely still shine,...
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Categories:
mezzanine, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Redline
...My room at the Hyatt
Smelled like my ex-wife
She didn't have oodles of class
Or wasn't overly fancy
So, it must be that aroma of
Almost masking what had
Taken place the night before
We greet...
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Categories:
mezzanine, baseball, chicago, humorous, sports,
Form: Free verse
Building Site
...Happy family on the billboard:
mother, father, darling child;
this prime apartment their reward
in modern geometric style.
Two bedrooms, one on mezzanine
with en-suite bathroom, air con cooled...
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Categories:
mezzanine, society,
Form: Didactic
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