Jaywalking
...This is when the old and the young,
beasts and confraternal drunks
damn the consequences of death
lying porous on crossroads upon
bifurcated paths, fractured junctions
and ceremonial cul-de-sacs...
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Categories:
millipedes, car, city, travel, urban,
Form: Free verse
historic dream
...A new proud king of
forest had new dream-
dream of being in
history, till books
become history
He welcomed next day's
Sun with new vigor,
made rules in jiffy
ruling, ruled and rules
had to...
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Categories:
millipedes, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Nocturnal
...
His thoughts mimic
millipedes, wandering
aimlessly throughout
his nocturnal mind...
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Categories:
millipedes, depression,
Form: Free verse
Flower Locus Living
...Your life is poetry—
whether words make it
on a page, a screen, an ear,
whether messages
or moments
meet the light of dawn,
parturition processed
sourced from the dusk
of fears and...
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Categories:
millipedes, allegory, blessing, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
Insect innocence
...
Drink the poison from my blood, breathe the rot from my lungs.
Take all that has been decaying inside me and nurse it to health like an injured bird.
A child who was once pure, turned sour like...
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Categories:
millipedes, angst, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Forest
...Flora and fauna of birds, beasts, microbes, soils, atmospheres,
Should only these contribute to the forest components?
Height and densities of trees and plants, and their thriving years...
Aren't ...
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Categories:
millipedes, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Monsoon
...monsoon
velvet mites appear
roam as though lost their mates ---
blood-red carpets spread
flies sip my teacup
to get a taste of my lip ---
some linger so long
white ants don't enter
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Categories:
millipedes, rain, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Bikini
..."All a man really wants is a girl who looks good in a bikini." - Jack Freestone
I am thrilled when farmers of my nation, skimpy dressed, toil,
Their spouses, half-naked (owing poverty), bring the...
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Categories:
millipedes, body, psychological, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Longer Night
...Darkness has bewitched light
To ride in the wheels of doom,
Fight blind it core sights.
Gripped progressions like tight brooms.
Rays of hope sunk in distrust,
Our wages rust
For years in lo...
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Categories:
millipedes, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Flood
...Water peeps, first; seeps in then; flows fluently fast,
Fills the courtyard; gets into our homes; pools unasked;
Checks the shelves and cupboards; as though a C.I.D,
Or authorized Income-Tax Offic...
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Categories:
millipedes, life, love, rain, river,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Colorful Umbrellas
...When fairy ring is formed
Fairies we just swarm
Under these colorful umbrellas
We gleefully dance with our fellas
Hopping over the wet wood
We play hide and seek with dudes
Soari...
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Categories:
millipedes, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Home Invasion
...scraping of the soil
invasion of millipedes
unearthed by rakers ~
those roly poly critters
in every nook and cranny
9/6/2021
A Buggy Tanka
M.L. Kiser...
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Categories:
millipedes, insect,
Form: Tanka
Slum Summer
...wasps buzz, sting, fly off
eyelids swell like farm-fresh Dates
flies invade the face
ants tickle, trickle, prickle
nose and lips look frozen-fruits
mosquito-marching
bugs mate under warm pill...
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Categories:
millipedes, insect, life, summer,
Form: Tanka
Feeling It
...“I am feeling it.” He said.
He meant his age, and as I watched
I saw a vision of him…
Ribs broke away
from the cuttlefish bone of his breast
opening outward in a rueful grin.
I saw his heart st...
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Categories:
millipedes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mom Hated Millipedes
...Mom hated Millipedes, she didn't like them at all.
Whenever she saw one, it made her skin crawl.
She hated them because she was afraid of being bit.
One day she saw a Millipede and she threw some ...
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Categories:
millipedes, fear, hate, mother,
Form: Rhyme
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