Miscellaneous Poems

Premium MemberMiscellaneous Beauty

 Love...like skylark's song which embraces
          a miscellaneous beauty.
     like  daisy's whisper which hugs
   a wingless grove.
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Categories: miscellaneous, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Miscellaneous Pursuit

There are some things that you have to do, to make your long-awaited dream come true. The morning with all its glory is listening silently to your body, it watches your heart beat for signs of doubt and clues of fatigue before you go on that once in a life-time journey.
 
I don’t know how
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Categories: miscellaneous, america, appreciation, career, change,
Form: Narrative


Calendrical Casino

Ten.

Ten years, I've been scared,
fearing the phone's ring.

Twenty.

Twenty years, I was,
learning how goodbye really felt.

Thirty.

Thirty years, I reached,
forty-four days ago.

Forty.

Forty, my brother was,
for fifty-seven days.

That's all he got...
and that feels like all for me.

I'm terrified, I'll admit.
Every knock on the door,
every surprise text or call,
every "hey" I wasn't expecting.

Each corner hides a death,
each day a
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Categories: miscellaneous, death, grief, loss, memorial
Form: Free verse

Junk Drawer




The junk drawer of my mind processes MOMENTO, like golden Ark Dulcimer, Cimbalom that shatters the font of unfinished sound, into pixels of mime, song bound, PUZZLE PIECE orchestrated by the filter of Time

In swirling depths of thoughts refined, sorted, assorted, twine.
The junk drawer of my mind resides, to be found again.
A hope chest realm
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Categories: miscellaneous, art,
Form: Other

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

The escargots attack,
They hide their guns 
On their spiral shells,
Be careful, Giants.

You think, you think,
But you do nothing,
It’s like watching
A sailboat, set sail
Heading for the moon.

A felucca on the Nile,
A white and round veil,
The soothing under the sun
Won the whole crew.
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Categories: miscellaneous, 9th grade, desire, travel,
Form: Quatrain


Life Vs Wade

We can't have a child.
It's not a matter of want,
of belief,
of opinion.
We cannot.

Every doctor says, my wife will die.
The child might live, or might not,
but the love of my life will not,
not a guess, not a chance.
Just a death.

You can give your life, for another's.
Your death can stop one more,
if you're a cop, a soldier,
a
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Categories: miscellaneous, abortion, children, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Adamant

Bacon and sausage.
Dogs and music.
Whiskey and a wife's smile.

Sometimes, surely,
it is just that simple.

Lately it has not been.
Not in life, not in fiction,
not in poetry.

One year, maybe three poems.
All about grief.
One imagined, yet real -
a son's song for a father's tale.
Two, too true and too close -
a brother to the scion, a brother to the
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Categories: miscellaneous, hope, moving on, pain,
Form: Free verse

I Discovered Miscellaneous Meaningless Hodgepodge

I discovered miscellaneous meaningless hodgepodge...

dating back circa: Age of computer antiquity
mine signature worthless gibberish
found Earthling dumbfounded
for further waste of time inquire
about trivial details constituting 
more'n six electronic new pages
the following an excerpt from book of
Matthew Scott Harris.

Courtesy of AskJeeves,
and special acknowledgement
to Google search algorithm, this anachronistic
Travelocity bing Ray Orbitz son cent
reincarnate with good n Plenti
of
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Categories: miscellaneous, absence, adventure, character, dream,
Form: Free verse

Another Five Miscellaneous Haiku

STORM 
thunder clashes 
a deluge of rain follows 
no birds tweeting 

MARCH ON 
the bugle’s first post 
soldiers on parade 
heavy footsteps 

CIVIL WAR 
guns in abundance 
the clock is ticking fast 
stalemate 

SUSPENSE 
atmospheric music 
there’s a muffled scream 
glass shattering 

SNOWSTORM 
heavy snow falling 
all quiet on the outside 
fire crackles
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Categories: miscellaneous, life,
Form: Haiku

Five Miscellaneous Haiku

BIRDS
chirping birds 
on an oak tree 
in the longest day 

BUTTERFLY 
a common butterfly feasting on a flower 
it is the last supper 
times up 

FATIMA 
shepherd children 
a vision of an angel 
fact or fiction 

CAT 
a cat 
sleeps anywhere and everywhere 
not fussy 

CRICKETS 
silence reigns continuously 
except for the crickets 
chirping
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Categories: miscellaneous, life,
Form: Haiku

Miscellaneous Poetry Strips

FEAR

                     Fear
                  it's a picture
             
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Categories: miscellaneous, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Free verse

Miscellaneous Rants

Militate on one another with great passion
the nonperson,
The fusty one.
Nothing fancy, delightful or bonvivant
Having a genteel attitude, but impassible
Vagabond. Loner. Prodigious.
Yet no blandishment.
Complicated as a merman
Porous because of mutilation
The obsequy closed with an
Elegy
Rigmarole.  Rigmarole.  
Not the booby hatch which
hosts may
The railroad tied on knots.
Big as an intrusive blunt forced
object
The copulation of blood and
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Categories: miscellaneous, analogy, betrayal, fear, grave,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMiscellaneous 4

Miscellaneous 4

Striking a Balance
Only 5% of the people like their jobs and live to work,
while the other 95% hate their jobs and work to live.
Tom

I consider myself to be a likable person,
otherwise I wouldn't enjoy my own company.
Tom

God, Sees What I Don't
The areas of my life where I have expertise,
God has chosen not to involve
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Categories: miscellaneous, word play,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMiscellaneous 2

Miscellaneous 2
By Tom

All About Answers
When I ask the right question to the wrong person
I’m usually answered with a stare.

Take Note
The longer your question, the shorter my answer becomes.

Correct Answers
I believe all my answers to be correct,
but many of the questions I take out of context.

Problems
The preponderance of a problem
has a psychological influence over my solution.

Defeat
The
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Categories: miscellaneous, word play,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMiscellaneous Tidbits

Miscellaneous Tidbits
By Tom

Stupidity
A trait for which medical science has found no cure.

Full of Dregs
Ever look at a drop of water under a microscope?
I imagine our lives appear much the same in God’s eye.

A Pancake’s Two Sides
One thing worse than never having enough,
is never having any.

Call It Individuality
Just as there are opposite sides to each coin,
There
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Categories: miscellaneous, word play, words,
Form: Free verse

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