Babel
..."A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.”
-Alexander Smith
Everyone is talking,
No one is listening,
It’s an amb...
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Categories:
misconstruing, conflict, confusion, dark,
Form: Quatrain
Out My Window
...Out my window, the birds preen and take flight,
Out my window, the sun arises from its chamber,
Out my window, the lone traveller seeks light,
Out my window is a city that doesn't see slumber. ...
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Categories:
misconstruing, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
Run For the Roses
...I heard Run For The Roses by Dan Fogelberg on the radio the other day…instantly a memory awoke…and with it a feeling of humble joy that memory evoked.
It was years ago while still teaching (I want...
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Categories:
misconstruing, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Life
...Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emana...
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Categories:
misconstruing, absence, allah, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Not So Friendly Discussions
...Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio b...
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Categories:
misconstruing, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
As I Slumber
...my dendrite highway glides into spiritual realms
unbidden, unhurried, unsanctified by conscious me
meditative unawareness solidifies into dreams of the dead
bioluminescent shapes and songs form en...
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Categories:
misconstruing, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Tolerance
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Tolerance
By Tom
11-14-2016
We live in an age where we lack tolerance,
And others actions or words we smother.
Concerned entirely with our selfish agenda,
And filled with hatred tow...
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Categories:
misconstruing, life, society, today,
Form: Lyric
Tropical Seahorses
...How mysteriously mythical
And mystical you look
Magnificently minute
Maritime majestic migrants
More than marginally manic
Mesmerizing meanderers
Masterpieces
Peacefully going about
Your bus...
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Categories:
misconstruing, animal, beautiful, dance, life,
Form: Alliteration
Manic Depression
...Manic-Depression
An illness that consumes me
Speaking endless lies to me
Misconstruing the world for me
Refusing to set me free
Binding me to self destructive tendencies
Cheating me of what ...
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Categories:
misconstruing, courage, crazy, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Night Terror
...I wake, my eyes rapidly wandering;
Avidly searching for the source of the tapping.
Held captive by the sight demon with it's repulsive hellish guise.
Lingering; Hidden amongst shadows it stares ...
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Categories:
misconstruing, animal, dream, fear, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Outkast----
..."Conceive true deception multiplied a million fold
visualize the yin and yang in a battle so intense
that we get em confused
the resident evil specialize in misconstruing
We wanna be at a p...
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Categories:
misconstruing, africa, america, animal, corruption,
Form: Lyric
Connection
...We all know those who cannot meet –
Too busy, too much doing.
We understand and do not feel
That they are misconstruing.
Some that I know can’t even call –
They cannot spare a minute.
I know they ...
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Categories:
misconstruing, computer-internet, life,
Form: Rhyme
Encrypted Mind of Skippy 5
...Sad to see the causalities,
Of these ****ing tragedies,
Such democracy that's,
Full of ****ing hypocrisy ,
Said a free country,
Giving taxes then distributes monthly,
It's said god loves me,
Yet he c...
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Categories:
misconstruing, life, me, me, drug,
Form: Blank verse
Emaciated Sheep
...Powerful people know what weakened sheep want;
an ethically weakened hero with power to flaunt.
They want an easy ideological direction,
not actual common sense or introspection,
an excuse for what t...
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Categories:
misconstruing, introspection, people, hero, people,
Form: Rhyme
An Unexpected Visitor
...An Unexpected Visitor
By Elton Camp
The crunch of gravel in our drive
Announced a visitor had arrived
The curtain I then pushed aside
The car with amazement eyed
“Oh my, what could be wor...
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Categories:
misconstruing, funnyhouse, people, car, house,
Form: Rhyme
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