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MORE THAN BRICKS AND MORTAR

MORE THAN BRICKS AND MORTAR
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
inside the closet
     faded photographs
          a lifetime etched on smiling faces
               the echo of lives lived here

the weight of belonging

Categories: mortar, 12th grade, family, home,
Form: Free verse

Bricks and Mortar

The truth about children,
They’re tiny sparks that glow in the dark,
They're embers that warm the space,
They're treasures on an abandoned island,
They're vessels of a worthy cause,
They add colours to a gloomy day,
Their silly acts cast a shadow on a bright day,
Reassembling my childhood,
Fixing the lost pieces,
Straightening the contoured lines,
Bringing back childhood memories,
Admonishing, instructing and teaching,
Letting

Categories: mortar, child, childhood, for teens,
Form: Free verse

Weather

Weather 

When a life has been shared
All the ups and the downs
Through the warm and the cold
In the air, on the ground 

There will never be more
That ties two souls together
Than the struggles and joys
Of the seasonal weather 

So choose well and take care
As your heart may deceive you;
There's far more to love
Than the enchanting

Categories: mortar, family, love, true love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Mortar and the Pestles

The women bending and pounding in rhythm 
was a vibrant bucolic sight. The long wooden 
pestles were powered by the human current.

While grinding raw rice, 
they stopped to rest, and 
to crack jokes, which were 
embellished with erotic 

connotations, and were worthier than today’s 
TV humors. They made turmeric and coriander
powder, when their delightful nasal

Categories: mortar, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

It Fell From a Dune

It fell from a dune
Into my path
This day
Near where freshwater bubbles forth
And waves push foam
Fraught with tempest
Of a southern sea
Upon an isolated shore
That would turn fatal for
Two pieces
Perfect
In shape and size
Mother with child
Mortar and pestle
I can only pray
You rest in peace
All
Smooth
So smooth
After generational use
A vision of people past
Grinding, grinding
Grinding away
At a meager and humbled life
Only

Categories: mortar, age, beach, death, food,
Form: Free verse

Mortar and Stone

Each way I turn, there’s mortar and stone
My chisel, nowhere to be found 
I’ve followed the path, the wind has blown
Each way I turn, there’s mortar and stone
I beg the breeze to leave me alone
The storm, it won’t calm down
Each way I turn, there’s mortar and stone
My chisel, nowhere to be found

Categories: mortar, how i feel,
Form: Triolet

Fuse

Fuse
Milly the mortar bomb went bang! Her little bits of shrapnel sought out flesh. Her blast wave wanted to crush. Her tail fin stuck in an Argentinean's head. Milly's owner, Private Gonk, British Army, reloaded and fired again. He enjoyed his job.

It's all about touching hearts with the thermonuclear flash, improving lives with the terrific

Categories: mortar, anger, conflict, military, war,
Form: Verse

Bricks and Mortar

Intermingled,
  but not together

In your presence,
  but still alone

Hearing your words,
  but not your meaning

Leaving your house
  —so far from home

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Categories: mortar, feelings, words,
Form: Rhyme

Mortar

When I was young I helped my dad to build a wall of bricks.
He showed me how to mix the mortar so it rightly sticks.

Start with water, then cement, some sand and then some lime,
roll it in a mixer and take it out before its time.

But something he would ask me caused me trouble in

Categories: mortar, father, riddle,
Form: Rhyme

Mortar Or Mortel

Ring a ding the ice cream truck is pealing
the monotone of a rut day to trap the rat

no amount of cheese will make me budge
the beauty of a flight to orbit the universe.

Categories: mortar, appreciation, universe,
Form: Concrete

Bring the Mortar

once my heart was frozen, frozen until i saw his smile. he, he was the sunshine. i knew it the 
moment i saw his eyes. and i melted, slowly, not slow enough i melted. i thought that my 
walls were made of brick, i found they were really made of snow. beneath his gaze they

Categories: mortar, me, heart, heart, me,
Form: I do not know?