Water Draws Near
...Water Draws Near
The rush of a wave in the ocean, the babble of a creek, the stillness in a pond and warm wet cords of relief in the shower, water draws near. It’s the Living Water that took me h...
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Categories:
muffling, death, journey, mom, water,
Form: Free verse
Solitude, a friend
...Solitude a reliable friend,
one that accompanies me
to the world's end.
He's quiet and shy,
hidden away from others
appearing only when I am alone,
in the depths of the night.
When I am left...
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Categories:
muffling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Steam and Stubborn Pages
...To the boy who studied by the roadside resto’s dim flicker,
muffling jeers with pages turned in stubborn hands—
each “you’ll fail” dissolved into the steam
of instant coffee, your only shiel...
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Categories:
muffling, boy, perspective,
Form: Free verse
In the Bleak Midwinter
...In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
- Excerpt fr...
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Categories:
muffling, grief, lost love,
Form: Haibun
Winter's Coming Kiss
...A-rush
In a feather ruffling frenzy
cooling the flamboyant sunrise
muffling the warblers
with waffling winds
chilling the audience
in an ice-like stare
your shivery essence
ricochets throug...
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Categories:
muffling, december,
Form: Free verse
Fever Dream
...In my fever dream,
I’m united with you.
I sit by the wake
and grieve over something
that I could never
call my own.
Questions pound my head,
leaving me with dizzying thoughts,
muffling the s...
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Categories:
muffling, love,
Form: Free verse
Waiting Eyes
...Wearing a veil
I revisit the past
Hiding from suitors
who hold to me fast
Muffling my words
as shadows befall
Their spirits indentured
— old feelings recalled
(Deamsleep: July, 2024)
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Categories:
muffling, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
The Dull Nights Spent With Silence
...Everything may appear
in perfect order as this vast universe is,
and behind it I can't hear
anything muffling sounds,
but spot faint shimmers of hidden worders!
Such are the dull nights spent...
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Categories:
muffling, emotions, longing, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Penny Loafers
...Penny loafers; muffling, shuffling, slipping, sliding symbols of a generation.
The rings of alarm clocks, sprints to an office, and evenings in dance hall gyration.
Low, feminine shoes, a Post-War...
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Categories:
muffling, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Clusters of Emptiness
...Everywhere, clusters of clowns gathering about.
Plotting behind painted smiles
Dancing to the quickening of our demise.
They gather upon star spangled hill.
Behind giant mahogany desks.
Shar...
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Categories:
muffling, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Held In Suspense
...The morning fog obscures, ironic in a sense,
as water particles are likewise in suspense;
muffling all sound, they coalesce in self-defense,
uncertain of their fate when sunshine does commence.
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Categories:
muffling, weather,
Form: Monorhyme
It Was Peaceful
...It was peaceful down there
Sitting on the bottom,
Water muffling what I hear.
A lovely day in autumn
To explore some water,
the task at hand.
To escape temps getting hotter
By treading l...
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Categories:
muffling, life,
Form: Rhyme
New Beginnings
...I have forgotten how to feel;
With each punch even more damage done;
The moments I should remember slowly fade;
Defense mechanism for the ones
who love too much;
Possessing the heart of a ch...
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Categories:
muffling, emotions, feelings, hope,
Form: Free verse
Moorland Ponies
...There are wild horses in the heather;
their neighing follows the wake
of hewing wind-wraiths.
The ponies are hardy and stout, they go
in and out of the clouds, slip through
swale and dingle.
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Categories:
muffling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty of the Night
...Every moment of every day has its beauty…from the dawning of first light…
But today I’d like to concentrate on the beauty of the night.
Darkness has a subtle way of muffling all sound as it drift...
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Categories:
muffling, night,
Form: Rhyme
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