MASK OF MANY FACES
...Who am I, anyway?
I wear the mask of many faces.
I speak, read, and understand—
sometimes with words,
sometimes telepathy.
My voice changes with my face.
I just need a witness.
Attuned t...
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Categories:
multilayered, beauty, children, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Words Straight up
...I want conversations
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky
the dark and the stoic
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is chronic
The name of my affliction
I think it’s wordaho...
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Categories:
multilayered, how i feel, language,
Form: Quatrain
Geologist - PS
...
Geology, the science of the earth,
elucidates the intricacies of
creation of continents and opening of oceans,
explores the complex framework
of the multilayered deep interior,
and unravel...
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Categories:
multilayered, earth, science,
Form: Free verse
Joy
...Three letters one word, one sentence
One idea, one ideal, one sequence
of generating generated art that even AI
cannot duplicate because I
just tried to use ChatGPT to compose
This soliloquy and...
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Categories:
multilayered, analogy, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Rhyme
Outlooks a Freed Verse
...OUTLOOKS
A shifting
play of angles
multilayered
that morph
into
landscaped
abstractions
already
enmeshed
about to
embark
the density
dissipates time
with
lights
&sounds
fli...
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Categories:
multilayered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Gypsy
...There was a homeless lady,
one afternoon, outside the hospital.
Was she homeless? I don’t know.
She had a ladened shopping cart,
which, on TV, is kind of a signature.
We were inside, waiting for...
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Categories:
multilayered, class, riddle, society, teen,
Form: Free verse
Transparencies a Freed Verse
...TRANSPARENCIES
multilayered
transparent
memories
so
personal
a conscious
blurring
of
animated
reality
overlooked
feelings
bold
expressive
style
enhanced
contrast
with
su...
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Categories:
multilayered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stressors
...*last winter break*
I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic bag over my hea...
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Categories:
multilayered, brother, christmas, dream, growing
Form: Free verse
Instant Regret and a Dizzy Blank Stare
...a broken phone in the muddy dirt
a neglected charger hanging on a badly worn clothesline
turned down for another loan
everything has been cut off or repossessed
now all my stuff is baking in the ...
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Categories:
multilayered, confusion, fear, how i
Form: Free verse
Little Girl
...Little Girl
Know that you are always enough.
You are an intelligent being.
Beyond your imagination
You will learn to reach for the stars.
Daydream.
You can be anything you choose to be.
Dont...
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Categories:
multilayered, abuse, age, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Wordaholic
...I want conversations
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky
the dark and the stoic
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is chronic
The name of my affliction
I think it’s wordaho...
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Categories:
multilayered, addiction, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers of Anemone
...She sits alone
In the chiselled grey of stone
In her thoughts so stubborn
Leaves airborne
Mostly unknown
The little that is known
Of the silence in her shapely bone
Is hidden in the te...
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Categories:
multilayered, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Multilayered Vulnerability
...multilayered
vulnerable
proceedings
persisted
over time
manipulating
emotional
reactions
over years
spent within
the situation...
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Categories:
multilayered, sad,
Form: Lyric
Inside Your Parenthesis
...
I keep your facial poses under lock
with myself as the only key
so I may live in your parenthesis.
You were a multilayered, solid color,
wishing to be a pattern of unique luster.
If a cr...
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Categories:
multilayered, grief,
Form: Free verse
A Moving Meditation On Running Form
...From the still blue center, the motion starts.
A multilayered gyroscope turning.
Interconnected, meshing clockwork parts,
Within, sacred white fire is blossoming.
Smooth hand circles driving ar...
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Categories:
multilayered, spiritual, sports,
Form: Sonnet
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