Emergency Circumstances
...Emergency Circumstances
A heavyweight contender for the Consellation Crown
A ready to wait pretender of a serious genuine frown
A street sweeping vendor in the middle of a mid-western town
A ...
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Categories:
naturedly, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
He Began To Weep
...The damage was done
he was hung on a cross,
a ragdoll now
his body crucified by last words.
Idle soldiers cast dice for his torn garments.
One stopped in mid-throw - a spearpoint of doubt
had...
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Categories:
naturedly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
She
..."Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."
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Categories:
naturedly, appreciation, tribute, writing,
Form: Free verse
The G's Have It
...good-looking gorgeous gregarious godmother of mine
guards graceful gracious grateful great-grandma so fine
giddy girls giving genuine gumdrops, guiding GIs to Guinea,
Generating ghastly ghostly ...
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Categories:
naturedly, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Bili
...Bili’s one of my two best chums. She's exquisite, cagey and ferociously funny - compared to her I’m tomboyish.
Her hair is a straight corn-silk that shines like black-enamel. When we watch movies,...
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Categories:
naturedly, 12th grade, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Only Theater In Town
...A lifetime goes by
just hanging about in the foyer
waiting for the right movie to start.
Then you realize
you have been the only theater in town.
Inside your play within a play
angels appear ...
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Categories:
naturedly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Of Last Moment and Religious Conversions
...So a lifetime went by
watching the silver screen
or just hanging about in the foyer
waiting for the right movie to start,
or fooling around on the back row
groping thrilling morsels of joy,
and...
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Categories:
naturedly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Morning Coffee
...Morning Coffee
by Edmund Siejka
The night before
A soft rain had fallen
Traffic lights,
Hitting the streets
At just the right angle,
Transformed wet asphalt
Into long shiny ribbons.
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Categories:
naturedly, life,
Form: Narrative
The Baggage of Painful Memories
...Crushed coquina’s pains, salty air consoled.
Mistrusting soul, my heart could not appease.
We met when life was brimming and potholed.
My spoken words were long lost memories.
Relentlessly the...
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Categories:
naturedly, love, memory, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Spirit
...The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.
Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.
You are the sov...
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Categories:
naturedly, bereavement, death, farewell, grief,
Form: Prose
Spirit
...The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.
Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.
You are the sov...
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Categories:
naturedly, bereavement, death, farewell, grief,
Form: Prose
Spirit
...The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.
Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.
You are the sov...
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Categories:
naturedly, blessing, change, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
...HEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow...
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Categories:
naturedly, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Life of Unpaid Debts
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I feel as one…now
With the grass and trees
Part and parcel
Of capricious breeze
Feel the need to fall
Upon my knees
And beg…“let me linger
A little longer please”
I feel a certai...
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Categories:
naturedly, forgiveness, nature, prayer,
Form: Light Verse
War and Peace
...Who can understand why war still exists where
there are clouds reflected in water here
History has proven its futility
even the breeze has a peaceful touch
The graves of the fallen state “the...
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Categories:
naturedly, peace, war,
Form: Couplet
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