Kensington Avenue
...“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
- Quote by Confucius
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Human e...
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Categories:
needling, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Of Loves, Once Borne
...She was weaving a silken tapestry with long silver threads
and golden memories from her life that hadn't yet faded
Drizzles of sorrow fell with every loving stitch taken
until the sto...
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Categories:
needling, age, poetess, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers
...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...
with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences...
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Categories:
needling, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme
Crisscrossing
...Every doorway is well lit yet barred and locked.
This is my dream body, it is chasing its twilit shadow
down blind alleyways
pausing only to heave breathlessly
as it comes to a stop
in yet anoth...
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Categories:
needling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
nacre grace
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dear …
moonlight
keeper of the wan,
wondrous, midnight mists
might I beg of you a kindness?
I know you hide there,
safe from the needling stars in a
shroud of black brume
but could you wi...
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Categories:
needling, analogy, metaphor, moon,
Form: Free verse
Beyond The Veil
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Nothing refreshes me more
than standing beneath the misty veil of a waterfall.
Like avatar of baby's breath
and droplet of anti-death.
Phoenix burst of peppermint- spurt,
soft chew s...
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Categories:
needling, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween
...Happy pumpkins
Apple dumplings
Licorice sticks
Lollipops to lick
Owls hooting
Witches looting
Emerald city dreams
Every Halloween
Needling together fun things...
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Categories:
needling, art, halloween,
Form: Acrostic
Telestich
...Needling thoughts being bewitched
Heart of art revealed in telestich
Ending letters of a poem
Stringing me along
Despite my rights my wrongs
Singing me like a song
Dreaming me into the unknown...
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Categories:
needling, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
...By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like...
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Categories:
needling, adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Gershon’s Pen
...Gifted golden pen drenched in
Emerald emancipating elegance
Regal red reverie so daring
Sending me singing thinking or dreaming
Humble humorous and socially conscious
Onyx thoughts that hold on...
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Categories:
needling, appreciation, art, for him,
Form: Acrostic
4 Single Dads
...Sun rays slide across your face
Inviting silhouette artistic shades of love
Needling fingers plats a braid
Girl dad doing her hair not a fad
Little rituals she enjoys
Emerald ribbons matching j...
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Categories:
needling, america, appreciation, black love,
Form: Acrostic
Silent Symphony
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(Title taken from Sara Etgen-Baker)
In this little island before my house
I hear not a sound not even a mouse
muted trees of valor stand still in grace
I think I almost won the rac...
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Categories:
needling, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Script Writer vs Poet
...You capture me with your radiant smile
Hearty bold laugh impassive and vexing
Little grey hairs in your barely there beard
Needling your chocolate chin for years
Your artistic style and fashion ...
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Categories:
needling, appreciation, art, black african
Form: Free verse
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
...The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.
The medical term for c...
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Categories:
needling, analogy, anger, anxiety, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Seven Seas
...Adrift in rite, Forethrift of every
wind-sworn thing.
By Night and Gale Banshee wale,
styled in Sylphstream.
A symbol vibrates the sound of the w...
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Categories:
needling, art,
Form: Epic
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