New Frontiers
Earthbound, beneath the dark sky above,
enduring a empty endless night,
I first gave my heart over to love,
and my spirit suddenly took flight.
Illuminated by this newfound light,
what had for long been a dormant seed,
nourished by astonishing delight,
was, at once, fortuitously freed.
What followed, then, with surprising speed,
a sleepless child, who would
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Categories:
new to(p), child, love,
Form: Sonnet
Your new capitcha
Civilian communicator
Manager and organizer
Reckon it really is smart?
Tests for IQ hadn't passed it
Sense much it doesn't real make
Shall we announce a tender
Requirements for contenders
Who and or what judge will take
Pairings and the APIs
Monopolies marketing lies
Vs this Predator Apex
If human is website
Your slice
How will your memories
Of brain yours and enemies
Forget all that
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Categories:
new to(p), technology,
Form: Rhyme
New Again
When I turned to God
He made me clean, whole and new
Reborn, through and through.
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Categories:
new to(p), encouraging, god, hope,
Form: Haiku
not new nor novel no more
not new nor novel no more
See some sights, see some more
But now I am standing at my door
The room the same as before
not new nor novel no more
Still, I can't be bothered to make a change
Yet I'm longing to turn the page
standing still at center stage
not new nor novel no more
But I could change
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Categories:
new to(p), change, conflict, longing,
Form: Free verse
Brand New Tea Kettle
Decsions, decsions he spoke of his chooses of ffod.
The meager of supply would change his atitude.
Simmering, the spicy broth he
waited to smell
the savory food. Then he added dumplings, his favorite
comfort food.
He had roasted a tough rooster
one that had pecked in his yard. The flvor was rustic
and gamey he ate it with some chard.
Mushrooms, Mushrooms garlic
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Categories:
new to(p), analogy,
Form: Bio
The New Cut
Every snip feels off.
I stare at my own hair.
The sides are sharp today.
The top does not feel right.
I run my fingers through.
It is different, maybe odd.
I pause, not sure I like it.
I hope it grows on me.
Maybe they will like it.
It could be a better look.
Could even catch some smiles.
The girls might notice too.
The mirror
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Categories:
new to(p), anxiety, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Start of a New Poem
It is a night creamed by melting darkness.
Fireflies are obsessed with secrecy tonight
And dim their lights cautiously, frugally.
Crickets and cicadas crepitate with muted
Feelings, sallying wretched, orphaned tadpoles.
I cringe from traditional horror,
Wincing with the power of concern.
Lest I forget, the moon travelled out of town.
The constellation was keeping wake in the outer
Universe, where stars were hired
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Categories:
new to(p), dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
New Sonnet 4 'Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold'
Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold
The limits of my Sarah's love for me,
But I realize that the rot and stink and mold
Are all within my mind, beneath my See.
There is no other person who can love
For me. It is my duty and my joy.
It is the Truth that True Love is made
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Categories:
new to(p), mental health, silly, true
Form: Sonnet
I talked with the new moon tonight
I talked with the new moon tonight,
And asked: - How fast,
How slow
The seasons come and go,
The birds migrate, the grass is getting dry,
And not be late
In life,
In death,
At birth, how loud do we have to shout?
How long to stay?
And wait,
And count,
How slow, how fast we have to love,
And get a glimpse of quicksand,
A touch of
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Categories:
new to(p), destiny, life, love,
Form: Free verse
My New Old Poster
An old-time poster caught my eye
In an antiques shop where I like to browse.
On seeing it, you might ask why,
So I’ll tell you, long as rhyme allows.
First, the colors pop and its retro look,
With a smiling man in an old-style hat,
Made me grin and that was all it took
To think, “Gee, I’d like to
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Categories:
new to(p), appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
If love is a battlefield new song version
If love is a battlefield
Sarcastic words
are launched
like glass hand grenades
Shattering her dignity,
she's bruised,
battered and afraid
When coming home
fills her with a
dreadful trepidation
When her words
walk on eggshells
trembling in expectation
Chorus
If love is a battlefield
then,
somethings not right
Home should be
a safe haven,
not cut like a knife
Oh,
if love is a battlefield
and there's a cry
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Categories:
new to(p), abuse, bullying, recovery from,
Form: Lyric
Between the Rivers
The Hudson River stretches wide
From Jersey to the far west side.
The east, though, is where I reside
So I don’t see it much.
It’s quite majestic, driving past
And on the highway, going fast,
I try to conjure up the past
When locals spoke in Dutch.
‘Cross town, another river flows,
Much narrower and, I suppose,
Some Germans came because that shows
In
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Categories:
new to(p), new york,
Form: Rhyme
New from dyslexic temple mount
New from dyslexic temple mount...
of one mortal university
undergraduate built in madly
the brainchild of one Forest Hadley
an a Ford able game paid top dollar
after being purchased by Milton Bradley
called Dodge the Old Farts.
A favorite game I (and the wife) play
here at Highland Manor originated
by yours truly (me) and the spouse
soon after we moved here
eight years
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Categories:
new to(p), absence, abuse, adventure, angel,
Form: Free verse
I'm Crying In The Car Listening to 'A Whole New World'
Streaming like the rain outside
The windscreen wipers working like
My heart and chopping onions stuff
A testament to will the good of another
The kids are in the back and can't see what's going on
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling in the driving seat
I think of my wife and when we first met
She was always running late
As I was
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Categories:
new to(p), age, appreciation, april,
Form: Free verse
Death in the New Year
Our hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .
Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with the ululation
Of firecrackers that warmed cold and dark wintry skies.
Now, aphonia sets in from unending lamentations.
Headlines, buried by the chilly bones of winter,
Are barren of good tidings.
A chionophile besieges the
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Categories:
new to(p), death, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
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