The Grief I Feel is of Another Kind
...The grief I feel is of another kind
Sweeter than holy water
A deeper breath than moorland air to find
The black of midnight, not—
Of monstrous seas, but—
Of restful night, donated cloak
From a...
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Categories:
nipping, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
My cat can’t be happy
...
Ok God hear it is
I spent eons perfecting an animal that cares about nothing I call it a……Cat
Gabriel beams as he places it gently in Gods lap
Could you please remove it
It is making a weir...
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Categories:
nipping, poems,
Form: Free verse
They got the whole world in their hands
...They got the whole world in their hands
Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to...
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Categories:
nipping, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Especially Sweet and Cold
...Dark, black, midnight in my cup.
Cream is light, especially sweet.
Hot, warm, rekindle Winter’s mug.
Bitter chill, biting, nipping at heels.
“Baby it’s cold outside” teeny trees.
Tenderness ...
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Categories:
nipping, america,
Form: Verse
Thought of the day
...all is well, all is well
we are in ineffable peace
in tranquil, time stretched stillness
then an ego ripple surreptitiously arises
scarring the very fabric of our soul
watch all thoughts oh her...
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Categories:
nipping, introspection, peace, silence,
Form: Free verse
More ado about Nothing
...Nothing
Is not no-thing
No-thing implies
A thing..but
Nothing implies
Something..
Circling...
Nothing
May seem to
Suggest
Equality as
Freedom...
Nothing
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Categories:
nipping, absence, beauty, bible, words,
Form: Light Verse
Every January first of the new year
...Every January first of the new year...
finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories:
nipping, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss In The Dark
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POTD
How I wish I could have clutched
vignettes of remembrance
on this bench in a park;
the same wooden one
which cradled our afternoons,
feeding little birds
as slices of pang gr...
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Categories:
nipping, kiss, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Stillness in November
...Over harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into m...
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Categories:
nipping, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral
Jelly Jill and Sister Jill
...J.J. sat quietly in the library,
Thumbing through a stack of books, looking quite contrary—
Jack Be Nimble, Jack Sprat, Little Jack Horner, and Jack and Jill,
Sifting through, trying not to make n...
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Categories:
nipping, dog, imagination, nostalgia, nursery
Form: Rhyme
explosion
...bright colors shouting
hello y'all it's me autumn
nipping at your nose...
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Categories:
nipping, autumn,
Form: Haiku
Young love
...Followed like a puppy
nipping at his heels
around every corner...
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Categories:
nipping, love,
Form: Free verse
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at...
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Categories:
nipping, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Leper Messiah
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Walking toward His grave, the cool air nipping at my nape on this chilly Nisan morning, feeling disconsolate. The sun has just risen over the Mount of Olives, while the magnificent temple basks in ...
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Categories:
nipping, jesus, remember,
Form: Haibun
Nourishing Soul
...("Honeybee on Apple Blossom", 2020, original pen and ink)
Nourishing Soul
Like a bee to the flower
Holding pollen and nectar
What is it we seek at play in the fields of the Lord
If no...
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Categories:
nipping, allegory, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
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