Political Popcorn
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P~Poetess, I, unafraid, since I came here~to
shout unabashedly, I voted for Trump! (Twice!)
O~Others, just growl,sneer and make obnoxious,
unfounded, harumphs!
P- Pathetic….are th...
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Categories:
nota bene, humorous, patriotic, poems, political,
Form: Alliteration
She Slipped Into My Pillow
...She slipped Inside my pillow and began to massage my temples,
I was a tad hungover, so a female ghost
from the distant past was most welcome.
Her fingertips felt as soft and as attentive as ever...
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Categories:
nota bene, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mother Earth Speaks
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My birthing place
My heart bleeds
You are no longer my lover
You who do not know me
Do not love me
Your denial reeks
Your children will
Never know me
Dear Father Time
Treat them kindly
Spare them your Wrath
“Nota Bene”
Lon 4/12/2016
"Nota Bene" A Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something...
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Categories:
nota bene, earth day, nature,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix
...Candva am stiut
exact de cate ori vreau
sau trebuie
sa-mi indoi hartia de impachetat
inainte sa trimit
un colet social.
Pe vremuri, hartia
era atat de importanta,
uneori la fel de important...
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Categories:
nota bene, how i feel, old,
Form: Free verse
Primo Vere - Spring Comes
...Spring comes
Quietly--
Not with the bleating of lambs or
The tweeting of birds or the
Beating of butterfly wings
Spring comes
Silently--
Celtic through the Neolithic stones,
Unheralded by p...
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Categories:
nota bene, april, mystery, nature, silence,
Form: Free verse
I Like Muslims
...I like Muslims,
Particularly Yemenis
And Pakistanis (in Yemen)—
With whom, as a university don,
I happened to live for six years.
Arabic vowels render
A Yemeni voice gruff.
So even a greet...
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Categories:
nota bene, friendship, , cute,
Form: Lyric
Sei Duci Hated Nota Bene
...To die
One must be alive
So where am I?
To cry
One must feel loss
No one to miss, empty tears dry
To fly
One must have wings
If only broken I could tumble and be gone
To lie
One must ...
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Categories:
nota bene, art, loss, philosophy, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Nota Bene
...and she said
do not broke me
if you are not able
to fix me back
otherwise
you’ll end up with
a broken toy...
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Categories:
nota bene, break up, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Poem For My Mommy
...How loaded is the word Mother-with dirty diapers, running noses
Late night upchuck, the bedtime stories and *the Diwali delicacies.
Seeing chaos, mess, too much noise, squabbles and bro...
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Categories:
nota bene, mother,
Form: Rhyme
A Sonnet By An ''Other''
...Like Frankenstein, I, too, am loathed to death;
I walk this earth devoid of friend and hearth,
devoid of joy from the time of my birth
and from the first draw of my infant's breath.
A...
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Categories:
nota bene, fear, grief, horror, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Intro By Obit
...Born January 31, 1953 – Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson – Died January 30, 2048
HeRe, tell the truth,
liEs The Righ...
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Categories:
nota bene, death, history, hope, life,
Form: Acrostic