hastening angel
...(A repost from 2019)
My favorite aunt is dying.. cancer, quiet and consuming as a flame..
Seven short weeks ago she was easily doing an hour of step aerobics, unaware of this intruder, this mur...
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Categories:
notepads, death, eulogy, family, friendship,
Form: Free verse
WOOHOO WOOHOO
...[This is a Metaphysical Poem, though I’ve classified FREE VERSE since poetrysoup does not have a Metaphysical Category. I’ve uploaded a reading of poem on YouTube channel @ghairodanielspresence in Sh...
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Categories:
notepads, allegory, change, crazy, deep,
Form: Free verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,...
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Categories:
notepads, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Place Not Meant To Be: 09
...#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,
of this and that, thoughts begin and end, thrives,
truth betold...
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Categories:
notepads, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Spontaneity
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When I was in kindergarten.
I learned to write.
Between snack time and recess.
We had sharp pencils.
We weren’t trusted with pens and their ink.
We learned about letters.
We learn...
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Categories:
notepads, age, writing,
Form: Free verse
No Wait In Vain : Poets Meet
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No Wait in Vain : Poets Meet
For decades I waited
and you did not come
to listen to my rude insertion
finger a sound at back of my throat
and the vibration of my name
F...
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Categories:
notepads, age, appreciation, mirror, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Before the Electric Fan Hit Itself
...Back then before upheavals upheaved,
people were gracious
but lacked a common sorrow -
it made them a little dull.
Occasionally a local danger
would excite but rejoicing
and grieving never be...
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Categories:
notepads, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Improvisus
...A jazz musician
wonders back
to his days at the keyboard…
each note over practiced
until melody pure
and magic releases
A poet in laurels
wonders back
to his primers and notepads…
each wor...
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Categories:
notepads, music, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Visiting a Sunflower Farm
...Their grinning heads cover the fields for acres
A sea of happy mini suns, welcoming us to Kansas.
We stare, amazed, having no idea this was possible.
There are photo moments and we take them all.
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Categories:
notepads, flower,
Form: Narrative
Progressive Raps
...ummm...just some quick thoughts... check and reflect
I sit and dissect derelicts with dialect deliberately
I think with this pen and as soon as the ink sinks in ,it instantly producing imagery
So...
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Categories:
notepads, rap,
Form: Free verse
Be Amazing Be a Poet
...Dear New Poet,
Don't you just love modern poetry! So free to be ourselves in so many fun forms. Never mind the sonnet or finding a rhyme for bonnet. Just ideas flowing to express what one needs to s...
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Categories:
notepads, dream,
Form: Prose
Senseless
...Here take another pill,
they say it make you feel better.
Forget about the side effects,
they don't matter.
The remedy is worst than the disease.
There's no such thing as cure.
Just these presc...
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Categories:
notepads, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Broken Audio
...I haven’t written in a while
I seem to have lost my voice
I'm not sure where or when it left me
Or where to find it
I have a feeling its in different pieces
Shards of echoes
splatte...
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Categories:
notepads, anxiety, childhood, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Infamous Notion
...Over 1200 poems I have constructed, written
bled, cried for, endured tremendous insanity
What do I have to show for it...
just more pencils, just more pens
5 more unused notepads
and a decaying,...
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Categories:
notepads, how i feel, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Follow the Poet
...Follow the poet to the bottom
Their scrivened souls lead there
Electric verbs and climatic curves
Stoking notions of hoisted up hairs
Winding down the patchy canyon
To laurel beds on librettos...
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Categories:
notepads, poems,
Form: Rhyme
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