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MASK OF MANY FACES

...Who am I, anyway?

I wear the mask of many faces.
I speak, read, and understand—
sometimes with words,
sometimes telepathy.
My voice changes with my face.

I just need a witness.

Attuned t...
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Categories: obe, beauty, children, community, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWho Are The Good Guys?

...(“Nonbinary”, 2023, original encaustic)

Who Are The Good Guys?

It’s a simple question and obvious assumption
But the “good guys” are always “us”
And not them.

And yet all around us,...
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Categories: obe, growth, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative



Filister

...Disturbed  over what she had planned
for tomorrow. Often times she refused to
me as included with her plans.

What sweet sonnets sing ye
the sound of togetherness
tangled with romance
an eveni...
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Categories: obe, creation, guitar, music, romantic
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberApril

...Air wafts with spring scent
Petals burst colors of buds
Robe of dew drapes grass
I feel joy free from frost freeze
Lie on lured butterfly wings.

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Categories: obe, april, spring,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberYour Day Will Come

...YOUR DAY WILL COME 

Wherever you go, where er may roam, 
wherever your gift will obe day make room,
There you’ll be, for those who’ll see, 
you’re going to get your bloom.

However long it ta...
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Categories: obe, blessing, cheer up, future,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberRetrograde Ruminations

...I
of
warped words
& soundless mind
out of mindless sight
no(some)where
blurring into
the No-Go Realm
(chasing cunning
cryptic clouds
of thoughtcrimes)

I touch
no man's land
out never
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Categories: obe, dark, humorous, nonsense, science
Form: Free verse

Letters

...I write Letters 

Letters in 
Letters to you
Letters in the bin
Letters written sin 
Letters for your thoughts 
Letters once read 
Letters by the bed 
Letters in 
Letters best said ..
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Categories: obe, emotions, funny love,
Form: Rhyme

Emancipation

...Clippity Cloppity
    Emily Davison
    confronted race horses
    losing her life

    dissident suffragette
    indiscriminately
    committed sabotage
    chaos and strife

    Hickory D...
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Categories: obe, conflict, death, discrimination, women,
Form: Double Dactyl

Premium MemberMy Passion Sores

...Maria, oh Maria, wherefore art thou
Be sworn my love, my passion sores(?) like a swallow
Very poetic eh?
Amazing you say?
Received the OBE, sent is back coz in awards I wallow...
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Categories: obe, hilarious,
Form: Limerick

Brexit Sonnet 20 - No More Hell-Broth

...Brexit Sonnet No.20
‘No More Hell-Broth’
 

Our Brexit bringers are cross with their leader ‘tis said,
Confidence lost with their gabardine dream of last year.
The model’s moved on, but distres...
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Categories: obe, political,
Form: Sonnet

A Pancake Dash

...A view from a teaspoon selection is very spellbinding indeed. Half a cup of multicolumns and a pint of milk singing and swaying together. It takes much effort to pick up a seed. Much kilograms queuin...
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Categories: obe, adventure, appreciation, aubade,
Form: I do not know?

Losing My Seat

...Losing my seat

To explain regarding my train,
I left my seat seeking tea,
Up on my feet, out of my seat,
Asking a near neighbour to keep,
A close eye on my bag,
Not a difficult feat,
So afte...
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Categories: obe, angel, business, culture, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Burnt Birthday

...These words are woven
With threads of tear
Laced in the needle of anguish.

In truth, I can tell of how it feels
To be pinched by piercing pain.

My soul is scissored
My heart, ripped apart
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Categories: obe, absence, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Epic

With Education You Can Change the World

...“With Education you can change the world”

I was a fly on the wall and I saw...                                                                                                      The “discriminat...
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Categories: obe, education, forgiveness, future, inspirational,
Form: Political Verse

Sascha Kindred

...Sascha Kindred OBE was born in 1997,
And is married to swimmer Nyree Lewis, 
Another gold-winning Paralympian, and,
They’re known as the “golden-couple”. 

Sascha’s CP solely affects his right s...
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Categories: obe, body, character, desire, health,
Form: Blank verse

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