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Obligingly Poems - Poems about Obligingly

Premium MemberObliging Earth's Compassion

...Love
ain't hate

Divine discourse
denies degenerative debate,
Church
ain't State

Conserving compassions 
content obligations
contentiously Liberating.

I love thinking 
about win/win co...
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Categories: obligingly, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberHappy Place

...Trauma has wrapped me in its slimy tentacles 
Tightening, till my depression becomes clinical

Man with yellow pad listens obligingly
Then into my happy place he is guiding me

I imagine my bea...
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Categories: obligingly, beach, crazy, mental illness,
Form: Couplet



Without Knowing Your Gender

...Without knowing your gender...,

(nevertheless ex post facto still flattered
genuine heartfelt kinship mattered,
hence the reasonable rhyme 
across the webbed wide world 
I subsequently scatter...
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Categories: obligingly, adventure, age, boy, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberObserve

...Observe, deep laugh lines run
Obligingly around
Obedient to years
Of smiles upon her face.
Overlook her awful
Obviously painful 
Ongoing constant throe 

Date: 04/04...
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Categories: obligingly, age, character, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Ocean's Flip Cycle

...VIDEO/AUDIO on YouTube above. NOTE: On the video; double-click to enlarge, and/or, right-click for the drop-down menu and click on 'Loop' for auto-repeat, click settings and pick the highest level fo...
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Categories: obligingly, earth day, ocean, spring,
Form: Haibun



Our Oak

...OUR OAK

I shall always think of it as our oak;
Yours and mine.
Majestic in that green haven from urban cacophony,
It sheltered us in those precious moments:
Discreetly deaf to...
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Categories: obligingly, love, tree,
Form: Free verse

Borrowing Burroughs

...Fresh and new
Adventures to find
Skipping to the beat
Of a patterned mind

Follow the line
Never step on the crack
The crevices will reveal
Wanton lack

Free, everything is free
For anyone...
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Categories: obligingly, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Tricked of Treats

...halloween in
i mean in
western

pennsylvania
before there
was non

existent climate
change where
before now 

my eyes
yes suddenly
predictably on

my grandson stopped
about how hot
...
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Categories: obligingly, muse, , western,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberThe Sandless Sand Castle

...The Sandless Sand Castle

Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger...
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Categories: obligingly, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration,
Form: Prose Poetry

Without Knowing Your Gender

...Without Knowing Your Gender...,
(nonetheless ex post facto still flattered)

Bhutan names defy affiliating,
determining, identifying... gender,
and what a faux pas this dada admits,
when a bles...
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Categories: obligingly, angst, appreciation, body, care,
Form: Free verse

The Unfinished Symphony

...The record plays -
            sounds of love; words that touch the heart.
I reach for you with all my being 
and, finding I still cannot touch you
I sit down to cover paper with my song to you.
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Categories: obligingly, heart, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Theater of Utter Charm Part 5

...she left me defenseless again
for reasons that cannot be spoken
but that can be further diagrammed
worthy of forensic dissection
deep into the cauliflower folds
branching like rivers of lightnin...
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Categories: obligingly, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Endless Autumn, Obligingly

...The morning sun just rising, glaring;

a damp, colder, workaday street ...

fallen leaves scattered,

Halloween mere days away:


Suddenly:  Startled by the workman:

A stray, jet-black ca...
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Categories: obligingly, celebration, halloween, imagery, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

Darkly Smoldering Allies

...Darkness and I have become allies,

 affinity by association's shadowed prayer

     spoken of the same kindred language,

consanguinity in our devout appeal

  of blackening night's smoky ex...
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Categories: obligingly, allegory, dark, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Fragile Hearts

...Forever faithful, fragile hearts,
   Reach for eternal love.
   Adoration for each other.
   Gentle kisses so sublime.
   Inspired when this feeling brings,
   Loves lasting joy, that tugs heart...
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Categories: obligingly, heart,
Form: Acrostic

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