Obliging 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
Happy 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
Observe
...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
The 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?
The 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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