Ever Illusive Beam
...Some people write of
things they know...
feeling more daring,
I prefer to explore:
start with a glimpse,
or chase a shadow,
a sliver of light
from a strange door
left ajar, on a path
I obscu...
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Categories:
obscurely, imagery, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
No Other Way
...The winding wings spread wide
I fly aimless in the turbulent air
Across the fading hues of the rainbow
I get caught in the clutch of curling storm cloud
The silver lines disappear in ...
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Categories:
obscurely, analogy, depression, god, life,
Form: Free verse
As the Worm Turns
...There once was vampire named Vlad.
His life was obscurely sad.
He ate a worm,
The tide did turn.
Now Vlad is famously bad.
written 9/06/2020...
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Categories:
obscurely, evil, fantasy, funny, halloween,
Form: Limerick
The Namesake
...The home nestled in the hue of the blue hills,
on the wall of my longing there hung a mirror,
opened my one way window on the wispy sky,
like a bird I spanned with the wings of youth.
I...
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Categories:
obscurely, home, mirror, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
September Ember Dismembered
...September Ember Dismembered
Crisp Air, Baking Orb Basks,
Triggers Sorry "G'Bye Summer!" Tasks,
Daring "Where, What Shall We?" Asks...
Belated Yearning, Last Day's Angst,
Related Stirrings of R...
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Categories:
obscurely, angst, emotions, loss, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Apocalypse
...Today my heart is obscurely tenebrous,
It no longer dances to your a cappella heartbeats,
Neither does it tune to the acoustic of your heart,
It has ceased skipping a beat in a fashionable art.
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Categories:
obscurely, break up, sad, sad
Form: Rhyme
The Designer's Lamp
...THE DESIGNER'S LAMP
Destiny an unsighted lamp someone lighted when you arrived
lights the unpaved path for you to complete the journey of fate.
The self-invented free-w...
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Categories:
obscurely, analogy, destiny, freedom, future,
Form: Prose Poetry
Amaranthine Skeletons
...Therein, laying dormant,
veils of darkly reposed
secrecy 'neath
foamy seascapes'
frenetic passages,
languishing below
sunken treasures'
false facade...
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Categories:
obscurely, allegory, dark, death, sea,
Form: Free verse
We Are No More
...By Vicki Acquah on Thursday, April 18, 2013
Prince Kennedy & Oladeji Vicki Acquah
Disappeared
We- are gone
diluted into oblivion
we have nothing left but our footprints
The handwriting is no...
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Categories:
obscurely, art, emotions, racism, writing,
Form: Free verse
Hillside Lyric
...The fresh air delivered no scent at that dawn,
When i was awaken without single yawn,
Saint trinity's bell was sharp-slicing through mist,
The last of the doubts in my dazed mind was gone
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Categories:
obscurely, lost love,
Form: Lyric
In Another Time
...the waning moonlight thinly enveloped
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and swing
but for the moment dark re...
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Categories:
obscurely, life,
Form: Rhyme
Whispering Shadow
...Whispering shadow
Drenched darkness of loam
Under the crust of earth
Reassures sprout seedlings
Roots of emotions
Delve in heart for stream
Revealing no identity
For thorn or flower
For ...
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Categories:
obscurely, analogy, conflict, crush, desire,
Form: Free verse
Long Live the Sky
...free verse
Long live the sky!
Invisibly
Invincible
against solar radiation
the earth’s atmosphere
Long live the sky!
Long live the sky!
Obscurely
Oblivious
protection for
earth’s inhab...
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Categories:
obscurely, earth, life, sky, sun,
Form: Free verse
The Bard of Gort
...Springing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanie...
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Categories:
obscurely, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Unwritten
...As light plays upon the dark, that moon through stained glass windows
cutting a swarth across cobbled floors.
It seeps into the cracks like it's found home at last
How a distant piano to a curiou...
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Categories:
obscurely, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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