WASHED AWAY BY THE TIDE
...WASHED AWAY BY THE TIDE
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I see the vestiges of yesterday,
echoes of mistakes,
like footprints in the sand,
that the time of time washed away.
Ever...
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Categories:
obstructed, 12th grade, truth,
Form: Free verse
Blessings Unused
...What is a color
obstructed
What is a sonnet
untold
What is the price
of reluctance
Tainted in silver
or gold
What is the weight
of your damming
What is a blessing
unused
What is the ...
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Categories:
obstructed, blessing, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited
Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.
A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in...
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Categories:
obstructed, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Holy Grail of God's Light
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Our sight is obstructed by a wall and a shadow.
~Nikola Tesla
O2 at 2L keeps Mother's skin
color healthy,
but she's frail,
more frail each day she lingers
in this worl...
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Categories:
obstructed, age, god, light, love,
Form: Other
JUXTAPOSED
...JUXTAPOSED
Standing either side of a door that is closed
One might feel the other, just an inch away
As two hearts that appear to be juxtaposed
Just a whispered word, that the other might say...
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Categories:
obstructed, missing you, relationship,
Form: Terza Rima
Howling Wilderness
...When wanderlust began pounding my heart,
On a beautiful autumn afternoon, crisp and sunny,
I set out on a trek to the nearby woods.
The leaves on trees had begun turning ruddy.
All ...
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Categories:
obstructed, angst, animal, heartbreak, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Storms
...A weir holds back the river
against the flow of the morning tide
I wonder how many thoughts,
unspoken, lie behind its barrier-
ponderings of love, turmoil, betrayal
obstructed by the dam of e...
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Categories:
obstructed, day, imagery, metaphor, morning,
Form: Free verse
set apart
...
set-apart
tactical intrusion
optical illusions
set in place
put in place
it's all in front of your face
though you can't see
what you can't see
yet you can see spiritually
attr...
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Categories:
obstructed, addiction, appreciation,
Form: Spoken Word
JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY JAMAICAN IDENTITY FRAUD RING MARTHA BRAE WITCHES RETURN TO SENDER
...SORRY JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY JAMAICAN DEALERS IDENTITY FRAUD CRIMINAL GROUP YOU WILL NEVER EVER IMPERSONATE ME YOU WERE MISLEAD BY SLEEPING WITH MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND CIRO GARGANO AND PETER GARGA...
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Categories:
obstructed, allah,
Form: Naat
Yours truly me just got acclimated to writing 2024
...Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document
Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this ca...
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Categories:
obstructed, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
ONE FOGGY ALMOST CHRISTMAS DAY
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On a walk a few days before Christmas…
I was greeted by a morning fog so thick…
to my face and hands and clothing…
that heavy fog did stick.
A blanket so dense when I looked ahead…
the fog o...
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Categories:
obstructed, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
What Is Faith
...As I navigate the road of life
Into an area unknown to me
My view is often obstructed
When the road ahead, I cannot see
A sign advises, there is a river
In the valley, around the curve
Do I ...
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Categories:
obstructed, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Heaven or Hell
...On a beautiful afternoon, crisp and sunny, I set out on a trek to the nearby woods. Except my camera, intentionally picked up, I hadn’t carried with me any other goods. All along, I saw wild flowers ...
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Categories:
obstructed, appreciation, beauty, confusion, happiness,
Form: Haibun
Text-ing
...Eyes obstructed, where miles go
So important, who we kill intentionally
Even ourselves, risk to injury
To death do we die desire
In our own mind silent misery
Living a life we take, if not ...
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Categories:
obstructed, absence, change, humanity, image,
Form: Imagism
Ode To The Sun
...
O glorious dear sun, sovereign of the day, in the sky above
you’re one whose radiance resembles a little of God’s love;
by nurturing all creatures in the world with your unique rays
and ...
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Categories:
obstructed, appreciation, dedication, inspiration, nature,
Form: Ode
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