Missing Fifteen
...Anxiously awaiting conclusions of trials
Dishonesty fading with passage of time
Veracity revealed in knowing smiles
Poetry occluding the truth in a rhyme
Blissfully following my feet in the da...
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Categories:
occluding, depression, high school, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Clueless
...We all are clueless;
of whts behind de scene of sleep nd de calm faces
We presume dey having either a goodnyt sleep or a grt nap
We are clueless;
Of de pains dey are going thru
Of de races dey...
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Categories:
occluding, conflict, confusion, dream, fear,
Form: Blank verse
The Amnesia of Magic
...Magic happens
behind closed eyelids
It is fading with a blink
And erased from your memory
almost immediately
Like a dream right after you awake
the forgetfulness of true magic is overwhelmi...
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Categories:
occluding, magic,
Form: Free verse
Starry Night
...starlit dreams streaming
shadows occluding meaning
moonbeams serenade...
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Categories:
occluding, fantasy
Form: Haiku
Uriah
...Uriah's bowels unraveled in the sand.
He thanked God for the gift of dying for
King David, who was master of the man.
Those Hittites never seemed to know the score.
Bathsheba was the prize that David...
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Categories:
occluding, death,
Form: Sonnet
Held
...Held
One became two,
The number there did form,
The multiplicative inverse of all structure,
That’s what my teachers were getting at that day.
They stamped their feats and demanded closure,
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Categories:
occluding, caregiving, confusion, death,
Form: Ballade