Dad's Hypocrisy
...Thunder only comes calling
When the fervor has has hit it's zenith roar
And one forgets to remember
He omits testament is not testator
Nor he grantor of municipal adage
Until it seems, always, ...
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Categories:
omits, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
It's Free
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He breathes light across the starlit night
erasing the still leaves who dance on twilight
inviting the guitars to pour out their joy
and the song to offer its glory –
a bount...
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Categories:
omits, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Confessions to My Architect
...My spirit is forlorn, frightened,
and impaired.
You’re not hiding here in this hideous hell;
no longer your eyes, are broken in a cataract cell,
instead, you graze in the free fields,
feeding ...
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Categories:
omits, anger, anxiety, art, care,
Form: Ekphrasis
Furry Ones with Sprinkles
...They said this strange man ate his squirrel:
such a lovely arboreal rodent, a creature that nibbles.
First he eats its legs, then its body,
but omits the heart. That is precious.
What? We do no...
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Categories:
omits, character, food, heart, humorous,
Form: Free verse
To My Ap
...Let me start without an apology
Because you, honey, need not be in apiculture
Every second you bee apiece apiary
As I fall for your rich honey droop apace
Take me to space if you must but never...
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Categories:
omits, assonance, cute love, dedication,
Form: Alliteration
English Hill
...Come with me to St Matthews cemetery
a flock of culpability
What are red faces for ?
The incidence of pious Rosetta
At the graves edge
he was returned
An avalanche of prayers
omits forgiveness...
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Categories:
omits, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Missing
...can you work out quickly
what this script omits?
I'll drop a hint to assist you
so you don't fall to bits
your vision is focusing
upon this wordy scroll
mind working frantically
takin...
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Categories:
omits, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Willing Worship
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Light fading across charming mountains,
Sunlight bold, hasty indigo clouds…
Whimsical, wistful raindrops, drizzling
Upon brilliant colors, crisp gold and auburn
Shadows laughing throu...
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Categories:
omits, christian, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Writer's Hazard
...Do your fingers ever write faster
Than your brain thinks of the words?
You discover incomplete sentences
That do not mean what you thought.
You find that you’ve omitted a verb
And so,...
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Categories:
omits, irony, language, missing, words,
Form: Rhyme
Son of Amittai - 1 of 2
...commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”
But Jonah ran;...
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Categories:
omits, bible, fish,
Form: Tail-rhyme
In-Between the Lines
...POEM
Tittle; In-between the Lines
In-between lines, lies possibilities more like a probability equation...
Just like a bridge standing high above the sea connecting two destinations also ...
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Categories:
omits, silence,
Form: Rhyme
When You Dont At All Kiss
...What we badly miss
When we don’t at all kiss
We can’t neatly guess,
Until denied spouses audibly hiss
And to their partners simple request deny their “Yes”…
Until even the shadows vanish
Of tru...
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Categories:
omits, appreciation, betrayal, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Irritable Vowel Syndrome
...Emile’s set a poetry contest
in which the poet omits one vowel
It’s hard to write this exacting form
yet I will not throw in the towel!
So I’m tasked to write a poem
I’ve got mysel...
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Categories:
omits, humorous, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Countdown
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Twelve is the number of months we journey through;
time sprints by, it's true
Eleven sounds for the first line - I reckoned
five for the second
Ten is the count of either fingers or...
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Categories:
omits, god, jesus, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Blooming Unto Good Works
...Without God, my living is truly vain
midst functionality’s unworthy cost
as carnal dominion constantly looms
to focus unto own survival first.
Turning from virtual wormy status
against...
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Categories:
omits, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Blank verse
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