The longing of an eternal: Inspired from The Sandman by Neil Gaimon
...As the dream king is sat at his throne...
What am I to do whilst I am away? What then would befall my kingdom? There is still so much to do but yet, I am administered so little time. I am here now...
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Categories:
open ended, allegory, death, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Unexpected
...Did not wish to love another,
To turn on this brother,
Platonic now, or lover,
Thinking of him under cover,
Should I hurl fat bloomers,
Passing by, his zoomers,
Each has a fantasy,
Would joyb...
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Categories:
open ended, appreciation, fantasy, fun, love,
Form: Rhyme
ETHEREAL ABSTRACTIONS
...an
enigmatic
esoteric
experimental
process
with
innate
distilled
satisfaction
intricate
tangents
of chaotic
immediacy
ennounced
an
essence
of
abstract
phenomena
...
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Categories:
open ended, literature,
Form: Ekphrasis
TABULA RASA
...
monotonous
pulsating
perceptions
of
formal
coherence
in
open-ended
fantastical
fragments
in
the hinterlands
of
ambivalence
gaps
hiatus
lacunae
e...
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Categories:
open ended, word play,
Form: Verse
To Me, Today
...what is a hope
if not the most desperately fervent
wish of a man— a dream so deeply
staining the edges of reality
a hope lies dormant in my belly
sleeping like a dragon curled
on the hoard of...
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Categories:
open ended, allegory, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
My oblivious eye
...
Here on the cusp of all things, is where I succumb
Ceding my stuff blindly, toward oblivion and none
Unwilling to persevere, without a modicum of fun
Listing in perpetual stasis, til the spas...
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Categories:
open ended, deep, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The People with Wings
...
The People with Wings
It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca. It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with Wings,’ and, was the only evidence of...
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Categories:
open ended, fate, future, myth,
Form: Haibun
whispering birds through wind and light rain
...My open-ended lines can convey more than one idea. Verse 3, middle line, ends in “I am.” I am both okay (today) & puddles on pavement.
whispering birds through wind and light rain
no dram...
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Categories:
open ended, morning, rain,
Form: Free verse
Are We Are
...Beside the breathless petting,
love is a wonder timeless --
in loin with club
I can see the pounding extended
fierce yet open ended
room for tenderness and caring
beyond the physical sharing
...
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Categories:
open ended, desire, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Second-hand Knowledge
...The way she was standing
So open ended
The power she holds in just a glance
I checked the notary with dexterity
and the line in my head
Saying “I’m not good enough for her”
But I didn’...
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Categories:
open ended, angst, crush, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Chemo
...Wake up and rush for the toilet and say my prayers
Stomach races trying to catch up to the bowels emptying anxious
Chemo the man said it takes a bit to get used to and I’ll ring you
Take a ...
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Categories:
open ended, bible, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Weekend Recitation
...a discourse
ornamted speech
eloquent oratory aloud
seminal ideas
in pillars of poetics
a dialogue delivered
feelings aroused
from slumber
by symmetries of seque...
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Categories:
open ended, word play,
Form: Free verse
Zillions
...
zillions-
amounts beyond
our imagination
like the depth of infinity-
worthless
zillions-
open-ended
eluding summation
endless quantities revealing
nothing
...
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Categories:
open ended, allusion, imagery, symbolism, word
Form: Cinquain
Unravelling the Quilt
...That driving force
that is ink for the well,
this compulsion to compel,
to tell a thing
until it rings in the brain.
Again and again
we sew a quilted cloth,
construe it thread by thread
unt...
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Categories:
open ended, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rhyme To Myself
...This poem is; an open-ended rhyme to myself;
In an emergency; break the glass, to save thine self
I've seen more than anyone should have to; but my eyes have more to give
They can't take; what you...
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Categories:
open ended, confidence, growth, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse
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