orbiting the pine
moravian star
silver
glitters atop tree
golden
garland waves
grace
evergreen
free-spirited
ornaments
amaze
the windows
of the soul
all eyes
orbit
‘round
blinking pine
lights
call the family near
so dear
it’s Christmas
this year
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Categories:
orbiting, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Orbiting Silence
Orbiting silence is ego
Mind-body, senses five
Cravings we are loathe to forgo
Shadows say they’re alive
Indulge awhile but know
The debts of love we owe
Wisely choose seeds we sow
Thought form violence
Orbiting silence
21-August-2022
Quietus
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Categories:
orbiting, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Ototoxic Orbiting
Your love orbits my celestial body causing earthquakes and floods,
Within a calamitous canopy mixing of the barbarous bacterial bloods…
A seditious satellite roaming amongst the scintillant sacrificial spheres,
Hiding amidst your clever cloaking giving me many torrential tears…
Your Supernova will combust leaving you stranded throughout the galaxy,
As the ashes that turn to dust releasing me from
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Categories:
orbiting, analogy, loneliness, space,
Form: Rhyme
Orbiting Monet
Her heart was a watercolor foyer.
Drifting about eddies-beneath fatal falls.
Wishing away the violets,
morning roses and midnight glories.
Fading mist-stained beating.
Her loves inheriting the aromas
percolating from her water garden mind.
Those who thought they knew her,
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Categories:
orbiting, death, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Orbiting the Moon
Swingin' around this
Dull grey orb,
Plastered with holes,
Soft ridged mountains
Plaster of Paris I'd swear
Took me a couple of years,
To work my way up there,
I had to keep one secret,
Announced to no one,
On the dark side of the moon,
I found a "Seven-Eleven",
And a "White Castle" too
And possibly a "Radio Shack,""
Though of that I can't guarantee you
And a
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Categories:
orbiting, adventure, fantasy, imagination, life,
Form: Burlesque