Reflected Light
...REFLECTED LIGHT
a flutter of excitement
where ordinariness
is enlarged
in
a
benevolent interlude
uncompromising
yet extensive
thoughtful
timeless
a bucolic bourgeoisie
so indecisive
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Categories:
ordinariness, poetry,
Form: Other
Out of Thin Air
...I have this talent - I can create an ex-boyfriend out of thin air. **snapping fingers**
Lisa and I had just gotten back to school from Thanksgiving break and my soon to be ex-study-partner arrives...
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Categories:
ordinariness, conflict, confusion, school, teen,
Form: Free verse
Escapade
...I never cared to do the dangerous things, and liked to play it safe,
But the strict bonds of ordinariness, can oftentimes start to chafe.
I always preferred to cover my bets, for I hated the idea...
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Categories:
ordinariness, adventure, fantasy, friendship love,
Form: Couplet
Surpassing Humans
...exuding hope and love
sprinkling joy on ordinariness of the day
they take turns following
communing in a telepathic way
cats, dogs, bunnies, lambs, deer, squirrel,
finding each other
giving...
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Categories:
ordinariness, animal,
Form: Free verse
A Through Z On Fire
...Alligator alley always answers
Bringing bulbous batches of bubbles
Creatively and curiously cavorting
Deliberately denying and distorting
Elusive energy and enthusiasm
From freakish forwarding ...
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Categories:
ordinariness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Daily Bread Or Bread Daily
...I
Bread has an everyday demanding presence, not daily dough
But daily fare across the miles, across ancient ways and wonders
Built by bread in bellies of slaves and laborers: pyramids and others
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Categories:
ordinariness, community, food, jesus, love,
Form: Alliteration
A Man Who Failed To Live
...A MAN WHO FAILED TO LIVE
I have lived life like a trader with many a crate of eggs
Treading carefully to avoid the judging eyes of men
A freedom from condemnation have i consciously begged
R...
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Categories:
ordinariness, age, courage,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Onset Surges Like Tsunami 1st Wave
...Unbeknownst tummy why, (around
about 2200 hours October 5th, 2018),
a slew of forgotten incidents quasi
lee linkedin, and questionably
nsync, though lightly browned
with Alfred ...
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Categories:
ordinariness, 10th grade, caregiving, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Loving War
...It burns and engulfs all about you
Your happiness resting on another's smile
Her support becomes your daily desire
I've seen the bitter side of this pill
Tasted and lived for it
The power to m...
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Categories:
ordinariness, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Laugh
...when you see tragedy
man wedding another man
do not laugh or get angry
when you hear comedy
girl wedding another girl
do not laugh or get angry
May be its an inverse growth
trigonometric error...
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Categories:
ordinariness, marriage, metaphor, satire, sexy,
Form: Free verse
My Eyes Tearfuly Blinded With Anger of Disappointment
...I wanted to be different, that much I wanted! And there I am, the very same, plain, normal non-magic. I am ashamed. Stupid shameful and bitter. I wanted to be different but I was a mirage for myself ...
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Categories:
ordinariness, anger, change, conflict, cry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Allotment
...Sedge grass, unwanted there,
it terrorized my uncle's garden,
blemishing the neatly ordered rows
of cauliflower and cabbage,
tomatoes, beans and beets.
He would ti...
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Categories:
ordinariness, nature,
Form: Verse
Allotment
...Sedge grass, unwanted there,
it terrorized my uncle's garden,
blemishing the neatly ordered rows
of cauliflower and cabbage,
tomatoes, beans and beets.
He would till from dawn to dusk,
...
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Categories:
ordinariness, inspirational, nature,
Form: Verse
Eden
...This is my garden.
I recently discovered
the quiet allure
of the forgotten art of gardening.
More than shoving seeds into soil,
More than impatiently waiting for seedlings and then greedily...
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Categories:
ordinariness, garden,
Form: Free verse
I Wait For You Death
...As you grow, happy moments shrink,
At some day, skin aches when you smile,
These are just ordinary lines, or
Maybe just exaggerated tales,
‘D thought so but no fraction of idea,
It could be real...
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Categories:
ordinariness, age, death, deep, funeral,
Form: Narrative
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