I am Blue
...B orn on a Wednesday, a child of solemn woe
L onesome in wonder, though flirting with the 'why's
U ndine's daughter, thus brazen like a flow
E rudite wanderer, fleeting in the sky
G ladly I re...
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Categories:
outflow, blessing, blue, color, metaphor,
Form: Acrostic
Dweller of our heart
...inhaling grace, exhaling gratitude
reborn at dawn, yet fearing not the night
the dweller of our heart sparks fortitude
through fierce storms of life and when dims our sight
knowing He’s within w...
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Categories:
outflow, courage, death, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Suns of Crows
...The throne of the crow
Dominates their subjects below
Scanning each plot of sow
For the murders they can overthrow.
The two withered branches from the tallest trees
Seat the crow and its eyes ...
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Categories:
outflow, allegory, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Just because an impetus arose
...Just because an impetus arose...
to repost poem
(I chanced to locate
amidst plethora of poems on hard drive
of Macbook Pro)
written more'n a half decade ago
before yours truly
blissfully ob...
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Categories:
outflow, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
OPEN VERSE NO 22
...PICTURESQUE
beyond significance
a sense
of drams
in changeable
atmospheres
congenital vision
soft
vague
intensely uneasy
quickend
aggrandized
pleasure
in a
spontaneous
outflo...
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Categories:
outflow, poetry,
Form: Verse
Vermeer and His Girls
...VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
...
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Categories:
outflow, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Lucidity
...Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. ~ Eric Hoffer
And should I cherish lucid mo...
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Categories:
outflow, meaningful, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Healthy Caring Systems
...Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich...
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Categories:
outflow, culture, earth, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Moonlit Agony
...Such a good thought
genuine smile
counterfeit, I know
solid inward being
loaded up with expectations
envisions another world
my sought motions came true
astonishing and unnerving event
...
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Categories:
outflow, angst, moon,
Form: Free verse
Back To School
...I sit behind the computer
scripting the daily lesson plan,
while hoping there’s no intruder,
of them I’m not an eager fan.
A guest speaker comes to impart
something in boring monotone.
I hop...
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Categories:
outflow, kid, school, teacher, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
No News Is Good
...No news is good news; the known saying goes
Whether stated in prose, or its meted in rhyme
That's the outlook it seems the eu's designed
Whether covid or conflict, they play the same way
There'...
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Categories:
outflow, addiction, allusion, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Hubble Superbubble
...A ‘superbubble’ called bizarre
by some star watchers from afar
albeit it known as N Four Four
emission nebula with score
or scores of stars midst gas aglow
in Magellanic Cloud’s outflow
with ...
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Categories:
outflow, earth, humanity, irony, space,
Form: Verse
Take Me To Church
...We all get religion
when we succumb to intimate sacred events
of our sexual sensuality
Integrity's vast
yet intimate
love potential
Some of us also experience passions
of politically empow...
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Categories:
outflow, gospel, happiness, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Schizoid World
...For millennia, our race has lived a vast success.
Hatred, envy, spite, and strife are on the rise.
Despair, aggressiveness, self-centeredness.
Depravity, intrigue, lewdness, vanity,...
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Categories:
outflow, analogy, blessing, caregiving, change,
Form: Free verse
Prose Poem Vermeer
...Vermeer sketches...he ...remembers moments of interplay vivant intimate intricate details begin the beguine & joys outflow perfection aglow enigmatic close-ups in looks of love into eternity's e...
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Categories:
outflow, art, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
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