When We Were Us
...You stood behind, not saying much,
Yet in the hush, I felt your touch.
The mirror framed our quiet grace,
Two souls in love, one warm embrace.
You'd watch me comb, your eyes so still,
The room w...
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Categories:
outgrown, deep, fate, giggle, i
Form: Rhyme
REALITY OF LIFE
...When you're hot
I mean when you start
Glowing or winning
Instead of them to flow
They start looking for faults
Bringing the past you've outgrown to shine
Just to bring you down
Stay strong,...
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Categories:
outgrown, africa, children, community, deep,
Form: Didactic
Marriage of Two Minds
...Behold us one, the marriage of two minds,
Two creatures of cross-continental births,
With force of love the universe combines,
Find, in each other, home, a fount of mirth.
Behold us cleaved, ...
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Categories:
outgrown, love, passion, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
MY REQUEST
...Oh God of Creation
Direct
My creativity and productivity
So I can fly out of this nation
Even with slow motion but no stagnation
Thriving and striving globally not locally
Without any comm...
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Categories:
outgrown, africa, blessing, creation, dedication,
Form: Free verse
sitting in Cousins Park
...I usually give my dogs a treat in Cousin’s Park
This is where my grandchildren once played.
It has a fort, two slides, a swingset, and other kid stuff.
The grandchildren have outgrown it.
I sho...
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Categories:
outgrown, me,
Form: Narrative
Valley of the unforgiven
...Steel in my veins, ash in the sky,
I walk through fire and don’t ask why.
The gods went silent, cold and blind,
So I carve my fate in a world unkind.
Whispers claw through twisted trees,
Lurin...
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Categories:
outgrown, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Djinn Martini
..."Careful with the ethanol,"
Said a fume of whisper hush.
As a thundered bolt and fire ball,
Engorged the moment with a rush.
The itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot martini,
Lit my boke...
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Categories:
outgrown, best friend, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to my brown bear
...You were there
before memory.
Before voices had names,
before light had meaning
you were there.
Brown as warm bread,
soft as a breath held in sleep,
you waited.
And I held you.
You wer...
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Categories:
outgrown, 10th grade, emotions, growth,
Form: Ode
Acta est fabula, plaudite
...What I sing from my chest
Only for ivory keys to hear.
Are the same old words
That cracked lips bear.
That familiar tune that calloused fingers play
Is the one that my own heart aches to say.
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Categories:
outgrown, desire, devotion, guitar, imagery,
Form: Lyric
God, No God, Maybe God
...Why do I hunger for justice,
for love, I can’t keep this emptiness
inside, this void annoys
pulling me under
I cry in pain, I gain nothing
and I wonder,
Why do I find comfort in tu...
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Categories:
outgrown, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse
END TIMES : TWO
...END TIMES : TWO
End time dramas continue
to unfold as foretold
tribes of Judah and
Gad united in ether
descending conspiring
to pull Matrix strings
across rooms boom
death Will hidden ...
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Categories:
outgrown, allegory, change, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Wending
...The road narrows, I have outgrown highways,
any future travelling will be accompanied
to the sound of the echoing boards
of covered bridges.
The past has caught me gazing
into star maps only tom...
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Categories:
outgrown, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wisdom Doesn't Allay Fear
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(Writing prompt : Wisdom is not enough to calm your fears)
Dark clouds of insecurity surge with menacing storm severe,
the distressed mind is sucked into the whirlpool of fear,
and swirls he...
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Categories:
outgrown, analogy, courage, fear, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Thought of the day
...having outgrown lower mind crutch ~
thoughts are passé, we learn by touch
our muse comes from the universe ~
with no need for us to rehearse...
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Categories:
outgrown, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Squeezed Flights of Fancy
...A kingdom that’s ruled by flights of fancy,
suddenly whimsical has been turned sour;
Peasants facing collective tragedy
being brought to life is leaving them dour;
Afraid to truly close their ey...
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Categories:
outgrown, childhood, courage, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Ottava rima
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