Moods of Madness
...Bright yellow sun, a stroke of noon’s delight.
Ice cold, red hot, a ravished tongue of spurs.
In moonlight serenade she scales the roof.
The darkling wine on lips — a sparkling feast.
Her...
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Categories:
overrules, angst, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
In Marked Territory
...The ruler of his kingdom
He designates the lines
The pieces that belong to him
His subjects and their lives
He rules with domination
His disciples are but fools
This powerful head of state
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Categories:
overrules, history,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Jill
...When people said that Ruth should go,
I argued they were wrong.
Today, of course, we sadly know
She stuck around too long.
Unfortunately, now it seems
We’re destined to repeat
Mistakes to ru...
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Categories:
overrules, political,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
overrules, love,
Form: Acrostic
Night Bewitches
...Night bewitches; romance can reign
when shadows fall and you then see
the light of day begin to wane.
Alone with your love you can be.
Stars flicker and in glow of moon,
night bewitches; r...
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Categories:
overrules, romance,
Form: Quatern
Alexandrine a La Thomas Wyatt
...Experience overrules prescription of form
when euphony carries off a poem beyond the norm...
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Categories:
overrules, poetry,
Form: Alexandrine
Your Daily Midwives
...From Sunday to Sunday,
We work hard like the donkeys in sironko;
Moving to and fro like roadside vendors and hawkers.
Like the holy spirit has descended upon as,
The way it was on pentecost,we mo...
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Categories:
overrules, anniversary, baby, mother,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Goal Fulfiller
...April 29 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezra 1-4
Key Verse – Ezra 1: Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be ...
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Categories:
overrules, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Sea of Chaos
...Cinematic overture
Chagall’s whimsy
Dracula and the dinner guest
Dessert invitational
Dueling hearts
A thousand mirrors old
Stories from the pages of history
Abracadabra
Hungarian rhapsody
M...
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Categories:
overrules, fantasy, tribute,
Form: Free verse
The Devils Discord
...When darkness falls, when night prevails
And moonlight alone, walks with me
Will Faith go astray, or will God lead the way
In the Den of the Holy See
Will these strangest of times that we live ...
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Categories:
overrules, faith, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Rhyme
Depression 3:44
...Depression overrules my mental during the most blindsided times
Smile on social media but I’m crying inside
Work hard everyday but I really miss Crime
When I was a dealer everyone was around
No m...
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Categories:
overrules, africa, creation, depression, good
Form: Rhyme
Recognition
...I know you from somewhere
Have we met before?
In the shadows of my mind
Where darkness overrules,
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Categories:
overrules, friendship, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Methuselah and a Day
...Well, 62 years ago,
both of my parents were 'lost for words' and were simply amazed--
"That I kept on finding them!"
In the sibling department, there were six of us,
thr...
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Categories:
overrules, age, beautiful, birthday, family,
Form: Free verse
Nations Damnable Blight
...Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree,
Planted in white culture during infamous time of our history,
From seed transported in the belly of those infernal slave ship...
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Categories:
overrules, anger, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form: Didactic
Propel Me Into the Blue
...Propel Me Into The Blue
Propel me into the blue,
Where artists’ visions and poems proud
dwell among its clouds.
Propel me into the blue:
Launched to air of past ages
That breathed laught...
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Categories:
overrules, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
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