Approximations
...I think the beauty in living comes along when we shirk our heavy coats
And our white-knuckle approximation of old, flake-away skin, which we have
Stapled back onto ourselves—
The faces we’ve taugh...
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Categories:
overtop, people, social, surreal, truth,
Form: Free verse
I lacked emotions where others concerned
...Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed it...
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Categories:
overtop, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Neighborly
...I gaze upon you as you sleep
I climb into the bed
I softly kiss your dreaming eyes
I gently lift your head
I place it overtop my heart
The heart that beats anew
No more to ever be apart
Honey...
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Categories:
overtop, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
This Old House
...In this house, I am swimming
in a mud puddle, somedays
with my arms tight around you
We backstroke
In my house there is dust
settled overtop the daily cares
swept asi...
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Categories:
overtop, dream, growth, home,
Form: Free verse
Sunset For One
... it's quiet on the lake right now
sun sliding down from it's perch
as I watch with mixed feelings
from a pew in nature's church
enjoying the paint splashed sky
reflected across ...
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Categories:
overtop, beauty, feelings, i miss
Form: Rhyme
Not Quite a Match
...I once met a girl wearing fuzzy socks
Overtop she wore those polka-dot crocs
She was hardly a catch
For me not quite a match
Although I did like her pretty blue frocks.
written June 9, 2021
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Categories:
overtop, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Great Recycling Retransition
...Icons are funny things,
she thought.
Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitive...
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Categories:
overtop, health, identity, integrity, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Just You and I In the Sky
...I want to go to Idaho
I bet you never knew
And Wyoming… and Hawaii…
Oh, and North Dakota too!!
I’ve been to all the other ones
For once there was a time
When I would tease the pull of Earth
An...
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Categories:
overtop, adventure, child, children, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Saudade
...Saudade, assiduously dumping buckets of gelid-infused water overtop my vehemently flickering flame.
Arrogantly reigning my banished feelings of joie de vi-vre.
Undermining my drumming heart, sn...
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Categories:
overtop, missing,
Form: I do not know?
The Old Sofa and the Fly On the Wall
...That furniture at Grandma’s house has never had a;
Behind, sit down directly on it-
The plastic had duct tape overtop
Where something sharp had pierced a hole
This sofa, that had lasted 30 years…...
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Categories:
overtop, boyfriend, first love, high
Form: Prose Poetry
Holding the Waves
...Poverty of thoughts
beats you endlessly.
What was the other form of violence ?
Body of water bursts.
There was an absentee lover
trying to overtop the levee.
Pounding of chest
was figura...
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Categories:
overtop, art,
Form: ABC
An Angels Maiden Flight
...This day is alive
With wondrous sound
Call’s of god’s creations
On the air is abound
Filling my ears
With its beautiful sound
My spirit takes flight
And soon leaves the ground
A tear in m...
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Categories:
overtop, angel, beauty, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
Do Do Birds
...A birdsnest hairdo
Birds sit in the dew
Said the bird, "let us fly!"
Said the other, "lets sing a lullaby!"
So they flew overtop singing and did
big do do!...
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Categories:
overtop, nature
Form: Limerick