And Death I Think Is No Parenthesis
oh, how i wish i could write
like the wonderfully weird e.e. cummings
but the right words somehow escape me
left only with personal shortcomings
it’s clear, i’m no Shakespeare,
Keats, Poe, or Byron
though heed my many utterances
as the call of the prating siren
so let the verses flow
not only with gestured speech
but with sentiment shown
to all that
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Categories:
parenthesis, appreciation, celebration, dark, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Perfect Kiss
It is the perfect handedness of endless bliss
the cadence, embrace the double-mirroring kiss,
silence is the most notorious happiness parenthesis.
Even when the dual night vigil blew
All the stretched-out empty days reminded you
Of promises and tragedy that passion drew.
In the perfect kiss, we once knew.
But time has rendered a big part of this
their brilliance and
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Categories:
parenthesis, destiny, grief, imagery, moving
Form: Sonnet
Parenthesis
Echoes of her laughter
(they’re sounding in my heart)
Thinking she is with me
(I wake with a start)
Silence and without her
(I search inside the room)
Within my heart however
(just darkness and the gloom)
Embracing her was sweetness
(loving her was divine)
Together we can make it
(I am hers and she is mine)
I love this beautiful woman
(who keeps my soul in tune)
She
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Categories:
parenthesis, love,
Form: Rhyme
Parenthesis
Dresden, it is said, was bombed to an ashen landscape,
A giant burned out match head. Explodable no more.
Small Dresdens found along our driveway no longer smell of sulphur
But remind me of Father lighting cigarettes.
My father, nicotine addicted,
Member of the greatest generation,
That saved the world from Hitler and "El Duche"
Who addressed the fascist crowds from
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Categories:
parenthesis, dark, father, image, memory,
Form: Free verse
Argh An Errant Stray Left Parenthesis
Upon (die) re rhea ding previous poem
All In The Name Of "Progress" zen
a glaring, leering,
and twittering left par wren
dared to a right (i.e. bribe)
corrective punctuation measure
slyly slipping Special Ops symbol
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Categories:
parenthesis, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Exclamation, Parenthesis
It's relatively a slow process.
A thought builds upon anticipation.
Thanks to the nostalgia ingrained by Disney.
Musically the songs are different.
Granted the press of a thumb.
Spotify, Pandora.
An assortment of different streams all profoundly deep.
Separately, the adaptation is the same.
Boy meets girl.
Eyes go on vacation.
Suddenly we're dressed in leisure.
Beautiful sights ingested by the brochures of a hotel
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Categories:
parenthesis, black african american, crush,
Form: Free verse
Inside Your Parenthesis
I keep your facial poses under lock
with myself as the only key
so I may live in your parenthesis.
You were a multilayered, solid color,
wishing to be a pattern of unique luster.
If a creek, you would have swollen,
if a cloud, you would have burst,
yet still, I thirst for you often.
You no longer weave me safe blankets
or shadow
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Categories:
parenthesis, grief,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
parenthesis, addiction, funny, nonsense, simple,
Form: Light Verse
Parenthesis
(Do not allow yourself to be parenthesized
The print of your baby finger spills over the edges
Of those brackets.
You should never be an afterthought,
A clause he can delete.
Your hands fill paragraphs
The life lines and love lines
Stitch together the pages of the book
That is your body.
The stu
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Categories:
parenthesis, introspection, passion, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
(parenthesis)
Repeating doubts
Squashed between
Brackets in my
Head; they clog
The free-flow!
Freedom to let
My mind wander
To and fro,
Like it does
When I'm happy!
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Categories:
parenthesis, allegory
Form: I do not know?