Strip Before the Styx
...Charon demands us to disrobe
Sell your layers for coins
Some with less have more to trade
Better than becoming chained ghosts
Our suits and dresses tie us down
Being nude again will be sobering
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Categories:
pearliest, addiction, death, depression, extended
Form: Free verse
Shine On
...The shine on his shoes
The shine on his car
The shine on his face
~ shines like a star
His suit freshly pressed
His pants perfect crease
His shirt sports no wrinkles
~ sharp tie's ce...
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Categories:
pearliest, fashion, smart, star,
Form: Rhyme
Penitent's Paean
...In sundry ways deaf to your zeal
Which foxy whims fruitless sway,
My wandering self did finally feel
Pearliest sparks of your legit ray.
Inured by bestial blinding decoys
Which easiest-farin...
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Categories:
pearliest, absence, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Other
Lovers Apart
...A love as sweet as the promise of heaven
Imperiled destruction as never been seen
Like the ever present fear of Armageddon
Full blossomed to explode with feelings pristine
Would you be willing ...
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Categories:
pearliest, love, heart, longing, heaven,
Form: Quatrain