her eyes are gray, foreboding
...
her eyes are gray, foreboding
reflecting the wrath of Zeus
yet therein lies the charm of Hera
who silences Olympian thunderbolts
she is sharing a tenebrous introspect
the smile withdrawn, judg...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, addiction, analogy, blessing, courage,
Form: Free verse
Peccadilloes
...At the edges of everyone’s being
Are those perfect little surprises,
Lying in wait to be discovered
By unsuspecting enterprises.
Perfectly delightful peccadilloes
Sometimes wearing odd d...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, friendship,
Form: Light Verse
My Poetry a Future To Come
...I, the poet that I am, the greatest dreamer
here I confess without rhyming in the verses...
I write for a time soon to come
with all the inspiration and faith of my poetry...
I write for a Heaven...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Prose Poetry
They Are Among Us
...In a small town twenty minutes North of where you live
an alien looks in a mirror and studies your face.
You don’t know it, but he has taken over the life
that you no longer use.
While you were s...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Peccadilloes
...Lest I be stymied by life’s little peccadilloes,
I try not to be astounded by what comes my way
For life and love are not without wearisome billows,
And not everything that’s delightfu...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, life,
Form: Light Verse
Ruminating Vagaries of Life May 2nd 2021
...Ruminating vagaries of life May 2nd, 2021
(conceived while in utero
which loosely summarization in toto
of this ordinary Joe Schmoe,
who did wade nine months for a roe
at mercy of obstetrician...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lament For Shams
...1. Shall I narrate you a tale or may be a thousand stories,
Of a lost love and fervent devotion?
Or chronicles of longing and separation?
Mayhap I, relate both as you wish, open your eyes and giv...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, best friend, blessing, care,
Form: Qawwali
Purple Heart
...
"Purple Heart"
We are watched
surrounded by
a great cloud
of witnesses
the race marked
out for us
our days
we count
as numbers
hidd...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, courage, heart, purple,
Form: Free verse
Compass Points
...In a small town twenty minutes North of where you live
an alien looks in a mirror and studies your face.
You don’t know it, but he has taken over the life
that you no longer use.
While you were s...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Theres a Pedophile In the House
...There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)
OMG,... and he looks...
SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
absolutely NO WAY!!!,
would this sensitive,
res...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegy
Literary ******
...(alternate title – A bona
er fide dog day afternoon delight).
A mere half dozen vowels
constitute the English language
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
Consonants comprise majority
(sans remain...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lay
Vagaries of Life
...Biological copulation draws Easter egg,
fecund gooey glommed gametes
heralding zygote
(adroit bitcoin currency)
describing extemporaneous fusion
generate hormonal influx
juices kickstarti...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, angel, child, family, joy,
Form: Narrative
Vagaries of Life
...Biological copulation draws Easter egg,
fecund gooey glommed gametes
heralding zygote
(adroit bitcoin currency)
describing extemporaneous fusion
generate hormonal influx
juices kickstarti...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, allegory, allusion, baby, creation,
Form: I do not know?
Words of Agnostic
...Preacher tempts us to ride
For us to be salvage
From the river of hell
Their words blinded
The eyes of many
But I belong to the few
Who would rather choose
To swim at the canal of torture
If ...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, philosophy, religion,
Form: Free verse
Rearview Mirror
...Rear view mirror
Objects, objectively put, are closer
than they appear. But it doesn’t say it all.
With the fair signs that spewed forth once turning to
a slew of pre-twitter pseudo- tw...
...
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Categories:
peccadilloes, life,
Form: Free verse
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