A Vagabond
...Dirty, tatterdemalion in appearance
He's clothed in worn-out raiment, his hair unkempt;
Perambulating through concrete jungles with...
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Categories:
perambulating, dark, life, sad, scary,
Form: Sapphic stanza
The Wind Mocked My Brother
...The Wind Mocked My Brother
Serene it appeared to on the surface,
Its scarred face brother could not locate,
Her lips spoke as a false prophet,
But helpless brother did not inspect,
He was blow...
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Categories:
perambulating, addiction, lust,
Form: Free verse
Fear-Hope
...Like a spear
Perambulating through flesh
Leaving a tear
Incessantly so fresh
Is fear
Like a macrophage
Nursing your gash
Pouncing bacteria in a phage
Rigorously in a flash
Is hope...
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Categories:
perambulating, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Room On Paper
...The good witch is still trying hard to collect the future
Nostalgic and post-modern she fondles her crystal ball
With soft hands she embraces Gaia and its sepia hue
Oblivious to oblivion she...
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Categories:
perambulating, art,
Form: Free verse
A Walk To St Mary's Church
...A restless night, another hum-drum day,
Resolve to take a pleasurable walk;
I make my way towards St Mary’s church.
Across the street, a sixteenth century home –
Maltravers Manor, testament to ti...
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Categories:
perambulating, history, journey, travel,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Shriek In a Shrouded Ship
...Profile picture painted to please Jennifer Lopez
Smiles for miles to the dynamite of Taio Cruz
Sights, heights and flights into serene skies
Bereft of dour dues, hostile hues, cantankerous queues ...
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Categories:
perambulating, poems,
Form: Free verse
Morning Rush Hour
...The image of morning mapping from the four cardinal points at the center of
busy pedestrians running ups and down to the bottom of their energies,
Chasing the note they never designed to decimate...
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Categories:
perambulating, courage, perspective, remember,
Form: Alliteration
My Late Mom
...Her face is tilted
She just silently stare at me
She doesn’t talk to me no more
Her smiles not as reassuring as I remember
“Talk to me”, I whispered
Nothing! Just more stares
I smil...
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Categories:
perambulating, absence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Perambulating In Jail
...Perambulating in Jail
‘Hey you in the middle march on in median mediocrity’
No subversive elements needed no lateral thinking and
no thinking per se is required once you follow the crowd
‘No ...
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Categories:
perambulating, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Starry Skies Over Damascus
...Starry skies over Damascus
Like a star chart for the
bomber pilots eating
Milky Ways and lives
Chocolate in the desert
for desert in consumption
The poem could stop here
its pretty clear n...
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Categories:
perambulating, war,
Form: Free verse
The Big P
...the big P
it was in it’s own proud prominence
the path that entered your world
innocent
ruled by beast
brawn
blood
pressed in tensile tension
awakening in sleep
asleep in wakening
a one ...
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Categories:
perambulating, lust,
Form: Free verse
Pearl of Africa
...A Winston churchill’s declaration
to a tiny nation situated in the dark continent
due to its magnificence and sight capturing habitat
only matched by the electrifying effect of its hospita...
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Categories:
perambulating, africa, education, environment, nature,
Form: Ode
Seed
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Desiccated stems scattering amid taut hands;
Lingering footsteps among conjoined velvet roots;
The interval’s inertia an anxious psychosomatic swell.
This once stale earth is now litte...
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Categories:
perambulating, confusion, growth, imagination, magic,
Form: Free verse
Flour Sacks
...Flour sacks I remember you so well
full of golden grain, bran or flour
a slight but delightful musty smell
perambulating the atmosphere
Sacks cut up for all sorts of things
cloth shoes and dr...
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Categories:
perambulating, food,
Form: Light Verse
My Dream
....
Her perambulating
my dream
winking
Her eyes
fluorescent green
in a soft white
percale
coaxing me
with her to
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Categories:
perambulating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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