The Earth Trembles
...A small dog (possibly irish)
fights a dandelion seed as it puffs upward
on a gentle breeze.
Pin sharp teeth snap at near misses.
I am unleashed walking around a park pond
the earth trembles wi...
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Categories:
perambulations, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Diagnostics
...Surfacing from troubled dreams
becomes a hasty reshuffling of plausible realties.
One by one, flimsy fibs are tested,
then grudgingly rejected as improbable.
There are always reasons to arise
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Categories:
perambulations, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Different Gifts But Equally Loved
...Can a white skin be proof that I’m better than you,
if my mother is Jewish, does that make me smart?
If I’m born in America, skin black as coal,
folks quite pale on Dark Continent, are they more w...
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Categories:
perambulations, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tintinnabulation
...Through many verses I have been seeking, minus perambulations -
Joy in hearing human words, hearts ... echo: golden tintinnabulations...
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Categories:
perambulations, 12th grade, art, extended
Form: Couplet
International Dance Competition
...My dear, have no fear,
For we shall all cheer.
Your perambulations and oscillations
Shall rouse the nations.
Their national anthems played.
The judges' scores displayed.
Remember it is only a d...
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Categories:
perambulations, dance, encouraging, international,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet's Wish
...Listen close, I want you to know,
my dearest wish before I go,
is not to be a posthumous poet!
So if you’d give praise? Let me know it.
As I write to satisfy my poetic drive,
praise that’s pri...
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Categories:
perambulations, poetry, poets,
Form: Quatrain