A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
...A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
(route 76) both heading into
(and a small number of hours later
exiting) center city Philadelphia
to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024.
Yours truly...
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Categories:
perceptibly, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Summer Came Softly
...I was a zealous environmental scientist, preserving green on our blue planet;
To benefit all animals, plants and people, under sunset skies of pomegranate.
I strived hard to reverse pollution, fo...
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Categories:
perceptibly, color, fantasy, green, imagery,
Form: Couplet
A Reassessment of Differing Views
...Some feel that Bible verse conclusively
Describes all life explained through liturgy.
Some feel that evolution holds the key
With science leading forth explicitly.
Positions juxtaposed percepti...
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Categories:
perceptibly, destiny, encouraging, humanity, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Flexibility
...The body ages perceptibly
~ the mind flexes receptively...
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Categories:
perceptibly, age, body, uplifting,
Form: Monoku
Sunset's Reflections
...The majesty of a magenta sky
fades perceptibly before my eyes
Can it not be bottled before it dies
Sigh ~ back to catching fireflies...
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Categories:
perceptibly, color, fate, sky, sunset,
Form: Couplet
Be Not Complacent Bout Dire Global Warming
...Be not complacent 'bout dire global warming...
Thus spake Zarathustra
necessitating donning layered clothing
in tandem, especially trumpeting
being with wise mind and economical
exercising...
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Categories:
perceptibly, 12th grade, appreciation, april,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections On a View From a New York Tenement Window, Seen On Social Media
...New York Stanza
The night is dark and wet, street lights
Have no purchase on the empty street beneath;
Only the soft glow from the tenement windows
Gives form and perspective to my view.
From a...
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Categories:
perceptibly, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Grace
...She has the hair and smile
And your eyes oh so blue
but the person I see
She has ceased to be you
The flickers of memory
cause my mind to bend
I wish you were here
so I play at pretend
T...
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Categories:
perceptibly, appreciation, bereavement, care, goodbye,
Form: Quatrain
Breathless In the Moonlight
...We were vibrant once
but it seems the sun has taken it's toll
Slowly wrinkles and cracks have appeared
Our once glowing skin has perceptibly faded
I am now a fan of the moon
It allows us to ma...
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Categories:
perceptibly, age, blessing, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Mean Jean
...Some folks just don't have a life of their own.
Some live on other's problems.
Some live on other's dreams, and hopes for the future.
Some live on just being the antagonist to everyone else;
They...
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Categories:
perceptibly, angst, conflict, feelings, memory,
Form: Narrative
Ideas Begin To Percolate
...Ideas begin to percolate
They pop out of me in bubbles
Floating out the window
Stopping traffic
One hesitates
Apparently feels badly.
Changes directions and floats back.
I pop it and reptile, ...
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Categories:
perceptibly, imagination, inspiration, perspective, poetess,
Form: Narrative
The Wary Cat and the Hungry Dog
...The cat eyed the dog, warily
The dog licked his lips, hungrily
The cat backed away, tremulously
The dog edged forward, intimidatingly
The cat retreated faster, alarmedly
The dog zeroe...
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Categories:
perceptibly, anxiety, cat, dog, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Surrender
...The smile vanished from the yellow orb, angry clouds swoop in
Gentle waters drift to shore no more, as white-capped waves storm in
Birds flee south; animals take cover; my will perceptibly weakens
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Categories:
perceptibly, autumn, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
That's Just Me
...Looking outside, I see plenty of snow;
for everything has been dusted in white,
while time itself runs perceptibly slow.
Yet icicles sparkling in the sunlight,
can morph into a splendifer...
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Categories:
perceptibly, change, feelings, how i
Form: Quintain (English)
Electric Highways Singing
...Electric highways sing through open lines
Lullaby's hum good-byes as morning calls
Hang out before they hang up a smile
Yellow birds come to cling
Come alive up on live wires
Thin metallic demar...
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Categories:
perceptibly, adventure, age, image, life,
Form: Free verse
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