On the Threshold of Depravities' Door
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I objestigate between arabesques and sleep,
fugaciously spasmodic in fluxes and leaps.
I'm indifferent to the misanthropic mocking,
that welltering inflection that I call plockingism...
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Categories:
percipience, word play,
Form: Vogon Poetry
An Aphotic Place
...There's an aphotic place; found within my percipience
Endeavoring; I will face it past, present, future-tense
My hope is that its destination; is evanescence
Support in overcoming it, you; will my...
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Categories:
percipience, introspection, self, water,
Form: Monorhyme
I Rose
...Several years ago today
They reckoned me unbefitting for their ears
Per the yardstick of the day
Their percipience was disparaging
But still I rose
By their clairvoyance I was infecund
Plainl...
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Categories:
percipience, discrimination, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Between the Lines
...Is reason the straightest road
to percipience
Or is truth intuition
—memory’s black hole
(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)...
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Categories:
percipience, truth,
Form: Free verse
Greatness
...GREATNESS
A term few truly understand
And the scarce few that comprehend
See in its stead an ephemeral belief
More a fantasy than a reality
Laughing at the audacity a being would possess
To e...
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Categories:
percipience, africa, confidence, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
My Friend of Comfort
...Dedicated for my true friend, Pokey the puppy
I have a friend tempered in anxiousness of speed indeed-
He runs, jumps, and adjusts to my manner uncannily-
A good friend is he who waits, in time an...
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Categories:
percipience, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Original Mask of Alabaster
...A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frot...
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Categories:
percipience, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream,
Form: Couplet
More Than One Kind of Crazy
...Occasionally we should expose the wackier lobe of the brain
in order to better appreciate the more sensible side of the mind.
~THIS is one of those times...
I capriole betwee...
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Categories:
percipience, silly,
Form: Free verse
The Mask of Alabaster
...Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows ...
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Categories:
percipience, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
Form: Couplet
Endangered Inheritance
...Inheritance
We are guardians of the future are trustees for
posterity though wars galore are our legacy
We leave to our children the ge...
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Categories:
percipience, future,
Form: Free verse