She Wanted More
...She Wanted More!
He shut the car door with a hush;
she closed her side of the car with a statement.
He slipped into his seat belt in a measured sense;
she slapped-snapped her seat belt on.. in ...
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Categories:
percolated, conflict, happiness, relationship,
Form: Free verse
A Night Bird Sings
...When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose of a somnambulist
I walked up and...
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Categories:
percolated, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form: Free verse
O Golden Dream of Youth
...Herman Wenzell 1863--1944
My classical alarm channel
--98.5 Block Island—
Cues me this morning
to a parlor-piano tune
percolated over
forgotten days
and the sweetness
of possibility.
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Categories:
percolated, love, Lullaby, music,
Form: Free verse
The Monk Windows, Ravens, Angels and Embryos Forming
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“The Monk Windows, Ravens, Angels and Embryos Forming”
Dawn arrives
in the black and white
misunderstood in the abstract
you can see the
embryos of thought forming
al...
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Categories:
percolated, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Wait
...Her perspective was stained
Colored by the experiences in her life
Guided by her emotions
And the dark thoughts that percolated at night
She was aware of her irrational feelings
She did her be...
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Categories:
percolated, age, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
A Brain Awakes
...a brain awakes
gains 200 pounds
sheds a 20 year old ghost
before it awoke
it opened doors
ground beans
percolated morning coffee
kissed an ex-wife goodbye
as it left for the future
…it h...
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Categories:
percolated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Desert Blooms
...Cluttered herself with salt;
Rather obscuring herself, she settled downwards;
The sandy surface has made her vulnerable;
Clasping the inner core tightly, she reluctantly raised her fallen guards;
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Categories:
percolated, beach, betrayal, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Favorite Scents
...The square-cut bars of patchoulie soap
scented--musky, earthy, sensual--
carefully placed on shelves
and in bureau drawers--
a constant reminder
of long-g...
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Categories:
percolated, meaningful, memory, senses, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Liaison Dangereuse
...
“liaison dangereuse”
Tear a thin line
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips
no nurses gloves
down my neck
along my throat
with somet...
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Categories:
percolated, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Reading As An Oasis Amidst Turbulent Emotional Travails
...Metaphorical troubled waters deluge
pitched me to and fro,
analogous to ghosts
that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge,
yours truly violently tossed
impossible mission to experience refuge
except when ...
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Categories:
percolated, adventure, allusion, destiny, drink,
Form: Free verse
A Brain Awakes
...A brain awakes,
sheds 200 pounds.
Before the brain awoke
it dreamed
that it opened doors,
ground beans,
percolated morning coffee.
It realizes that it had dreamed
far too early.
Meanwhil...
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Categories:
percolated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Memories In Appalachia
...Every morning at close to four
She made the coffee, percolated
Poured it into cups with saucers
And they each would have a cup
Pouring the potent black liquid
Into the saucers before drinking
T...
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Categories:
percolated, mountains, remembrance day, usa,
Form: Free verse
Essential Reading
...When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a t...
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Categories:
percolated, community, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Now We Can Make Our Own Sheep
...British Biogenesis took a front seat
When the first bio-cloned sheep Dolly was created.
In a tiny glass test tube nice and neat.
All we need now is for it to be percolated.
Also a little know-...
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Categories:
percolated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Politically Speaking
...The Oracle spoke in tongues
Of crisscrossed words reversed in a pattern
Percolated in the minds to be given to lungs
Then tossed to the winds like a light to the lantern
Giving out hope for eac...
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Categories:
percolated, political,
Form: Lyric
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