To a Writer Par Excellence
...I think you are a writer par excellence
Your prose and poetry are simply divine
With ebb and flow your phrases make sense,
With remarkable meter and exquisite rhyme.
Your prose and poetry a...
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Categories:
perfect tense, poets, tribute, writing,
Form: Pantoum
His Limbo Soliloquy
...His Limbo Soliloquy
Actually, I like lockdown. I already was before COVID anyway,
but now I’ve got my privacy. No family feeling forced to visit
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Categories:
perfect tense, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Parallel Universe
...Parallel Universe
David J Walker
To be perfectly clear
We called it “fantasy”
But in the vernacular of your today
It’s “Virtual Reality”
Anything you want it to be
And if you will excu...
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Categories:
perfect tense, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Move On With the Reality
...Move on with the reality
Nothing is going to be changed.
Now everything is in your hands,
So make your present, perfect,
Like a present perfect tense…..
Come out of the darkness,
And let's lo...
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Categories:
perfect tense, care, emotions, loneliness, wisdom,
Form: Blank verse
Words Are To Writers
...Words are to writers like flowers to bees,
Oil to engines and thank you to please.
They may be as heavy as concrete or lead
Or light as feather and thoughts in our heads.
They may cut like ...
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Categories:
perfect tense, poetry, poets, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
As a Requiem Unbound Would Be
...I pray in a crescendo, a wound unwound,
softly moving ‘round in the sound
found vibrating inside of me;
a variation, a fusion,
a euphony to black
adversity as a requiem
unbound would be –
th...
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Categories:
perfect tense,
Form: Elegy