The Rites of Business
...When one hits pay-dirt
How far can this go
The thrill in success is habit forming
Success becoming currency of the day’s blo'
Materialism playing a heavy hand as judgment
With minions waitin...
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Categories:
perimeters, betrayal, business, corruption, culture,
Form: Rhyme
children are parental pawns
...Parental perimeters
Rules upon rules
Encage their helpless children
Who have no other life guides
Until the formative years are over
Children are parental pawns
Humans without power
Creature...
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Categories:
perimeters, child, parents,
Form: Free verse
The Look In Your Eye
...When the sky is a
sequestered sanctuary,
and the clouds croon
for sinking star-beams,
listen to the euphoric hymns of silence,
for seething storms throned
beneath rainbow castles
sha...
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Categories:
perimeters, deep, love,
Form: Free verse
Two Old Gods
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Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscross...
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Categories:
perimeters, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
ROSE
...
I was born cradled inside your palm
within the perimeters of a safe haven
brought to life by loving silty fingers
Rose is what I heard you call me
staying true to my appellative name...
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Categories:
perimeters, analogy, flower,
Form: Personification
Sanctuary
..."The forest is a sanctuary where you can grow to be you," ... by the Poet.
The passing of a torch, when Spring was announced,
was noted in the melting quarter of winter memories, as a su...
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Categories:
perimeters, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Free verse
Every Day Is a New Adventure -
...Every day is a new adventure -
A new iota, a new gnosis –
Search not by the easy standard
But see through the eyes of genesis.
The more I learn, the more I love
What man before me has...
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Categories:
perimeters, adventure, life, school, world,
Form: Rhyme
A Smile Is a Mask
...We look more beautiful when we smile;
Our lives are presented as perfect before the world.
No pain,no worries, no debts,no regrets,no fears and no bad demons.
With a smile,we console our broken he...
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Categories:
perimeters, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Torch
...At our illuminating service,
Whether at home or in the office,
Many preferring to it handle,
For worships reserving their candle…
You lose old torch for new one find cash:
The joy while in a ...
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Categories:
perimeters, appreciation, business, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Alone Among the Graves
...No romance today.
The cemetery was deserted,
at the far edge of the tiny village,
shrouded in a fine sultry fog.
Large black trees threw darkened shadows
over the deserted grueso...
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Categories:
perimeters, grave, sad,
Form: Free verse
Rented Rooms
...The house is boiled cabbage
goose fat, gizzard stew, and beets.
Windows steam and simmer,
you can write your name on the glass
winter or summer.
If you can live among rutabaga
or borscht; if ...
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Categories:
perimeters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Aim
...
He moves quickly through the underbrush
I follow close behind, pushing
Briars cautiously with a hand prepared
To let go hastily and a throat
Holding onto a shudder in response
To th...
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Categories:
perimeters, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Field On the Hill
...To stand and stare, at the field in the hills,
We watch in awe, from window sills,
And stare and watch, with mesmerised eye,
The clouds trailing shadows, as they float on by,
To reveal an array...
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Categories:
perimeters, earth, environment, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
The Sky Is Not Falling
...We all have a human responsibility and a duty to perform and execute.
I am convinced that our Maker has assigned to each of us a purpose.
The subject matter of purpose is very interesting with broa...
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Categories:
perimeters, confidence, faith, hope, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Haunting Moon
...I shine my light upon the green earth
Reaching down from heaven’s domain
To show the world that their fantasies
Are the way that I illuminate the night
I touch the stars with my soft perimeters...
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Categories:
perimeters, how i feel, inspiration,
Form: Personification
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