No Borderline
...You're wonderfully made
A seat of my obsessions
Oh my brain!
You're marvellously created
To steer my well-being
Oh my cognition!
You brighten my esteem and deepen my ties
With acceptance and...
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Categories:
phobic, anti bullying, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Free verse
KILLER ON THE LOOSE
...I
abhor
the way that
you’ve silently
stalked me in my house
I have begged you to leave
But you steadfastly refused
I’ve just found you in my bedroom
I’m rooted to the spot in terror
And ...
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Categories:
phobic, fear, humorous,
Form: Etheree
Categories:
phobic, humor,
Form: Free verse
Romance Ripple
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Written: February 19, 2024
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Loving with a lucent locus is Lissom,
mooring a mystic's sibylline moves
as Felicity finds me, I float f...
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Categories:
phobic, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Life Preserver
...Escaping the depths of the murky lake,
leg-kicking upward in frantic haste,
arms grasp for purchase
in what surely will be my watery grave.
Head breaks the surface,
lungs gulp for precious air,
...
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Categories:
phobic, abuse, freedom, metaphor, water,
Form: Free verse
Flaccid Fleet
...Gluggy margarine marine grips keels
Apex sun spreads sickly circle of lard
Plugged lungs, gust momentum marred
Strait elongates co-ordinate, pace killed
Glidin...
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Categories:
phobic, beach, columbus day, independence
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Greatest Gift of All, a Finite Human Lifespan - Now With Footnotes
...The Greatest Gift of All?
(A Finite Human Lifespan)
There is pleasure in 'knowing' this life will be ending,
the space my flesh occupies 'opening up...
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Categories:
phobic, humor, love, political,
Form: Rhyme
No Regrets On Hills of Destiny
...Exploring lovesome impulses of quixotic themes
Promises we exchanged of allures romantic
Enticing maiden passions in realm of fantasies
Strumming heart rhythms’ emboldened music
Embellishing swee...
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Categories:
phobic, break up, lost love,
Form: Verse
Skills
...I've never learned to change a tire.
It's not a skill I wish to acquire.
If stuck I'm always going to hire..
Also, can't change my car's oil,
perhaps I was a bit spoiled.
Cooking I botch, even w...
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Categories:
phobic, self,
Form: Light Verse
Sweeps Her Broom
...Weaving the literary loom
Words marry, blends warp and weft;
Fell in love a splendid groom
Soon his death leaves her bereft,
In haste writes of worldly broom.
She wrote of flame on chilly nigh...
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Categories:
phobic, care,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Insane Jealousy-A Monotetra
...Jealousy is a ball and chain
worn by those who always complain
Blah, blah, blah in echoed refrain
With such disdain With such disdain
What does this person hope to gain?
One like thi...
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Categories:
phobic, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Joe In Wonderland
...We've a third string coach running the team
who can't even remember his own play book
so a batch of amateurs
are running the show
from the bench
from the trenches
of their minds
Its a play ...
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Categories:
phobic, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Genre Phobic
...Closed mind open mouth,
running and shutting yourself out
of so many wonderful beats;
All those voices full of fire,
but it’s always the wrong genre;
Closed mind open mouth,
it never quite f...
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Categories:
phobic, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Free verse
Wispy River
...I cherish your dreary safe house; I share your cover trick.
The nightfall apparition is unmistakably pitiful, not majestic.
Alone, yet not the only one, I walk around my sorrow pho...
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Categories:
phobic, analogy, beach, character, confusion,
Form: Monorhyme
Doctors of Industrious Divinity
...Dear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empow...
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Categories:
phobic, christian, green, health, nature,
Form: Political Verse
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