Cone Calderas
...Shivering sullen, silent all the time.
Suffering, wisdom, alone and sublime.
Where, O my oracle, shall I begin?
Blanch, light of Sin, nickel, cadmium, tin.
Hollow are hearts in the hill-towns, an...
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Categories:
pinnacled, creation, deep,
Form: Rhyme
The Picture of My Grandfather
...He would walk into the room
Shoulders held high
Pinnacled to touch the sky
In my eyes a giant of a man
My Grandfather wore a face
Of a blue-eyed Irish sage
With wondrous stories and rousing s...
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Categories:
pinnacled, childhood, family, granddaughter, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Witnessing Earth's Wedding
...We
richly green mountains
of germinating
Jeremiah prophetic strength
Before we formed you
in our valleyed womb,
we knew you
Before you came to life
rebirthed
we consecrated your humane s...
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Categories:
pinnacled, earth, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Still the One
...Will you marry me?...enamored the deep gaze.
Twenty years ago , I mesmerised into your maze.
Razzled dazzled life, beleaguered in myriad phase.
Pristine peace I found, hugged in your embrac...
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Categories:
pinnacled, anniversary, giggle, happiness, husband,
Form: Couplet
The Night Glenfell
...The Night Glenfell
A summer solstice candle breezing midst the twilight air
Where aloft the dizzying height of storey twenty f...
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Categories:
pinnacled, natural disasters,
Form: Blank verse
Future Nostalgia
...A retiring sun appeared cut in half,
As pinnacled rays of light,
Through breaches in the clouds,
Formed a radial lattice,
That was projected through the twilight,
Gave me a feeling of nostalgia,...
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Categories:
pinnacled, environment,
Form: Light Verse
Summer's Song
...When lost in sorrow, too much to bear-
To see an ember of hope re-sparked -
I look at you, into your eyes I stare -
Still on your finger, my love is marked -
Although not worthy of your endless l...
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Categories:
pinnacled, appreciation, birthday, love,
Form: Rhyme
Chicken Finger Sunday
...Just a single conscious decision,
hanging in the palm of your hand
A quavering sensation
breathing in subsequent rhythm, a pulse
dripping from the band
All these motifs around me
and I'm just a...
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Categories:
pinnacled, allegory, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Trauma of the Ego
...In his image
Let me not contest the fire
Diminishing me from desire,
Shadow and reflection
Erased in aberration empty mirror
Seeing light swallowed by the form
Too bright for light to show.
In this i...
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Categories:
pinnacled, recovery from..., me, light,
Form: Free verse
Snow Leached
...All brimming crystal drizzled earth frazzled glory hugged;
Icicles jousting kaleidoscopic light, meets
Natures overfrosted pinnacled quiverings.
Raining snow tumults us, Life-like vanities:
Waning x...
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Categories:
pinnacled, nature, philosophy,
Form: ABC
Desire
...maybe Epicurus might'a been furious
if he'd lost all of his desire
combed the ground, to look around
for lost wants to quench his ire
where'd he drop his taste for food
and pour out his tongue for w...
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Categories:
pinnacled, angst, happiness, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Contrasting Visions...
...As armies continue to march their sanguinary war
lifeless lay those as sinewy gore,
pinnacled soldiers atop a land possessed
making themselves feel they've been blest
Bittersweet is the toil o...
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Categories:
pinnacled, philosophy, socialworld, prejudice, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Reprisal
...I marched, they marched, we marched
For nothing now it seemed
And I the ego pulpiteer, left parched
Refusing to go underground with the stream
That carried me before to a sheer
Desolate drop, I ...
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Categories:
pinnacled, introspectionme,
Form: Verse