Rejuvenating Proof
...Rejuvenating Proof
Counteroffensive cataclysms clamouring for defeat
Apprehensive magnetism that makes you feel complete
Comprehensive pragmatism that can sometimes drain and deplete
Recompen...
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Categories:
pragmatism, life,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Dream Within the Child
...I woke last night and read my Poe
and asked is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream of a dream?
I know what I don’t know what I know.
In Bethlehem’s cradle, a Child lay still
lov...
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Categories:
pragmatism, blessing, child, christmas, family,
Form: Lyric
STREETS OF SOLITUDE
..."Do I still matter?" I lament, in quiet despair,
As kindred acquaintances vanish, dissolved in thin air.
Solitude clots the cistern, blocks my spirit's flow;
Collateral damage obscures the expansi...
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Categories:
pragmatism, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
On a velvet night, under a sky sprinkled with stardust
...On a velvet night, under a sky sprinkled with stardust,
realism, like a broken mirror, fails to reflect the whole truth,
it diminishes reality, thins it out, falsifies it, losing its essence,
it d...
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Categories:
pragmatism, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Classroom a Lab for Demo
...In dynamic classrooms
Amid inquiry and exploration
with my mind racing, in casual attire or rolled-up sleeves,
With my hands on experimental apparatus,
questi...
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Categories:
pragmatism, children, education, engagement, school,
Form: Free verse
Anxiety
...A creature dwells behind me
Always lurking, skulking
Robed in shadows, waiting, hovering.
At times a ferocity of claws, shrieks -
Icy vice like grips plunging through me!
Others; a gnawing pois...
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Categories:
pragmatism, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
IF I COULD CHANGE ONE THING
...IF I COULD CHANGE ONE THING
If I could change just one thing,
I wouldn’t aim too high.
I doubt if I could save the world,
However hard I try.
I wouldn’t tackle climate chang...
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Categories:
pragmatism, change, health,
Form: Rhyme
Palatable Conversations at Night
...We,
with the geometry and evening
balance of our midcentury hands—gently
lower the cloche over the day between us. It is a
nightly ritual, gravity-driven, habit built over time, the g...
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Categories:
pragmatism, extended metaphor,
Form: Concrete
Pick a Title 27
...Guided by pragmatism
My feet are firmly grounded
However, my mind oft-time takes flight
What things I see are a pure delight.
My thoughts do fly on occasion
Wandering so far and wide
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Categories:
pragmatism, fantasy,
Form: Other
The Nebulous Plague
...What an unusual pragmatism conundrum.
We drum in our kids a sense of quantum.
Then, a few days later, we express our pain,
When we gaze on persons with the same stain.
We maintai...
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Categories:
pragmatism, allusion, change, character, childhood,
Form: Sonnet
Haiku's Temple 249
...Elsewhere
nothing is held high
listen to the echo....
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Categories:
pragmatism, adventure,
Form: Haiku
Transform Your Impossibility Into Something Concrete
...Showing a whim, a fancy or grin
are typical expressions of children,
adults deviate from pragmatism
and pay more attention to realism...
while eagerness and enthusiasm
take us further than anyth...
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Categories:
pragmatism, appreciation, art, beauty, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Places, Faces, Spaces
...Looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in all the wrong faces
Looking for love in cold empty spaces
Self love’s been lost, pushed to the wayside
Replaced with rejection ...
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Categories:
pragmatism, addiction, conflict, deep, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Pragmatism of Poem
...G-lad
R-eader
A-ppreciates
C-omposition
E-njoying
T-he
U-nique
P-oem's
P-ragmatism
A-nd
L-oveliness
Topic: Birthday of Grace C. Tuppal (March 02)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
pragmatism, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
I Am Number Four
...Mine is a connection twix body and soul
Beliefs based on values, the earth as a whole;
In league with creation of moon and the stars,
To strings am related on tenor guitars.
In marriage enable th...
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Categories:
pragmatism, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
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