The Pursuit of Profundity
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The pursuit of profundity
prior to simplicity
educes sterility
Mere simplicity
sans profundity
precludes fecundity
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precludes, deep, meaningful,
Form: Monorhyme
Happy New Year
...Out with the old, in with the new way of doing the same old thing.
Instead of snow, I clear the leaves. I don’t cleave to a resolution.
I don’t revolve around indecision. My natural giddyup takes o...
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Categories:
precludes, new year,
Form: Free verse
Yet
..."Aniticipation: Are We There Yet," ... by the NET, (?) ... by the Poet.
Yet,
for the greater good,
the ills of so...
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Categories:
precludes, appreciation, blessing, community, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Little White Lie
...If someone is hurt,
By the truth you reveal,
Were, the wounds engendered,
Will take time to heal,
Might it be better,
To spin a white lie,
To spare them from blushing,
And heav...
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Categories:
precludes, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Etched
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A wrinkle on a face
And scars from another age
We witness life with grief
While some explode with rage
Due process served us all a fitting term
Until we all shall learn:
Life - T...
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Categories:
precludes, forgiveness, life,
Form: Epic
A Need For Blood
...He loiters in shadows in line for no harp
The tools of his trade all surgically sharp
He slices their throats before they start yelling
The Lord knows his name but the Lord isn’t telling
So pro...
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Categories:
precludes, dark, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Survivable
...Futuristic climes
Beckoning to surpass
Spurring inventive minds
Since moon crater’s crevasse
Once known world denigrates
Human kind expiring
Lost to predicted fates
Stupendous vanquishing
fi...
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Categories:
precludes, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Enough Is Enough
...Enough is Enough
The more we have
The more we want
When will Enough be Enough?
The more we fear
The more we want
The more tears we shed
The more tears to come
I beg of you God
When ...
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Categories:
precludes, political, sad, sorrow, violence,
Form: Free verse
Railroaded
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Design obscures Divine
Railroaded by a petulant narrative
Observe the perfection of a creation undone
Injection deserving celebration by the hallowed of darkness
On every point, a bu...
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Categories:
precludes, environment, humanity, science, society,
Form: Free verse
A Walk In the Woods
...A WALK IN THE WOODS
Ode to a Beloved Pet
I go for a walk through the woods today and Jack is by my side
We find a place of calm and peace – he is the perfect guide.
We do not rush, we take ...
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Categories:
precludes, animal, dog, love, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Fast Forward
...I was going to be late to work again, as it was one of those days,
When one small mishap after another, made for way too many delays.
Lateness had become a genuine problem, to a person craving or...
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Categories:
precludes, fantasy, growth, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Sewing and Reaping
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Sewing And Reaping
By: Miracle Man
October 30, 2020
Some are content to follow another person’s path,
while others have a penchant for marking their own.
But irregardless of what lie...
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Categories:
precludes, god, inspirational, judgement,
Form: Lyric
Un-Infected
...Caught between the Scylla of illness and the Charybdis of wholeness
My reason and my belly
make a swift retreat
infected by indecision.
Side by side they stand now
silent like the dead.
I hear ...
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Categories:
precludes, art,
Form: Rhyme
Choir Dissonant Practice
...I am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not...
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Categories:
precludes, anxiety, appreciation, depression, health,
Form: Political Verse
Congressional Grace
...I'm still reading Your Resonant Self,
by Dr. Sarah Peyton,
speaking of how contempt
destroys relationships
formerly cooperative
and, thereby, healthy.
Disgust about oneself
and contempt agai...
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Categories:
precludes, christmas, earth, easter, health,
Form: Political Verse
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