Valium and Dumdums
...Between spacetime ripples
lurk dark energy waves,
emanating from the void
strange forces hold me slave
I mean! What type of creature/
flies a kite in thunderstorms
One searching for answers
ca...
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Categories:
prepping, deep, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Vacation
...We're going on vacation
Words innocent and pure
Visions of sun and beaches
Are conjured up for sure
The marketers are genius
At portraying family bliss
A carefree family skipping
Through w...
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Categories:
prepping, humor, irony, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem
...A poem should
explain itself --
define what it
is – at the poem’s
prepping, by the poet
done all the required
kneading
whether healing or
bleeding, a poem
should be its own
hunger or ...
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Categories:
prepping, introspection, language, perspective, poems,
Form: Free verse
School Bus Driver
...On many a workday morning,
I sit at my kitchen table and
watch the BIRDS lite on electric
lines, or listen to their sweet
chirps from the treetops.
I watch the SUN rising over the
horizon, a...
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Categories:
prepping, dedication, school,
Form: Narrative
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a L...
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Categories:
prepping, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Just Be Day
...What if I could create another holiday,
One where it’s full of fun and play?
A magical day, so simple and rewarding,
No grandiose ideas, just enjoying.
Embracing a cup of tea or cocoa,
Preppin...
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Categories:
prepping, fantasy, holiday, imagination, together,
Form: Rhyme
Might Never Makes Right
...Violence in the political party
A pebble thrown to defend oneself from a barrage of 100- stones
The bully then complains of abuse—might never makes right
will we unite?—I...
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Categories:
prepping, abuse, anti bullying, character,
Form: Political Verse
geneva
...During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith...
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Categories:
prepping, boyfriend, humor, love, school,
Form: Free verse
MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
...OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF...
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Categories:
prepping, allah,
Form: Villanelle
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
...
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automati...
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Categories:
prepping, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Rhythms of the Night
...
The rhythms of the night
Sounds of a dark symphony
A mysterious cacophony
Sends chill up and down the spine
Shadows chase the light of a full moon
Across meadow and forest green
No stranger t...
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Categories:
prepping, animal, bird, mystery, night,
Form: Free verse
From the Still of the Night
...
In the still of the night,
I become intoxicated with the moon's soft light,
the view of Roxy Anne, City Lights.
Whispers of the wind caress my lampogen,
I let her back into my...
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Categories:
prepping, art,
Form: Rhyme
Before The Sun's Pieces
...Before the sun's pieces,
Shine on brim's, coffee mug;
And with my prepping airs—
It's all jeopardy to
Roll frost in bed somewhere.
Before the sun's pieces,
Rain in a golden chain.
I pine at...
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Categories:
prepping, deep, introspection, light, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
taps
...I received a re-invitation email this morning. A ‘come on, why don’t you want to?’ note that struck me as odd. See, I’ve been ‘tapped’ for a couple of final clubs at Yale. It can happen if you earn t...
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Categories:
prepping, color, community, education, humor,
Form: Free verse
Planets Falling Faster Than the Rain
...It’s been 36 days since you were dethroned
You were the free-standing house, I was the fist that ripped the power line in half
You’re the ouija board to my spirits of the past,
You keep bringing...
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Categories:
prepping, courage, fate, heartbreak, how
Form: Free verse
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