No Cigar
...You can’t teach poetry pro forma
it’s the effort of a fool
You can’t gain sagacity from a book
or by the golden rule
You can’t be what you haven’t lived
the safety net misleads
You can’t blee...
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Categories:
pro forma, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Resolutions, the Relationship, the Passing of the Day, Falling Away
...Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions
are meant to be broken
as soon as we realize
that deprivation and muscle strain
are not our natural state,
and that a comforted body
yields placidity of ...
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Categories:
pro forma, allegory, confusion, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Green Celebration
...Green Celebration
Shedding dry leaves since Patrik’s Day onward,
Flora of the Green Earth looks forward,
to wear new Green veil as reward.
My ever Green heart ...
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Categories:
pro forma, color, green,
Form: Tail-rhyme