Confounding Paradox
...Confounding Paradox
Are there exoplanets evolving, terrains for the living?
Living forms upon rivers, microbes drifting in the air?
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Categories:
propitiously, journey, planet, space,
Form: Rhyme
Shimmering Scars
...Scars will shine in no time, in no time
Soon enough, your joy will be mine
If you don’t accept me or listen to me
If only you would believe in me sincerely
I bled out remorse today ...
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Categories:
propitiously, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Two To Four Horn Format
...Two To Four Horn Format
Revived,
And survived;
Remained alive.
Did come
True one day,
What I was told.
Could be,
I did see,
Was you and me.
Middle
Of trouble,
And did tremble.
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Categories:
propitiously, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Edgar and Me
...© Ben Burton 2-20-2015
If I were Edgar Allan Poe
I'd been dead many years ago
Two score, no more, the poet bore
Before rejoining his Lenore
Reflections now, from sixty-five
I'm wonder...
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Categories:
propitiously, poets,
Form: Rhyme
The Stricken Corridor
...Fall tumbles relentlessly on our door steps
young winter birds inducing provoking sounds scamper in trees
Watching winter crawling slowly under our feet.
The night rain wet the ground with sadn...
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Categories:
propitiously, dream, education, environment, water,
Form: Free verse
Pretentious
...I shared my florid words
about our torrid love
with an ardent lover,
who exclaimed propitiously
that they were astonishing;
then solicitously,
she asked me to elucidate,
how did this pres...
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Categories:
propitiously, humor,
Form: Free verse
Summer Is Long Gone
...Once when we were younger
We loved beyond belief;
I pointed you past Pluto wandering while
You helped me turn
A propitiously proverbial new leaf. Free-
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Categories:
propitiously, introspection, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Defining Sleep
...Sleep: An act done by oneself.
Almost seems silly to ask for assistance when it is the act of channeling ones
individually unique
center-stage by centering ones consciousness.
To be here...
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Categories:
propitiously, thank you
Form: I do not know?
Paitence
...Reminiscent of a better time
the present I supress......
The knowledge, our love subsequent
my sainty in distress......
My soul, void, destitute, and vacant
needing more, ac...
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Categories:
propitiously,
Form: I do not know?