Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
prospectus, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
On a Roundabout
...Hang on, You're nearly There!
I'm giddy, spinning around,
So near, yet so far.
On the slippery spinning
dip of serendipity.
Making do with the hoodoo of déjà vu.
I've seen that scene before!
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Categories:
prospectus, anxiety, flying,
Form: Free verse
The Realigned Effects Of Evil: Part 2
...An excerpt from my new short story:
After Adolf received Alois' final inheritance in 1913, he moved to Munich, Germany. During his Vienna years living in squalor, Adolf was keenly interested in th...
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Categories:
prospectus, character, imagery, war,
Form: Narrative
KIND WORDS
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If our life is spent using kind words we find our kind words help us gather friends
and one day, when we need them most, those kind words pay dividends.
This year we had a friend who lost her s...
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Categories:
prospectus, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
for luck
...(a university-life vignette)
It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for...
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Categories:
prospectus, celebration, drink, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Do You Remember Too
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Butterfly bless dances from flower to flower,
sipping nectar with its slender proboscis imitating Bacchus with prospectus,
direct to us.
Streaks in the open air with flagrant color,
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Categories:
prospectus, art,
Form: Ballad
Oops
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We are not accidental like a spill,
incidentals, we are Elementals
of love, with a will and lifeblood.
We are deliberate, destined, designed by a loving d...
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Categories:
prospectus, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Thunder
...Can you grasp the thunder?
Can you hide its flashes from an overflowing river?
Can you pay your river Life a hideous win?
Can you call yourself a mercenary who is stained?
I want to tag you und...
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Categories:
prospectus, extended metaphor, imagery, lust,
Form: Free verse
Symptoms of Nigeria's Governing Arms
...Executive- My powers are absolute,
thus I am totalitarian.
The legislature and judiciary
are each subservient to my whims.
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Categories:
prospectus, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Brothers
...Brothers Cousins Sister Aunts
one hundred people
Ten dollars per week each
One thousand dollars per week
As a group
Fifty two thousand dollars per year
I spoke to a Manager of a nursing hom...
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Categories:
prospectus, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Coffee Boy
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There’s an important meeting
on the upcoming shark calendar itinerary
A prospectus offer from a suitor company
demands an improper greeting
The boss lady wanna know
who’s gonna lead t...
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Categories:
prospectus, business, corruption, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Ravening
...You want it all.
The lakes and tar sands
Fresh water and fish
Arctic diamonds
Pipelines that confine
The caribou
And make the hunt ridiculous.
Forests for the churning
Of lust...
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Categories:
prospectus, betrayal, grief, howl,
Form: Free verse
Essais On Art An Ekphrasis
...ESSAIS ON ART
Transformation,interpretation
an essay in aesthetics,the meaning
pictures ,telling a story.
New theories of art and the
nature of painting.Prospectus
and preface,postscript and
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Categories:
prospectus, art, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Dialogue Poetry - Poetry's Memorial Service
...The funeral was a surprise to all
writers
Bury me!!!
Poetry shouted
Bury me and leave no trace
If pen lost ground and laid
beneath
Then this hand too belong with
wreath
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Categories:
prospectus, death
Form: ABC
The Living Water
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The Living Water
“13LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LO...
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Categories:
prospectus, faith, inspirational, words, water,
Form: Rhyme
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