A Lament For Futurity
...I weep for trees and forests,
We laid them all to waste.
Will children have no air to breath,
No atmosphere to taste?
I weep for mighty oceans
We trashed them to the brim.
Will children of th...
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Categories:
protract, earth, environment, future,
Form: Quatrain
Read the Label, Please
...Read the label, please
There's an ever present misery measure we humans live/die to choke
blame on anything/one that's not us involved.
Rationalization, my right hand,gossip, the tool of th...
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Categories:
protract, allegory, allusion, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Illusions Foray
...What side can you judge infinity from,
the front or then the back
If it’s never over, or never ends,
how then can you protract
Can infinity stop and start again,
would it be different...
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Categories:
protract, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Vacuous Heart
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I always see you in that mundane
Every time I stare the emotions’ windowpane
Try not to draw a smile, because I don’t want to be insane
I abhor you every time you talk sweeter than the ...
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Categories:
protract, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Little Colors Stand and Weep
...Green sleep red bright
Dreaming in the yellow of orange;
Blue sleep; in thy purple
Little colors stand and weep
Sweet violet in thy hue
Soft values I can paint
Secret tints and secret highli...
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Categories:
protract, imagination,
Form: Imagism
A Forest
...The night like clouded charcoal scorched,
A sea of trees with starlight torched.
A night where laws are sound asleep,
Anarchic prayers running deep.
Alone I hear the wretched screams
Of screec...
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Categories:
protract, allegory, angst, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The Wheel Spins . . .
...A synopsis untried, a life unended
The wheel spins as the days protract
A look at the mirror surrounding the dire
I feel my soul, my life and my being
Each day that I be
Each moment that I s...
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Categories:
protract, confusionlife,
Form: Free verse
The Barghest's Monody
...Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.
A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
will serenade.
Strin...
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Categories:
protract, death, life,
Form: Ballad