Flies
...Flies love figs, oaks, elms, and willows; we know.
They play hide-and-seek with leaves tinged with snow.
In their purblind fondness, our hearts get sparked?
Do they flee from us because we're croo...
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Categories:
purblind, animal, flying, life,
Form: Rhyme
Let my ignorant bliss be - 2
...I see Maya as a video game
If its software gets decoded,
No more a tiger, life looks cat-like tame
If source code’s breached, its secret spread.
By mere digits, by dots and dashes made,
I...
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Categories:
purblind, joy, world,
Form: Sonnet
Outside A Haunted House
...I peer quite nervously about,
to wonder at the goings on,
how much of what is said,
is speculation on my part,
and how this dwelling rose,
from a clouded past milieu,
tales of the apocryphal ...
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Categories:
purblind, dark, deep, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
...Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many other...
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Categories:
purblind, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Magenta Skyline Cluster
...First blush fountain azimuth of hued rays
wet patio shrub basket in the haze
zealous heartland tower cry as life force
celebrate and savour August rare days
Magenta skylines cluster silken clo...
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Categories:
purblind, beautiful, birth, celebration, dream,
Form: Rubaiyat
Poetry Is the Remedy
...i life
Reflections in the mirror increase resentment.
Tarnished heart pursues vengeful contentment
Disillusioned, you hide in fictitious make believe,
possessed by demons who purblind and ...
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Categories:
purblind, angst, emotions, father son,
Form: Rhyme
It Saw Me Through Such Dastardly Purblind Eyes
...It Saw Me Through Such Dastardly Purblind Eyes
It saw me through such dastardly purblind eyes
Up there overhead with silent anger
What a truly ghastly, dangerous beast
On a morn with dazzling t...
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Categories:
purblind, dark, death, dream, evil,
Form: Sonnet
Mother Maya
...And one more toy she gave to her cry-child,
Who, not a look and wailed ever more still
To grow restless, disconsolate, more riled,
But as moms do, she knew well what was ill,
Maya— a cosmic p...
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Categories:
purblind, imagery, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Back To Times of Stonehenge
...To say hello to spring
Winter relents in time,
Grey goes green, smiles gream grime,
Nature knows— not to cling.
Seasons change on their own
And wait not till too late
To kiss change on du...
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Categories:
purblind, change, men,
Form: Quatrain
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
...In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, ...
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Categories:
purblind, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Past Grows Dreamy
...Inside our minds time often flows backward,
To rich sparkling treasures we left behind,
But the memories become somewhat blurred,
In a landscape where purple mists purblind.
There we find old gol...
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Categories:
purblind, childhood, life, memory, time,
Form: Dizain
Only Time To Burn
...Meg often told Josh
to try to be less reckless
but Josh had panache
when dealing with dangerous
too often being feckless
since days of sixth grade
their hands often intertwined
Meg and Josh ...
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Categories:
purblind, angst, change, conflict, loss,
Form: Tanka
Spouse Sets Obstacle Course Endangering My Life and Limb
...While sidestepping impediments,
Achilles heel stricken with paralyzing zap
chronically inducing captain klutz
to bemoan and yap,
i.e. (think) booby trap
strategically laid down by the missus -
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Categories:
purblind, abuse, autumn, humorous, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Third Degree Turns
...‘babes you need UV protection’
from top to tail and midsection
‘I’m African don’t be daft’
quite insulted she laughed
a masterpiece of self deception
but the tan worshipper in Cape T...
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Categories:
purblind, sun,
Form: Limerick
Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers
If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s ou...
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Categories:
purblind, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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