No More Mister Gneiss Guy
...Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any mo...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, relationship,
Form: Verse
We Live in Denial
...In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,
Torching golden beams to de...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, analogy, anxiety, depression, extended
Form: Sonnet
When It Comes To the Travails
...when it comes to the travails
of the human heart
logic is a poor study
as Diogenes' wisdom gathers a lantern
searching in vain
there is a deeper reasoning
among the bats gathered in the belfry
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Categories:
pyroclastic, cinderella, destiny, fate, humorous,
Form: Romanticism
Thunder Roars All Around Us
...thunder roars all around us
rain has pillaged the Earth in petrichor
trees bend in the wind
and retrieve their stature
only to succumb to yet another burst
two pluviophile's sitting on the balc...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, devotion, i miss you,
Form: Romanticism
Krakatoa
...volcanic blast
krakatoa unleashed hell
pyroclastic mass
obliterated
rampant nature’s destruction
world of deep darkness
a seismic event
magma nightmare no escape
pure devastation...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, dark, death, nature,
Form: Haiku
Un-Famous Last Words
...Those Tommies send their planes in large amounts
They drop their bombs but all they do is bounce
Like rubber balls their bouncy bombs all missed
Those British pilots must be really…
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Categories:
pyroclastic, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
It Is That Look In Your Eyes
...it is that look in your eyes
that commences mine closing
the world disappears
the aroma in your hand
echoes the feel as your shoulder
guiding, powering the arm
the deliverance is in hand
all ...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, i love you, missing
Form: Romanticism
Follow the Fire
...Harken! blasts of thunder
pressurised magma sears
Pyroclastic hearts collapse
a spanner jams the gears
Distended fiery fissures
augur unquantified fears
Cataclysms bring rupture
down pat...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, allusion, love, power,
Form: Monorhyme
Fig Leaf
...at times the soul gets clenched
in an unspeakable grief
in a demoniac grip, it chokes and wriggles
the pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked piece by piece by an axe
tre...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, angst, conflict, depression, lost
Form: Free verse
Am I Free Yet
...The emancipation proclamation of incarceration
has got me defacing public property, with words like
don't shoot, or i can't breathe.
So say can you see by the dawns early blue and
red li...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, america, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Summer Heat
...Summer Heat
Morning melts and dribbles
through the blinds, where it rests
in molten puddles on the floor
If you are very still, you can hear
the tap...tap of its fingers as it tries
to seep u...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, writing,
Form: Blank verse
Mushroom Soup
...Above our heads that cloud
Mushroom shaped death
With a pyroclastic promise
Of incineration leaving
Nothing but our shadows
That we can only hope
Carries upon it no pain
No suffe...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, abuse, corruption, environment, humanity,
Form: Free verse
What I See In the Mirror
...Every morning I stand in front of the bathroom mirror, witness to the decay of my body as time has gained an equal measure of revenge on me. I want to turn away as I wonder how another huge wrinkle c...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, age, body, change, how
Form: Verse
From the Midst of Darkness
...It was in my darkest moments that
I found I wrote my best
Like a volcano my emotions
would explode from the caldera of my soul
Molten nouns, verbs and adjectives
poured forth from somewhere d...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Twisted Reality
...
When I step inside your twisted reality ...
this is what my spiritual eyes see,
your soul revealed in it's totality
A scaly skin of self-serving morality ...
you always ask, what's in it...
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Categories:
pyroclastic, corruption, dark, hate, metaphor,
Form: Verse
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