The Reluctant Prey
...Black grass dances in the warm winter air
And furry quadrupeds run wild with the
Shackles of instinct.
The metallic creature gives spontaneous birth
To bipeds who desire to kill for sport;
Two...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, abuse, allegory, corruption, freedom,
Form: Verse
The Shopping Cart Injustice
...This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the bui...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, environment, history,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 56
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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 56
To what extent can there be room for free will
If what governs is the Principle Yang-Yin
Since the future can largely be told at will
Sinc...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, philosophy, riddle, truth, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Archetype
...The rock has iris rainbow overtones
with pins and needles on our wandering feet
and irradiates flowers and trees that absorb
radio clear and light-dark energies
The hummingbird sucks them...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, animals, philosophy, universe,
Form: Imagism
The Power of Love (Part 5)
...The Fifth Day
Beneath the waters
Creatures grew; finned and mammals
The sea was their habitat
Until some emerge
Out of the water
Some creatures grew big and tall
But with their presence, t...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, animals, life, naturechange,
Form: Choka
Grand Kaleidoscope
...The world's a grand kaleidoscope
comprised of shuffled scenery.
It shares its everlasting grace
as we walk amongst its majesty.
Green geysers sprout from earthen springs
with herbal sh...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, inspirational, nature, peace, sea,
Form: Ballad
The Ride Home
...The melon yellow sun, burns through
the winter forest,
backlighting it in shades of gray and mauve,
causing retinal flashes;
impeding the forward progress of traffic.
Car headlights, string out...
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Categories:
quadrupeds, imaginationwinter, winter,
Form: Personification