My mercurial mind
...Never at rest, ever restive
like shifting sands of the desert,
my mind is
a labyrinth of quagmires and booby traps,
you step on it
and you’ll either be sucked in
or blown to smithereens…
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Categories:
quagmires, confusion,
Form: Free verse
FAITH IN GOD WHO APPEARS TO US BY FAITH TO BUILD OUR LIVES
...May 11 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 3-5
Key Verse – 2Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appear...
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Categories:
quagmires, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Silent Mission
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Glass shattered Saturday afternoon tea for S I L E N C E
holding steady raven momentum for its own r i p p i n g
fire from heartbeat slashes its void to tumble wounds of ...
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Categories:
quagmires, abuse, change, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Ways Of The World
...Shadow black blood floods flow silently wailing in whirlpools
Volcanoes of endless enmity erupt with vengeance.
It's not humanness. Here, the mores of 'might is right' rules
Against routing quagmi...
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Categories:
quagmires, life, world,
Form: Sonnet
Unto Zion
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Unto Zion I go to find my soul
Journeying through Heavenly Abodes,
where the Path is Electric like a Thunder Storm
and True Jerusalem Ascends Forth,
Ever-Upwards where the Sacred Resides
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Categories:
quagmires, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Quagmire
...Marshy, muddy, like the alluvial soil after rains
Slippery, clutching, quaking, and giving way underfoot
Pulling the solitary wayfarers with vein-nerve strains
Pets and cattle, as though sailing o...
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Categories:
quagmires, environment, life, nature, weather,
Form: Sonnet
Silencing Sonance
...Bewildering static
frames the soulless—
restlessly habitual, as
crippled philosophies efflux
amidst stunted swells,
cracked and parched
despite ocean whorls that
coat wayward sentiments, ...
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Categories:
quagmires, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Sighting Through the Crosshairs
...Our Constitution, page-by-page, provides a guide from age-to-age.
As citizens our views consist of strict or loose constructionists.
Yet, we should keep - we can agree - a free, but just, society
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Categories:
quagmires, 12th grade, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Before, Remember
...Before you turn those sacred pages,
And corner me to a sinner's numbness,
And strike the balances as raged sages,
Remember I have touched holiness.
Before you strike similes with a smile,
And ma...
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Categories:
quagmires, 12th grade, allegory, religion,
Form: Rhyme
A Political Diet
...Lives a poet in the United States
Who's sick and tired of insolent ingrates
She went on a diet
And thinks you should try it
It doesn't involve the food on your plates
You're not allowed to tal...
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Categories:
quagmires, humor, political,
Form: Limerick
Deep Beneath the Ocean
...The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal rhythms.
From t...
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Categories:
quagmires, deep, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Ragged
...Ragged
Ragged heartbeats,
Shut in
But not
Shut out,
Tattered heartbreak,
Tragedy
Flung
From high towers
Swooping down in towering tornados
Descending
Ascending from foul marshes...
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Categories:
quagmires, angst, birth, life,
Form: Free verse
The Melancholy and the Pale Machinery Part Iv
...Of pale melancholy
And the infinite fall
Of broken machinery
Cast upon vast shores
Decimation reservation
The prodigal son returns
Jagged reigns of jaded egos
Amber suns stretching upon...
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Categories:
quagmires, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
Watering Gaian Grace
...One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to e...
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Categories:
quagmires, caregiving, community, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
Ink To Paper An Un Quatrainal 19nov17
...On an empty page, my quill
Does not sit to quench
Its thirst to lessen this quandary
To let, nay make, quintessential
Inroads, biding thy quiver
Of lexiconical bolts; queuing
And firing for...
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Categories:
quagmires, inspiration, metaphor, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
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