The Meandering Neanderthal
...In his heart is burning aggression
And violence is his lifelong confession
And sure he might wear nice shoes and a tie
But that's a masquerade mask to suit the lie
A barbarian in heart and mind
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Categories:
quelling, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Anonymity
...Authors of the scriptures remain unknown,
wisdom penned handed down from the ages,
pointing out the way each must walk alone,
escaping illusionary cages
and quelling fire that within heart rages....
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Categories:
quelling, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
To Ponder or Not to Ponder
...To ponder or not to ponder - that is the question.
Is it a waste of my precious seconds, minutes, hours
To dwell on the questions that plague my mind?
I spend my waking and waning hours mulling an...
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Categories:
quelling, 11th grade, conflict, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Breathe You In: 300
...As the ethereal guitar mesmerises
My soul responds
As if I dipped into a melodic bath
Of perfectly curated
Lovingly tempered
Heart massaging
Candle flickering
Water
A fragrant tune invad...
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Categories:
quelling, blessing, dream, guitar, happy,
Form: Free verse
Gates Shut, Game Closed!
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The gate creaked, moaning and groaning to shut,
Sealing up, quelling, the bickering blame-game glut.
No you can’t sneak around, and jump the fence,
With grave looting cries of g...
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Categories:
quelling, angst, anxiety, farewell, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Tells and Trails of War
...All the calamities are meant to
quiet noisy minds asking too
many questions
The signs of angst & friction
is an attempt to rub us
the wrong way quelling
what our minds have to say
In these day...
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Categories:
quelling, perspective, philosophy, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
The direct path
...In the void soul takes a consciousness leap
but to get there we must leave mind behind,
whence in staid stillness thus, we go in deep,
becoming over time, divine aligned.
Love the litmus test for...
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Categories:
quelling, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
SPECIAL SON'S FREEDOM
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Gripped with freedom gear
Driving well, sans fear
Our son whirls in joyous spree
Quelling my heart’s shout
Smiting mother's doubt...
He champions victor’s glee!
In special wheelc...
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Categories:
quelling, appreciation, blessing, child, christian,
Form: Rhyme
POWER IN THE TONGUE
...A petite yet sinewy muscle, exuding charisma,
A citadel of expression, tenacious in awe.
Its tentacles sting with a vindictive jest,
While cavernous blooms cradle the nectar’s quest.
Cobblest...
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Categories:
quelling, power,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer For the Uppermost
...Queen of Heaven,
Lady of Solitude,
Sovereign of the Universe,
Opener of the Way,
Mistress of Angels,
Hail, O Builder of the Universe,
Graceful mysterious rose,
Refuge from despair,
Gate of ...
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Categories:
quelling, allegory, gender, light, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Gift of Recovery
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A black cloud envelops my sky
Threatening to rain down a torrent of pain
Oceans of commotion swirl in my brain
And I try to bandage the wounds in vain
I see only the receding vist...
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Categories:
quelling, angst, growth, hope, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
My oblivious eye
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Here on the cusp of all things, is where I succumb
Ceding my stuff blindly, toward oblivion and none
Unwilling to persevere, without a modicum of fun
Listing in perpetual stasis, til the spas...
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Categories:
quelling, deep, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
ev...
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Categories:
quelling, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BESTOWS US OUR DELIGHT IN HIM
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June 6 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 22-24
Key Verse – Job 22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
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Categories:
quelling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
QUIESCENT
..."The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." Psalm 34:18 of King James Bible
Quiet moments with God
Quench spiritual thirst
Qu...
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Categories:
quelling, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Pleiades
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