Conscience
...This war, with allies unified
(reminds of German genocide),
leaves mandates, empty, purified,
(as human flesh is nullified),
enticing persons (pale, blue eyed,...
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Categories:
rarified, dark, evil, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Love Lane Collab with RobertG
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Categories:
rarified, cheer up, friendship love,
Form: Haibun
Journey of Love
...How does love travel...
Like a huge E-M pulse ?
Is it planned or more spontaneous,
Like a simple impulse ?
Can it search throughout the heavens,
For its like-minded mate ?
Or does...
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Categories:
rarified, love,
Form: Rhyme
Ether
...Darkness.
Drip.
Not absence,
but a rarified vastness
thick with hush,
like a cavern
carved behind my eyes.
Drip.
Drip.
Somewhere, water—
not seen,
just heard,
each dr...
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Categories:
rarified, 2nd grade, childhood, color,
Form: Free verse
DE WEF-ONISING, ZONE'
...Dee clubb of davos, meets twice a year.' Un saintly rules to
Tank' that stinks.. From here.' Like vegetation to long underwater.' Slime and stench creeping 'over the borders'
A land pristine of 'wh...
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Categories:
rarified, abuse, appreciation, betrayal, character,
Form: Rhyme
Joyful Jumping
...Joyful jumping, oh so jolly,
try it in a tram or trolley
Jiggle, juggle, Jane's tamale,
a laugh, a lark, fine, fun folly.
Happy, hopping, silly stomping,
rarified and risky romping,
bouncing...
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Categories:
rarified, silly,
Form: Alliteration
Mole
...Velvety earthmover, pink spades for paws,
mining for wriggles and nibbles.
You dig, delve and shovel,
breaststroke, through the soil,
a subterranean swimmer,
seeking a trapped sunlight
in the...
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Categories:
rarified, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reading a Poetry Book
...Time surfs over one page after another.
I wonder about the interludes,
the growth or decline of lesser or greater.
A few pages
stand out, creating pinnacles of inspiration,
that rise far beyon...
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Categories:
rarified, poetry,
Form: Free verse
70 and the new me
...New Year's DAY 2024
I woke up this morning to find I am now ten plus three score,
With thoughts galore,
About this being a false score,
And wondering what is in store,
Now that 70 is the new me ...
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Categories:
rarified, adventure, age, blessing, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Moments
...There are moments in life,
That decide whether we seize the day,
Or just hope the lights are still working when the night comes.
We know know the lights are very dim indeed,
And fear may well k...
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Categories:
rarified, age, care, character, christian,
Form: Carpe Diem
Wicked Queen, Her Darkness Hidden Behind Her Veil
...Wicked Queen, Her Darkness Hidden Behind Her Veil
Vacancy of high upper air, rarified ghosted hearts too.
Of frosted heathens in place, none are wearing mad hatter shoes.
Yet in her beauty she...
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Categories:
rarified, art, beautiful, dark, death,
Form: Sonnet
Rigorous Sphincter Ani Externus Muscle Workout
...Rigorous sphincter ani externus muscle workout
Amidst the rubble strewn landscape ruins
courtesy healthy helping of prunes
linkedin to derrière issuing
melodious flatulence classical tunes,
yo...
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Categories:
rarified, 12th grade, absence, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
If I Could Turn Back Time
...If I could turn back time
By Michelle Morris
11/12/2022
Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye
I never knew it, I focused on your lies
Caught up in the moments; those rarified, joyou...
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Categories:
rarified, betrayal, heart, heartbreak, love,
Form: Lyric
Assumptions
...There are certain deleterious effects
consequential developments and
conditional signs and symptoms
of being called-out, named, accused, or branded
of being, ever so slightly, a poet.
People m...
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Categories:
rarified, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Winter Love
...Anxiously waiting autumn's end
Will welcome winter with open arms
When all cobwebs are swept away
With air rarified and pure
Each breath inhaled a cold delight.
Ocean turbulence on gre...
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Categories:
rarified, seasons, winter,
Form: Free verse
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