Thru-Hiker
...I wanted to find myself, so I got lost in the woods,
Turns out life’s easier without all the shoulds.
The rhythm of steps was a meditation
Twelve hours a day in God’s lovely creation.
Even ...
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Categories:
rebar, america, journey, nature,
Form: Lyric
Crunck and Jost
...The groom will keep his name
whilst she will change hers
to his. We talked over these things
as we constructed a home
that would become home to the new couple.
Some laughed when they asked us
t...
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Categories:
rebar, business, creation, culture,
Form: Ballad
Sacred Ground
...What I know
to be true,
the proven facts,
sit like anchored stones
in a wild river.
Here, my steps
are certain, placed firm
on a familiar stone.
Other times I tread
with faith, a fashione...
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Categories:
rebar, faith, spiritual, trust,
Form: Free verse
What Is a Free Verse Poem
...Mostly it's just gluing bones together
ones found in a well furrowed field
a scattering of empty joints,
undetectable until tripped over.
An iron-age rebar
can be dug for
it will girder one s...
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Categories:
rebar, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Acoustic Buffa
...The company wishes to research an idea.
Creating slotted aluminium frames that
Would be 18 inches thick centered between
Two areas.the external area would be double
slotted to house a poly ther...
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Categories:
rebar, america, art, business, celebrity,
Form: Blank verse
All Hallows' Eve
...It is the only time we get to laugh at black
So de rigeur at funerals and stogy old photography.
Take Dixie Land at home in New Orleans
Parading back of happy brass from marble sculpted sepulchers...
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Categories:
rebar, anxiety, celebration, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
Painful ******** 911 Call
...litany of the Church of the Ecstatic Coma
love shouldn't be a pile of rags
I was playing pinkie dinkie
with next door Suzie Woozy
her father was CIA a spy catcher
with a big spy catcher mitt
t...
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Categories:
rebar, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
No U Turn
...just a tad
bit little
late but
still in
a way
migrating
my grating
worked on
work nerves
are severed
several even
oddly have died
being cut off
and left
right
where they were
i...
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Categories:
rebar, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Flying Down Interstate 5
...Redding Poem 4
“Flying Down Interstate 5”
We departed Redding at 3:45,
In the dead of an October night.
Those tumultuous streets were morgues then,
As we raced to the deserted Interstate 5,
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Categories:
rebar, travel,
Form: Free verse
Catholic
...Catholic
Stern but saintly Father Meissen
scolded the parents for not having
their baby boy baptized sooner.
It was April, 1952,
inside the stained-glassed catholic church,
ensconced on su...
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Categories:
rebar, abuse,
Form: I do not know?
Claustrophobia Competes To Thai Up Thy Psyche
...Alacrity bespeaks entangled, entombed,
and entrapped Thai soccer team
diminishing strength barely allows,
but a whispered scream,
which rescue against all odds
(plucked out cave...
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Categories:
rebar, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epic
A Concrete Idea a Concrete World
...Gray clouds open for business at five
Pour out concrete with rebar rusted
Along with asphalt for a nice touch
Steel never felt so good under construction
Building a better tomorrow on solid noth...
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Categories:
rebar, business, conflict, crush, endurance,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Little Laughter Five Liter Laugh Fived Break Bread
...A LITTLE LAUGHTER FIVE
Betty bring venom
Curly bimbo lemon thigh
Rogue queen Jacky Denim
Vague swoon droll, droll, untie
Ninja gnome Rebar watch
Makes ramen bacon olive sushi pizza
Spo...
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Categories:
rebar, appreciation, dance, engagement, food,
Form: Free verse
The Indivisible Divide
...tension between
this singular male offspring and me dad
proved more ineradicable
then tensile strengthened steel rebar
which wall veritably, unequivocally,
terribly outlived purposefulness, egad...
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Categories:
rebar, angst, bereavement, conflict, dad,
Form: I do not know?
In City
...I still walk your streets
for the untended curb,
the flattened can,
the half-opened shade.
I am in the dark,
unspilled light,
uninspected.
I am caught
in the city of cautious...
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Categories:
rebar, humanity,
Form: Free verse
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