On Earth Can Sanity Ever Prevail
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It is really a veritable question of our time,
In fact - of all times,
on this once beautiful
molten rock with sea and sand,
We so avidly call our home
Paradoxical fearlessness
albeit so subl...
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Categories:
recaptures, earth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Remembering
...Peacefully gazing up at the sky
Thinking of my life.
And all that as been
An passed by,
Thankful
To my mother
For every day & night.
She made them
Alright.
Now I miss my
Family.
But I ...
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Categories:
recaptures, hurt, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Remembering
...Peacefully gazing up at the sky
Thinking of my life.
And all that as been
An passed by,
Thankful
To my mother
For every day & night.
She made them
Alright.
Now I miss my
Family.
But I ...
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Categories:
recaptures, hurt, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Imaging
...I see Beauty in black & white
When i close my eyes
My color come back to me
Yet painting a picture
Of none reality
Is different
At da least we have to dread
From man or beast
Only If i can ...
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Categories:
recaptures, allusion, anger, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Sitting On a Bench At the Battery
...sitting on a bench at the battery
listening to forgotten free jazz
on the most perfectly created sunny, blue sky day
fliritng with an older lady
watching her figure in a very comforting amazemen...
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Categories:
recaptures, beautiful, day,
Form: Free verse
Burnel Or Brunellus the Ass
...If two heads are better than one
How much better is three.
For the time has come
When Translators cannot agree.
Nigel wrote the words in Latin script
And much time has passed
With many Lear...
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Categories:
recaptures, animal, political,
Form: Light Verse
Your Spirit To Claim
...The words in the melody
the words on the page
Related but different
the Minstrel and Sage
The music recaptures
what ink only starts
As harmony sings
from an angelic heart
A ph...
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Categories:
recaptures, song,
Form: Rhyme
The Swan
...The ending recaptures,
what my beginning set free
A swan in pure flight,
—wings open and free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...
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Categories:
recaptures, flying,
Form: Ballad
A Conversation In Autumn
...There were silence and stillness in the autumn air
Foliage adorned the trees like fair auburn hair
The stream did not bubble; the pond had no ripples
The garden seemed uninhabited by people
But...
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Categories:
recaptures, autumn, christian, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Me
...my story in a thimble protecting me from the prick of the needle
the mother gave birth to an easy baby at noon in the sweltering heat of Morocco
the lively little girl became a teenager in the gr...
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Categories:
recaptures, cheer up, growing up,
Form: Bio
Smiling Summer Faces
...With the onset of warm temperature
across cultures there’s a celebration;
elsewhere in the village or urban setting,
there’s fun and lovely interaction.
In the neighborhood, there’s a good vision
Wi...
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Categories:
recaptures, faith, family, food, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Once Again
...once again the wind will blow cold
the ice will come with months of snow
that restless feeling fills your soul
where is that place you need to go?
dreams that wrap around your mind
of mountain...
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Categories:
recaptures, introspection,
Form: Monorhyme
Eden
...Thirty years ago
many choices
opportunities
for Eden
Mine failed;
sexually:
push, pull
stop, pop
thrice
no words of love
by mutual agreement –
vacuum unfilled –
a violation of natural ...
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Categories:
recaptures, hope, introspection, love, words,
Form: Free verse
What Power We Speak
...a sibilated soul swiftly flung from two lips embowed, intended to access the
essence of its recipient and grasp on so tightly that when it is recoiled , the
unsettled reviler removes a shred. Now...
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Categories:
recaptures, imagination, on writing and
Form: I do not know?