Seeding Clouds
...
We did not speak of rain;
only the wish that our love
could be again.
The air was bone-dry,
with only the merest glimpse,
of wispy cloud remnants,
in the sky.
But, our thoughts, hopes and...
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Categories:
receptacles, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
...Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.
...
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Categories:
receptacles, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
only when you sing
....
when the glint
snap'n 'gainst it's
host
thoze emeraldz
your pretty boast
...
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Categories:
receptacles, addiction, beautiful, love, song,
Form: Romanticism
Empty Platform
...The subway platform is empty,
posters, the occasional bench
a fire extinguisher in a locked box,
over-stuffed trash receptacles,
the usual graffiti.
No people, the strangers you travel with,
...
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Categories:
receptacles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Triumph
...
In the depths of despair,
where darkness presides,
a glimmer of light triumphs,
where hope softly abides.
Through trials and tribula...
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Categories:
receptacles, art,
Form: Other
The Spaces Between
...No Particle Theory can ever be Unified –
for there is always the space between...the
unknown that separates while binds us
in a matrix of primitive wonder. Dark
Matter is only dark to those accu...
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Categories:
receptacles, creation, imagination, inspiration, light,
Form: Free verse
Above the Tree Line
...Mountains make poor receptacles
for dreams
Oceans are better at that
The elevation reminding of all
that’s forbidden
Primordial—the higher you climb
(Dreamsleep: December, 2019)...
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Categories:
receptacles, mountains,
Form: Free verse
The Purity Wheat Domain
...Hectic red steadfast on earth and anchored fast
Caught in the beginning of the end of working days
To yield a common profit from the land as harvested
On beams of yellow sun light set in motion in...
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Categories:
receptacles, appreciation, image, inspirational, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Be the Blessing You Desire
...Be the blessing in the way people rejoice
When you bless their day
With compassion and empathy in vivid voice
To wipe away rows of sorrow from their lives every Saturday.
Be the blessing in the...
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Categories:
receptacles, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Boys Life
...April 8th 1972
Means more to me than to most of you
it was 46 years ago on a beautiful morn
In the country of Bratwust Is where I was born
My dad was in the Army and my mom tagged along On th...
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Categories:
receptacles, birth, birthday, boy, growing
Form: Rhyme
The Constant Stream
...You keep them to yourself, divergences,
Along the way they sprawl, uncounted,
Retaliations barbed, annulling love,
And darling words with tears confounded.
The hollow echoing chambers of the he...
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Categories:
receptacles, relationship, true love,
Form: Rhyme
Bathroom Graffiti
...There was a man who went out late
And tried to rape a .38
He called women "receptacles"
'Til one blew off his testicles....
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Categories:
receptacles, boyfriend, courage, death, girlfriend,
Form: Quatrain
Among Us
...With a white light that nobody saw
she began to walk
among us.
Watching, listening, observing the flow.
As she saw love she grew brighter
yet still unseen
trod carefully.
A silent advocate,...
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Categories:
receptacles, abuse, angel, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Mourning Path - St Louis Cemetery No 2
...A tattered Calico traverses the crumbling corridor
dissecting a row of dilapidated sacred structures,
each uniquely indistinguishable from the next.
The wind carries an eerie refrain
as it whis...
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Categories:
receptacles, bereavement, death, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Glioblastoma
...Glioblastoma
Glioblastoma - death in disguise
Makes its appearance before we realize
A stealth adversary lurking in the brain
Metastasizes without restrain
A complex enemy
Untrustworthy
Of u...
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Categories:
receptacles, endurance, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
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