The Last Supper
...Darkness has pressed up against our lattice windows. Classes start again in the morning. I’m being reabsorbed by college life. I’m a planner. I’ve been going over my syllabuses, repacking my bookbag,...
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Categories:
rechecking, class, community, friendship, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Cat Woman
...They never solved the murder.
Though the crazy woman at number nine said it was the husband.
This was ruled out in the early stages of the investigation.
At some point, they did talk to the ...
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Categories:
rechecking, cat, death, murder,
Form: Free verse
Capitalization and Punctuation
...Capitalization and punctuation are automatic to me.
It is what I was taught years ago, and I cannot break the habit.
Haiku is difficult for others insist on no apostrophes or caps.
It is difficult...
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Categories:
rechecking, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Rejection Slips 1
...Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here ar...
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Categories:
rechecking, day, love, memory, night,
Form: Rhyme
Dmv
...In the parking lot of the DMV
I watch the privileged
and the not so,
come and go.
They come in "Beemers"
and rattle clank clunkers,
desperate to join,
or rejoin,
the lemming like hordes
of...
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Categories:
rechecking, allegory,
Form: Free verse
I Have a Cold
...According to Doctor Google, I am actually dying.
With the symptoms I have, surely it can't be lying.
I'm living on borrowed time, I really should be dead.
My head is so dense, I look like Mr Potat...
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Categories:
rechecking, health, light, sick, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes
...SOMETIMES
Sometimes, we keep on doubting
We keep on asking
We keep on checking
And, keep on doubly pondering.
And, sometimes we become impatient
We become suspicious
We become partial, and...
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Categories:
rechecking, love,
Form: Free verse