Layer cake of time
...Touching time, towering, vast
Time stands high in grand relief.
Layered stories trace the past,
Etched in stone, stark and brief
As I wander through a layered cake of time.
Guarding the desert,...
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Categories:
reclaims, earth, metaphor, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy...
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Categories:
reclaims, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In the Shadow's of a Narcissist
...In gilded chains, he wandered blind,
Love's cruel mirror, the heart entwined.
Seven years, a dance of pain,
Her laughter echoed, a siren’s bane.
Red flags waved a storm in disguise,
Yet in the...
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Categories:
reclaims, divorce, heartbreak, hurt, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Trolls, Bots and Spidered Webs
...Through false truth, the Rus reclaims hegemony,
Farming trolls to be enrolled,
'Neath bridges, clowns, see enemies,
Puking riddles on those tolled.
Then the bots deliver the hurl,
Regurgitate...
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Categories:
reclaims, allusion, america, corruption, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
The Equality of Death
...no crown endures, no throne remains,
Death levels all, in silent chains.
Immortal dreams, mortal frail,
In shadow's grasp, all faces pale.
A king may rule with gilded might,
Yet he, too, fades...
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Categories:
reclaims, death, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Dead Things
...What can I say
I dream about dead things
Skeletons in my closet
Hanging on hangers with names of people I no longer know
They whisper remnants of the past
Of times that were filled with laughter...
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Categories:
reclaims, extended metaphor, i am,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of Circumlocution
...In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
t...
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Categories:
reclaims, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
Giggle girl
...In the neon glow of the midnight skies,
She dances through dreams, where her spirit flies,
In her deepest fantasies, she finds her spark,
Unlocking the secrets that dance in the dark.
She...
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Categories:
reclaims, body, change, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Meadow of Pure Expression
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Written: January 03, 2025
___________________________
What we love,
we’re bound to fear,
Caught in the gloom current of our making.
How else could...
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Categories:
reclaims, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Drill, Baby, Drill
...In shadows cast by golden towers
Trump reclaims the stage once more
"Drill, Baby, Drill," the nation's power
© daniel miltz...
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Categories:
reclaims, political,
Form: Free verse
She's a Queen
...She is a Queen; she doesn’t need a king to reign.
Your absence was meant to shatter her world,
But you forgot—she builds empires from the ruins.
You thought you were playing her like a game of che...
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Categories:
reclaims, absence, betrayal, confidence, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Bone Beach
...Sarcophagus emptied onto white sand.
Knucklebones tossed, like dice, with soul case smarts.
Where she’d end up, this burial unplanned.
Like grinding down teeth, time reclaims cast parts.
Connec...
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Categories:
reclaims, fear, imagery,
Form: Terza Rima
The matrix
...We chose to enter trance in this lucid dream
and then mistaken that we are body-mind,
we nurtured dark desires that caused fears to stream,
as swirling thought forms that gripped us in a bind.
We...
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Categories:
reclaims, desire, dream, freedom, joy,
Form: Rispetto
Warrior of strength
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Warrior of Strength
Dealt a hand from the heavens, steeped in shadows’ embrace,
A warrior born from the ashes, a heart marked but not erased.
In the quiet corners of childhood, where innocen...
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Categories:
reclaims, absence, abuse, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Oppression
...A gilded cage, a silken thread,
A promise whispered, soon misled.
They say they serve; they say they lead,
But shadows lengthen, freedom bleeds.
Their laws, a net, so fine, so tight,
Const...
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Categories:
reclaims, america, world,
Form: Rhyme
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