Mellow Joe
...Most people notice my sunny disposition,
one that can cause blindness & irreparable skin damage.
They remark on the fact that all of my poetry
is so cheerful and positive,
wonder how a person ...
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Categories:
reclusion, 12th grade, character, cheer
Form: Free verse
Paranoid Infusion
...social reclusion
self inflicted exclusion
all by delusion
conspiracy profusion
~ there is no jab collusion ~
By
David Kavanagh...
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Categories:
reclusion, allusion, health, humanity,
Form: Tanka
My Friend Hope
...I have a friend whose name is HOPE, who years ago lost his way.
Not only had he disappeared physically, but he was also going astray. ...
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Categories:
reclusion, america, hope,
Form: Narrative
Is the Search Over
...I’m a man of many theories
based on life and death alone,
With my human head buried
intrinsically in the ground,
A limited lack of imagination
stymied by reason I’ve found.
If I’m to find...
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Categories:
reclusion, change, creation, death, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Back
...Looking back
curiously acquiescent
in 4th floor chaos
Looking through these
dresser drawers of
sleepy underclothing
Retrospective shirts
and tiresome socks,
these sheaths of self
more co...
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Categories:
reclusion, absence, loneliness, lonely, me,
Form: Free verse
Until Death Does Part
...When trouble finds my place in time
I stick to rhythm meter rhyme
The planet wobbles out of kilter
Poetry is my lens reflection filter
As virus sheds its ugly eerie mask's persona
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Categories:
reclusion, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Domus Hereticorum
...To you my quondam friend!
I made myself a heretic through the sacrament
Of unearthed and burnt,
Through the enforcement of raucous,
And above all, the magn...
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Categories:
reclusion, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Burning Bridges
...There was a time with raging blaze
when suspension lost track
in bad faith and delusion
and bridges burnt ahead
Cold it was des...
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Categories:
reclusion, love,
Form: Free verse
Oh My God
...Oh My God
You can do it alone Sissy don’t be a ‘sour puss’
All that rolling a stone uphill is best done in utter
~ Reclusion ~
Oh Godot all that waiting and never to come
Almost there an...
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Categories:
reclusion, courage, destiny, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Fate's Rainy Rebirth
...The rain pelted around me and washed away my purity
Leaving me bared, exposed in my femininity
Now, instead of puzzling over my reclusion,
The whole world shall gape at my vulnerability!
Why, ...
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Categories:
reclusion, longing, love, rain,
Form: Rubaiyat
Power of Journeys
...Power of Journeys
New horizons speak in hope and pull me to Pablo Neruda’s country
‘Twenty poems of love’ inspired by Santiago Robinson Crusoe Island
Serene landscapes volcano...
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Categories:
reclusion, love, travel,
Form: Rhyme
When It Is Winter
...When It Is Winter
Whence from shine the seasons to whom and to where
High on snow peaked mountains sits the Buddha under a fir tree
Exalted warm in the glow of change and stillness he mediat...
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Categories:
reclusion, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
''A Few Quiet Hours''
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A few quiet hours of solitude, detached from life by choice,
Apart and withdrawn from humanity - the world;
Solitude, tranquility - O, sweet the peace and quiet,
In this sel...
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Categories:
reclusion, art, poetry, poets, solitude,
Form: Verse
Enigmatic Lane
...Enigmatic Lane
This enigmatic lane-
I’ve walked long.
And now I see
Only barren lands,
A mere setting sun,
And a vague horizon.
I turn to look back
Along this enigmatic lane.
And then I see
Those u...
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Categories:
reclusion, adventure, autumn, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
Prayer
..."...Dominus orationem meam suscepit."
Burning his little jelly bottom raw,
He blisters in his liquid greenish poop.
He has no means to summon us at all
To drain the acid swamp of split pea soup.
E...
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Categories:
reclusion, religion,
Form: Ottava rima
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