Personal History
...Everyone is significant in their own perception.
For the eyes recollects life experiences and
Life’s history about one’s inner enlightenment of personal
recollective of one’s true character of on...
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Categories:
recollects, birth, celebration, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Purple Pansies
...Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire
smokestacks, waffles, pansies, people,
and purple sunsets.
Carl Sandburg
PURPLE PANSIES
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Categories:
recollects, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Negative People Criticize
..."Criticizing others is akin to criticizing God"
"Moment we are critical of our critic we become a critic"
Quote by Author
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Words pierce the soft heart, ...
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Categories:
recollects, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Halting By
...You, stirring me in the head
Like a warm current
Flowing With the glimmering light
I, seeing the passers-by
Hurrying to and fro
Along different roads
You and I, coming across
As fas...
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Categories:
recollects, 1st grade, assonance, blessing,
Form: Verse
Spirit Born Out of Despair
...Disappointed she bends on her knees
Ears shut, not to catch his brutal words anymore
Spilling her painful tears on the floor
Desperately prays for her dilemma to freeze!
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Categories:
recollects, betrayal, dark, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Survivor
...Words hang from rafters in cobwebs of silence
The candle flickers on a window sill in pain
Locks with no keys stare into closed chapters
The poet’s unhinged mind holds its threshold
Floor...
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Categories:
recollects, courage,
Form: Free verse
Soul Impressions
...I find myself, circling
An area I was certain,
Had been filled, long ago
Years of healing
Forgiving, walking on
With LOVE, into places I'd never go
....alone
I mean....there are things to b...
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Categories:
recollects, trust,
Form: Free verse
Implicit Memories
...That regretful half-cracked smile,
That "Guess I'll see you in a while ..."
The way you tip your hat and nod your head,
Conveys all the things we left unsaid.
And just like that your at the door....
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Categories:
recollects, love hurts,
Form: I do not know?
Zeal Is Contagious
...“The park’s the bestest place I know.
I hope you’ll take me there today.”
Four-year-old Bud would get his way.
His Papa also likes to go
to watch the lively children play.
Bud rushed right to ...
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Categories:
recollects, childhood, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Self Talk
...The blindfold slips away under currents of corrosive tears
Shadows line myopic eyes in blistering haze
Cataracts melt sightless accusations and brooding incisions
A flickering candle waxes...
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Categories:
recollects, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Free verse
A Moment's Worth of Being
...Situation
Switch off mind’s clutter and swish with your soluble soul
Seize the second swirl away seizure’s silent convulsions
Sequence sequesters surpass surreptitious soliloquies
Resistance
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Categories:
recollects, celebration,
Form: Alliteration
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I
...Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
(situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary ...
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Categories:
recollects, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form: Free verse
Choose
...A wise man does not forget his past doings
He recollects them for future undoings
He grabs them with his tight fist and shouts of how he went through them all
Totally he does not allow them to cau...
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Categories:
recollects, today, trust, wisdom, words,
Form: Ode
Garden and the Bees
...Beauty sets in my wide open eyes
The skies radiance of hue becomes me
I am a flower - I bloom
Colorful flowers transpire in the mind
The troubled rain nourishes in doom
In the beauteous gardens ...
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Categories:
recollects, flower, sunshine,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Water
...I’m water flowing back in time
The past is everything you know about me
My purity reflected on their facial features
Only strangers meet me in the future
In the flow of tears at heartbreak
In...
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Categories:
recollects, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
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