Old Barn Seen from a Speeding Car
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The Chevy speeds by
eyesight pings it,
a reflexive vision
momentarily catches itself
looking back.
The barn is vacant, not empty,
its eyes have been locked open,
it bathes in sparrow and b...
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Categories:
reflexive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
December 2
...The wind moves and swirls
in love to and fro
already it is morning
the cock crows and the world
standing still and stirring
if one look at horizon and the sky are all hither
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Categories:
reflexive, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Into the Void
...More vacuous verse to the void:
abysmal, of meaning devoid.
A reflexive spasm
sends more to the chasm
where anemic arts are destroyed.
Escaping, strange thoughts from my head
go written but l...
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Categories:
reflexive, writing,
Form: Limerick
bistro
...Peter (my bf) and I were in Paris, about three weeks ago (I was on Spring break, he was on vacation from work).
‘Headstart for Happiness,’ by ‘the Style Council,’ was playing low somewhere.
“This i...
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Categories:
reflexive, boyfriend, humor, paris, student,
Form: Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories:
reflexive, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
How Much Vengeance Is Enough?
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How Much Vengeance Is Enough?
By Mark D. Stucky
How much bloody carnage and rubble
is required to atone for sins of a few?
How many eyes must be gouged
to extract des...
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Categories:
reflexive, conflict, forgiveness, hate, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Abstraction a Freed Verse
...ASTRACTION
unpredictable
intersecting lines
swaths of colour
added
by a chance
autonomous
process
reflexive
echoing
intensive
to coincide
in response...
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Categories:
reflexive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Wrong Mirror
...You start by trying to ignore yourself.
This is reflexive.
Ego always wants you look into the wrong mirror.
Later you find out you can't,
you're just too forking obvious.
So you come up with ...
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Categories:
reflexive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ratiocination Reversal
...Is life itself merely a matter of perspective?
Does cogitation dwarf the poet's reflexive?
If only my words could spread across the paper.
Build a punter world faded from a barren tape...
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Categories:
reflexive, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
...Ronald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rap...
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Categories:
reflexive, 12th grade, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Guns
...You do not own a gun...
that gun owns you;
always aware of its
whereabouts, and what that
gun can do. To be effective, its
use must be reflexive, no sympathy
for the receiving end.... It is a
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Categories:
reflexive, conflict, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Accommodations
...ACCOMMODATIONS
measure
the
sprawl
in
alternating
patterns
in
unvarying
regularity
a
common
structure
reinvented
& aligned
in
the
self-reflexive
spatial
&
temporal
in
intense
...
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Categories:
reflexive, poetry,
Form: Other
I Was a Will Smith Fan Once
...I love the way the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences let Will Smith sit there, for 40 minutes, preening in the front row, in plain sight, after he assaulted a black man at the Oscars.
I...
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Categories:
reflexive, success, teen, violence,
Form: Free verse
A Razor Reflects
...Razored shards
Sharp metal gleam white covered in silvery chrome
hard long mean a razor blade brilliant and keen
Reflexive in thought slashing through fresh
It flashes a brilliant spark,
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Categories:
reflexive, abortion, adventure, allegory, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Post Hoc Palava
...A thousand words later
we’re still talking.
I know I’m being reflexive,
this banter a transparent way
to paint clowns on speech bubbles;
ripostes that ricochet off any real wit.
Later...
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Categories:
reflexive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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