Aether Defends
...Anticipation ends
as creation begins
Before chasing the words
you must first know the wind
Direction predestined
on zephyrs ordained
Each gust but a phrasing
of verse unproclaimed
A breeze...
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Categories:
regale, wind, words,
Form: Rhyme
How Far We Fall
...The sun has gone to rest my babes
I give you this last tale
If only you will sleep my dears
For you will I regale
There was a man of great esteem
In wild woods afar
No one knew his given...
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Categories:
regale, anger, christian, corruption, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Soundbites: 5-31-2025
...Self-Owned
Remember
the day
you became entitled
to yourself
No debts to pay
no last charade
the circle closed
— indwelt
(Dreamsleep: May, 2025)
Reflection
Do we just recall
a ...
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Categories:
regale, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Chukar Plucker
...
On a recent trip I was gone
but not for long
to Eastern Oregon
where I saw my first chukar
(a partridge-like bird pronounced 'chucker')
which in time
compelled me to analyse
and revi...
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Categories:
regale, bird, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers
...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...
with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences...
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Categories:
regale, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme
Spring also known as vernal equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
...Spring (also known as vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
at 5:01?AM in Northern Hemisphere
out of hibernation,
sans mancave, I will climb
eastern standard time,
when calendrical, celesti...
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Categories:
regale, adventure, beautiful, bird, birth,
Form: Free verse
The Loves of My Life
...Strangers wander about outside my window glass (gift daydreams to hurry along my time clocked in)
Roomie erupts into our pod post-trek home (every 4:57pm, I – a dog – wonder at her return)
Dad...
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Categories:
regale, conflict, endurance, how i
Form: Free verse
If I Could Write the Perfect Poem
...If I could write the perfect poem
I’d write it high above,
The stars would be my letters
And the first word would be love.
Love because it brought me here
And has never let me down,
Despite...
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Categories:
regale, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly...
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Categories:
regale, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze
..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.
Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.
Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...
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Categories:
regale, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Midnight Hunters from The Black and Blue Lodge
...
(A sad lone voice whispers)
My old love
Loved shaking her crow blacked hair
As old daydreams tumbled around her
Like autumn leaves in the air
On any given day or night
Dreams of d...
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Categories:
regale, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Red Shoes
...In a whimsical world of witty wonder,
Where laughter lingers, lost not in thunder,
There danced a dandy with a dapper flair,
Sporting red shoes, a vivid vision, rare.
He pranced in patterns,...
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Categories:
regale, dance, funny, humorous, red,
Form: Alliteration
The Poetry Club
...He enters looking bedraggled, tired and worn out, his skin like Vellum, blank and pale. Lifting his eyes to catch their gaze he gives a slight nod to acknowledge their presence. He scans the room as ...
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Categories:
regale, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Blind and Disabled
...In the land of Damascus, in 1889,
A photo taken, of a friendship so fine.
The subject of which, were two remarkable men,
There's a lot we could learn, from listening to them.
Very different fel...
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Categories:
regale, best friend, care, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop
...Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop
My humble apology
for inducing thee
to manure yourself
thru figurative following poop,
best flushed down the toilet
of the b...
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Categories:
regale, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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