London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...
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Categories:
regents, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
High Rise Legends
...London growls under the tread
of diesel driven dreams.
A stork visits,
an attic full of discarded toys.
White mice sleep in pajamas,
made of childish nightmares.
Barges reek still, just as ...
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Categories:
regents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Duffel Coats
...He had a duffel coat once,
so did she. They must have looked
well-matched
walking in Regents Park
that Autumn.
In time
the coat shop on Oxford Street
died of old age.
Duffel went out of sty...
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Categories:
regents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hands Of All That IS AT Hand
...
Angel, so gentle a messenger a rescuer,
comfort to Men and Woman and our children,
you have their eye, you have always had our
attention, intentions in the back of our minds...
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Categories:
regents, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Incisors
...For the Beauty Pageant
Her selling front teeth,
Whose absence is a myth
For a smile with intent,
Yoga is the breath
While you bare their breadth
Their extraction kills the sweet
In ind...
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Categories:
regents, analogy, beautiful, desire, evil,
Form: Rhyme
A Fractured View
...Swans row the sky
just feet above the copper water.
Gulls twist their necks to watch
a lone sailor on the prow
of a sludge-decked dredger.
On the slate thatched gambrels
of a lesser known ro...
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Categories:
regents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
House For Sale-
...Parameters fulfilled
Ghosting geography
Repeating a new regents
Costal environment
Land-grant treatment
and how I am today ... house for sale
11/15/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr 2...
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Categories:
regents, analogy, house,
Form: Light Verse
The Day the Aardvark Died
...The Day The Aardvark Died Christmas 2017
The day the aardvark died
they wept down London zoo
some danced in Jerusalem
cardinals Christians orthodox Jew
The day the aardvark died
I heard the...
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Categories:
regents, bereavement, happy birthday,
Form: Rhyme
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:
regents, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form: Free verse
Caught By the Word
...People of
Reposition
Men of
Calm
Islands of
Immunity
Centuries
Palm
Keepers of
Kingdoms
Regents of
Sight
Pilgrims of
Pugilance
Nomads
Delight
Seekers of
Solitude
F...
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Categories:
regents, words,
Form: Rhyme
Ramsay Roe
...I am Flight Sgt Ramsay Roe, and my memories have faded,
Of my experiences in Burma, and their chronological order,
But into my memory’s deep recesses i have dug and waded,
Although the exact s...
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Categories:
regents, courage, hero, history, political,
Form: Quatrain
75 Preakness
...The fingered clouds beckoned forth,
And remnant regents came,
I being under scraggly force
Said " Let us begin the game."
Then lined them up and tally hoed,
(With garden on the side,)
"You ca...
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Categories:
regents, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Samael's Visit
...1.09.2008
Samael's* visit
"Please, do not scream",
He gently said
And pressed his hand
Upon my lips -
And I could sence
The bliss of death
Close by my searching
Fingertips
"Please, do ...
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Categories:
regents, death, faith, life
Form: I do not know?
A Note To the Young Girl On the Other Side of This World
...Hello, Farrah....
It's 7Am here, and cold
Just awoke, with,
Oh, Here We Go Again!
Fever, Pain, Confusion,
And Lots of Other Groovy Things
To Keep My Mind Busy...
Many more people know of you
...
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Categories:
regents, adventure, angst, childhood, education,
Form: Bio
Pseudomorph
...I get a kick outta the writes I see,
So intellectual, how can that be?
I skipped two grades,
Was forced to take IQ tests again,
Cause no one as dumb as me,
Could possibly produce such a score, y...
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Categories:
regents, depression, funny, happiness, health,
Form: Bio
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