into darkness
...
here, beyond the realm of air
I've given what this job remands
for everything I've e'er held dear
my closest friend, the 1st, is near
but with a glass between our ...
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Categories:
remands, adventure, analogy, friendship, science
Form: Rhyme
Helpmate
...She's always there when needed.
She's at their beck and call;
But if she should need a hand,
No one's free at all.
When someone's down she's always there.
She's just a call away.
A cheery smi...
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Categories:
remands, family, mother,
Form: Rhyme
A Year Ago
...About a year ago,
as the COVID pandemic
seemed to subside,
then swell,
happily ebb
and yet impatiently flow
Again,
about a year ago
I was noticing cold autumn nights
bringing first frost
...
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Categories:
remands, appreciation, community, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
King of Kings: 1-90
...1 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees ...
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Categories:
remands, metaphor, , western,
Form: Epic
Into Darkness - Star Trek
...Here, beyond the realm of air
I've given what this job remands
For everything I've e'er held dear
My closest friend, the 1st, is near
But with a glass between ou...
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Categories:
remands, adventure, film, friendship, science
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Beguiled
...You home for a holiday,
belly gorged on favorites,
soft couch cradling like a mother's arms. . .
since you grew up,
shed child skin,
thin facial hair shading jaw,
even when days were...
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Categories:
remands, death, memory, son,
Form: Free verse
Awaiting Sands
...Tumultuous thoughts
mired in mind
borne in haste and wilt
oft trouble their way
with heavy stray
anxious in silence
risk the words unsaid
unlike other words
in tender song
when rhythm and...
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Categories:
remands, words,
Form: I do not know?