Categories:
remarking, anger, character, community, culture,
Form: Free verse
Love Poetry a la carte
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I thought:
why not write a love poem,
everyone is doing it,
how hard can it be?
First, I need a woman
(let's not drag my wife into this exercise),
a pet dog or cat perhaps.
Maybe...
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Categories:
remarking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stillness
...I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.
Often I had to issue advisories and wa...
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Categories:
remarking, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
The Sky's Everlasting Spark
...A girl named Sky,
always hoped to fly high.
Her aura was as white as the clouds
and her light could brighten the darkest of clouds.
You could always see her spark,
even in the dark,
The...
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Categories:
remarking, poetry, sky,
Form: Free verse
Moons Chasity
...“The moon’s vision of humanity
Was something that it once desired
Tinkle, swoouf, it pondered
As it’s luminescence gazed at its prodigious oceans
The defunct dissection of the body fell in...
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Categories:
remarking, community, conflict, confusion, discrimination,
Form: Other
Blank Page Syndrome
...Blank page syndrome
feels like full page longing
to be done with some work project
that will not slowly grow worthy
of my time
and certainly no captivated reader.
I feel victimized,
torture...
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Categories:
remarking, beauty, community, extended metaphor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Not Prejudiced But
...I’m in no way prejudiced she said
But that one is white and that one is mixed
Skin color prominent in her head
Always remarking on it; her mind fixed...
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Categories:
remarking, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Run
...The wind blows Morning's breath into your wake...
A dragonfly speeds past, a flash of color
To show that spring's advance guards are awake
A rhythm of steps, flurries of flakes,
And all's in ...
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Categories:
remarking, longing, love, morning,
Form: Free verse
I Am
...
You walk beside me through the streets
Forever remarking on my birds and bees
Sensing my presence, though fleeting
Hoping to know me but never reaching
Out to grasp the hand that holds ...
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Categories:
remarking, blessing, faith, god, hope,
Form: Personification
To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung Heroes
...To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and...
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Categories:
remarking, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
...The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the on...
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Categories:
remarking, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Not As Old As I Look
...I find as I grow older…as I watch the world unfold
despite losing hair and gaining wrinkles…I don’t often feel old.
Oh sure I know there were skills I had when I was young that I somehow today la...
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Categories:
remarking, age, humorous,
Form: Verse
Finding Equilibrium Through the Depths of Solitude
...Socially unorganized, I place critics down a size
Standing with preferred confidence gave me insight
Partially adapted from the root of fear
I sometimes hear my inner voice remarking that my time ...
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Categories:
remarking, imagery, light, missing, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Help a Hob - Part 1
...There "he" stood in front of me, the deep forest behind him framing
His ancient face like an emerald halo, the growing dark of dusk getting
Deeper by the moment. He was no more than two-and-a-half ...
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Categories:
remarking, adventure, mystery, myth, mythology,
Form: Free verse
A Night of Elegance
...The night has come, and the elegance begins.
Everyone arrives, dressed in their finest;
Some who resemble royalty waltz in,
Many people remarking to them, "your highness."
They gather around to...
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Categories:
remarking, adventure, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: ABC
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