Riyadh is a Quiet Knife
...The sun here burns without speaking.
In *Sta. Magdalena, even the wind gossips,
even the silence sits beside you
and calls you **"padaba."
But Riyadh?
Riyadh listens too much.
And when I spea...
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Categories:
remittance, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Mountain in the Sea
...I have been waiting patiently for thee
to take me across the mountain in the sea
the mountain is getting high
it almost reaches the pinnacle in the sky
you must get here before the vision dies
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Categories:
remittance, america, best friend, business,
Form: Free verse
Television News Reporter
...Cinnabar remittance ailerons squall federal cobblestones. Lank alpine squint modest. Nectarine grimace, cloys toothsome.
Coiffure chain rod composure anemic, primogeniture Swedish cotton murk optics...
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Categories:
remittance, cat,
Form: Free verse
Mister Money Bags No More
...Mister money bags no more
Ah..., how I idolize the days of yore
before June twentieth, and twenty first
two thousand twenty three
when utter senselessness wore,
a trail of woe brutally
ravagi...
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Categories:
remittance, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Contradictions
...He wakes up with all forms of contradictions waving over his head and running around with ballot boxes trying to procure the dead with weevil and mice playing jamboree in the rice while the sun and t...
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Categories:
remittance, adventure, america, business, community,
Form: Narrative
Learned Lessons
...When in time of memories past
we connect to simple thoughts
pouring to the surface of loves
sweet embrace.
Lessons learned are never in vain
when it comes down to aligned
effortless desires.
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Categories:
remittance, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Knocking the Stuffing Out of Resilience
...Spare a thought for the plight of resilience,
As most walk past in silence,
Pretending not to notice,
As others dampen all resistance,
To those who call time on a life of resilience,
In favour o...
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Categories:
remittance, abuse, anxiety, baptism, bereavement,
Form: Burlesque
I Knew
...I Knew
David J Walker
I
I knew a priest
Who blessed the best and
worst of us
Saying
Go in Peace
But leave your burdens here
II
I knew a man who bore
His chest
And cursed the heav...
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Categories:
remittance, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Foreign Remittance
...A foreign remittance is still memorable.
At that time condition was not bit favourable.
A lot of details and queries.
I couldn't reach my branch.
Every moment a new rule my bank's launch.
Fore...
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Categories:
remittance, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Decision Two
...I sense your mood in recluse
Standing mute in the shadows.
A suspended position to choose
confused by the amazing views.
Frozen by the amorous advance
You try to resist the explicit move
But...
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Categories:
remittance, conflict, culture, desire, feelings,
Form: Burlesque
Samsara In the 5th
...
"Samsara in the 5th"
The phenomenal world
is illusory, it calls for
nothing of substance
romance is laid out
legs and hearts spread
open li...
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Categories:
remittance, desire, dream, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Romanticism
Fallen Angel
...Silver lining,
pouch of gold
Last remittance,
past unsold
Blessing tendered,
pearl gateway plain
Fallen Angel
—redemption claimed
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...
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Categories:
remittance, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Ill At Ease Or Unfurled
...Is your pathway to Heaven now structured,
with words that your verse seeks to pray
Is your stairway straight up or diverted,
remittance and debts to repay
Is your meaning construed or ve...
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Categories:
remittance, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue Teasers
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers
Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky Devil !
« By hook or...
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Categories:
remittance, animal, girl, humor, irony,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Inspect Than Detect and Correct
...Inspect than detect and correct.
Remittance for pittance was part of admittance.
Swerve after you observe the curve.
Receive, retrieve and relieve.
Amount of deceased increased and their
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Categories:
remittance, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
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