Close
...I count the birds at my feeder,
watch them arrive only to disappear,
they are a happenstance,
they flicker in and out, die and return.
People overhear other lives,
I imagine where they go and ...
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Categories:
remodel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Coagulation
..."Finally my blood began to coagulate,"
the second stage of hemostasis -- how great!
First I applied pressure to the bleeding spot,
the platelets circulate to stop it (a "clot.")
Coagulation for...
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Categories:
remodel, body, caregiving, health, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
Tune up
...Running on fumes for too long
Ready to take on a transition
Downshifting out of high gear
Making a move to pole position
We all travel down different paths
Weaving through obstacles as we go
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Categories:
remodel, analogy, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Munchkinland Remix
..."Kansas, she says, is the name of the star"
as for my mom's place, it was Mira Mar :)
"When she fell out of Kansas, a miracle occurred"
after we moved, my grandma's house remodel deferred...
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Categories:
remodel, childhood, grandmother, growing up,
Form: Lyric
A Theology of Boxes
...A Theology of Boxes
By Mark Stucky
Praise God for “boxes”
that form infrastructure for living!
Praise God for customs, conventions, and traditions
that ...
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Categories:
remodel, change, leadership, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Remodeling
...Get out your sponges, stippling brushes and pens,
It’s time for makeover-Monday-night to begin.
Think Winky Lux, L’Oréal, Urban Decay,
Maybelline, Armani and Fabergé
It’s a black magic realm wh...
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Categories:
remodel, celebration, color, creation, fun,
Form: Free verse
Abandon
...A house so old and ruined even the ghost moved out
shutter and boarder with the roof caved no doubt
decay and desolate not a vagrant dare
seek shelter over there
Once a proud house indeed
gave...
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Categories:
remodel, house, poems,
Form: Rhyme
She Spouts a Load of Bull
...You’re chock full of kingsize bull crap
Though female you are not a chap
A well-practiced liar
Whose pants are on fire
Your vitriol I’d love to zap
Just little things make you so r...
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Categories:
remodel, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Inspiration For a Remodel
...Sixteen antique serpentine arced gingerbread corners
delighting the antique seeker who had dreamed of them for years
before they were eventually yet heartily found.
Her heart leaps with happiness...
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Categories:
remodel, house,
Form: Free verse
Complexity of Her Heart-
...The complexity of her heart
Also doing part bleeding has stop
Her emotions were worth
Her tell tail heart
Has stopped
God has to remodel her
For you see she is heartbroken?
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Categories:
remodel, anxiety, betrayal, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
A Mouthful of Daggers
...Razor sharp tongues unleashed
Lashing out viciously to openly
legitimise bigotry
then suddenly taking offense
when queried
releasing long concealed weapons
the deep desire to "remodel Afri...
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Categories:
remodel, black love, color, community,
Form: I do not know?
Ground To Pieces
...‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
John Ruskin, 1853
they had crushed the bevelled mirror of his life into a tho...
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Categories:
remodel, change,
Form: Free verse
Scavenger Hunt
...scavenger hunt
sandy summer beach
welcomes a scavenger hunt ~
hot sand samba dance
lacy edged scallops
rippled shells like wind kissed surf ~
trim tidal ball gowns
fallen stars – starf...
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Categories:
remodel, ocean, summer,
Form: Haiku
Watermarks
...if I turn left
i end up near my dead mother
she has a green mound
but there are lots of green mounds
there’s a street map in a fisherman’s pocket
a splashing sea has soaked its print
signs a...
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Categories:
remodel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Giver and Taker
...Giver gave meals, desserts, gas money, love
Taker took them all gladly but demanded more
Giver tried to please. Gave a car and a home.
Taker made fun of giver for being a chump.
Giggling with fri...
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Categories:
remodel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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