The Jungle Untamed
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' The Jungle Untamed calls me to exhibit its wonder and splendor to
mesmerise.'
-Poet
Jungle untamed accommodates flora -fauna
at ra...
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Categories:
renovating, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
sharing
...pounding
grinding
drilling
sawdust
plumbing scraps
empty boxes
strewn from
bedroom to bathroom
and everywhere in between ...
a miner's shanty once
propped up
on timbers with
no firm...
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Categories:
renovating, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and Projects
...Date: December 2042
Early afternoon, Damian was
Busy in his den planning the trip
To Trinidad. He called CJ first
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for t...
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Categories:
renovating, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form: Alliteration
The Magic Window
...Upon renovating, I stumbled upon
A window that had been closed off
For years, it was a strange place
For a window to be positioned but
I felt compelled to expose it
So, I torn the covering down...
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Categories:
renovating, imagination, time,
Form: Free verse
Paint Job
...when it comes to renovating
I'm definitely slapdash
in fact it would be fair to say
that I can be rather rash
sanding bores me senseless
and it's a job I try to shirk
because I lack the patie...
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Categories:
renovating, humor,
Form: Rhyme
One From the Dark Side of My Poetry
... "Nicholas Street Jail is a real place"
The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
the conditions were inhumane and appalling,
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Categories:
renovating, dark, prison, scary,
Form: Verse
For My Father
...Funny how faith found me, when you said you'd send for me
Abundance, I heard, abound in the United States of America
Travel was in my blood; warmed my heart that you filed for me
Humbly I w...
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Categories:
renovating, appreciation, dedication, father,
Form: Acrostic
Nightmarish Shower
...Having a shower is relaxing, water gently falling,
Soothing your naked body, but I nearly went sprawling,
I was staying with Ricky and Robyn his wife,
When an incident the most embarrassing in my ...
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Categories:
renovating, power,
Form: Rhyme
The Suitcase
...I nearly did not answer the door, for I did not recognize the man.
But my peek hole is pretty good. As he turned to leave I spotted Peggy’s suitcase.
I ran out there screaming for him to stop.
H...
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Categories:
renovating, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Distant Shores - the Final Chapter
...We drove in two separate cars a few miles along the ocean shore
I am not afraid, life has been depressing, I just don’t care anymore
We turn down a pebbled driveway, with lion statues guarding the ...
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Categories:
renovating, betrayal, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
A Sand Crabs Lot In Life
...Grains of sand
hiding small burrows;
every tiny sand crabs, the Emerita Analoga
needs its burrow.
intense sunlight’s warm but
has its dangers, even for a tiny crab’s skin.
xiphosura...
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Categories:
renovating, animal, appreciation, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
The Dear Retirement of a Beloved Pastor Part Ii
...I sigh through dear retirement of a beloved pastor.
Ah, zeal of crossroads drove an interconnected strand.
Oh,goodness, how my initiative has flustered.
If we communicated then we would have bon...
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Categories:
renovating, addiction, immigration, longing,
Form: Villanelle
The Haunted Jail
...The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
the conditions were inhumane and appalling,
on top floor was death row with only one way out.
I...
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Categories:
renovating, scary,
Form: Verse
Old Shearing Shed Art Studio
...Larger than large, fostering the void,
Rippled iron for the walls, roof and door,
Above six-foot legs reaching up from the dirt,
To cradle the woollen greased floor,
With broken old memories ...
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Categories:
renovating, art, freedom, places, work,
Form: Quatrain
Good and Bad News
...It’s a sad and sorry state to drive past every day,
the little Baptist Church I once attended every Sunday.
Weatherboards are flaking paint and spouting needs repair.
The Cross is leaning at an an...
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Categories:
renovating, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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