BAR CHRONICLES
...Fireflies in my bourbon
(PART 4 OF 10)
The bar looks haunted today,
Jukebox playing requiems as long songs,
Cigarette smoke suffocating air in between inhalations,A man knows he needs air to f...
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Categories:
requiems, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Cemetery of Corpse Roses
..."Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. " ~ Shakespeare
As fragments of the stars abandoned
the sage of night, my kohl he...
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Categories:
requiems, angst, emotions, gothic,
Form: Nonet
Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine
...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering
Like you, he p...
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Categories:
requiems, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse
Refining Consciousness
...“instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded” ~ Unseeking Seeker<...
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Categories:
requiems, dance, dream,
Form: Free verse
Golden Mirror
...In my blooming brokenness,
I seek for a
clue of something meaningful,
but what if nothing of velvety value
ever lies within material items,
frozen in trembling time,
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Categories:
requiems, deep,
Form: Free verse
Coherent Chorus of Compassion
...I write my thoughts
on paper,
let ink of my soul
glow, amidst the grief
I carry in echoing stillness,
for it is through words,
I’ve found healing,
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Categories:
requiems, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Maiden of Musical Moonshine
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Music is an undying
art of soul ~
an abstract eden, where,
euphonious unicorns
glide in strawberry sonatas,
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight,
when fuchsia feathers
tease...
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Categories:
requiems, art, deep, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Heartbeats in Heaven
...Sometimes when
moonlight weeps to sleep,
I sit, draped
in burning dreams,
and beautiful nightmares
of moments lost,
engraved along the rising
of blushing blossoms,
within cerulean azure.
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Categories:
requiems, absence, destiny, heaven, i
Form: Free verse
To Bloom Again
...House Wrens in the Cottonwoods trill
Sonorous requiems ringing out as poetry
In sullen streams of languid silence-
A eulogy of bereft love
Wistful woeful clouds scuddle
Across the somnolent h...
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Categories:
requiems, goodbye, i love you,
Form: Free verse
I Have Started Using Firewood
...Crosscheck with An Honest Magazine
Price of liter of kerosene:
What it costs to upload ten poems,
I hate: Thief!” leading to requiems,
Poet to freely leave Cybercafé,
And at home drink Calming N...
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Categories:
requiems, allusion, anxiety, money, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
I Walk the Stars
...I walk the stars beyond my shadowed dreams.
Not cognizant, the mortal dim of eyes -
On twilight’s breast, my coalescent seams.
Kids’ adorn’d my hair - my birthday crown, beams.
No s...
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Categories:
requiems, death,
Form: Villanelle
Unselfish Heart
...Line of inquiry - Ego shorn, here now reborn.
Unselfish Heart
The glow of the unselfish heart
Decorates emptiness with candles
While scattered relics of garden purity
Re-light votives in Bab...
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Categories:
requiems, birth,
Form: Free verse
Eighty-Eight Keys
...Eighty-eight keys of ivory
Create the story of history
From requiems and waltzes
To rhythm and blues,
From dirges and ballads
To pop and rock,
How amazing! What stories are told
By gifted musi...
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Categories:
requiems, music,
Form: Free verse
Dave Risks Early Grave
...Let us at Risk-Taking Dave
Lengthily rave
For choosing to live in a cave
Also, The Choice of a Gorilla
That could demolish a stout slave
And wrestling Victory not release to a Godzilla …
To ...
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Categories:
requiems, character, death, desire, violence,
Form: Rhyme
About Me
...my name means flames that crawl down your face and ruin your night
it's when you laugh so hard you break your spine
but then realize you never had one in the first place
it's when you beg God to m...
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Categories:
requiems, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
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