To Uncle Walt
...If you are
vacant of hope
Hope is vacant
of you
If you are
distant of spirit
Spirit
distant of you
If you are
absent of feeling
Feeling
absent of you
If you are
left without love...
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Categories:
rereading, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
She Was the Story, He Was Just a Page
...
He loved her
like the last day of autumn —
knowing she'd leave,
but holding on
as if his hands could change the season.
She wasn’t just a chapter —
she was the entire book
he never finis...
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Categories:
rereading, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Saving Voice
...A Poet dies
and
the world lives
to mourn
Rereading his
words
a new spirit
is born
In paradigms
searching
for hope and
reprieve
His memory
calls out
to those
— who believe
(Dream...
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Categories:
rereading, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely Day
...I’m sorry but I must admit
That I have read this book
There’s no point of rereading it
As if I overlooked
Unobvious important signs
That I did much appreciate
I changed my surreptitious mind
...
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Categories:
rereading, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Cracking Glass
...Cracking Glass
Your mind fills like a glass
Always taking never ask
Never asking questions and never drawing lines
Never turning forwards, just staring far behind
You crack and break and bend ...
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Categories:
rereading, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Runner
...
I keep refreshing the page,
a priest lighting candles,
holding my breath like the next
flick of wrist might mean something.
Her name is gone from my inbox,
but I still comb the comment field...
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Categories:
rereading, absence, character, journey,
Form: Free verse
HUNGRY WIND poetrix
...
at the table next to me
rereading the menu blowing
a very hungry wind...
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Categories:
rereading, allusion, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A mistake
...A Mistake
Was talking to you a mistake?
I thought I was just being brave,
but now I wonder if I should’ve stayed quiet,
kept my distance, and let the silence save me.
You said things I’ll never ...
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Categories:
rereading, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Words Of The Past Quinzaine
...Rereading words from the past.
Was it me who wrote
that poem?...
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Categories:
rereading, emotions, poetry, writing,
Form: Other
Loving You More
...My love since you are away
I visit you in my heart
I pull the image of your spirit from my soul
That way you are inside of me
That keeps me calm yet
In a serious sexy frenzy for your attention
...
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Categories:
rereading, appreciation, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Winter's Edge 13
...Centered in the irregular rectangle of the caves entrance the fire popped and danced as the snow fell lazily before the backdrop of pines.Softly the wind moaned above the tree line.Francis sat on the...
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Categories:
rereading, winter, words,
Form: Narrative
We Have To Announce
...next night in the subway to come without sleep
rereading the letter she got yesterday
"We have to announce with regret true and deep ..."
her husband had died on the second of May
she asked her...
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Categories:
rereading, war,
Form: Terzanelle
Rereading Hemingway
...The re-read (poet)
Hemingway was a writer suffering from a disabling inhibition,
the conversation he had with women in his books are based
on wishes and not reality.
Women in his life were st...
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Categories:
rereading, best friend, blessing, books,
Form: Name
Tell Me
...Many years ago I was living with depression
And all I wanted was just to be alone
But now I found myself smiling with no reason
Funny that sometimes you're in my imagination
Tell me, did you use ...
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Categories:
rereading, care, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Elements
...Soil for
shapes ...
Water to provide
cheer ...
Fire to afford
heat...
air to
...
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Categories:
rereading, allusion, extended metaphor, literature,
Form: Free verse
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