Some Other Poet, White Iris
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“Some Other Poet, White Iris”
When I look in the mirror what do I see?
I question existential questions and fiction,
my eyes are the eyes of another staring back at me,
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Categories:
restiveness, muse,
Form: Free verse
These Four Walls
...As the night creeps in Apa ogwu
He fills anxious about his status
Hands all over my PC feasting on opportunities
They jerk their heads in refusal
They wallow in an empty space
They throw covers ...
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Categories:
restiveness, africa, age, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Adventures of Enea, Part 6 of 13
...Enea is Pope! (1)
It doesn’t look good.
There is restiveness around the ‘hood.
Naples is in turmoil, a bastard claiming the throne –
but is he even a bastard? ...
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Categories:
restiveness,
Form: Limerick
The Festival of Lights
...The darkness vanishes with lights gleaming
And the mind cheers up with good looming
The evil fades away with brightness arising
The festival of lights heralds with its tidings.
Darkness and ign...
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Categories:
restiveness, celebration, fun, hope, light,
Form: Light Verse
Another Vantage Point
...I visited the shadow world,
preoccupied with shadowed thoughts
that smoke across the page,
and vanish in the light of reason.
That is to say, it is the proper way
to deal with thoughts like these,
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Categories:
restiveness, introspection, light, light,
Form: Free verse
To Be Alone
...To Be Alone
Solitude brings peace but being alone brings restiveness,
a longing for a voice even if it is a speak saying obvious
utterances. Silence doesn’t make a man whole he needs
to hear v...
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Categories:
restiveness, funny, introspection, peace, wife,
Form: Blank verse
A Picture of Love
...A glance across a void; a heartbeat trips,
a longing from within her essence yearns.
From Cupid’s bow on rose stained satin lips,
unfaltering, a tender smile returns.
No words in fury, or raised ...
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Categories:
restiveness, introspection, life, loss, lovelonging,
Form: Sonnet