All My Friends are Dead
...After "the ritual" by Olivia Gatwood
everything about this song is red,
your wallet is brown,
the brown a burgundy
and the burgundy’s chalice
has gold to dazzle
rubies, carnelian, sa...
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Categories:
resurfaces, addiction, jealousy, sad,
Form: Free verse
A Soliloquy of Unrequited Love
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Written on April 13th 2025 for Sara Jama's Prompt The Cold Embrace of Death
Reverberated within the empty chambers of my soul,
As I soak my skin in a clawfoot tub, drowning in my...
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Categories:
resurfaces, angst, anxiety, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Peace And Harmony Sequel
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One of my first poems
resurfaces in my mind
as I recall my
beginnings as a Poet
I reminisce about
peaceful times when
Peace and Harmony
were plentiful, bountiful
It's amazing how things
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Categories:
resurfaces, happy, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Song of The Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth No 9: ABBA
...It's back to the wilds, for the unexplored
Panama's island, Pygmy Three-Toed Sloths.
Tree huggers, twenty hours daily, course, lots
of trees. Four of a kind, their fifth, record
as the smallest. ...
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Categories:
resurfaces, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Thunderclap
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"Thunder is the sound of heavens clapping."
~ Anonymous
dark sky exploded
as loud as a firecracker
still silence broken ~
childhood fear resurfaces
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Categories:
resurfaces, childhood, fear, sound,
Form: Tanka
Its Never Enough For Me
...It's never enough for me,
In this terrible deficit I dwell,
Lost in an overdraft of desires,
Reaching out repeatedly,
Yet forever tethered to you.
Where does this neediness arise?
An inquiry ...
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Categories:
resurfaces, birthday, conflict, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 18: Dolly Damian Molly and Polly: Love In Degrees
...Date: April 2026
The 1st degree is unknown
Damian and Polly had planned
The trip to the Copy Cat Club
For weeks with Dolly and Molly
The club was popping when
They hit the scene.
The ...
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Categories:
resurfaces, beautiful, culture, fun, good
Form: Alliteration
Oblivion
...“Oblivion: the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness” ~ Dictionary meaning
How aware are we, considering that we know not who we...
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Categories:
resurfaces, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
Mindfullness Class
...OK, mindful class,
past time to reopen our nurturing nests,
our nutritional mouths
and good-natured ears
and fertile reverse reserves
of not Lose/Lose
EarthMother Health-Wealth Care.
First,
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Categories:
resurfaces, appreciation, education, health, humanity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Zen Mode
...failures and triumphs
whose
there is no one here
save presence
in a space-time warp
as has been impulsed
in this lucid dream
residual identity
sometimes resurfaces
that we may feel
tran...
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Categories:
resurfaces, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 18:4
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18.4
“The universe is but a thought in Consciousness
In Reality it is nothing
One who sees the true nature of existence and non-existence
never ceases to exist”
Cont...
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Categories:
resurfaces, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
A Little Good News
...Today…a little good news…news that, hopefully, makes you glad…
even though this good news…originated from the bad.?
This story begins five years ago…it takes its initial breath inside a women’s sad...
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Categories:
resurfaces, death,
Form: Rhyme
Kindness and Resiliency
...children look forward, adults look around, elders look back
looking back, I remember a long-forgotten accident I had. While riding my bicycle with no hands, I closed my eyes, daring myself fo...
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Categories:
resurfaces, adventure, blessing, care, education,
Form: Prose Poetry
Doer Vs Non-Doer
...Who is the doer
Or non-doer
When a God alone is the mover
We are at best a cogniser
An experiencer
As layers of ego we uncover
If distilling attention be a doing
So then is quietude prioriti...
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Categories:
resurfaces, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Sugar Daddy Saturday
...Top shelf cologne exhibits sensual tail of peacock
Entrances my senses at our eleven a.m embrace
Eyes shut, my erratic stamina borrows comfort
Curled into leather front seat, chest inhales safe
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Categories:
resurfaces, beauty, candy, confidence, courage,
Form: Quatrain
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