Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
...Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or sub...
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Categories:
retouched, absence, adventure, analogy, birth,
Form: Free verse
The Picture on the Parlor Wall
...When midnight flames flicker aesthetic reveries,
releasing ashes of rainbow petals,
upon the canvas of undressed seasons,
I delve into blue blurs of butterflies,
framed in floating colors of nost...
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Categories:
retouched, color, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Unfinished Poems
...All poems are unfinished
Only those in sonnet are finished
Completed, done, and terminated
A poem can still be edited
Revised, retouched and rewritten
A poem is a powerful tool or weapon
Leave ...
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Categories:
retouched, beautiful, emotions, literature, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Ancient guardian of the sacred essence
...Ancient guardian of the sacred essence,
You wander through the taciturn void of slumbering souls
Where the shadow of truth gravely trickles into hieroglyphs,
An affection imprinted,
Upon the whit...
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Categories:
retouched, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv
...(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).
Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tub...
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Categories:
retouched, 1st grade, age, best
Form: Rhyme
Putin Non Gmo Gluten Free Cheese On the Ritz
...Though a wimpy, tiny, and puny
(smaller than a breadbox) Ogre
whereat my portable minuscule
fingerhut size adobe abode ex
posed to Strunk and White raw
grammatical elements of style,
I counte...
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Categories:
retouched, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Believed
...Caught in your web
Of lies
I believed you
I did
Every word retouched
Tinted
Where’s the truth
Where’s the lie
Entangled in illusion
For what reason
I believed in you
I did
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Categories:
retouched, betrayal, grief, heartbreak, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Urban Removed
...URBAN REMOVED
i m not one of those poets
one of those alpha-posing, super-imposing
inner-urban closing poets
who prattle to infinity
in unscripted and useless rhymes
clean air in no time
lea...
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Categories:
retouched, i am, poets, writing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Shadow Lake
...Shadow Lake
Above Shadow Lake, those twin peaks peer down as I rest;
an eerie remembrance wakes me from my weariness
of having rested on these rocks some forty years past
and having captured th...
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Categories:
retouched, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Where My Soul Belongs
...While a part of my soul longs,
To be carried away,
Far far,
From myself,
To another world,
To a mountain top,
To a lonely place,
To where the air is thin and light,
To where sensations stop,
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Categories:
retouched, identity,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To Birth and Death
...Darkness ended, Winter released her icy grip; budding crystals soon began to drip.
The Earth then tendered, its surface filled with life; Spring now wed to Summer, the
radiant rays piercing the f...
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Categories:
retouched, death, depression, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse