Combinations of Catastrophe
...Combinations of Catastrophy
Combinations of catatstrophic scenarios everywhere I look
Invocations of prehistoric evidence collides with the big book
Complications that are caustic that ...
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Categories:
retrievable, life,
Form: Rhyme
To The Other Side
...Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that is that
I will match the older boy’s vim and whim
Two strong boys armored ...
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Categories:
retrievable, best friend, endurance, father
Form: Free verse
Reworking the Threads
...Old cotton knee-Lenths
smell; an old book of poetry smell,
Unseen socks
between the matrass and the ground floor
of nowhere,
where discarded apparel through the ages,
molders unread.
Daily w...
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Categories:
retrievable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
What An Amazing World This Would Be
...The world keeps spinning day after day
But the one thing always remains constant
It's love sweet love, nothing's more enduring
The only thing we've ever wanted
Nothing replaces it not o...
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Categories:
retrievable, world,
Form: Rhyme
Masterpiece
...Master Piece”
After my temple was pulverized I found myself weak
Sifting through my ruins
Salvaging the retrievable broken pieces
As I manage to stand to my feet
Placing them all in a stac...
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Categories:
retrievable, dedication, growth, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Like Brightest Stars
...Like the brightest stars we fade in time
Losing the sparkling diamond in our eyes
Our zest for excitement slowly subsides
Attempts to succeed become futile tries.
The light we send ...
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Categories:
retrievable, age, angst, character, life,
Form: Quatrain
Baton of the Past
...Do not dwell in your past
Where the fattened maggots
wallow in your rotten regrets
Where the high ocean of opportunities
lost, kiss the very lips of the sky
There, they are dying dreams
help...
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Categories:
retrievable, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Only Voice That Matters
...A sign on the gate read,
“No Democrats Allowed” –
Here no more debate, an
arrow pointing to an
elevator, “Democrats
Please Press Down” – not
one retrievable soul could
Peter find in the Demo...
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Categories:
retrievable, community, corruption, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Time
...‘Tis true, time waits for no man, but moves swiftly along
Age to eon, in big laps or small, time is never retrievable
Once gone it can never be recaptured, even in song
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Categories:
retrievable, time,
Form: Quatrain
Sounds I Remember
...Why do you listen to echoes of shells strewn above your ears?
Those voices, once soft and loving, now bark churlish commands from ai drones, whirring subconscious tropes, retrievable by unseen
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Categories:
retrievable, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Fleeting
...Where does time go
transient
a fleeting gust of air
non retrievable
a whirlwind in a mirror
fragmented shattered
unforgettable memories
unforgivable regrets
a circular menagerie
slow motion
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Categories:
retrievable, appreciation, life, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Ode To An Oklahoma Locksmith
...Nationwide Insurance twas on my side yay
cuz, earlier this July forth
two thousand eighteen ja way
windows closed, doors locked, and
car keys visibly splayed
on driver seat oye ...
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Categories:
retrievable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Was That Worth What We Had To Bring
...Was that to know what was real life and death?
Was that to know our nature?
In the deep thick blood and mud driven snow when the world could not get bleaker
Dead bodies bereft, left to the win...
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Categories:
retrievable, dark, death, fear, soldier,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Little Ticked Boxes
...little boxes ticked
delete button selected
memories erased
the good and the bad
no longer retrievable
new memories made
forgive and forget
no words left to remind me
will my heart forget?...
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Categories:
retrievable, how i feel, memory,
Form: Senryu
A Poem's Flight
...When words quiet my mind and awaken
my spirit, I feel the seasons of life
harmonize. But tedious thoughts and busy
days return too fast, so I pocket the retrievable
words, the simple not...
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Categories:
retrievable, emotions, poetry, wisdom, words,
Form: Free verse
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