Emancipation of The Afterthought
...Emancipation From The Afterthought
Fastidious Faustian bargains that never seem to cease
Delirious young drug addicts who never seem to sleep
Insidious theories of conspiracy
about the recentl...
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Categories:
retrospectively, life,
Form: Rhyme
hey, check it out
...hey, check it out
(apropos of baited political hooks)
being schooled
can keep you
book hooked
but being learned
can hook
you up
to a free mind…
schools of fish
are fooled
by baited h...
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Categories:
retrospectively, america, analogy, books, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Reflections
...Moving on, but I can not
I can't help looking back
Retrospectively Oscillations
Nostalgic past reflections
Creating a sweet sour affections
Longings on empty mosaics
With indescribable scenar...
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Categories:
retrospectively, care, death, fate, growth,
Form: Ballad
Not Made for Hallmark
...We took a break,
fortunately, it was a time
when we could not stand each other.
Whirlwind romances
spun like dandelion puffs
in a thin, just barely breathable air.
I knew retrospectively
t...
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Categories:
retrospectively, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Do You Remember Too
...
Butterfly bless dances from flower to flower,
sipping nectar with its slender proboscis imitating Bacchus with prospectus,
direct to us.
Streaks in the open air with flagrant color,
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Categories:
retrospectively, art,
Form: Ballad
All Or Nothing
......I remember when it was SOMETHING.
A Lesson OR Blessing, actually BOTH.
Is blood thicker than water? Not if bad blood has formed. Was it always tainted, beneath the naked eye of a surface pictu...
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Categories:
retrospectively, change, family, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Scoundrels of the Senate
...Again these men comes to mind,
Paid to say yes and nay,
Lame duck,
Canker, ***** rapscallion minds
Incorrigible,
Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries
Maggots in honor...
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Categories:
retrospectively, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Memoir Haikus - Epic Journey of Healing and Mental Well-Being
...-FIGHTING-
Greek epic poem.
Transcending for permanence.
Battle warrior
No longer around.
Life became complicated.
You are number one.
Life will greatly change.
Think about you all the time.
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Categories:
retrospectively, child, divorce, loss,
Form: Haiku
Secondary Day Preschooler
...Day 1 Weekly Thriller
Narrator
As the youngster blinked a little more often firstly this morning
The inquisitively teacher as she very much looked, noted, as asked
The wind was very windy toda...
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Categories:
retrospectively, adventure, anxiety, character, child,
Form: I do not know?
Hindsight Always Equals 20 20
...Hindsight always equals 20/20
Acuity absent amidst domestic turmoil,
passage of time nsync with diminished
pitched family emotional battles relieves
blinded insight allowing, enabling, and
pro...
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Categories:
retrospectively, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Covered Bridge
...The covered bridge
The lover’s refuge
When in a huge crisis
The knife cuts into slices
The birds inside the ribs
When in a deluge
All the resource to be used
has been exhausted
Have yo...
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Categories:
retrospectively, beauty, bereavement, destiny, happiness,
Form: Free verse
God As Archivist
...It is at least interesting to turn life's political economy backward
through reverse-time focus.
Life's memories of an uphill journey,
perhaps even a sacred pilgrimage,
toward an ultimate death...
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Categories:
retrospectively, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Failing To Win
...Memorable moments mystified by gilted pardons,
Iridescent solicitude.
Exclusiveness of me and you.
Purge uncertainties born historically of mislaid intent.
Time presently misspent.
Risked fut...
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Categories:
retrospectively, break up,
Form: I do not know?
Becoming
...The years have rolled by
Hours into days; days into months
Continuous rotation from soft sunrises
To brilliant sunsets on the western horizon
On and on year upon year
Until this tall, slender, w...
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Categories:
retrospectively, age, growth, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Luftmenschen Continuum
...by Michaelw1two
Thinking’s challenge is to weigh,
all of one’s life substance;
quandary thus, illogical fuss,
which blinds the mind's acutance;
adscititiously into thoughts bleed,
vitiated ind...
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Categories:
retrospectively, political,
Form: Free verse
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