The Shadow
...At The Dawn of My Time
The Light shone so brightly it blinded my sight
But with its warmth and promise of opportunity
I reveled in the notion of optimism and its delight
He lurked behind my bac...
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Categories:
reveled, age, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Humiliation
...I thought at your fiftieth we would make up,
I saved every drop to buy you a new Ford.
Your Royce is still sweet, but it needs a backup—
Not a Lincoln, a Mustang I could afford.
But you threw t...
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Categories:
reveled, anger, betrayal, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Breathless He Left Me
...“Maybe love doesn't come from the heart. Maybe it's a psychic jolt that wakes you when you touch them, leaving you breathless.” Christy Johnson
Butterfly kisses and his breath upon my c...
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Categories:
reveled, romantic love,
Form: Acrostic
All This Summer Day
...All this summer day, my love and I
have reveled in our beach’s sweet view.
We’ve watched sea gulls soaring in the sky
and we’ve splashed inside the sea so blue.
We’ve jumped some waves and stro...
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Categories:
reveled, romantic love,
Form: Quatrain
Conquered, Part VI
......A throat clear by the tall doorway, and she saw Geren there,”
he said, “Lindone, that slave is mine, and I don’t like to share.”
The warrior growled and said,“Your hall is cold of late.”
Said G...
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Categories:
reveled, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
My Youth
...I walk briskly on the pathway of truth
Searching desperately for my youth
I want to know how I got here
For some people act as if they don’t care
The light from the sun burns deeply in the
Groun...
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Categories:
reveled, absence, baby, books, community,
Form: Narrative
You Can Deny Me
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You can't deny me we were a true love story
Accepted your prize as reveled in your glory
Because I can feel you, and you can feel me
You can deny me, but you will never be free
You can leave ...
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Categories:
reveled, absence, beautiful, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
To Live For Today
...You’re the last in the list of the lost and withdrawn
Once you reveled with friends, now you’re drinking alone
Still you can think and dance, you can feel, sleep and pray
And whatever you do, it’...
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Categories:
reveled, appreciation, lonely, today, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
The Fox
...Once a fox was lost in the field;
No shelter, friends, nor food to yield!
His fending hope has lastly keened,
But stood once more when prey he gleaned...
There he melded with flocks of sheep,
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Categories:
reveled, betrayal, words,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Madness
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Bright and nearly obsidian were his eyes
whose incredible warmth drank me in.
He touched my face (his gaze unwavering)
as exquisitely he began to paint my sweetest sin.
The esctasy inside...
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Categories:
reveled, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Gruemeister Anticipates Her Terror Upon Wakening
...she felt her body go limp
her head was down
her hair flowing toward ground zero
but did she wake up?
no. this was not what the gruemeister had in mind
and he was in charge of her
for it was Hal...
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Categories:
reveled, scary,
Form: Narrative
Making Not a Peep
...Little Bo-Peep adored playing hide and seek, hence the fond nickname;
Just as hued rainbow is named for its dazzle, so radiant over every lane!
Bo-Peep was eight, and lived on a farm. She...
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Categories:
reveled, animal, color, fantasy, girl,
Form: Couplet
choosing jakes lunch
...Sheila was careful about choosing lunch for his pet. It had to be colorful
and lively. He liked chasing them around his cage a few laps and feeling their
fear, before he gulped them down in one gia...
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Categories:
reveled, animal,
Form: Haibun
Statue
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At the park, there’s a man built of black stone
He stands shamed with an indifferent rifle that yawns at the sky
His stallion is frozen in gallop, to be forever majestic
In the sweltering day, t...
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Categories:
reveled, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
I am That
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Sixty plus, and counting,
Still running from my life:
Child, athlete, writer, warrior,
Master Teacher, mother, wife.
Still pondering the age-old question,
"Who am I?"
Am I what I do? What ...
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Categories:
reveled, character, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
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