Illusions
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Life has many mirrors
like a Fun House,
many nooks and crannies
different paths and roadways
that can take you
in various directions
You may believe
steadfast in your feelings
that you ha...
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Categories:
roadways, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Cacoethes
...I love having—
hating the feeling of wanting.
Wanting cuts my guts as consequentially as diarrhea.
I steal casually,
like second breaths after waking,
or proper newborns latched onto Mama’s ni...
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Categories:
roadways, addiction, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse
GNRT DAY 36 FLOWERS
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One thing we’ve noticed as we’ve driven across the north…for hours and hours and hours
is how once the frozen grounds of winter thawed…people were busy planting flowers.
Everywhere we’ve been…f...
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Categories:
roadways, flower, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Under The Crack
..."What are they looking at?" "the crack on the ground," whisper a silent voice from the airy throne; my heart kept spinning around, and the women in colored hats, says it is a symbol of hope and you...
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Categories:
roadways, bible, business, caregiving, change,
Form: Narrative
holiday traffic
...congested roadways
smokey exhausts pollute air
all just for free food...
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Categories:
roadways, holiday,
Form: Haiku
Frequency of Heaven
...Tune into the frequency of heaven and start
Let that be the loudest melody within your heart
In the voice of the Body, let faith impart
Only by God's Hand, it is heaven’s art
In our weakness, in ...
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Categories:
roadways, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Blazing Sun
...The sun is burning intensely outside, and it is melting the passion inside, the dogs are running around gasping for breath, and throwing their frivolous bodies on the ground.
They are looking for ...
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Categories:
roadways, beauty, business, celebration, city,
Form: Narrative
The Elements
...See them sitting underneath the tree, they are on a mission to crucify thee, their knife is sharpened and ready to cut out a pound of your flesh from your gut if you do not pay back the debts, no exc...
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Categories:
roadways, appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Narrative
traveling
...maryland's roadways
offer scenic views of deer
grazing alongside...
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Categories:
roadways, animal,
Form: Haiku
Yielding
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It's not a matter of confrontations face to face.
Like most things, it's all about time and space.
Highways and roadways are designed for travelers.
The motorists may be workers or vacatione...
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Categories:
roadways, people,
Form: Couplet
Walking to School
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School was a mile and a half
walk from home,
across roadways, busy streets
and railway lines and through
parklands patrolled
by swooping magpies in spring.
We thought nothing of it
when it...
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Categories:
roadways, childhood, nostalgia, school,
Form: Free verse
Life is a Song
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Written: January 2nd, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest
Rumi verse" Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song"
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Categories:
roadways, analogy, confidence, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Sketched Out Roadways
...Endless fields,
I don't notice them anymore.
I drive upon a video map
of ever repeating memories.
The land is flat,
the horizon hardly changes,
mile after mile
the same white noise
scratchi...
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Categories:
roadways, poetry,
Form: Free verse
endless countryside
...Michigan roadways
peaceful driving excursion
from east to west...
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Categories:
roadways, travel,
Form: Haiku
Cruising the 80s
...Angela spoke to Bob, then they caught a
Taxi and took a ride through the 80s
Prince decided to take a ride too but he wanted
to go fast so he took a Little Red Corvette and parked the Mercedes
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Categories:
roadways, appreciation, cool, growing up,
Form: Free verse
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