The Night New York Slept
...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...
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Categories:
roundness, city, new york,
Form: Free verse
EVERY DAY IS MOTHER'S DAY
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A baby! What a remarkable creation…I remember our first night together…
how I could not help but stare…thinking how…only a day ago…he wasn’t even there.
Thinking back on how…exactly…this moment...
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Categories:
roundness, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Gradations of Color
...Hydration day’s a month away.
Online belonging company’s an hour from
startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre
Viewfinder pigeonholed
to rooftop tourist
traps ruin’d carriage holy woods
Ho...
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Categories:
roundness, absence, addiction, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
In the Invisibility
...whereas I, by chance, talking to myself, finding myself
alone, enclosed by four walls and a door, knock
to see, in the invisibility, with x-ray ability, not held,
if you dear reader, sitting by yo...
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Categories:
roundness, writing,
Form: Free verse
I Come and Go
...hell comes and goes
that old
high sprung
jack-in-the box
grin on a spring
jumps out
pop goes my holy holisticness
i fall sick of myself
my all-a-roundness leaks
stuff looms
it h...
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Categories:
roundness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A BEATY IN A BEAUTY
...I could hear her beauty,
The music was just a noise,
The sparks in her eyes aroused my pity,
Denying her my touch could be a curse,
The roundness on her chest is the cause,
Under her black ...
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Categories:
roundness, appreciation, cute love, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
A MOTHER WHISPERS TO HER SON
...A mother whispers to her son…
“I remember our first night together…as I wiped away a tear…
thinking how…only a day ago…you weren’t even here.
Thinking back on how…exactly…this moment came to be…...
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Categories:
roundness, mother son, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere
...Somewhere in these busy woods
a woodpecker tattoos tree bark,
I hear its piercing peck and drumming.
Above me songbirds and squirrels
hustle to and fro
through their arboreal thoroughfares.
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Categories:
roundness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Moon Is Orange
...The moon is orange with the roundness of Halloween.
The witch sits close by and is truthfully easily seen.
They are conferring, plotting, planning something mean.
It is the moon’s first chance to ...
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Categories:
roundness, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme
Remnants of Eden
...Remnants of Eden United
Scattered shards, remnants of Eden,
Gathered to a ring of bright topaz
A simultaneous soliloquy of intentionality
At the crux of intersecting avenues,
Indivisible solid...
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Categories:
roundness, life,
Form: Free verse
Ode To a Deflated Wife
...Gather her up with velvet mitts.
Dab with cotton wipes.
Toss her gently on a bed of roses.
Yank her light switch until she glows.
Purge blues with muted pastels.
Whisper of wealth yet to come,
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Categories:
roundness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dog In a Turning Pond
...Paws paddlewheel a roundness.
Mouth wide in the sluice, a sodden rudder
pushes sideways braiding a foaming wake.
Pond and dog orbit an ocular sky,
watery eyes memo the turning scene:
a bobbing h...
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Categories:
roundness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
First Beach
...The agency of touch
fell before you.
You receive it like warm lush rain
sinking ever forward
into your next terrain.
I am the blue bull.
the one who makes decisions.
I'm the careful surgeon....
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Categories:
roundness, america,
Form: Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 69
...Chroí awoke early the next morning, disoriented and a bit frightened. This was not her bed . It was so big. She was tired and felt drained. Closing her eyes, thoughts of the prior day began to fl...
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Categories:
roundness, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 25
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Erlenkönig also pushed forward the idea of the Council of Six.
Which was a wonderful idea in theory. The council eventually became the
most powerful force in the Elfin Clans, one representa...
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Categories:
roundness, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
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