The Paradiddle of Being - Book Three: Just Be
...IX.
In the ICU, machines create their own songo—
ventilator, heart monitor, IV pump—
forming an accidental orchestra
the clutch of machinery holding time
like a hi-hat choking i...
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Categories:
rudiment, community, dance, faith, friendship,
Form: Lyric
I Was a Jump, Skip and a Hop
...i ignored their existence, except for one snapshot.
i didn’t know you could shop. i was not caught
up in the spiral, the velocity, the thunder to the top.
where was i? i was a jump, skip and a h...
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Categories:
rudiment, america, death, remember,
Form: Couplet
School 2
...Education is her business;
Here, she needs no helper witness,
In all her classrooms Time Table,
In dormitory Dining Table…
Has now dumped chalk for Board Marker-
School has to be a pace-maker,...
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Categories:
rudiment, age, child, education, future,
Form: Rhyme
The December
...The termination, the conclusion,
the tail end of the year.
Strong resolution, dermier decision,
to walk on without any fear.
December, make it a moment to remember,
the month of joy, the ...
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Categories:
rudiment, beautiful, beauty, environment, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Love Yourself
...Young ones you’ve heard of love
And the beautiful rudiment of it
You must have been told by folks
How sweet is the very first kiss
Under the bright or dark sky
With a burning emotion kindled in...
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Categories:
rudiment, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Zoom Meeting Fun
...Due to community quarantine enforcement
along social distancing detachment
our faculty meeting of task-assignment
went virtual via technology’s involvement
midst great excitement, anticip...
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Categories:
rudiment, blessing, christian, computer, education,
Form: Monorhyme
Unconditional Paternal Love Toward Shana Punim
...Screaming writhing violent
uncontrollable spasms of abandonment
immediately followed her (like Mary's lamb)
where e'er she went
verbal communication attempt didst rent
ear piercing outpouring
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Categories:
rudiment, appreciation, beautiful, daughter, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Man Made Plastic Hazard
...From the beginning of man’s life
Like other creatures he survives
Breathing air and drinking water
Freely available aplenty in Nature
It was the business world helped by the rulers
Which stopped...
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Categories:
rudiment, environment,
Form: Verse
Dead Days
...Dead are the pure days, when colour wasn’t the issue
When food and culture, before the moral punctures
Before came predators to hunt, and scavenging vultures
To make a rudiment of, our own footpat...
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Categories:
rudiment, age, culture, endurance, nature,
Form: Didactic
Congratulation Poem
...You've fought bravely
Eclipsing your fear and obstacles
Useful hours quietly given to knowledge
Soar above today's greatness for there's miles to go
Be an exemplary leader
The shimmering l...
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Categories:
rudiment, celebration, courage,
Form: Free verse
White Space On Paper
...Hoping everyday there will be a vicissitude in your thinking.
Irritation and repose.
Waiting.
For a text, a call, reticence.
White space on paper.
Empty.
I drank your wine.
I reveled in your g...
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Categories:
rudiment, aubade, break up, dark,
Form: Free verse
Young Man Beware of Beauty
...YOUNG MAN BEWARE OF BEAUTY
1.Beauty is a lie
A fake cloth
covering one's body
And the opposite Side
Lies the truth,
Those who know the secret
Secret,
Enjoy it on ugly ...
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Categories:
rudiment, beauty, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Romanticism
An Accomplishment
...An Accomplishment
Put forth effort and away time went
What I did was an accomplishment
Writing poems until fingers were worn
Between next one to write I was torn.
In my case, what would you ...
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Categories:
rudiment, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
What Are You To Me---
...What are you to me?
I am en kindle earth.
You are abysmal sky.
I feel your shadow.
You enjoy my fragrance.
I face your anger thunderbolt.
you drench my thirst.
I adore you.
I endear you.
I r...
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Categories:
rudiment, betrayal, i miss you,
Form: Lyric
The Caricature
...The Caricature
You like to label it as a nefarious empire
brought to power by an unpropitious circumstance
paint a picture of evil and malfeasance
blood soaked canvas is the final image
mass ...
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Categories:
rudiment, history,
Form: Free verse
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