my woodland raccoons
...he rummages through my trash at night
scurrying off in mist of daybreak
I rarely catch his masked face,
but sometimes glimpse his striped tail
he brings the family, they scavenge together
slap...
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Categories:
rummages, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Phantom Calls
...As night falls, a dark melody
fills the air with a feeling so deep
it is the song of a dark rose
tweeting near a corner fence.
Dahlia, a withered pale woman
lies on a granite slab, still and s...
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Categories:
rummages, angel, care, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Live, If I Must - Rough-nfc
...My mind is stripped of crippling inhibitions
It rummages, unfettered with mundane thoughts
delving along beveled edges of a distorted mirror
as though it sees inside my sutured heart
In its scarr...
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Categories:
rummages, angst,
Form: Rhyme
In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment
...In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment,
I am tired of narrow verses, of word sculptures without soul and echo.
Poems that whisper, halt -...
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Categories:
rummages, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Black Noon
...
Black Noon
The restive wind
weds the surging waves
merging spirits and souls
leching away meekness
spiced with weakness
as the way is paved
for the destruction
that rummages at noo...
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Categories:
rummages, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Study In Kafkaesque
...I slowly come to
as light creeps across the floor
and dissolves what I thought
had fallen through
the torn sides of a dream.
Nothing is there but
the scuff marks left
by fleeing ghosts.
U...
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Categories:
rummages, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
A Kind of Living
...every day she will go
shopping trolley in tow
in sleet or rain or snow
she lives by foraging
in every litter bin
she rummages within
what gem in there may hide
digging down deep inside
a...
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Categories:
rummages, city, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Who Am I
...I rummage through old memories
like an old woman rummages
through a handbag,
Searching for a reminder
of who I was before. . .
looking to find a way back
to being me without you....
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Categories:
rummages, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Hurricane of Hope
...Death is a whisper
Like a dog’s whimper
Joy awakens in our head
Happiness needs to be expanded instead, instead
Death is a whisper
Life is but a blur, but a blur
Joy awakens in our head
Chee...
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Categories:
rummages, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Lagos
...ISALE EKO (LAGOS)
A rooster of discrete tongues
Culture, tradition
Where,
Zillion specters resonate
Quantum croak.
Cock crow,
Erupts whirl, barge at Alaba
Descry of sea of soul cases
Kibb...
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Categories:
rummages, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Into Life Man Is Thrust
...Once wholly stripped
of its crippling inhibitions
a mind rummages, unfettered
beyond mundane thoughts
delving along beveled edges
of a pensively distorted mirror
as though it sees ...
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Categories:
rummages, art, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Condition
...MY CONDITION
Earlier the snow fell sideways slowly in gigantic flakes
but now their weight is too great; they descend straight down hard.
For her everything is constantly changing…a mind in flux...
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Categories:
rummages, age, mental illness, mother,
Form: Prose Poetry
Stubbornness
...Original poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com:
"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyield...
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Categories:
rummages, character, deep, desire, devotion,
Form: Verse
The Attic
..."Today I will climb to the attic and raise the blind,
Where narrow heat lies thick and stale, confined
In that closed room; and I will jar the window loose
And pitch what is no use
Among those ra...
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Categories:
rummages, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
What, My Eyes Dont See
...What my eyes dont see...
Anguishes me, to this harsh society.
As I look to the majestic sky
I see darkness & destruction in its light.
How can one, be truly happy??
As we embark on this so.ca...
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Categories:
rummages, betrayal, money, poverty, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
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