Grandpa the Master Magician
...Grandpa the Master Magician
Grandpa was old and creaked
like a well-worn floorboard
but he always carried a smile with him
which generally won the day or the situation.
He had just spent time ...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, fun, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
IN SILENCE
...Not sure when it started at 6 staying
out of a brutally violent household
taking to the unforgiving streets.
The streets became my teacher and
family albeit dangerous life lessons
learned from...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
The Age of Lies
...The Age of Lies
Inimitable political satirical sardonically charged empirical verse for commiseration.
Collated by the grand vision of lies that seem to defy all consideration.
Berated cons...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, life,
Form: Free verse
No life, No death
...Oh death
The fear of countless souls
I adore your kiss
I need you close
When will we meet?
When shall you come?
It's too long a wait
Please come tonight
I don't know you
I know life is a...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, confusion, grief, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Freedom
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Freedom isn't something
We should never take for granted
It's a feeling resting deep inside
It's roots are firmly planted
From birth to death we struggle
To always do what's right
A...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, muse,
Form: Narrative
Episode one - No limes on Tatooine - A new hope
...I’m drunk, but you’re beautiful,
a line I used to rehearse.
The Dreamers’ artistic longing felt noble,
but it came with a curse.
I bought the ticket when I didn’t know better from worse.
Now I’v...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, best friend, crazy, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Banned Book Club VII- 1984
...Midtone grey surrounds what’s left of a man’s soul
Scenes of biblical abominations troll
Inky are the hellish horizons appalled
An okay is needed for anything at all
Manipulating truth determin...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, anxiety, books,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Azure Vistas
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"Azure Vistas"
Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
To the like-minded girl strangers
...I am not a coward man de facto
Who has lots of curiosity courageous
With full of consciences in mind
Having to retreat from girl strangers
Who's looking for the Like-minded friends
Being you...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, age, appreciation, confusion, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Demon of Despair
...Alone looking at the wall, I sit depressed. With the burns of despair in my heart suppressed.
The canvas of life is as blank and lifeless as the wall. ...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, dark, heartbroken, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Lie
...The Lie
I am an insect waiting to be squashed!
I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt
wait to gouge and burrow out
any self-belie...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, anger, anxiety, father, father
Form: Free verse
In and out the lusty nil wedding bells
...(Inspired by Marvin Goldfarb's great contest in which I won a trophy cup and wonderful poems by other English poets as noted below, 'LESSON IN LIFE' by BrittBrattTechy, 'Every child deserves better' ...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, culture, desire, heartbreak, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
Mistreated
...You have taken my soul
Left me hollow inside
The love I gave you wasn't enough
You needed something more
Istead depth of the ocean
You choose shallow water
The price I have paid dearly
With a...
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Categories:
ruthlessly, baby, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse
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