California Exodus
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~California Exodus~
No, I do not seek your agreement!
After living in California, I find a predicament.
It feels like I have a brain filled with acrid cement!
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Categories:
sanely, chicago, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
I AM POETRY
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I AM POETRY
‘In the Beginning
was the Word’
light penetrated dark
sound big-banged birthed
three in One creating
~ P o e t r y ~
I am this poised superlative
unchangi...
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Categories:
sanely, allegory, character, creation, deep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Weapons Down Anger
...Anger
is such a useful learning silence tool,
when not too short-term
ballistically reactive,
weaponized.
I have seldom noticed
when my own hot-burning issues
cold turn into
a Self and Othe...
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Categories:
sanely, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Political Verse
Strangely
...5/10/21
"Strangely"
Withdrawals getting shaky
I can't think or see straightly
I'll stay stuck or I'll break free
They thought I was just being shady
It made me
Or was able to break me
A cha...
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Categories:
sanely, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Promise
...I'm writing on the first page.
I love the concord and quiet at my age.
The morning came from a genius mage.
In my spirit, I am searching for the truth stage.
To understand things to resist this u...
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Categories:
sanely, america, appreciation, confidence, depression,
Form: Rhyme
New Obsession:Exercise Bike
...Tomorrow, I'll try my exercise
bike.
No, not that expensive doozy!
I'd fall down and be a fallen,
poetic lollapaloozy!
My glory days of r...
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Categories:
sanely, body, health,
Form: Free verse
Footloose
...The precious ladder rested precariously on a pedestal of literature
Sorted by width of their spines the book podium was high and wise
It needed a few steps of non-fiction itself to give rise fo...
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Categories:
sanely, books,
Form: Free verse
Fulcrum of the Times
...The orchestra of the world
become violently overplayed
become muted white noise
sanely adjusted to a nigh-zero
And here where the colors are bright
here where we living meet
here there are qu...
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Categories:
sanely, moving on, society,
Form: Free verse
An Oxymoron In Oblivion
...An Oxymoron in Oblivion
My soul sweetly shouts a supernova of a yawning yell
To ponder and penetrate our inept gravitational shell
My love to explore the dimming nebula of lustro...
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Categories:
sanely, absence, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Confession By Alexander Pushkin
...I love you, so I'm getting mad,
let my ado and shame are vainly
And all my foolish thoughts aren't sanely
in feet of yours I bow my head.
It's not my face, it's not my age,
It's time to be just...
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Categories:
sanely, emotions, feelings, hope, how
Form: Lyric
Brave New World-Second Sight
...When illumination turns into damnation
And tentative time is the internal enemy
Because those of us who do not fuss
Will begin to slowly sadly sanely see
And the rest of you who will askew
In de...
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Categories:
sanely, abuse, birth, conflict, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Drunk At Fourteen
...I wondered home one night with the stars,
With my kingly rugby shirt on encompassing,
My blue Bec 40 electric wheelchair, no bars,
Which I was also the king of notwithstanding.
Irrespective...
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Categories:
sanely, friend, growing up, life,
Form: Quatrain
Awareness
...Slowly, surely, truly
Come to know true beauty
Calmly, clearly, wisely
Come to feel things easy
Bravely, boldly, brightly
Come to think thoughts cheery
Bubbly, buzzy, breezy
Come t...
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Categories:
sanely, beauty,
Form: Couplet
EarthCommonSense
...I wonder what
and whom
makes my transracial family tick.
Quick shadows of lopsided smiles.
Slapping white walls as you step by.
Are these tics
that make you tick somehow?
I know what tick...
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Categories:
sanely, beauty, black african american,
Form: Political Verse
Two Beach Strolling Sisters Discussing Their Savior
...Two Beach Strolling Sisters Discussing Their Savior
This was his virtue; that with head and heart
He saw life sanely, from all mist apart,
and spoke with such assurance as he showed
our wa...
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Categories:
sanely, art, beach, beauty, faith,
Form: Ekphrasis
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