Headline Deep
...Perception is reality…who needs the truth?
The court of public opinion won’t ask for proof
Peeling the onion is too much to bear
Skim the surface and pretend to care
Crash landing…nothing stand...
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Categories:
sapping, culture, society,
Form: Free verse
Tuckered Out
...My older self gets tuckered out
Before the night has started.
The energy I used to have
Has quietly departed.
And toss some jet lag in the mix,
Plus days a’broil and sunny,
Add extra-rich vac...
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Categories:
sapping, age,
Form: Rhyme
In the orchestrated heart of the American nation
...In the orchestrated heart of the American nation,
Underground rivers of dysfunction flow,
Tired forests and the cement sky of silence,
Where dancing illusions transform into infinite spirals,
And...
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Categories:
sapping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Trouble with still being active and old
...While no one in their right mind,
Would not want to be old and active,
With a mind that is there most of the time.
Actively searching for other people,
Who are also active,
To be active with,
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Categories:
sapping, age, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Burlesque
Ella Fells A Fella
...
Ella peripherals the scene,
instantly onboard. (A ship of fool.)
An onlooker, a poor dead-wood, looks, to be
particle_lurely bored.
Then another quip came to her
a...
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Categories:
sapping, art,
Form: Narrative
The Cinder of Ella of the Cedars
...
Wood Nymph, wraps white
gossamer legs in hello, as branch shakes
in obvious "ka_ching"!
'Oh wait till you see what she does next",
tattles the tree, in an excited a...
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Categories:
sapping, april, art,
Form: Rhyme
tongue tolerates teasing
...Napping nap nighty night
Tapping tap tighty tight
Sapping sap slightly sight
Happing hap heightly height
Japping jap jightly jight
Wrapping rap rightly right
Lapping lap lightly light
Dappin...
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Categories:
sapping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Anaemia
...Anaemia
Who cares for her once glorious dreams
Utopia is the new reality
Dopamine-starved citizens gaze forlornly
As blood feverishly flows out
From her gaping wounds
Siamese twins of hunge...
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Categories:
sapping, corruption, political,
Form: Free verse
Building the Base
...If not standing on solid ground
Small setbacks can be sapping
Exterior cracks can compound
Stress that was already flapping
Daily difficulties easily expand
Into a full season of suffering...
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Categories:
sapping, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
A Time For Peace
...The time of peace
Christmas day and rain, disappearing polar bears in the Hudson Bay
and in the USA, a frost bomb explodes over America from Alaska
to New Mexico, a warning of what can happen ...
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Categories:
sapping, anti bullying, appreciation, confidence,
Form: Chant Royal
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 30
...Brave are the knights and their mounts,
to face hates abominations,
many of them were falling,
under the weight of Hell, they fell.
Still, we see many standing,
they fight on with such angry p...
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Categories:
sapping, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Bipartisan Images
...There remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,
Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,
About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering ...
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Categories:
sapping, games, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse
Rush Amid the Rapids Published
...The greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil,...
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Categories:
sapping, adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose
Man Cannot Be Woman, Woman Cannot Be Man - Ii
...II.
Now Lena was the career type,
a driven, female engineer,
she built systems than ran the world,
a success story, it appeared.
But Lena felt a ticking clock
as thirties kept going on,
she ...
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Categories:
sapping, confusion, gender, how i
Form: Rhyme
Awaiting the Warmth
...Before me was spring
sapping away the cold and colorless
an awakening of hope
with promises of tomorrow
seedlings will be scattered by heavens breath
as long buried roots emerge
and ache for a ...
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Categories:
sapping, nature, spring, winter,
Form: Free verse
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