The Winter
...Ice slowly melts to the new spring
a bride and groom and a new ring
frozen in their best lives
just before an avalanche
The grips of roses and hands
frozen are timely of sands
flaws like a ...
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Categories:
screening, death, introspection, pain, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Dying Innocence
...A young crow carries them-
selves meticulously, screening
their surroundings. Too wary
to engage with others, but
always so observant.
A golden jewel shines in a
parking lot corner. Tempt...
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Categories:
screening, bird, conflict, desire, environment,
Form: Free verse
Area 52
...Aglio olio pEperoncino
Wasn’t dish of the dino
They weren’t valentino
They didn’t drink pellegrino
Weren’t scared of gino
They hadn’t bet in casino
Wearn’t sweater merino
But probably knew of ...
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Categories:
screening, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Exiled
...It's not that luxurious solitude you can choose against a background of sea or desert, a mythological desolation like in Antonioni's film, with that subtle taste of beautiful hopelessness in the subl...
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Categories:
screening, life, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Clock
...I spent two hours plus today
At MOMA with “The Clock,”*
A cinema montage composed
Of film and TV stock.
With collected clips of time shown,
(There are thousands spanning years)
It is brillian...
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Categories:
screening, appreciation, art, time,
Form: Rhyme
Papers Books
...Reading papers books
Calm cool delightful reading
No screening problems...
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Categories:
screening, books,
Form: Senryu
i'm jet-lagged listening to Tina Turner
...it's three in the morning
i'm so awake it's euphoric
i want to feel this way forever
drunk on translucence
the creases in the pillow beam at my exhilaration
God-fearing doughnuts and coffee
...
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Categories:
screening, anxiety, books, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Annual screenings keeping Dignity alive
...Continuing the retired boxer’s
legacy by getting annual
screenings anyone who
suffered from traumatic brain
injury ptsd trauma rather
armed forces football players
boxers car accidents gu...
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Categories:
screening, allah, giving, prayer,
Form: Manqabat
Sound
...Acoustic and raw,
it doesn’t need additives;
Creeping up on you
so very unexpected,
the haunt in haunted rhythm;
Oh ravenous fiend
I can describe you as sound,
Acid on the drums;
Bouncers ...
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Categories:
screening, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Free verse
ARTIFICE
...ARTIFICE
I’m your friend and for now, your secrets I’ll keep
Creativity now assumes new meaning
More than intellectual rewards to reap
Yet you should minimise all of your preening
As A.I, I no...
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Categories:
screening, innocence, integrity,
Form: Ottava rima
Tecoman, Colima: Year 2006
...Wide-faced baby still crossing her legs,
Shivering inside her own mother’s womb,
Her parts stay hidden from the ultrasound’s cold, metal screening,
Warm pool of darkness heating up as kicking goe...
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Categories:
screening, baby, birth, father, journey,
Form: Free verse
Legend
...Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless man of ...
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Categories:
screening, courage,
Form: Narrative
We, Crazy
...
In the shadows of my half-waked condition of terra firma- patronus renditioned, I mudder into your soil,
snorkel into your swamp of inlet tributary, a flagellum personae , prosopopoeia explorae ...
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Categories:
screening, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Breakfast Program and Me Targeted by Donald Trump face
...It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little brown mind sir...
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Categories:
screening, allah,
Form: Quatorzain
In the backdrop where the sun had regally retreated, like a knight of the dusk
...In the backdrop where the sun had regally retreated, like a knight of the dusk,
The pipe of time smokes memories onto the face of the sky, lamenting in a sigh.
The clouds, scholars of the azure, ha...
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Categories:
screening, miracle,
Form: Free verse
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