The Truth
...My song will be out of tuned
Distorted and seaming in ruin
A matter of false fact
Under a pretense that
The truth will be told
And not bought and sold...
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Categories:
seaming, truth,
Form: Free verse
Serging Through Life's Stitches with Scars
...Serging through life, I whipstitch, weft, and welt,
But always, my thoughts are pick-threading.
As stippled patches of emotion rise and fall in me,
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
Just too m...
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Categories:
seaming, emotions, faith, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The Cat's Cradle
...'Cat's Cradle's' a string game, --forty inches
enables a noose. Fastened end, handles
it's stable. Weave string through finger-pinches
finagles new patterns that'll form like, 'Candle...
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Categories:
seaming, allusion, analogy, appreciation, change,
Form: Lento
Drifts
...Drifts
Pen to paper,
sword to the soul,
write your heart out...
Now!
Do something,
sing,
dance,
prance even,
but do not stop.
Living is a funny
the experience
a mock realit...
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Categories:
seaming, america, cancer, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Open Wounds
...Sutures of connection,
words tightly sewn
Seaming together
—closing the unknown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...
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Categories:
seaming, words,
Form: Rhyme
Stargazer
...A thought to dare-dancing
in shadow-light dreaming.
Eyes wet with the unseen,
a forbidden gleening.
If only unforseen.
Within golden breast heaving,
rib expanding in unison with destiny's...
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Categories:
seaming, absence, baby, baptism, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Cinderella
...And she swept as her eyes wept.
Still she continues dreaming,
With little knowing
Of her little friends seaming together
A dress just for her.
Without stall,
Away she went to the ball....
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Categories:
seaming, princess,
Form: Free verse
Sweat Shop Bazaar
...Seaming in a sewing room, earning his copper coins in twos. With patterns, tools, & spools, fast pace so hard to do. Rusty fans that are always frozen, feed dog staying broken with a boss who's const...
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Categories:
seaming, art, character, creation, day,
Form: Rhyme
Find Me Here
...
find me here
in
this
concrete form
delusionally real
sinking into seams
seamstresses seaming
what has been stitched
in
me
needle to flesh
she has stolen
my
breath
find me her...
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Categories:
seaming, art,
Form: Concrete
Amidst the Prairie
...Out in the distance
I saw three tall ones
towering high
Amidst the distance meadow
Serving as sentinel
With a gawking boldness
Out in the distance
Emerged three flat ones
Seaming up the l...
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Categories:
seaming, beauty, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Her Metamorphosis
...Metamorphosis: a word for butterflies,
Said the science textbook in school,
Positive transformations connoted her young soul.
Age brought in a new realisation,
Life, a one-way road with two desti...
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Categories:
seaming, emotions, identity, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Blank verse
Aquatic Butterflies
...Variations multicolored adaptations shimmering in the waters
Of hewed blue, beauties in the depths light show, yet these
Aquatic butterfly’s sting requires distances persuasion.
Deadly eloquence w...
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Categories:
seaming, adventure, beauty, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Prayer Said
...Perilous assumption, the faith I've read
my mind, my mind, the tone of led
is not contingent on my tread
but hope in virtue's seaming knead!
The evermore, I vacate head
and pray, accomplish wh...
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Categories:
seaming, prayer,
Form: Monorhyme
Who's the Fairest of Them All
...In the early morning light…
You stand before me, and slowly disrobe, as you have so many times
before.
Then …for a moment… as you have so many times before…you stare at
me, not seaming to ...
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Categories:
seaming, introspection,
Form: Personification
Hot Wheels
...The honesty of kin, childhood, the win
to have it all, the prize, the goal,
a Mother's prayer, the senseless maul,
somewhere within my reach, still small!
The hot wheel, faded, paintless steel
withi...
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Categories:
seaming, childhood, son,
Form: Monorhyme
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