Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine
...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering
Like you, he p...
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Categories:
self effacing, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse
From a Passionate Swain a Straightforward Declaration of Love Is Made
...I love women who gracefully dance
And sweetly sing; and women who
Avidly read and who brilliantly think;
I love women who love to love—
And who despise to hate—and who
Receive and give of th...
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Categories:
self effacing, for her, grandmother, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
Letter To My Mother
...Realizing a fresh life growing inside,
What thoughts coursed through your mind,
I still wonder, oh dear my mom.
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or respond to it with a violent shock?
So...
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Categories:
self effacing, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Gallery
...GALLERY
a
splash
of colour
&
joy
brought
exhilaration
a repurposed
compulsive
fascination
with
intensity
an affectionate
motifs
so
graphic
in
a light
hearted
brief
of
...
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Categories:
self effacing, poetry,
Form: Other
Trees In Spring
...Trees In Spring
Beneath the trees, gazing up, I see
Branches reaching skyward, sprouting leaves,
Filtering rays through the canopy
That cause my eyes to blink breathlessly
From the mosa...
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Categories:
self effacing, nature, spring, tree,
Form: Rhyme
His Property Taxes Him
...Petals have now fallen from the final rose
His forsythia bush is ready for pruning
Weeds are taking over where his lilac grows
And, fall bulbs not taken up are ruining.
His backy...
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Categories:
self effacing, humorous, life, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Rajaram Ramachandran, You Will Be Missed Forever
...RAJARAM RAMACHANDRAN, YOU WILL BE MISSED FOREVER
You’ve left a legacy, a treasure to cherish,
The words of wisdom, the priceless pearls,
Each letter embedded with love and care,
For all the fel...
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Categories:
self effacing, memorial,
Form: Verse
Orphic Spells
...Ex lovebirds of
the tamest passion can turn
so predatory.
Passive aggressive
schoolboys who mock whistle at
ex-girlfriends for spite.
Who scatter book bag
contents in mock accidents
for...
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Categories:
self effacing, 11th grade, boyfriend, girlfriend,
Form: Senryu
The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity
...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel...
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Categories:
self effacing, eulogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse
White Feathers Sprayed Red
...We war with impunity
And weaponise such things as the
beauty of flowers
And all for what ?
When come today we have to guard the statues and Cenotaph that commemorate our fallen heroes
O...
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Categories:
self effacing, slam,
Form: Free verse
Random Instincts and - Thinks -
...Smith Wigglesworth, on the Bible, the only book he learned to read at 23: "When I read the newspaper I feel dirtier than I went in. When I read the Bible I feel cleaner than I went in. And I like fee...
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Categories:
self effacing, angst, bible, education, jesus,
Form: Bio
Oven Theology: I Am the Bread of Life
...Smith Wigglesworth, on the Bible, the only book he learned to read at 23: "When I read the newspaper I feel dirtier than I went in. When I read the Bible I feel cleaner than I went in. And I like fee...
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Categories:
self effacing, best friend, betrayal, bible,
Form: Bio
Oven-Theology: Dedicated To Richard Lamoureux of Canada
...My prayer is that you, maybe with a word I share, will love the Bible & adore Jesus. O, it is THE Book of books, Best Romances, adventures, evil people & nations stopped, lessons taught! Peter denied...
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Categories:
self effacing, bible, community, forgiveness, gospel,
Form: Epigram
2020 Sight and Sounds
...Speaking With NonBully VoiceBoxes
Dissociative injustice,
like racist slurs and disinvestments,
retributive oppression
for not being SWM enough,
has ecological roots
in LeftBrain anthro/ego-c...
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Categories:
self effacing, earth, health, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Query From My Ex
...Am I really so flawed?
Am I truly that odd?
Crawling like a snake
Into the canebrake
A whoremongering fraud
No wonder you don't like me....
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Categories:
self effacing, anger, depression, hate, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
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