Lone, But Not Lonely
...Joan Marlowe was eight years old, and loved the smiling, happy people;
As green pines love chattering redbirds, when an orange sun is gleeful.
And yet, when some found they were too busy,...
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Categories:
semiconscious, beauty, fantasy, girl, nature,
Form: Couplet
Ocean of Emotions
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Can You save Me When I'm Drowning
Into the Depths of What's not
Numbed My Senses, Losing My Breathe
Submerged, Sublevel, Semiconscious
Lost at Sea In the Ocean of Emotions
With no Branches t...
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Categories:
semiconscious, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Semiconscious
...I'm going under again---
You're pulling me down the line
With hook-fingers in my eye sockets,
Dragging me over open land---
I can feel my feet
Breaking ripping shredding---
Let me go...
You'...
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Categories:
semiconscious, pain,
Form: Blank verse
Breathing
...He takes another labored, raspy breath;
there’s spittle in the corner of his mouth.
The veil between this life and certain death
is stretched transparent like a piece of gauze.
His semiconscious ...
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Categories:
semiconscious, farewell, journey,
Form: Blank verse
Much of This
...He seemed frustrated
His grasp of learning
traditional wrestling
and what is called new
-age wrestling and
Modern style. He approached
Both his gimmick and style
as his personality. He saw
Hi...
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Categories:
semiconscious, character, courage, culture, environment,
Form: Ballade
Palliative Hallucinations
...The tip of a finger, barely touching ulcerated skin
Chamfered ache of reason, or finely balanced whim
Forced through a reality, where spoons become bent
Into the pleasure dome, they inject ...
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Categories:
semiconscious, allusion, confusion, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Semiconscious States
...after been awake half the night ~ the whole next day i was half asleep...
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Categories:
semiconscious, allegory, sleep, truth,
Form: Monoku
A Light At the End of the Tunnel
..."What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.
We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return refreshed and ...
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Categories:
semiconscious, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship
Form: Couplet
Apertures of Agony
...Was professor of astronomy, ah those heady days
Studied fields in cosmology, including solar rays
Observed galaxies all my life, seeking exotic events
Ironically happens now, as my death’s...
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Categories:
semiconscious, allusion, death, irony, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One
...Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...
Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperb...
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Categories:
semiconscious, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One
...Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...
Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperb...
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Categories:
semiconscious, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Nomads of the Rising Sun
...Nomads of the Rising Sun
~~a homeless home invasion~~
We are nomads of this earthly plain, dining with dust and riveting rain
Dancing with demons dictating pain, making stronge...
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Categories:
semiconscious, depression, poverty, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Morning
...MORNING
Good morning World.
Damn you!
and your warm
sunray fingers
prying open my eyes.
Robbing me of my
nocturnal fantasies,
my semiconscious bliss.
Leaving the remnants
of my peace
and tranqui...
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Categories:
semiconscious, giggle, humorous, morning,
Form: Free verse
Diary Entry
...Daddy was… I don’t even remember but he wasn’t there
I don’t even remember why you were so angry
I got back home that night and my dog was lying in front of the garage
AT NIGHT in front of the garage...
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Categories:
semiconscious, daughter, mother, night, dog,
Form: Bio
Phantom In the Dark
...Her droopy eyelids opened in the dark
Like so many lonely mornings before.
She lay unmoving in an antique bed
Half awake, yet to her she wasn’t sure.
She thought (or dreamed) of her husband long ...
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Categories:
semiconscious, lost love
Form: Haiku
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