I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025
...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.
How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...
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Categories:
sequestering, cool, environment, humorous, june,
Form: Free verse
Beneath Darkling Coverlets
...Some flowers bloom well into twilight,
moonlight mesmerizes them,
leads them into dreams of distant dawns.
The velvet drapes of summer
do not offend them,
rather they entice
as they bathe
wi...
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Categories:
sequestering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
the strange flower
....
Not the
Perennial
For
The flower showed
Past
Twice
Mine winterz
Mine prayer answered
That the flower
Be not the biennial
for
Appear yesss
Did it
For mine
Rest
Bloomed
Beamin...
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Categories:
sequestering, adventure, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
Gilded Life
...Lost in a labyrinth of
Glistening sights
Infinitely out of reach,
Trembling amidst sweeping mistrals,
Fabricating a life of nostalgic allusions,
Caught in lapsed reveries, of
Restless arias a...
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Categories:
sequestering, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Sad Endings
...There are many,
the threads of a public life
always unravelling
into more sadness.
We read of so and so
and his ending
her dire departing.
The sadness is a gesture,
an acknowledgement
th...
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Categories:
sequestering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Expect Only This
...We read of so and so
and his sad ending,
then we remember more;
more people in a long story.
Sadness is a gesture,
an acknowledgement
that we knew all along
its time would come again
with a...
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Categories:
sequestering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Shadows of Succulents
...Shadows of succulents surpass my seeing self
I lie on my back, admiring the seductive symmetry
How does nature manage to secrete similar signs
Is there a mystical, magical, movement in her roots?
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Categories:
sequestering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Wolves Among the Lambs
...There are those engaged in pedagogy
To facilitate the drip... drip... drip
Of poison to accost a child's ear.
Maneuvering with glee and juicy decadence...
Sequestering all they say and hear.
F...
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Categories:
sequestering, anger, child abuse, education,
Form: Rhyme
Pangs of Isolation
...For months, I've come to sense it well-
that loneliness, as none before.
In feelings of unrest, I dwell
on what is now- and what's in store.
At first, confined to home- so sad,
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Categories:
sequestering, how i feel, loneliness,
Form: Quatrain
Hiding In the Deepest Shadows
...Adjectives hid in the deepest shadows
behind smelly sticky stinky garbage dumpsters
rats squatted on them
Adverbs tore verbs into tiny manageable bites
and nested on them, after they were gooe...
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Categories:
sequestering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Covid-19 Coping
...It seems to happen frequently
At least in this millennium
All the freedoms we enjoy
We now must keep to minimum
They say we must can cel our plans
And figure out why tissue
Has disappeared fr...
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Categories:
sequestering, angst, celebrity, community, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Brief Pleasures of the Night
...Some flowers bloom well into twilight,
the dark does not assault them
it folds gently, it entices,
it allows flowers to succumb
but for a little while.
How unlike is the glaring light?
How it...
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Categories:
sequestering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Bulldog Turns 30
...The Bulldog Turns 30
Welcome to the days you shall not for long in life recall.
Welcome to the days you will with but one song recall.
These days are sharply bright, more so in deeply falling ...
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Categories:
sequestering, daughter, endurance, father daughter,
Form: Ghazal
Rangeomorphs
...THE PROVIDENCE OF MANKIND
BEYOND THE NIGHTS THE DREAMS
OF PEOPLE WHO SEEK IN ADVENTURE
TO REDEFINE MINING OF ASTEROIDS
THEY SPOKE OF THE ONE:1?2 TON RATIO
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Categories:
sequestering, animal, business, clothes, earth,
Form: Ballad
Summer Squall
...The ocean, eternal, spreads wide
Reflecting slate, somber storm clouds
While beachgoers, eight stories down,
Gather towels and scurry fast
From a squall shedding white lightning,
Dull, delayed d...
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Categories:
sequestering, beach, love, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
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