Shadowboxing
...Sifting through the same old fusillade,
sorry but you missed your target.
Brushing off the bob and weave,
sent it right back to you.
Can't beat the shadow
who learned to move.
You taught me
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Categories:
shadowboxing, confidence, emotions, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Pigeon Tai Chi
...Park of unfenced wildness
densely packed in light infused summer
city folk beat paths of free spirited essence
park pigeons squat, survey seniors
i...
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Categories:
shadowboxing, bird, cinco de mayo,
Form: Free verse
Shadowboxing Tko
...I could’ve been a boxer, measuring milligrams per pound
So I’d know exactly what it’d take for a K.O. in the first round
I throw punches in the shadows ‘cuz I’m faster than light
And I’m still mak...
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Categories:
shadowboxing, endurance, for him, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Shadowboxing
...My shoulders are well oiled axles,
my fists are cannon balls
I am an uncompromised,
uninhibited,
and unchallenged fresh breath of boldness
I am a statue of fastholding,
chiseled down from black dia...
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Categories:
shadowboxing, anger, conflict, courage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Shadowboxing At Night
...A darkness in me
Captured my soul in ransom
Making feelings numb...
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Categories:
shadowboxing, sad
Form: Haiku
Old Man Winter's Soul
...if i do this same routine will i eventually get it right
change or justify my thinking
rationalsie away the blues
put away cynical abuses never was worth it
substitute the perfect circle of my ow...
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Categories:
shadowboxing, artold, old,
Form: I do not know?
The Book the Wizard Wrote Part Three
...find the messenger and shoot
she smiles and looks art me and says
you don’t know do you?
plant the seed to take care of number one first
censor defaults of sentiments left to chance
head east ...
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Categories:
shadowboxing, faith, imagination, on writing
Form: Free verse
Becoming
...procrastination wanted to be my name.
my esteem threatened to be as wee as an elf.
trying to better myself was the game.
i tried shadowboxing with myself.
hey, i started to be on time one day.
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Categories:
shadowboxing, happiness, life, uplifting, me,
Form: Quatrain