Life Or Poetry
...I was never born a poet
But a pauper standing on a pulpit
Penning words in spring tide dings
Ritzy scribbling like trundling rings
Talons of my feet
Seething grounds I scratch and leet
Feathe...
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Categories:
shimming, life, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
We Are Out There
...Area 51 reruns itself.
Tube-fed alien hitchhikers
hideout in paper suits and
sweat mercury.
Mothers in desert tan caravans
bleach breakfast,
call skinny kids in,
mid-century ray guns
glitte...
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Categories:
shimming, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stars
...At the Planetarium, I saw them.
All alighted in the sky. I couldn't count them even if I tried.
Beautiful and shimmering, the beauty of diamonds in the sky.
Oh, what God has done ...
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Categories:
shimming, allusion, art, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Suppressing Truth
...Significance is signalized by interest
Unfounded truths can damage sworn loyalty
People seem friends, but act like wolves
Praising their false deeds instead of the true ones
Rotten inside, twisti...
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Categories:
shimming, people, political, social
Form: Acrostic
Shimmering Sheet
...Burning burnished red
A shining shimming sheet
Sun rising over sea...
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Categories:
shimming, inspirational, life, nature,
Form: Haiku