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Putting all thoughts
Out there online
Every little notion
Treasures of mine
Real or not
Yearning to shine

Gathering momentum
Except in my head
Must ink words down
Submit before dead....

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Categories: gathering momentum, courage, feelings, inspiration, poetry, words,
Form: Acrostic

Raise the Roof

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 "Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
                                           John Ruskin, 1853


beyond poverty of drab ghettos
a child's playful imagination
breaks free of urban confines
tearing down walls of oppression
to soar higher and higher
gathering momentum 
to conquer bright blue skies                 



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on September 29, 2020...

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Categories: gathering momentum, childhood, dream, future, hope, inspiration, visionary, youth,
Form: Free verse

Nasa's Thrift's Adrift

5...4...3...2...1...0...
 Ignition...Rockets firing...
 Lift-off...We have lift-off...

 The three-stage rocket strains upward
 gathering momentum each second
 Firing away on all cylinders now
 gentle palm trees melt down in her wake

 All systems go... the capsule's on its way
 to the far side of Jupiter some day

 to explore rocky promontories
 and sizzling-hot lakes of molten lava

 to take photos and grab dirt samples
 for 'all that' this project's cost ~ ample...

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Categories: gathering momentum, journey, money, planet, space,
Form: Rhyme