Last Hopes Which Lay
...Last hopes which lay
Flashing lightening and huge thunders,
And marching rain through blackening nights,
Sitting on top of shaking chair
With hopes of passing time under darkening nightmare;
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Categories:
short sleep, day, death, deep, destiny,
Form: Light Verse
Short Sleep
...N-ice daylight slumber
A-ims to regain the lost strengrh,
P-erfect snooze in time.
Form: Haikustic...
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Categories:
short sleep, poems,
Form: Haiku
Bees
...How many words at night just like
bees in a hive buzz in my head!
“No pulse.. failed the brain test.. apneic,
pronounced dead”, somebody said.
Oh, life and death, you look so much
alike and e...
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Categories:
short sleep, death, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Fractured Realities
...I surrender my body to the place of great relief
Where sights dissolve
and sounds concede
Existing, only inside
Where living means to die
To wander the lands of misrule
To experience th...
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Categories:
short sleep, angst, deep, dream, good
Form: Free verse
This Dream Called Life
..."For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The leaves change hue.
I’m right behind. They fall to ground,
and as they...
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Categories:
short sleep, life,
Form: Rhyme
Everyday Is Labor Day
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Got kidnaped from my African village,
tossed on a big, long ship that sailed far away
Stripped of every decent human privilege,
forced to work on short sleep, long hours, no pay
Didn’t...
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Categories:
short sleep, holiday, slavery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
From Creation To Resurrection
...Man is created by God
From the earth's dust;
And to ashes, he'll be back,
When he breathes his last.
He is designed by the Lord
From his mother's womb;
When his time comes
He shall go str...
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Categories:
short sleep, life,
Form: Verse
The Road Will Be Taken
...The road will be taken, the right road
From the roads of roads of eternal twos
To cross a long way of even, uneven,
Zigzag, of fire, water; through rain,
Drought, mist, storm; over rivers,
Oc...
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Categories:
short sleep, journey, success,
Form: Free verse
The Wicker House
...Too often I have forgotten the nectar
of welcomed recollection,
Having been lazed out
in Sylvan grasses green,
lounging upon the footstool of the world.....
where the wood...
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Categories:
short sleep, anxiety, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Land Beyond the Sun
...O, see that sunset.
That means the day is almost done,
But there’s a new day dawning
In a land beyond the sun.
A day of perfect peace and joy
For you and me,
In a land, beyond the sun,...
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Categories:
short sleep, death, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: I do not know?