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Embarrassment

...Last week, I walked up to a woman,
My arms encircling her un-notified waist,
After stiffly pointing out to some man
His not- funny miscalculations from childish haste…

Only yesterday was traili...

Categories: shovelful, character, emotions, hate, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Discomforted Summer

...Spring passed
here is Summer
at last, not her last

lasting grief, summer’s relief
cool waters flow
seasons surpass

dictates of time
as we tread water
especially her spouse

he finds sli...

Categories: shovelful, grief,
Form: Free verse

Winter Snow

...gray like Winter snow — the endless shovelful of dreary sky

1/16/2019...

Categories: shovelful, weather,
Form: Monoku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Joy Within

...Where has that joy source gone
the one I thought was infinite
taken for granted
dried up like youth

One shovelful of dirt after another
one disappointment too many
finally crushing that littl...

Categories: shovelful, bullying, depression, dream, freedom,
Form: Free verse

The Long Burial

...With a strange, strangled gasp, we gulp the cold air
Crisscrossed by bats in their mad zigzag dash
From out of this cave, out from under this trash
That suffocates us, up our noses and hair;
Blin...

Categories: shovelful, assonance, death, grave, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Grave Thoughts

...GRAVE THOUGHTS

unseen
even though protocol
states 6 feet under
all along
walking up to the stone
pushing up daisies
with my feet
until his mate
fades away
and a fresh dig
eve...

Categories: shovelful, grave,
Form: Free verse

Blanket of Fluff

...BLANKET OF FLUFF

a halo of snowflakes

                          ******
encircles my  *  crown *
                        *********

alights on brisk hair

f l u t t e r s  on lashes

dus...

Categories: shovelful, art, snow,
Form: Free verse

Castle On a Hill

...There was a castle on a hill
It only took hours to build
Buckets and buckets of sand
Two pairs of children's hands

A vacant high spot on the beach
Just out of the low tides reach
Two kids, pl...

Categories: shovelful, beach, creation, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Trainge Dreams

...I dreamed I was a porter
carrying bags that weighed a ton.
Quickly answering in the Club Car
when anyone called, "Hey Son"!

I dreamed I was a conductor
punching tickets neat as you please.
Wa...

Categories: shovelful, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

The Gravedigger

...He never did see a face though only a board width away,
yet remembers feeling privileged, spending those last few moments
while trying so hard to find the softer soil to lessen the impact
upon the...

Categories: shovelful, pride,
Form: Haibun

The Snow

...The snow doth fall upon my face

with cool spots of icy water that soon melt from the heat of 98 point 6

The snow fills my bird bath 'til it piles up and creates a dome no bird will negotiate

...

Categories: shovelful, friendship, inspirational, life, religion,
Form: Free verse

Texas

...TEXAS


Is a vast place, bigger than France, and in many ways much more interesting.


El Capitan reef, the Pecos, the Panhandle,  all conjure up more imagination


Than a truckload of Monma...

Categories: shovelful, places
Form: Light Verse