The Jagged Edges
...The barbs she threw at him
left jagged edges on them both
torn from deep within herself
raw, bloody pieces of meat
hurled violently across the room,
the space, the endle...
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Categories:
shrouding, anger, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Black Hole Love
...Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought me...
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Categories:
shrouding, husband, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Confronting shadows
...Attached to outcomes, ego opaques light,
radiance of our true Self, veiled by mind,
demons of darkness, shrouding heart’s delight,
thought tentacles gripping us in their bind.
As both tormentor...
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Categories:
shrouding, fear, heart, joy, light,
Form: Sonnet
Rubicon Crossing
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Rubicon Crossing
Behold a young man in his late twenties
Standing silently near the swampy sho...
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Categories:
shrouding, anxiety, break up, first
Form: Narrative
Romantic Thoughts - Nothing More
...Every night Sea rises at high tide
His waves are like warm frothy fingers
caressing Moon's golden glow on the shore
It's a game they play with ebb and flow
Hide and seek. She has a flirtacio...
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Categories:
shrouding, romantic,
Form: Free verse
The Close Embrace of Death
...“In the cold embrace of death, we come to realize the fragility of human existence.” Unknown
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Th...
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Categories:
shrouding, death, fate, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
shrouding, life,
Form: Haiku
A Lonely House in the Steppe - 3
...In the Wake of Fear
Some have fainted, collapsing in fright,
While others are weeping, lost in the night.
Tears of joy mixed with panic and dread,
Flow from the heart, where fear once had sprea...
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Categories:
shrouding, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Embodying the Light
...Line of inquiry:
truth imbibed
awaits assimilation
we feel it in our bones
in time dissolved meditation
Early in the morning, when the world is still not awake,
Shut to extern...
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Categories:
shrouding, god, introspection, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
When I Bleed Out In Front Of You
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{"Hadn’t you known, or care to acknowledge that I am wholly fond of my life as of right now?
I’m in love with the lighting that shoots and grazes my neighbor's balcony as I sit in front of my own...
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Categories:
shrouding, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Our Natural State
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Ebullient ecstasy cascades in the rolling valley of time,
changes tenor with the reflection of the chromatic sky
on the parchment of delightful dawn and dulcet dusk.
On the sensuous cerulean...
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Categories:
shrouding, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
I Don’t Deserve You, and You Don’t Deserve Me
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{"To the ones who want to love me first, I don’t deserve you, and you don’t deserve me. It is vivid, enduring to every human, alluring at any foul play you want to scream what is right and wrong, i...
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Categories:
shrouding, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
...{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance.
That lying in t...
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Categories:
shrouding, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon,
the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o...
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Categories:
shrouding, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems
...“To Edward Young”
by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
translation by Michael R. Burch
Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum;
now tears of joy
tremble on angel-lids
as heaven extends ...
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Categories:
shrouding, angel, death, dream, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
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