Happy for my BFF
...played with his toes;
feet solidly suited,
two months old
in my BFF’s arms.
I’m getting over cold,
or as I told her,
“I’d get in her business,”
and swoop the fella
into my arms -
wha...
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Categories:
shyer, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Why I Am Here
...At the Planet Gym
embodying my best business
when suddenly I wonder
Why am I here?
repeats
and repeats
in my wandering ear
And what magic
might appear
Isn't that *****?
Not WHY am I h...
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Categories:
shyer, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Inside My Eyes
...I’m growing old inside my eyes.
Through that lens I cannot disguise.
She saw them today while magnifying.
Tiny cataracts is what she was spying.
Emma the optician must be lying.
I’m growing ol...
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Categories:
shyer, age, cheer up, how
Form: Rhyme
Bonedeep Lonely
...Imprisoning textures
and routine lectures
in loneliness,
"your own fault"
"not Other's loss"
blame
shame
dipolar co-arising
Loneliness effacing
cognitive/affective reason
and denying ...
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Categories:
shyer, green, health, loneliness, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Gold Dust Twins
...(Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Delight)
I used to feel disjointed and frazzled.
Now all my connections are fine.
I have a red headed girl with my coffee,
And a strawberry blond with my wine.
I harbo...
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Categories:
shyer, allegory, health, how i
Form: Burlesque
Better Living Through Chemistry
...Better Living Through Chemistry?
With chemical kindness, this life’s demagogic,
genetics of chance gives some lifeforms a leg up,
but ‘dust back to dust’ sings Time’s Bro...
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Categories:
shyer, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Noble Sentry
...A wee fellow, sporting an outsize bold-orange chest
The male of the species, ever doing his best
To protect his shyer, pale-chested mate
Back and forth struts Mr. Robin 'cross yard and fen...
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Categories:
shyer, bird, care, love,
Form: Rhyme
Birdman
...Birdman
Bold Dewi Jones would leave his home
first thing every morning,
and trot him down to Towy Wood
just as day was dawning,
and there he filled his Tesco bag,
fiv...
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Categories:
shyer, sad,
Form: Light Verse
Twisted Fate
...He left with the early train
He left in the rain
He had left only a letter
He didn't bother to wake her
As she slept like peace, a glow on her face
Bathed in the memories of the pleasure;
the...
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Categories:
shyer, break up, heartbreak, relationship,
Form: I do not know?
Necklace
...If space had more than a billion stars
I would still bring them down for you
I will make you a necklace
I would take the moon as a ring
And distance as a thread
And wrap it all up
Circling it ...
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Categories:
shyer, love, romance,
Form: Verse
Entertainment -Chapter 1-
...I have been on the road of recovery once again
Abandoned, but that’s alright – how have you been?
I hope you well in all you do…I’m unlike any other man
Remember the train who said ...
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Categories:
shyer, deep, depression, desire, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Homeless Schooled
...Healthy HomeSchool
therapeutic mindbody homelife,
especially for those who feel and think homeless,
co-empathic living
In-between longing for win/win
inter-religious GoldenRule endings
and b...
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Categories:
shyer, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
And If At Night
...And if at night the stars do come
shy in cautious dim
I quickly count them - the night is short
they give me time
if they have such a thing!
But, not the nights I need
The sun makes them shyer ...
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Categories:
shyer, allusion, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Gnat
...The spider Queen, aloofly vain!
She rules a silent ruthless reign,
with black-bead eyes like pearls of rain
that damp the depths of her demesne.
.
.
...
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Categories:
shyer, nature, society,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing With Daniel
...All senses alerted, I'm certain you're here
Your hand snakes my waist, confirming the fear
Attempts to fake brave, just making me shyer
Dancing with Daniel is playing with fire.
If I reached up a...
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Categories:
shyer, devotion, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
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