The Echo Returns Not
...
I call out your name from hilltops and lofty mounts.
But I get no response, not even an echo return.
Once our laughter pulsated through crannies and crevices
And along seastrands wi...
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Categories:
sibilance, anxiety, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Pulse of the Poet's Abyss
...In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
I ruminate—
no longer a singular entity but a disjointed duality
my qui...
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Categories:
sibilance, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Sounds of the Seasons
...The clamor heard
In the urgently raucous awakening of Spring
Slowly dies down
During the lethargic sibilance of Summer,
But quickly revives
With the crunchy tanginess of Fall,
Only to be subdu...
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Categories:
sibilance, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Whispers Skyline
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Written: May 20, 2024
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Siren stunningly sprung a sanguine sway
sailboat sheaths spread, and storms swell
splendid summer shoreli...
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Categories:
sibilance, solitude, summer,
Form: Alliteration
I Stuffed Their Mouths With Gold
...Convalesced amongst peaks and valleys,
Verdant and undulating over Afon Ebwy,
I paid my way through the colliery
With but a baker's dozen of years behind me.
Seduced by the hanging-left red sc...
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Categories:
sibilance, care, health, memory, political,
Form: Free verse
Auguries From Apophenia
...NOT incarnated in an unlight inside this Great Hookworm's duotoroidal traumedy-
NOR feverously skeined 'tween the Void's warp-weft over timeleft psukhai shivering-
NIL latency in thoughtfoam fr...
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Categories:
sibilance, allegory, dark, horror, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Kissed By the Passing Breeze of Awakening
...I was lost, thoroughly lost and sat brooding.
Dejected and desperate with no one to share,
Withdrew into the dark caverns of my own shell,
Snapping all connections with the outside wor...
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Categories:
sibilance, angst, beauty, confidence, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Choose
...Choose unironically ripping off a film to be ironic
Choose now because then will never be enough
Choose puff puff puff puff puff pass because you’ll never have enough
Choose feeling guilty in the ...
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Categories:
sibilance, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug,
Form: Free verse
Wounded Whisper
...Soft sibilance departed a while past now;
lost in family, familiarity,
an indiscretion.
Soulless silence interposes churlish crows.
The weightiness of strangled screams hangs heavy
deafening t...
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Categories:
sibilance, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
A Simple Whim- POTD
...How I wish to scuttle alone,
over a gentle river,
from bank to bank,
in a small boat,
rowed with a bamboo pole.
The call of the wild is an irresistible call,
to venture into th...
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Categories:
sibilance, cheer up, fantasy, river,
Form: Verse
Greet the Dawn Nk
...over the sky
sun opens
his third eye
red tint spreads
clouds float high-
fluffy white.
birds fly high,
feast to the eye.
one can feel the calm sibilance,
of a blue tranquil lake...
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Categories:
sibilance, birth, day, peace, september,
Form: Haiku
On a Stormy Night
...Out in the sea, sailing on a stormy night
With the wind sweeping in fury all around
The racing clouds veiling the moon from sight
Leaving the land for Darkness to surround
The soft ...
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Categories:
sibilance, anxiety, fear, sea, storm,
Form: Rhyme
By the Seaside
...Staying by the sea, now at sunset
With the light slowly fading into greyness
And the waters lying quiet
A peace fills me as never before
Dismal fears barred entry into the soul
Min...
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Categories:
sibilance, sea, sunset, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
When Hope Sings
...When I am a healthy Norwich person
I hope to feel warm and joyful gratitude
for compassionate nonviolent communicators
past and present
With cooperatively nonpartisan
bipartisan
dipolar co-ar...
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Categories:
sibilance, earth, health, integrity, muse,
Form: Political Verse
Auto Da Fe At the Plaza Major
...Auto-da-fé at Plaza Major
Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
that failed to quench the civil mob.
...
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Categories:
sibilance, poverty,
Form: Free verse
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