Beyond Words
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In the unspoken stanzas of glance,
A language of love is skillfully enhanced.
Flushed cheeks , shy eyes ,
Glimmering like starry night skies.
The melody of footsteps, a syncronized pace,
A...
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Categories:
skillfully, 12th grade, cute love,
Form: Rhyme
The Ledger of A retired Nurse's Life
...Tapestry of Life**
In the intricate tapestry of life, vibrant memories weave their threads, each one shimmering with its own hue. The echoes of past workplaces linger like faint, nostalgic perfume...
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Categories:
skillfully, anti bullying, encouraging, giggle,
Form: Narrative
DJ PunTable
...The bridge/ Hear that?/ Snap it pop it / Not the one of stone and steel, holding cars and trains aloft/ This bridge hums/ It vibrates/ yellin’, mo’ funk and groove please woven into the boss horns s...
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Categories:
skillfully, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
you
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i know
the moment the wind becomes more than a melody,
when shapes skillfully surround me
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Categories:
skillfully, sunshine, sweet love,
Form: Alliteration
Plagued by Memories
...Mosaic mahogany memories
Shatter like silver glass within me
Reflecting red reveries
Of all that could be
And never was
Yet somehow cutting
Inside my mind bleeds dreams
Scents of lavender ...
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Categories:
skillfully, angst, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Free verse
This Old Quilt
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This old quilt lies across the bed, the one we shared for so many years.
Each stitch lovingly made with the old-time craft once taught to you.
This pink stitch enfolds me now, in a memory of the ...
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Categories:
skillfully, beauty, devotion, endurance, love,
Form: Haibun
Waltz of the Dead
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Written 04/02/2025, for the Iron Maiden " Dance of Death" song, contest sponsored by Robert James L.
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Scary lie shrouded in opulence
I ponder over ...
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Categories:
skillfully, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Apotheosis
...Its torment is meant to disturb
the whole of the peace
you embody
The aim is to fragment & scatter
but you see the path of pieces
as if they're breadcrumbs
or brain matter
Time & again they ...
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Categories:
skillfully, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Love Line Cascade
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Written: March 29, 2025, for contest, Sponsored by Brian Strand
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she's a dazzling beauty mark,
upon my love line
thoughts that cascade
like vibrant wav...
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Categories:
skillfully, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Cubby's
...At Cubby's, the neon hums/
A beacon in the night/
A place for solace/
But now a source of plight/
I stood there, a truth on my lips, unplanned/
Asked the clerk to be kind, to lend a gentler hand...
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Categories:
skillfully, betrayal, corruption, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
FALSE PROPHET
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Whoever the evil one prophesies skillfully, greatly dehumanizes...
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Categories:
skillfully, allusion, analogy, perspective, words,
Form: Monoku
Fallen Angel
...Why did a cauldron of bedeviled bats fly right
into the grim windows splattering their blood
on the shards of glass strewn all over the floor…
What drove them to their gruesome death?
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Categories:
skillfully, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
To Be An Artist
...Solemnly I sit in silence, slaving over scant sculptures
I begin to carve away at the silky slip
my tools gliding skillfully
Although at a glance, I may seem serene
inside there is a savage stor...
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Categories:
skillfully, art, desire, gothic,
Form: Free verse
As the flowers are reborn in the embrace of emerging spring
...As the flowers are reborn in the embrace of emerging spring,
Who am I to wither at dawn, when I see the morning blackbirds gathering,
Blessing me with songs they sing in crystalline voices.
Once, ...
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Categories:
skillfully, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the depths of the mind, endless questions dance like shadows on the vast and silent sky
...In the depths of the mind, endless questions dance like shadows on the vast and silent sky,
Who am I, what am I, a speck of dust merged with everything, a fragment of a lost dream?
I am nothing and...
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Categories:
skillfully, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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