Firefly Juxtaposition
...darkening meadows
conjure parallel stages-
lawn chairs on damp grass
fireflies skittishly eyeing
the flitting lights of smart phones
14 Mar 2022...
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Categories:
skittishly, nature,
Form: Tanka
Perfume
...mystical sunday morning of a smile
an inward lightly scented
point of view
elusive wisps of crisp air
jazz brushing across the wet, warm sun/sky
of bluish, outstretched
blue
uncluttered by...
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Categories:
skittishly, blue,
Form: Free verse
I Face the Night
...barely twenty-four hours
my first night alone
lights turned off
last candle dwindling
as it casts shadows
skittishly across the room
in a little flickering dance
the walls command attention
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Categories:
skittishly, death, grief, longing, night,
Form: Free verse
Ouf- -
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OUF
Word of the day wha’ cha say
I’m juz an ugly nerd
What ya heard
Word!!!
OUF
Was walk tween class period
In the halls the bell rung
Skittishly I acc...
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Categories:
skittishly, 10th grade, analogy, irony,
Form: Free verse
Poke
...Lumpy and Bumpy
And a tad Frumpy
Was Skittishly Jumpy
But ever so Comfy
And a hell of ride
When the brake's were applied
And the giant woke
Once given a stroke...
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Categories:
skittishly, fun,
Form: Free verse
Legend of the Rush County Covered Bridge
...The bridge was built in 1892 across the gorge of Deer Lick Creek.
Many eerie things have happened since that time adding to its mystique.
'Twas built when men took pride in their guild of yesteryea...
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Categories:
skittishly, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Crushed
...My ego is a crippled creature,
A monstrous malingering monger of misery,
Shriveled, decrepit, it sits hunched between my heart and stomach,
A squat grey toad with bulbous dispirited eyes
Ugly, ri...
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Categories:
skittishly, depressionheart, heart, me,
Form: Free verse