TO THE POETIC RIVERS OF MANY TONGUES
...Canvassers of the word, from the fireplaces of
Pregnant minds let us, with ebullient enthusiasm,
Pen flaming words to melt away the dismay in a world
Wrought with war, bigotry, injustice, ha...
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Categories:
slacking, allegory, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
TO THE POETIC RIVERS OF MANY TONGUES
...Canvassers of the word, from the fireplaces of
Pregnant minds let us, with ebullient enthusiasm,
Pen flaming words to melt away the dismay in a world
Wrought with war, bigotry, injustice, ha...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
slacking, allegory, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Unspoken Affections: Part-VI
...staring into your eyes but 10 seconds seemed bit harder
hot flush from your stare and I felt my cheeks grew warmer
your face slacking happiness and heart covered in dark gray
i wanted to whisper ...
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Categories:
slacking, lonely, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
CUTTING CORNERS
...What of pride and presentation
When time is short in duration?
An octagon out of a square...
Proverbial scissors used there.
It is what it is - this, I hear
Constantly in and out each ear.
A tr...
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Categories:
slacking, conflict, stress, work,
Form: Rhyme
I SURRENDER
...I surrender my all to you, my love
All of me I give away unto you, my lord
So you can take absolute control, my world
Taking away all pains and shames, my healer
Taming and caging evil beings, m...
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Categories:
slacking, africa, christian, humor, inspirational,
Form: Epic
WALK, TALK
...Tick tock says the clock
Time to
Walk, talk,
exact
pain or gain
says the clock
Pray you don't fall prey
slack mouth lacks
Wanting no seizing
From season to season
No reason for ridicule
...
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Categories:
slacking, africa, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Englyn
1717 Scripture Ave
...I want a girl who rides with me on Sunday mornings
Because everything about her says take me to church
Curves make me yell preach
We a little late but she says a queen always arrives on time
The ...
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Categories:
slacking, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme
The One Where I Met You
...Wet streets, like wet streets after rain
hitting pavement like the slacking
of vexed heels before the squabble
of sun battling cloud, sun to win.
Rapid transit, like transience,
like de-coh...
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Categories:
slacking, allusion, city, love,
Form: Free verse
Abcs of American Democracy
...Abundant wisdom appears to be lacking
Behind the halls of our venerable House.
Could it be our seers are slacking,
Drowned in the spittle of an untenable grouse,
Even now as our country falters?
...
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Categories:
slacking, america, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Fort, In Days of Old
...The paddlewheel unloads people,
tourists who were out on a cruise,
above the docks and the gift shops
the brown palisades come in view.
(The canoes draw up on the beach,
Iroquois out looking t...
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Categories:
slacking, history, imagery, memory, people,
Form: Rhyme
Housekeeping Not a Strong Suit With the Missus
...Housekeeping not a strong suit with the missus
(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)
regarding following lines courtesy the missus,
who adventitiously, inadvertently, unknowingly
allowed, ...
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Categories:
slacking, anger, anxiety, betrayal, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Jim
...He'd wake up sorta rough around the edges
then he’d pull in his teeth from out of the glass
Yawn then rub his eyes with the back of his hands
scratch his belly for a while and then his ass
Aft...
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Categories:
slacking, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Virgin Heart
...Beyond the boundaries of those forged laughs ,
They were the descendants of Satan
Hiding their insanity were their purple scarfs.
Carving her feelings with pain as if it was a game of chess.
B...
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Categories:
slacking, betrayal, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Believing
...
Believing
Miracle Man
5/26/2023
Start with doable goals and in faith believe,
for greatest knowledge we can ever achieve.
If rooted in choices from everyday living,
taking risks isn...
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Categories:
slacking, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
Poetry Soup Is Supportive
...Chances she had to be disruptive,
Like others try out The Abortive
And like them unleash The Eruptive,
But she chose to be The Supportive:
For the legs that hop a bit a prop,
To pens asking for ...
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Categories:
slacking, career, imagination, inspiration, poems,
Form: Rhyme
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