Theeby's
...Sixty years have passed.
No one knew how to spell its name.
No one knew when it first opened.
It was forever, like the infernal summer heat.
It stands indelible at the end of my street,
at the e...
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Categories:
slavishly, 5th grade, candy, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
...Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein...
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Categories:
slavishly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Can'T Fool Mother Nature
...DOUBLETHINK
Can’t Fool Mother Nature
1: THIS LIFE
Newspeak, Doublethink,
and other similar words
only bedevil us.
When trying to figure out what was said,
George Orwell In his novel, “19...
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Categories:
slavishly, abuse, appreciation, confusion, earth
Form: Free verse
Last Trains At the End of An Echo
...Last Trains at the End of an Echo
by Sy Roth
The Conestoga wagons littered the wasteland with their spiny bones
in search of the comfort of others
clattering, grinding wheels singi...
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Categories:
slavishly, allegory, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Mine Courtship With Deadly Obsessions
...Mine courtship with deadly obsession(s)
still indelibly scored within
windmills of my mind
this July 22nd, 2020.
Imagine yours truly post pubescence
(no matter ye never met me)
all that life...
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Categories:
slavishly, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Choir Dissonant Practice
...I am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not...
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Categories:
slavishly, anxiety, appreciation, depression, health,
Form: Political Verse
Whiskey's Lullaby
...I sit by sorrow's streams
Amidst wistful longing
Your first soft kiss that lingered
will forever haunt my dreams
How sad it seems
to be so slavishly in love
weary even of life,
such sorrowf...
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Categories:
slavishly, dream, grief, loneliness, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The Whip of Your Selfish Whims
...O
the bane
of being so slavishly in love,
to face another bloodless sunrise alone.
Myself, I’m spun in silken strands enthralled
yet, still stung by the whip of your selfi...
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Categories:
slavishly, desire, emotions, longing, love
Form: Free verse
A Dead Man's Boat
...A dead man’s boat
rowed itself from isle to isle,
dragging its dead man in its wake,
partially submerged, their tether tenuous,
yet somehow never broken.
Past The Isle Of Reeds,
where the slave...
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Categories:
slavishly, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Probability Analysis
...
O Magog,
from the sterile land of Gog,
thou rejoicest over how thy biological idol father
hast devilishly embraced thee
Spiritual mathematics
offer free radical theorems
of probab...
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Categories:
slavishly, judgement, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Year Had Started Bravely
...The year had started bravely,
With assurances anew
With life and hope anew
O, but the knave – he played me,
With assurances untrue!
To contemplate it slays me -
His promises untrue!
Yet ...
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Categories:
slavishly, death, depression, life,
Form: Rhyme
The L Word
...Liberal in restoring Love,
Conservatively against retributive Anger and Fear
The L word,
like the N word,
Labels no one with healthy political aspirations would want,
no conservative fellow-co...
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Categories:
slavishly, culture, destiny, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Bothyang and Alsoyin
...It's hard to think in Either-Or Deductive,
while speaking and acting in Both-And Inductive.
For example,
If my Brother is kind and loving
(and he usually is),
and really not all that judgmenta...
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Categories:
slavishly, christian, earth, family, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Methylated River Flows
...A methylated river flows
Through the verdant hills
It suffocates the pastures
It maculates the mills
Its waters burn and blister
They torturously bend
To Tartarus below
They slavishly desce...
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Categories:
slavishly, death, river,
Form: Quatrain
Flowing Soulfuel
...Who am I talking to
as I rehearse my memory stories,
shadow voices,
echoes,
and my own heroic victim analysis?
How snugly language fits
within karma's great chain of becoming
Earth's prophe...
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Categories:
slavishly, body, creation, deep, identity,
Form: Free verse
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