Draw Me Closer To Your Light
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Draw me closer to your light
and bring me farther away from this world
of concrete Angels and sleuths
Anoint me with your grace Lord
and make me thine own
I rath...
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Categories:
sleuths, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Rumor sleuth
...In the land of glitz and glitter.
Visionaires film moving pictures.
Acting out their fantasies.
Through love ,war, or tragedy.
Who got hot between the sheets.
To rhapsody's elusive beat.
As a...
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Categories:
sleuths, happy, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
Books magic
...Bring out thrill seekers
comics bakers sleuths and
of course the reader...
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Categories:
sleuths, books,
Form: Senryu
Preoccupation
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"PreOccupation"
spiced
cut up poetry
divides
numbers
intentional
drivel moved
to the side
on a blank page
into neat lines
sucked up
a much loved
addic...
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Categories:
sleuths, dark, halloween, muse,
Form: Narrative
Perpetual Quandries of Dischord
...Perpetual Quandries of Dischord
Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an o...
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Categories:
sleuths, international,
Form: Rhyme
Ultimate Truth
...A golden spoon gilded vase by heirloom.
Acolytes shouldn't be anxious with gloom.
There never seems to be a shortage of cash.
One person's treasure is another's trash.
Gratitude fr...
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Categories:
sleuths, analogy, appreciation, change, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Flipping the Bluebirds
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“Flipping the Bluebirds”
There’s no point playing
Norwegian Wood
when your keyboard’s
like a gun calling
murdering
all your darlings
for other meaningful
glori...
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Categories:
sleuths, muse, mystery, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Blessings Meet Where We Met
...I stand freezing while our eyes gazed,
Your smile melt my frozen look down,
My world appears new: differently big,
Lacking raw tease in gay enthusiasm.
Smile
Differs
In strength's sight,
To ...
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Categories:
sleuths, 1st grade, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever It Takes
...I've passed the long hot summer
by robbing local banks
and though I'm a newcomer,
I've risen through the ranks
But if I must be candid,
the money that I stole,
the acting like a bandit,
wa...
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Categories:
sleuths, money, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The Office
...Jungle clamour
Banter twisted like vines
Lions with psyche scars
Monkeys as crackpot sleuths
Snakes in a labyrinth guise
Parrots preen an oily beauty
Giraffes creak in rumpled posture
Immers...
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Categories:
sleuths, animal, business, career, chicago,
Form: Free verse
Classic Radio
...Classic Radio
I crave classic radio!
Boston Blackie and The Shadow;
Captain Midnight; Fibber Maggie and Molly;
Ace detectives fighting crime;
Or comedians making up limericks in rhyme.
Keep...
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Categories:
sleuths, america, family, fun, history,
Form: Rhyme
It Could Never Be
...IT COULD NEVER BE
It could never be
only me,
as I search,
and research
for a missing connexion,
for end to a puzzle that baffles,
and confounds and confuses
even the best of sleuths,
and ...
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Categories:
sleuths, truth,
Form: Free verse
When They See Us
...Diving into the depths of dams of disdain,
Scaling the seas, searching for success,
To prove the truth along with the pain
We endured and the challenges we have slain.
When they see us devou...
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Categories:
sleuths, dedication, motivation, society, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Summer of Nineteen Sixty Seven
...“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
Rumi
It was the summer of 1967 and the sun was almost bran new
me and Tony L. skipped to the corner to raid the candy store
sometimes w...
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Categories:
sleuths, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Woolly One
...It was from the early 1800s
This phrase was first used
I'm sure it has other meanings
So please don't get confused
If your understanding of the term
Was just like mine
I thought "to pull the wo...
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Categories:
sleuths, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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