An All Night Rain
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An all-night rain: the smell
of sogged-down leaves and woods
stirs up feral urges: to tramp
the wetness like a snouted creature,
kicking up dead leaves, poking
deep for squirming things, sni...
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Categories:
sogged, rain,
Form: Narrative
Only Child
...Narcissistic little freak –
The world isn’t meant to like you
There’ll be many parties
Where nobody invites you
Dance around with Mommy,
Dance your TikTok video
Hope you’ve got your bubble-wr...
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Categories:
sogged, child, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Lyric
Pishposh Hodgepodge
...The truest of the truthful dukes who chooses to amuse the fuse of the groove to let loose /
So soon a bloom that is to loom over any gloom /
Forget bigots they’ll never get big like shots or lots /...
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Categories:
sogged, adventure, character, courage, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Little One
...little one
you are already heavy
you survived the fire all by your (now) lonesome
your mother burned to death
your father committed suicide over the guilt of starting the fire with his crack pipe...
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Categories:
sogged, child, inspiration, prayer,
Form: Free verse
For R E Clennon-Powell
...There was a flower with a dream
Within its heart like a sun
And life was like a living stream
That kept rolling on and on
The flower grew each day brighter
And the dream steadfast yet
Like a stamen s...
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Categories:
sogged, friendship, lost love, dance,
Form: Lyric
Matutinality
...What'll I Write... he
Muses, surveilles the nil
Wind, windowy visage,
& gateswayed key-pad,
like a cyber abacus
to touch & stroke, counted-
on to reveal it's
whilom Mysterlex, vener-
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Categories:
sogged, computer-internet, imagination, introspection, lost
Form: Alliteration
The Pillar
...Currents of chaos
Battering battering my fragile ports
Steady flow of tidal constance
Fluid life and yet
I drown silently
A water sogged pillar
I steady the pier and hold true
Against the und...
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Categories:
sogged, death, nature, sea, time,
Form: Narrative