Farewell To Fair Play
...The Gilded Age by Mark Twain in his 1873 novel /The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized the era's materialism and political corruption is just what this King has ordered in his Megabill ...
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Categories:
solidifying, farewell, freedom, independence day,
Form: Free verse
The Programmed Mind
...("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustic photo collage)
The Programmed Mind
Riding our brain waves
What we do and say and think
Finds a lasting home
At whatever level
Those vibrat...
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Categories:
solidifying, health, introspection, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
This Love
...I waited within the gaze of darkness
I found you there,
A midnight sun blazing on my internal horizon
Illuminating the contours of my inner world
Quenching my arid soul like a desert oasis
Your ...
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Categories:
solidifying, beautiful, break up, deep,
Form: Free verse
To Say I Love You
...[W h a t i s l o v e w i t h o u t h e a r t b r e a k ?]
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I love you.
“I love you” is a weird phrase; what perplexes me most about humans is the effect words have on us. Th...
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Categories:
solidifying, america, anxiety, appreciation, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lost
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Lost....
When I'm without you,
Simply I am lost.
Left on my own and lonely,
Outcast from all that’s glossy.
So far from my one and only,
Too many miles by hoof.
Told you,
I’m lost,
I...
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Categories:
solidifying, absence, beautiful, cute love,
Form: Rhyme
PEARL PEERLESS
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At early dawn
pearly dew drops
glistening on lawn.
Pearly tear drop
sparkled on your cheek !
How can I miss ?
It's my bliss to kiss
and lick.
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Categories:
solidifying, appreciation,
Form: Verse
Why don't we discard the mask, let all the stage props fall
...Why don't we discard the mask, let all the stage props fall?
The answer, whispered through shadows, is found in our sunlight-forgotten guise.
The true color has washed away in the rains of days, so...
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Categories:
solidifying, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
BUILDING TENSION
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Beware of my building tension might
driving destructive and perilous fight
or causing anxious, grievous fright
toward shameful frustrating flight.
Be braced against my building ten...
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Categories:
solidifying, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Personification
It Could Be Saturday
...The days melt a panting clock,
time paints a question mark,
just ahead of me.
Being mostly dug into a much-reclined age,
I do not labor in the wide-open or narrow life,
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Categories:
solidifying, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Legacy
...There is one thing that is certain
The final act for all of us will be curtains
But before penning our last chapters
What will we leave behind that matters
Easy for our egos to take center st...
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Categories:
solidifying, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Power of Love
...This thing called "love"
Has the power to change you,
Make you persevere to the end,
Take you up, around, then back again.
Love has the power to
Make you re-define your very soul,
Drive you c...
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Categories:
solidifying, deep, emotions, i love
Form: Free verse
The Lover of Others
...There is a spectacle that divines
A specialness, reflective best. The
Blessed. Yet I am surprised that
This shrine time is of disingenuous
Kind. And I alone surmise for I can
Only survive if ...
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Categories:
solidifying, dance, i love you,
Form: Alliteration
One Time
...I turned the clock of time to look deeper into the divine; I turned the clock of time to see what is mine. The wheels keep spinning and the machine keeps rolling and I behold an oracle rising up from...
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Categories:
solidifying, adventure, beautiful, business, community,
Form: Narrative
Body Map
...Sleepless, the body becomes
a mind map strung out on a bed,
color coded in degrees of pain.
Each movement sends an update,
a glowing patch of deepening red
or a lava line of heat solidifying
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Categories:
solidifying, pain, time,
Form: Free verse
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality
...Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality
Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
regarding countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a c...
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Categories:
solidifying, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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